SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE Mr Jagger's Horse and Buggry disappears in the nigrht.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 86, 24 January 1885, Page 2

SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE Mr Jagger's Horse and Buggry disappears in the nigrht.

I The incidents connected with the loss of Mr Jagger'a' horse and buggy enrly on Monday morning from the Hot Springs Hotel, will be found fully reported elsewhere. The young man, Albert Hawkins, arrested on suspicion of being the offender, is well-known in tho district, and universal regret is expressed that hia nara^ should appear in connection with such an affair. Mr Hawkins was for a length of time assistant at Mr John Far rell's drapery establishment in this town, and! from there he entered the service of Messrs Phillips and Srn, Pueroa. He was a smart salesman, and his moral character and genoral conduct exemplary, and he won the esteem of his employers in both places, and many are willing to bear testimony to bis general good behaviour. In fact a number of the residents in Paem»»,henrinir of the scrape h • had got into, forwarded a stat inent to Mr KennVk, R.VL, referring to his pxemphirv oo'id'ict, nnd expressing* the decidei opini n that i lawkins must not be in hi" riirht mind jint now. He left Mf>-rrt Phillips* eiuplo\ quite recently, stating Iks purposed to go in for a course of 't.udy for some months, and has been residing in T« Aroha. Although able to talk rationally, he has mido himself remarkable for some weeks past, by great eccentricities of conduct, and before the occurrence of Monday the opinion was freely expressed h» was not altogether in his right mind. It appears that yours ago h(» received n sunstroke, »nd this is, without doubt, the cause of hia extraordinary behaviour, «"< it ha^ affected him at intervals pruvimwly. Hi** brother wi- 1 telegmplwd for, ntjil at onrw came from Auckland, and uitdertook to take him home by first Pb-Mimor to New South Wales. No one for a moment believes the young man interfered with Mr Jaguer'a property with the intent to commit a I'trcony. H j left with, hid. (brother for Auckland early l on Wednesday morning.