ARREST OF A STICKER UP.
Detective Kirby effected the arrest of a sticker-up at Waimate on Saturday who had long been wanted by the poiiec. The short facts of the ease were that on the evening of Juno 2J, a man named Samuel Houston was walking along the Christchurch South Belt when ho was stuck up by the accused, who demanded bis watch, chain, and money. Houston very naturally refused to comply with the request, and was thereupon violently assaulted by the accused, who knocked him down and savagely assaulted him. Houston turned upon his assailant, and being the better man of the two, gave him a thrashing, and ho decamped. Nothing was heard hi; him until Saturday, when Detective .Kirby proceeded to Waimate, having heard that be bad been seen there. At Waimate bo was told that bis man had gone South, and bo lost no time in going on to Oamaru, where he came up with the accused, who was arrested in a baker’s shop, having only reached Waimate a couple of hours before his captor. The accused was brought up at the R..AI. Court yesterday morning, and remanded to Christchurch.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2320, 24 August 1880, Page 2
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193ARREST OF A STICKER UP. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2320, 24 August 1880, Page 2
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