CLEVER ARREST.
An Absconding Accountant
(By Telegraph,—Press Association,,
Wellington, Wednesday. A remarkably clever arrest was effected by Detective Campbell this morning, Last night the police received a message at nine o'clock saying that James Dawson, chief accountant of the N.Z, Insurance Co. at Dunedin, had disappeared, taking with him £6OO of the Company's money, Dawson was believed to have draws the money from the bank on Saturday morning, and left by the express train the same day, This morning Detective Campbell went on board the ship Canterbury, justabout to leave for Boston and found a clean shaved man in a buck, whom he accused of being Dawson. Eventually the man admitted his identity, and was taken ashore. He had secured a sahoß passage for £BO, and on him was found a draft on the Bank of California for 480 dollars and £SO in gold. Dawson who is 28 years of age, has been in the Company's sorvico for thirteen years. But for an accident to the wheel, the ship would have sailed yesterday, some hours before the police hejird anything about the matter, and, as it was, the detective was only just in time, the Canterbury leaving a few minutes after the arrest.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4443, 14 June 1893, Page 2
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203CLEVER ARREST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4443, 14 June 1893, Page 2
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