NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 38, 3 February 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Etjppiax Moiigan. — A correspondent sends us the following respecting this desperado : — Morgan is still following the bent of his imagination, and is associated with three others of a like stamp. A few weeks ago he camped for a week in one spot in a publicplace. He was tying in expectation of securing a prize, but his object was defeated by the party taking a different track from" what his scouts led him to believe. He followed a dray, the property of and driven by Joint Cole, a whole day, and when he called upon him in the evening to deliver he acknowledged that he had missed his mark. Cole, a dairyman on Mr. Jenkins' station, politely requested him to help himself to a cheese, twit he was very moderate, being satisfied with about two pounds from one he selected, remarking that the police were a " sour milk lot, and might risk their bacon if they saw him with a whole cheese. He had known, them put their neeka jn imiiient danger getting over area rails after a leg of mutton, and there was no Hayiug 'what they might do for a> cheese," The police were in the neighborhood about three weeks ai't^ wards—- soon fox 1 them, as theye we»?e • no dead to carry off the fteld~4)iit as ■they were keeping close to the tracks 'no fear i ©f meeting Morgan disturbed their equanimity. Severn! huts on the \mk .county have bees, wilfully and maliciously burned, ftud tanks desißosrad by &nm wanton rufllan 5 but whotae* 1 tk&m iJftrtiea are In tiny way comwctad with Morgan k 110S known/ for- certain. %WW&% HoBBBHY.-»-Bobei»t ffohtt* st»ttQ} who w&& Mttckie'B compamoil in the recent yobbwiy <$ the mwjiu 1 " mndi mail, wa.B yester&ay ttfdttght b^fijpßthe BeuctUt West MnHiimi, w\ ft eluwge of higfitay. wlibwyi So»iop«sevgem\t Emvigm stiAtoli -felw* ihe nl ! i«a.us.i? hftd lU'i'ivaa from Mu^m't :«jtsat-ifee jwovlouaeveaingi He aaked 'jbi'^feMitatl' until IMday sae^fe to pud-- ' tluee wil^e^S, The remantl Wftß g^Rtited, M^ltfee $$imftW w:fts removed. •He ia : ri yctoßg ■'&s&,'s M>3Uis .flve^'eet ; «is ay (seven inqhea 'm Mgh% light : femili, ( « 'uomiilaxion, ted -fteft i wMstes : thiii 3 ftiicl.of Ms. aq|aut?j sis

1 n . '. — .; - ...... ;. A Pair op ScoirmmELS. — : The 'Singleton. Times of the 9th, says: — " The accomplice of Maekie in the late mail robbery has been duly secured. The pair of scoundrels, it appears, did not keep company long after the. robbery ; Maekie directed his course down the country, and skulked about in the neighbourhood of Singleton until he was apprehended on Monday week.His companion, , John Johnstone^ struck off into the bush to the westward, along the base of the Liverpool Eange. . The police, who left Murruraundi after hearing of the robbery, cast about in various directions for several days. At length they came on the track of Johnstone, and, following it closely, succeeded in. catching him some forty miles distant from the scene of the robbery. The police brought him safely toMurrurrundiand lodged him in the lock-up there. When taken before the Bench, some difficulty was experienced in fastening the charge upon him, as several of those who had been stuck up would not swear positively to Johnstone's identity with the robber. The arrival of Mr. P. Quinn, however, put an end to all doubt, as that gentlemen at once identified the prisoner as one of the bushrangers who perpetrated the mail robbery. The Murrurrundi Bench committed Joimstoue to take lais trial at Maitland. He arrived in Singleton under a guard on Sunday, and was escorted to Maitland by Sergeant Thorpe, on the same afternoun, by train. Johnstone, it appears, is a mere tyro in the " profession," and had only been taken on by Maekie as an assistant for the single job in hand. Maekie, we understand, speaks with contempt of the "qualifications" of his equally unfortunate mate. Sticki:n"G-TJp oy the Akaluek- awd Moeuya Mail. — As the mailboy between Braidwood and Araluen was proceeding up the Araluen Mountain road on Thursday afternoon, with the mail from Araluen, he espied two persons a-head, apparently a man and a boy, whom he mysteriously lost sight of at a turn in the road, and on proceeding a little further, when at the Big Eock, about half a mile from Prior's public-house at the top of the mountain, he was surprised by hearing a voice from some person call out " Stop !" Paying no attention to the imperious and sudden demand he continued his way for a little distance until his horse suddenly refused to go any further, and came to a dead stop. On looking round he saw a man come forward from behind a log on the outside of the road, and presenting a revolver at him summoned him to stand. Looking round him in a bewildered manner to the other side of the road, he observed another person confronting him, and found it impossible to move. This was about five o'clock. With his eyes fixed upon the two men who thus unceremoniously disputed his passing on, the lad took a keen enough glance at them to notice that one of them was about five feet eight inches in height, and the other five feet four inches. The big fellow laid hold of his horse's head, aud began pulling him, horse and all, down the gully/ Upon the boy's earnest entreaty, however, not to break his neck," but to let him get oft' and walk down, he was allowed to do so, one of them guarding him, and the other taking charge of his horse. They took him about one hundred yards down the gully, when they stopped, and one of them pulled the mail bags off the horse, while the other tied the horse to a sapling, when after the contents of the bags were thppwn out in a heap upon the ground, they koish #at down and gutted them one aftex' another, taking all those the boy supposed had money in them and laying them to one side. While thus engaged the lad was sitting between them, and ■ had therefore ample opportunity, being a sharp quick-witted youth, of " taking their measure." Both of them had their faces hidden, ,one by a green and the other by a white covering of some kind, behind which to cajtch the slightest glimpse of their features he. could iwst penetrate, but he is positive that he "could identify them by their voices. The clothes .which they wore he particularly noted, and dewH^Ued to the police, and which, ou the, possibility of in the slightest .degree interfering with the proceedings being taken fop tkei* «apiHjre, we have no wish to mention, Having finished their search of the m«tkb«ss, they tied tha boy's hands behind him, and ako bouud fcis legs together. The pay J.a4, 'cU'eadimr being left out in such i\n awkward position nil night;, protested *gftiu«t this severe trefttriuait, but they told him ho might wave in. an \m\u\ With thin they left hint} and th© boy immotUatety liegaa to mate «way up the hill v well. && hk hobbles would permit, for his leg* wei'G tied m closely together qh to have Wolj stt.mdjiea t<f play upon, With conHideflsroa .<|}slgu.%'he managed to Muffle m &). x ' m fmi'ti }mhlk'hmw< where he was released/ aid K* 1 , fitaiaeFSi- the store* ■ keeper, .who Intppe&ed t<* tofl-.iftjisafa ftt the'thne, aad mm eta parties *&' turned to the aceus oi* })).lUici.e>», Aivivod ttoa, tlw jmt tile ucateed iHgmeß,t| of the ]0m- tQgethe* mft feaff j sm untying the }\om t |feu ( |«d the l>.oy-oa ■|li« Wftf to B?.'fti4wQo.f]» wne?s lw fii^ivad ifavk ?m4 wmm. the yebbery t« && fecal ftttthormest 3Svesy tow«J)j to (tiiieflvsJJ these p%mm4M^ whose cowapdly- I#erit»Wftti •m % p^J mltiuy boy- km excited the yto&m - contempt ftftd- in difction wlieflßVe? the QQeupi'enco hrn M%Q nwh hmW* %9 whole of ihe opeaed -letto W^e ; fci?W!Wed >y the; -..©yaidwood E^ts. mr^tep tn BJ^f'to l)9ooiißigttßft.li§-