A SETTLER'S LIFE THREATENED BY SWAGGERS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4183, 4 August 1892, Page 2

A SETTLER'S LIFE THREATENED BY SWAGGERS

Cleoer Arrest &(/ Constable Roche, The residence of Mr J. P, Heckler, ] Mangamahoe, was on Tuesday afternoflh visited by two yery undesirable 1 pharapterjj wbp. represented 'themselves J as men in search of employment, a'fld requested refreshment. Mr and Mrs , Heckler being absont from home, Misß Baigent was in charge of the houso, ; nobody olse being about the premises, Whether or not the men were aware of this fact they seem to have taken advantage of it, for on Miss Baigent informing them that she could not comply with their request for food they became most abusive, and threatened to' bura the house down. Finally one qf a ticket from his pocket and yr'ote on it, (!' Look' out for your life to-night, I ' am going to take it," and after pinning it to the gate ppst ihe precious pair decamped, Op Mr Heckjer's return he was informed of tbe affair, and finding that tho men bad taken the road towards Eketahuna immediately wrote to Constable Roche, enclosing a description of the men by Miss Baigent and the ticket found on his door post, With these few particulars the officer went on the warpath and soon found a couple of men answering to the description he had received at Felling's Hotel. Entering into a casual conversation he elicited the fact that Iboy had come past Mangamahoe, so producing the ticket sent up by Mr Heckler he asked what they meant by that. The men were so aurprjseij that one of them replied, "Oh, we 6% did it for a'lark." Thereupon the gallaut constable" produced the "darbies," intimating that ."larks'-'ofthat kind were not permatted, and tho two were marohed off ■"" ' The me,n are respectably dressed .swaggers and'giye filenames of Janey and Wilkins;.':.,' '.