A RUSSIAN ROBBERY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 231, 3 February 1880, Page 3

A RUSSIAN ROBBERY.

The following slr.-.nge slory appears in the “ <b>los/’ copied hy that journal ! from the lead ing newspaper of Warsaw. A Jewish pedlar, recently tr veiling on fo t through the.Grodno district, was attacked in a wood by a footpad, -who ; robbed him of all the money he had about him and let him ga Proceeding on ills way, the plundered pedlar mot a mounted gendarme, to whom he related his mishap, and who proceeded at once to search for the robber, accompanied by the plundered man. They somi -came up with the object ®of their quest, upon whoso person the stolen money was found, as well as two clasp knives and a pocket whistle, of which “ unconsidered trifles ” the gendarme took possession. Having bound the culprit’s hands behind him and attached him to the gendarme’s saddle by a cord, they started for the nearest village, the pedlar on foot, the police officer on horseback. Presently it occurred to the latter that he might as well ascertain what sort of a tone could be procured by the confiscated whistle, which ho accord- j ingly put to his lips and blew With untimely vigour. Straightway there appeared upon the scene a horde of armed brigands, who surrounded the party, And, after freeing their comrade from his bonds, attacked his captors. The gendarme put spurs to his horse, broke through the circle of his assailants, and got away with a bullet in Ms* shoulder. But the unfortunate pedlar, unable to escape, fell a victim to the brutality of the bandits, who hacked his body to pieces and left the mutilated remains on the high road. Preparations are being made by the district authorities to surround the wood in -which this band of malefactors has fixed its head quarters, fiuch enterprises, however, are as rarely successful in Russia now-a-days as they were of yore in the kingdom of Naples or the Papal States.

A Gambling Case. —Respecting the result of an application to Mr Justice Gillies to dismiss the action. Prince v Kerr, on the ground of nor-prosecution, the Auckland Herald has the following:—This was a proceeding ex parte. The action was brought to recover L 203. The plaintiff was described as a “gentleman of the linrf,” 2nd .the defendant was staled to be ■the scion of a Scottish ducal house. The jay in which.''the claim originated was |fther peculiar. The writ was issued on PR? 28th May last; the defendant appeared on the 13th June ; the declaration was filed on the 151 h June ; and the defendant plea ded on the 21st July. The action was brought upon a three months’ hid made by the defendant, and he pleaded -first, that he received no valuable consideration for the bill; and further, that it represented a Bum of money won from him at cards by the plaintiff; in the Nevada Hotel, An- klaud His .Etonor made an order that the action be dismissed unless the uent step bo taken within eight days.