THECAi'to OF A REMARKABLE- t t>.QJILNAL.

Tuapeka Times, Issue 1, 15 February 1868, Page 3

THECAi'to OF A REMARKABLE- t t>.QJILNAL.

On Ti „ •"w -,-emoon there was re- A arrest? 1 ,-- /.•!(• !e, on the charge ofl burgi,',' .■/i.» l , Iros c • daring <£j|Mti|^fl •iclnc. l - ■ i.; l»a>y]ks&£o.r aquarn^^^^^J ntu] x < 'irn^u^^^gifeAHM^^^^^^^H of ,+' "j- kJHj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l v. ; m f Wl fie having br6ken^^^^^^H| vobf^tlieshopatnudnigi <;««. 0S P1«;P 1 «; , was loft for execution, sum. vnmld ill all probability-have been exec ed, lnit tor a series df wcll-s«st» i ied -tiliccs. lie feigned serious ilh:c;s, ap 'f ™ ' beHcxoiltobe on the poift of deatn . tluexecution of his sentence lnrtcbnitelv postponetl. On the tenth/lay after trial, as lie was going up the stafc of tne prison - chapel, he fell backward in « lit, as it was thought. He wia learned to the. hospit.il, whore, )<y . s«ta ipwms, ho maiaged to vomif bl^- 1 - ,^ pleasure ; and in order to roy^R ■ W S-u»cw«b Govern™, Mr. Orri " A^ ™; nioved- to a more,' clv ' ■ 4? ™? room,, which he occu* . "', During his abode lw'i v; ■ to all .appearance, coudned i - the last stage of illne^-uuac. _^ok - robba-ias took place m tlie k ot the Governor's' House ; his wind was consumed by. some mysterious leans ; on one ( y two occasions female pijsoners jud, b9en found drunk by the wjjrtlers. . AH this w inexplicable until ilie daj on which Gillespie, seemingly at the point of death, was liberated a^d, conveyed home. A search of his room' was made, and^T the bottom of a water mtern aWg bunch cf keys w.a ttund , which opened every lock in , the 3-^ Governor's safe and private «^f ' his crutches thrown away,; and no ffi«l 1 • debihtyjsSJSiblejA ioia^