THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 18 August 1870, Page 5

THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY.

A telegram was received yesterday morning by the Provincial Government, announcing the fact that, with the exception of two bundles of notes, amounting to about £550, and a parcel of 30oz. of inferior sold, the whole of the treasure recently stolen from the lock-up at Clyde has been recovered. It had been secreted in four different places, extending over a distance of forty miles. The offenders are in custody. Later in the day we received the following additional particulars from our own correspondent at Clyde : — A shoemaker, named Rennie, residing at the Arrow, having been arrested on suspicion of the robbery, confessed his guilt, and took the police to where the treasure was planted. The whole of the missing property — with the exception of about £600 in notes, which the thief is said to have lost — has been recovered. Suspicion attaches to a member of the Police Force who was stationed at Clyde, and a magisterial enquiry is to be held to-day. a. telegram subsequently received by the Provincial Government says : — The prisoner . Rennie has confessed that his shipmate and companion in the old country, Malcolm M'Lennan, concocted the robbery, and found the false key for the onter door. He also kept watch whilst the theft was being committed. Rennie and M'Lennan arrived in the province on the 19th of March, 1869, in the E. P. Bouverie, from Glasgow. M'Lennan, shortly after his arrival, was taken on as a constable, in which capacity he was employed when the robbery took place. Rennie, was a warder in the hospital at Queenstown, until about three weeks since. Our Clyde correspondent telegraphs two hours and half later, as follows : — The msgisterial enquiry resulted in the prisoners being remanded for eight days. Rennie made a further confession. The police and every one besides are jubilant. — " Daily Times."