Eveleigh Hold-up

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 38, 4 July 1914, Page 5

Eveleigh Hold-up

A CLEVER DISGUISE. ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE ARRESTED.

SMART POLTCE WORK.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, July 3. ! It transpires that Ryan arrived l>y train on Sunday cleverly, disguised aa a woman. He wore a neat costume and a large hat. He had dyed his hair, and carried a haby. Other women travelling in the carriage failed to detect that he was not a woman,

Received 3, 8.40 p.m. Melbourne, July 3. Acting ou a Sydney warrant,, the Taemanian police arrested a man named Samuel Faulkiner aboard the Launeeston train on a charge that, knowing Ryan had committed the Eveleigh robbery, he at Melbourne had harbored, maintained and assisted Ryan. A search disclosed fifty-seven five-pound notes on Sydney banks sown into Faulkiner's clothing, also twenty pounds in gold, Faulkiner was until recently employed . in a city warehouse. According to the police, at about the time of the Eveleigh hold-up, he suddenly left his employment on the excuse that his daughter was ill.

JUST IN TIME. Received 4, 12.55 a.m. Melbourne, July 3. is stated that Faulkiner had booked passages for himself and his daughter, and should have sailed to-day.