STICKING UP AT THE DUNSTAN.
TOWN EDITION.
Two men named Edward Featherstone and James Murphy have been arrested at Bald Hill Flat, in the Dunstan district for robbery with violence. The circumstances of the alleged offence, are thus related by the Dunstan “Times”; On Tuesday last a man named John Newton, a resident of the Nevis, well .and favorably known throughout the district, was proceeding to Dunedin for the benefit of Ixis health, and when about midway between the two hotels, on Bald Hill Flat he was suddenly set upon by two men, one of whom, as quick as thought abstracted his pocket-book from his trousers pocket, and instantly decamped, followed by his companion. Newton at once gave the alarm, and then proceeded back to Alexandra, where he arrived about two in the morning, and acquainted the police with his mishap. Newton says there was in the pocketbook two £ 10-notes, two £5-notes, and a lot of papers.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2157, 17 February 1880, Page 2
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157STICKING UP AT THE DUNSTAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2157, 17 February 1880, Page 2
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