POSSE OF POLICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 7

POSSE OF POLICE.

ARIiKST OF HOLD-VP SUSPECT. EXCITING TIMK IN M.FLBoI'IiXK. DKTKCTIVK'S LONG CHASM. 1 he Sydney Daily Telegraph of July - contains an account of the sensational arrest in Melbourne of the mail Kyun wanted in connection with the .Kvdi"gh hold-up. It, says:A house in iiirhnnisc.ti s(.reef, Middle l'ark, was raided by twenty deteetiv.-s and plain doling police at an early hour tins moniiiii:. Krnot Alexander 11 van. t weuty'■ij'Jit years, a bootmaker, was arrested at. the point of the revolver on suspicion of llcillLf eonilec teil with the a mi - ed robbery of CTiOl. representing th.of the Kveleijjh railway workshop employees in Sydney on .Mine 10 last. The raid was as sensational as it wa ; sudden. In the course ot their inquiries, the Sydney detectives jjot into communication with a niarrieil woman. I nder pressure, >he made certain admissions. Then s!ie said she had arranged with a man, whose name she gave, and whom she described, to lm> to Melbourne, where they would meet. r l']ie man, it was believed. was wanted by the polii*e in (oiiueHion with the Kveleijdi robbevv. 1 he woni;in alleged that he intended leasing Sidney lor Melbourne as sooji as he could. The woman wus allowed to leave Sydney openly lor Melbourne, and without poliee interference, as far as it appeared on the surface, but it ? was surreptitiously arranged that J>lvc- . live Uoi.-on, by an arrangement with j I'he woman, was to jnake a ipiiet dopart- | lire for Melbourne from Sydney at the same time. His instructions from Superintendent Itoche were to follow the woman everywhere, and if possible obtain a furtiie)' substantiation of the woman's story. The woman offered no objection to Iter ioot steps dolled day and by the detective. She obtained lod;:in<.;s . at a eofl'ee palace in Collins street, M dbourne. and by arrangement with the booking clerk at the plate, tin- detective was iriven a room adjoining that occupied by tie; woman. In all In r wanderings. Hob-oil was close oil her heels. \ week elapsed. and no tiding came to hand as to the whereabouts (t f the man for whom Uobson was searching. Kobsou had telephone conversations every niji'ht with his chief' in Sidney, and bv au arrangement he was jjiven the help of several Melbourne detectives. At the of this week, the w;>man, it is asserted, told Detective I'obson that she had received a communication. through another man, from hi r fricml that he had snere, ded in r.>ac!i- --- Melbourne -al'dy. The letter »ave other inform; l l i-m. pnd a.s a I'e-ult. the Woman left ihe !'i dl'ee pab'.ee. where he)t ;• pi iises h'!i! be,-n paid by the New South Wales I'oliie 1 lepa I'l lllelit. am! look a i<n>:!) in a hoii-" in Kiclmi d~o'i street Middle l'ark. Tk-e. it i* alleged. *he met the man for whom .Detective Robson was looking. A statement was ma-do to Eobson last night

that a large sum of money, uliout -C7UO j was tlii'n in tin: house. Late lust night, i it was agreed to raid the house cany i this morning. | Aliout four o'eloek. twelve detectives, I all armed with revolvers, met at the I Criminal Investigation Olliee in Russell Street, and (heir consequent movements were kept a close secret even from the j uniform police. Eight constables were, J lio vevei', awakened in their rooms in the j barracks, and tolil to hurriedly dress ; for a raid. As word had been received that the mail wanted sometimes visited a house . in dorse street, Fitzroy, it was decided i to raid this house simultaneously, with the place in Richardson street. .Middle ■ Park. Detectives and police went out in taxi-cabs to the two houses. The mission at Fitzi'oy was resultless. I Shortly before six o'clock, a cordon !' was formed round the house in Rich- . unison street. Middle l'ark. Detective ; Howard forced open the back door, and the noise evidently disturbed the ill- I mates of the house, as the detectives, | who were "watching in the front, saw the blind raised, and a mail look outside. liy this time Detective Howard was in the house, lie walked boldly along the. passage with revolver in hand ready, and 1 at the door of one of the front rooms 1 met a man, clad only in a shirt. Howard ordered him to stand, and entering the bedroom discovered a I'ully-load-cd automatic pistol in the jug on the | v.-ishsland. In addition to this man, , three women and another man were found ill the house, and they were all ( told to dress and accompany the detectives to the Criminal Investigation Of- , lice. The women were smartly attir-d in long black sealskin coats. All .lav they were detained and. subjected to • cross-examination. At a quarter to , seven at night Uyan. who said he origiually came from Adelaide, was locked , up on the following charge: "That., being ( armed with aSvca|ion. to wit. a revolver. , he did rob I'roderiek Charles Millar, on j .nine 10, 1011, of .fulfil, the property of the Chief Commissioner of Kuihvays and j ; Tramways of New South Wales." ( i llvan is now in Svdiiev on remand. < ■' ' ■ 1