AMONG MAN FROM VICTORIA

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 April 1863, Page 3

AMONG MAN FROM VICTORIA

1 (From the paijv TynesJi \ atlemen wW have been? "well known I , police" in Victoria or New South 1 amay be assured that Ota go is not 1 .place of residence for them. .The i ral Government have disallowed (he Moals Ordinance of the Provincial i cil • but the police authorities have aether here a body of officers,, who I ition to great cuteness, are possessed icomnrtnly good memories for the and histories of those who have been » lesome on « the other side/ Tom • >r makes John Mildmay, the hero of :■- iwifers Run Deep," tell Captain i ;e sly, a&V Burgess, the forger, "I forget a face ;" and many of the officers have, in a notable degree, * peculiarity of John Mildmay. A drel who has earned the credit oi 12 through the fingers of the police [ .toria and New South Wales, was <ed a few days ago at the Dunstan, will, it may be hoped, be shortly "*WI waiting transport to Victoria, ■d with offences committed there bethree or four years ago. The name i s expert at cell-breaking is James v Wallace. In 1859, at the time of ick Creek rush, a number of highway ■ies were committed, and the result ■' hat this man was arrested as the ader. He attempted to shoot his , but failed ; and he was com- [ for trial on both charges. One ' before the sentries were put on, onfederates managed to break the c lock of the cell of the lock-up m Wallace was, with other prisoners, lof them got off. Some of these jharged with participation in the ies. A reward of LSO was offered s re-capture of Wallace, as the leader gang; but nothing was heard of him considerable time. Then information [ eceived that under the name of Mr. Wallace had been caught by a Jouth Wales officer, and had been in the nearest up-country lock-up. it of that place, and out of New Wales, too, he also managed to get. ly, his arrival in Dunedin was noted ice officers. He was quietly traced \ )anstan;andtheM,aswehaveßtated, * been captured on the t«vo Victorian ; s We only hope that he may be ' re-conveyed to that colony ; and r stronger cell will be found for him han was found in 1859. >r . — —