Extensive Robberies.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3429, 7 February 1890, Page 2

Extensive Robberies.

Melbobrse, January 30. Few more barefaced robberies than the one which two brothers have committeed in this city are on record. The det«ctives last week arrested two brothers named George and Charles Chamberlain on a oharOe of stealing goods to the value; of LSOO, the property of Messrs Alfred Fenton and sons, china merchants, - &o„ ol liourke fltreet. The two brothers Chamberlain had been in the employ of the firm since April last year in the capacity of packers. Their duties kept tliem later in the shop than any of the other employees, but they came with such high recommendations that every confidence was placed on them. For some time pnst various, articles havf been missed from ther" warehouse, and Messrs-.Brown'.and Osborne, drapers, and Mr Joseph Watt, bootmaker,- whose premiso3 adjoin Messrs Fenton and Co'a place, suffered in a similar manner. On Saturday List the brothers Chamberlain gave notice ot their intention to leave the lira's employ, and stated that they intended to start a small establish mailt: of their own in South Melbourne. This sudden acquisition of moderato means attracted suspicion to then), anil on Momhn night the deteouves, in company witfi Mr Fonton, jun.', visited a house in Cowie-Btreet, Bouth Melbourne, where the broihers resided, without explain' ing their missien. They were shown into the sittiug-room, which was most elaborately: furnished In the most tasteful manner, articles ol brie a-brio being planted all round the apartment. Mr Fenton. jun., at once identified most of the articles ae part of the property which had been stolen from his shop pd when tbr brothers ma'do their appearance they were at onoe amued, s An examina'lion of the hu»6e Gas then made,and in the various rooms wore discovered large quantities of property whici. had been . reported us ; blolgvi from Messrs Brown and Osborne aud Mr Watt. These included rolls of' carpet, hearth rugs, table covers, and boots and shoes q! every description. The broths then confessed their guilt. ■ They explained that they had made their way into the adjoining premises bv j getting through the skylight, anri that they had removed the goods by iioisting them oat of the sani't oping. The total value of property recovered is about L'2ooo. Tin brothers were thod brought into town and lodged in the city watch house. George is 24 years of age, and Charles is 22.

Chinese Depravity. A GIRL DRUGGED, , It oamo out at the Sydney f.'entral Police Court 22nd January, in the case of ft girl named Annie Higqins, charged with being under the age ol 16 yeara, and found, in a Chinese house of ill-faiue, that in the majority of the bourn iii Sussex-street f-ou-pied by Chinaman the most sh< clj'ng depravity exists., Tuesday being ilie Chinese New Year's Day, all their houses were thrown open and Chinese gin was drunk freely by all who entered the premises, About halfpast 8 o'clock that afternoon, Special Constable Thomas Hawkins, vigilance officer and inspector for (lie Society for tho Prevention of t Cruolty to Children, received information that Annie Higgins, was being, dragged bv four Chinamen into a house, in i Snssex-st'-eet; he immediately went down to the house and found every, t'ling upside down.tbo place being in a very filthy condition,'and a crowd of Chinamen drinking gin, and smoking opium; lm went upstairs and found the girl Higgins lying pn a bed; she Lwas perfectly ; helplessher face was a reddish-blue colour; and she was foaming at : the mouth; Hawkifls eaw at once that thegirl had beendrugged and he immediately set. to to bring hep to, after which he' luolted her up on the above .oharga; ha made, an examination of the house, arid found six other femalesin a similar/condit'on ■to Higgins; they were all oyer the age of 16 yaars o'f age, but less 'than 20' years, The Cither of the girl said lie had control over his daughter, fiiid She bad b'ogn foiciblytlken' into the Chinesp 'den. The "girl was disoliorged to the custody of her parents,

A Great Hardship. . At the Timaru R.M Conrton Friday : ■ la3t, an order was made agaiti«l Annie Ularke, of St Andrews, at tbe suit of N.Z. and A, Land Company, commanding her to give up possession of premises which have become the property of the applicants, partly through a.ShbrilTß-sale on Jam 0, and partly through purchase of a mortgagee's interest. 'The defendant bouglit two acres of 5 laiid from the Company and paid'forit—ilOari acre. Subsequently she bought tivo acres more,but never paid anytliiug boyond i/f the deposit on this, because she. was not given proper access to it. She .. built a house of four or five rooms on : 1 the two acres, and mortgaged this . property. Recently tbe Company demanded payment for the five acres, and obtaiuing judgement for the arnouut, both lots of land and house presold by the Sheriff's order to satisfy the claim. The Company on Tuesday applied to the P.M. for an order for immediate possession, alleging that the Olarkes were destroying > the house, but this' waihstrenuoiisly denied. His Worship postponed his indecision to look into the question of T..... jurisdiction, and yesterday made an order for delivery of possession in a \ weak. Mrs Clarke, it appears, loses what she gave for the land and the. costof tha house, less the mortgage ■ loan, £l5O, spent upon the house. j Stiles of Wrestluw.

:'Speaking of stiles, nnd syniem.", Mr Armstrong,'- writing in the - lieiJW' Bidininton voliiiiip, .reviiwd in week's Weekly Triss, sayM-"TlioVr 'ureal amount ofuiiiialinfiicioiy judjiiug, and the nnd 'nor itching' iiisepHutltln fioffl west-coiuiHy wrexlling nwting* in l.oiirloii, have been the piemis of out iiciiilyall traces of Devon and Cornwall wrt-Htlora is a body from tb« inouopoli:', a oit'oumstanofi much to ho regretted as a liitlif mow unity anions: the patrons of the spoil, a revision if thi'ir.niles—i'S|ii'i;iiillv ; the (inition nf a fall—and a complete rp<oliui6ii of thi! ivißsllinc .'uniform' of ilia competitors, would liava iumir.4 110 popularity of tip-- ex.-rcise. As mi instance uf Ilia, absurdity of the old rennlntioiiH in question one will suflive. A t uwKtliiig - t,"H]ii-iint» in Lindons'oiiwy^arshj{ii ( : Jidin Graham the celebrated, (Jiinilifriand, wrestler, threw an apinnent no f.>wvr then sixteen limes, Imt on each occasion tlia verdict was 'no fall.' Now, under Northern, lawsj'or an/othei': laws, which merely stale that one man \ ahull lio fairly and..squarely tlirownjj|>\ Graham'n opponent would have l.eeip*.' defeated at the very first trial,wberea« the men ultimately tossed up nnd dm Cambrian lost. Yet, in spile of nil htso fatal objections to their rules' the.Cornisli aild Devonidiiie .wrestlers maintain their system is the best of all" knowiimiiiliodß throughout the world," The anilier is also very Bevore upon the L'liiC'shirn ground wiestlera, whilst his contempt for the French or GiMoo-Roman style is ereat, He cnnclu'tes aB follow^—"When the catch-hold lirat-down-to loan " stylo b u conieß universal (if ei-or it dons) wrestlers will then have an opportunity of :conipeteing ;i on our merits,,: inasmuch as each would liavn tho advantage ol adopting what wan lii-at in bin own Riyle, as well as what ha could acquire from others. In this way Ihe real purposes of the exercise, ' whether for paslimo or defence would •is beat|iroiiioied, as the victory would consist pf throwitiff your . uly instead of rolling him on the' in tho French, mode, or str.ugglinM. for three points like the mun of wall and Devon."

The Rabbit Fence. Mr liegiiiald Filler,Cliiif limprotor of Sliepfi'.in, llm Caiili'iliury' ilifi'iict, retunwd from 11 tout in the aouihem portion of his district on Saturday hvpiiliis, On being allied about the rabhic fence along tlm Thshi'iii river, on which depend-, (lie prevention of on iriiMiifion of laWiite from Northern Otagn, Mr Foster's replied were most wwifing,- •Thiilfenct) he mid w; now ■ ooinplrte, !iein« eighty-five milea in lenßth. lie hud inspi'Oted tho whole 'if it, and also thu country to the Soiuh,witli a viow to seeing ifihofuncs windoingun work he is now confident of. Thcrs i< no possibilitvofaneocroachmiiiitof thu rdibitj, Tin! fi)iicfii« in perfcut i'ondition,Hnd the mUiits thiil hfivii till now approm-hed it arei'iadiwlly liiit iiirclv liiinn iiriidi. intiid ly the cinuiuktis,. ulio, with lojh and powon. nre.,(v«r on the ifnrt. To make doubly mire, JW. Foster alao visiiel tho head, 'veßtwn md of (lie fence to sue if there wan the remotest, chance of rabbits gf ttmg mud, This is conlinned well into th» merile country tj Jt) liio iimin range, where there in m>th> ingjmt rooks and frozen unow even «t this KPHHoii, At the Baine limb it wing ' fence ii bo coimtruded that, should tlie'rabbits attempt to rcn along the frnce lolhe head, they would le met hy the man In charge of the wing, atid their lino sealed, Tlio fence lihbcost nothing for maintenance except the wages of nix care-liken and a Sub Inspector whose careitj'a under.' : /

A Constable shot by a Prisoner Sydney, January 29, A terrible aftUr occurred at Cop. nianlmraton Monday morning. On Saturday Cona'alilu Headliy, of that place, assisted by his brother, capture! on the - Brook Ktiijon, a norlorious aboriginal' named Tommy Ryan, who escaped fiom the Grafton ■ Caol, two months ago, after knockifl§JL down the warder. Tommy, who wasfound in s hut, rem'eted violently, and - i lie constable and his brother had all thtiy could do to handcuff him, the struggle lasting upwards of twenty minutes, Tommy, who iB a powerful una desperate in»n, '*ab safelv lodged in the lock-up at CopniHiihtirut on Monday, and i thif mornint; ny went to the cell to handcuff hiiii pre* naratory to taking him to Grafton, V Tho prisoner resisted being hand. ifF/ cuffed, and after,the constable had got one wrist encircled, Toniniy overpowered Headley, snatched a revolver from the coustabla'ahelt, and shot him in (be heal, the bullet nntoriiig his ear and coiuingont of hi» mouth, The.; ruffiati also tired a Recond shot, whichhowever, did not lake and hit tho constable on tho heaiMvitli tho Butt of the p'etol. In tho passage leading from tho cell Mrs lleadley ' barred Tommy's eacape, and he tried to shoot her, but sho got her finger on the trigger on the revolver, and prevented liiai from using the weaplai;, He, however, made his escape, crossed the river, and is supposed to lie now . hidtdO in the scrub; A strong body of bolio aro out after Tommy, who has has the revolver, loeded in four chambers, and will probibly offer a desperate resistance, Freedom'oFsprech. In a recent address to the teeds , L'toraty and Society pa " Freedom of Speech," the liarl of Catoatvca )juid a (rilnife (q '