A Stoet op thb Olden Ttme. — The Rev. Andrew Bruce, who died nearly " ixty years since," was one evening after dark attacked on the road by a footpad, who seized his horse's br.dle, and sternly demanded bis money. The Kcv. gentleman, re. Covering from bis surprise, recognised by his voice the person of his robber, a townsman of his own, and, cooly addressed him in his Ireo homely way — "Ay ay, John, what tjmo took ye to this trade man? " The man, quite confounded, immediately disappoared, and, says tradition, this was the first and last of hid adventures «3 a highwayman.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 28 November 1862, Page 2
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