HIGHWAYMAN ABROAD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 7

HIGHWAYMAN ABROAD.

BOY STUCK UP AND ROBBED. Reports the Manaia Witness: — A young lad named Leslie Walters, •who drives a baker*# 1 cart fhr Mr Stevenson, has reported to the polite that he was* stuck up ' dn the Olenin Load on Monday evening and robbed of a pound or more under threat of a revolver. The lad’-s- story is that while driving towards Manaia about G o’clock in the evening, a man about 30, mounted on a black horse, rode up from behind', and, pulling him off the cart, demanded his money, at the same time taking a revolver from his belt, which he. held muzzle ' downwards, while the boy was engaged emptying out his bag. The lad complied with the demand, handed 'over such silver as he possessed, and was then allowed to proceed on his, way, no violence being offered him. The man, he states, was about 30 years of age, and spoke like a foreigner,, though he was inclined to think ho was a half-caste. The occurrence, he states, took place in the vicinity of the Maori pah, and his aggressor, after leaving him, rode through the Maori grounds. It was at the time verging on darkness, and the lad is therefore unable to supply any further particulars as to the appearance of the man. Inquiries made by Constable Carroll throughout the district have not so far resulted in anything leading to the identification of the modern Dick Turpin. A settler residing on the upper portion of the Glenn Road was robbed of a sum of money sometime, between Saturday night and Sunday morning last. The money was taken from bis trousers pocket while he was in bed. Another inmate of the bouse reports j a ices of £'.‘s during the night .

We also learn that the pillar-boxes aloiiff the road about the above locality have been broken into and the contents tampered with.