HIGHWAY ROBBERY. TWO DUNEDIN THIEVES CAPTURED.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 10

HIGHWAY ROBBERY. TWO DUNEDIN THIEVES CAPTURED.

Duxedik, March 19. A daring brutal daylight robbery has been perpetrated here. At quarter-past six the streets are always comfortably quiet, and on Saturday such busine&s thoroughfares as Bond and Crawford-streets are deserted. It was in thie locality that tho outrage occurred on one of the vacant allotments between Bond and Crawford-streets, Wai. Slattery, 19, who has been working up country v/as drinking with some com" panions in a neighbouring hotel on Saturday afternoon, and left the premises and proceeded together down Jetty Street; turning to the right Slafctery was suddenly assaulted by the other two, one struck him a blow on tho left temple with a gin bottle, which shivered in his hand, and both struggled with him upon the ground and managed to stifle any outcry while they rifled his pocket'f. Slattery was, however, conscious, and resisted stoutly, and succeeded in holding on to t his purse with one hand. The ruffians tore his trousers' pockets reveral inches down, and extracted 17s Cd. At this juncture an alarm was raised by an unseen spectator, and tho robbers were obliged to decamp. A female servant in New Zealand Restaurant, Princes-street, happened to be at the back window and had seen everything that passed well enough to be able to identy tho men, .she raised an alarm promptly, and several people were quickly on the spot, from the description given by the servant there was no difficulty in subsequentl/ capturing George Anderson and Chas. McGrath. Both bear very indifferent characters. McGrath Avas picked by the servant from among several other men known to Slattery up country, and the latter lent him £2 or £3 a few hours before the robbery. The injury inflicted ■ upon Slattery proved to be very serious. Ho was removed to the Hospital where ho lay unconscious till the following morning. He will bo unable to leave the Hospital for some days.