TRAGIC END OF A NATORIOUS CRIMINAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4197, 20 August 1892, Page 2

TRAGIC END OF A NATORIOUS CRIMINAL.

Fredeiiok Plummer Shot 61 the Police,

(PHKSS A8SOOIATION.)

Auckland, August 19. The notorious ex-burglar andorimi nal, Frederick Plummer, was shoi dead this evening by tho police wbih endeavouring to effect his arrest, fit had broken into tbp premises of nil uncle, Charles Plummer, a farmer al Hunua, a fow days ago, and bad taken a quantity of tools, provisions, a gun, and some ammunition. Con-

stable MoKnigbt, at Papakura, and a farm servant employed by Oharles Plummer, armed with a warrant, scoured the district to effect his arrest. This evening theyoame up with him near the HiinuaßajiwayStation. in the scrub, Tbey called on him tosurrender. He took to cover in a ditch, which was sheltered with scrub, and opened fire on them, They returned the fire, and finding that ho did not oon - tinue firing, tbey advanced on tho

tch and found him lying dead, shot

rough the head, Plummer had a few weeks ago married a daughter of Mr Hirst, a respectable settler at Hunua, having left his uncle, with whom he had been working, through a disagreement. On the Bth inatant j he left a boarding-house in Auckland on pretence of looking after a house in the suburbs and disappeared very mysteriously, his friends never hearing from him since. For some timo after hie release from gaol he was a book canvasser, temperance lecturer, etc., jn tie northern' district!. Tl|e pplice '(jave"'hj'c( 'him'pretty well H'rider sinyeillanpe of latV In Auckland for eomp time past he had been hard up and endeavouring to borrow money from people he knew. In one instance, op being refused bo said it was enough to make him begin his old ways again. Plummer served many sentences for burglary, robbery, horse-stealing and writing threatening letters, for his last offence getting ten years, He came out with the Albertland settlers. All his relatives are settlers of the highest respectability. When last released from gaol he declined his friends' solicitations to leave the country, and said he ; would stay in Auckland and prove he , could live an honest life, He had i never done wrong except when drunk, i