CORRESPONDENCE. A COUTION TO CLOCKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 195, 4 July 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE. A COUTION TO CLOCKS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Please. Sir, don't you thiuk it would be a good thing if the Church tJlock could be ' 'tau£ht the Church catechism because it -would learu there that its ; duty towards its neighbor is to be " true;and r just in all its dealings,'' "and it might be made to understand; that if it struck seventeen when it meant one, it was telliog a tarradiddle. 1 which meaii3 a lie please Sir, and that' isii't being true and just in its : dealings is it Sir. I'am, &c, ', \ A Little Schoolboy.

The 'End 'of * s Thunderbolt.' 7 '—- Says the Australasia n:~The honor of putting an effectual stop to the lawless career of this ■New Sbut'h- Wales bushranger belongs to aVpolipe-COnStabie ! named ' Alexander 1 jßiuWalker^ The ! man he shot -was known as Thunderbolt, his real name being Frederick Ward. Walker had started in pursuit of him on t&e 25th of May. Both were WPirmdfunted, and wfieti the constable first overhauled the bushranger, two shot 3 "were; fired on each^side, Without either of :theim taHng; effect,' 7 What] follows cannot -be morergrapbically described than by the : ppUce-feoastiable 'himself in; giving his evi- | ''de)a,6e ','af ',|he sp^6S 1 1^/. 'We ! ; raced; : . for attput a < ; wa^g r ?.^ vl 4^j!P u Ul n g hi m rr,7?. e ihen: -faced wer a spur and down to the creek, where he j umped bA^hfe r hdfse <into : : the 'water. Whilst he was s^i^^iglacrbss ,X shot his Ihorse.; r I jhen.liad. '^Q UgaHpp-do wii a -good rbit^to^ cf Pss : the .creek iandj .turn up the other side. Wberi^l- r eame r tb : Where be had ' rprbssed'lteW^ BeMre ■'! Tfe^c^pd; .^imJ,' r hß; ;-hM ;p| , pss : e^''.''the creek; again ; in ; $ q&rrpty ' fHe,- stood ion >tbe r -bank rontH I < came tip. I : said : «KY6i* had better surrender before you do any harm.*' : m^id, :^ Who^re^bii ?" I said, . .mind ( .w,hp X'" W.-'f c 'asked' my .i|aatae.7 r ( ;'X7tt9i<i i ib'im'.. : '.' : 'He. o said iMAreyoU a r'trooperf'.'r. ~I ? said, V Yes." r He''asfeediv*Are : yeu ! a married ■ man.?'* I ; Tans^erej!, 1 ;' Ypß^'^&e^Hienljs'tpod. ofr .the bank,' with revolver in his hand, and said, V, Walker, jkeep. back., You arp a married man} Eemember your family;" I waa then abputlSorHf^. fVombifo. ! The creek was betwepri us; I sai;d,;?Wi.lJ,y/ou surrender ?' ' He said 7'" $o'} : I'll die, first,*.' . T then said, 5? All right. YTpu brl for it." I then faced my; horse into the water. My horse went he&l first- under — -fight under. Whilst my horse was under," the man-made a rush at me with revolver in hand . As soon as I saw that I fiifedWbimV 1 He went under the water. : Whenr he rpsp. he made a grapple at me, and I struck him over the head with my revolver. He again" went down. As soPn as he came T tip I , saw bloiod, oozing from . bis . mputh. ' ! I then dismounted,; and went into the creek up to my waist, and pulled the man out; I drew him out on to the bank. I fancied he was dead." So it proved. It was the last charge in Walker's revolver which had despatched the ruffian, and the final encounter was bound to prove fatal to one of the two men who were engaged In this hand-to-hand conflict. Fortunately it; wasthe highwayman who perished, and the coroner's jury which sat upon the body returned a verdict -of "justifiable homicide."

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