THE CONVICT ROBERTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1752, 19 June 1888, Page 3

THE CONVICT ROBERTS.

Yesterday's Press gives the following particulars :— M 13p to Sunday there,: WW oo reliable information' to hand as to ,-- t the whereabouts of the esoaped sonvict spv "/Roberts. The following story, • whioh ff ,mustreWtbe. sympathy shown for the *' eeespee, comes from the Ashburton district : • Becently a man, who in appearance very much resembles Robertß, left <■ ■ 'his employment oo a station in the-Mount Somers district and called at an hotel not f far from'Ashburton. The station-owner made some inquiries as to the whereabouts of,toe man, which led to the ira- . presaioD being formed in the minds of - several people that the man was Boberta. A number consequently went to the hotel; and, finding out the supposed convict, " shook hands with him and shouted.for him. Roberts took his treatment in good pert, end, after he bad been made to imbibe pretty'freely, bis pockets were tiled with bread end cheese, and he wai sent along the road with, ~4"™:;the good withes of his newly met £; J friends.' 'Constables McOormack a-nd "H/Blejisal returned to Lytteltoni on. Friday 1M" Vaightj-bat had found no trace' of the .fugitive. Constable McCormackf-was '-',' 'nwuntedj and worked the country ~-" - thoroughly from Akaroa via Little River , te. Lyttelton; ,and Constable Bleas.il ''" worked the country about Port Levy,, An '*''*•' Inquiry is being held at Lyttelton Gac before Captian Hume. It is a private one. The Commission visited Ripa Is- ", land on Saturday morning to view the #eue of the tioape.'