ARREST OF A BA NK TELLER.
Thomas Henry Doolan, paying teller of the Bank of Victoria, Collins-street, Melbourne, was arrested at the Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide, by Sergeant Burchell. A description of Doolan was telegraphed to the detectives in Adelaide, and on Sunday Sergeant Burchell, hearing that a genleman who answered somewhat to it had come to reside at the Southern Cross Hotel. He went there in the evening with Detective Priest. The two deteofcives found the man they wanted in the smokingroom, and had a long conversation with him, Doolan not in the least suspecting who they were. 01 course he was passing under a fictitious name. Immediately after his arrest the prisoner was searched, resulting in the discovery of a bag stamped Bank of Victoria, and containing 100 sovereigns also 14 half-sovereigns, and some loose cash in his pockets. The detectives albo found on him a bottle of laudanum. The prisoner admitted that ho was the right man.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 5
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160ARREST OF A BANK TELLER. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 5
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