A YOUTHFUL "STARLIGHT."
I Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. . A youth of sixteen named William U'ombie has been arrested on a charge of assaulting Richard Clarke, a settler at Drury, with intent to rob him. He is alleged to have .called on the latter and demanded money, producing a revolver. Mr. Clark closed with him and secured the revolver. Croinbie then decamped. He was also wanted on a charge of having stolen a horn at Helensville and of having assaulted a lady at the Newmarket railway bridge, where also he presented a revolver. Crombie reoently witnessed an animated picture depicting the life of the bushranger Starlight, and this seems to have made an impression on hia youthful mind and to have fired him with ambition to emulate his deeds,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 2
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130A YOUTHFUL "STARLIGHT." Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 2
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