THE DUNEDIN BURGLARIES. ARREST OF GLEESON. Dunedin, Dec 24.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 329, 29 December 1888, Page 5

THE DUNEDIN BURGLARIES. ARREST OF GLEESON. Dunedin, Dec 24.

On Sunday, Gleeson is believed to have been twice seen at the foot of Union-street. At twenty minutes to eleven, Detective Maddem was relating: to Constable iMathieson, the particulars about Henderson and himself seeing him on Satuuia} morning, when he observed a man slouching alone/ with a ban- across his shoulder. Ttie detective concluded that it was Gleeson, and getting a look at him as he passed syng out "Hold on, old man." The invitation was declined, and the detective made a spring at his man. Gleeson was> aimed with a shoit waddy, and made a desperate blow at the detective, which struck him on the head, inflicting a nasty wound which is not dangerous, ile also managed to get home a .second blow just as he was caught by the throat, but the detective's clutch was too severe to allow it being a serious one. A short struggle followed, and the detective put his man down, when Mathieson came on to his companion's assistance in the struggle The pair of handcuffs were broken, but the prisoner «a& overpoweied, bound hand and loot, his own waddy being used to iat-ton hib hands. Gleeson was wearing clothes stolen from Mr Gillies and the boot? h-om Mi Coles. He had money on him, and so thero is little doubt he is the peison who committed the burglaries on Saturday morning. In a bag he carried weie iound cakes, tea, sugar, matches, a billy, another small bag, and a pair of trou&ers, and so he must have found his way into some shop yesterday evening. In his pocket were found a chisel, gate key, and a piece of candle. Gleeson, on being captured, said, "[f I only hud a revolvei I would shoot the pair of you. " He inquired when ho reached the gaol after Maddem's wound, bub vn\y to &ay that the detective made a dovil ot a row about a scratch. He spoke about a scratch on bis throat being sore from the detective's clutch, but beyond this he had nothing to say.

The Greymouth correspondent of the Lyttelton "Times" states that should a gold miner there named Bertram, who is now in a bad way and is> 70 years of age, succumb to his illness, an extraordinary and sensational history will become public property. He says : — While respecting Bei tram's wishes that during life he shall not be known by any other name than the one he has borne for 39 years, orshallin any way be identified with this present story, I am at liberty to state that there is not the slightest doubt he whom I have named Bertram is bheveritableEarlof , a peer of the realm, who disappeared over 40 years ago from London society, after having been married to a well-known beauty, the daughter of a city magnate, only some few days. Why he left all meat men hold dear — a lofty position, lai'ge fortune, affection I ate relations, and a lovely wife — to ostracise himself first in the wilds of Africa, and after j wards among thehumblestof colonial society, cannot be told here ; suffice it to say, if his statements to Dr. are correct, and it is almost impossible to doubt them, a most | revolting revelation has been made, showing to what depth of human depravity some people occupying the most exalted station in life descend and how a man, through placing implicit belief and faith in those near and dear to him, became a wanderer and an outcast, and in Hpu of having the command of tens of thousands is dependent on the poor digger for help in sickness and old age. This is no romance, but a bit of real life, the chief actor being one of ourselves, living in our midst), and is as well known to us all (only under another name) as, say, the town clerk. At a banquet given in London to Mr James Service on Thursday evening, Mr Goschen responded to the toast of " Great Britain," and Sir Graham Berry to that of the "Colonies." The Manchester Chamber of Commerce have resolved that imported goods, similar to those produced and sold in. the United Kingdom, ought to pay a proportion of local and Imperial taxation. Bishop Pearson, of Newcastle (N.S.W.), is hopelessly insane, and the matter of providing for tho diocese' has now (says the "Church News") become a serious and delicate one " '