STICKING-UP AT GREYMOUTH.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 521, 24 June 1869, Page 2

STICKING-UP AT GREYMOUTH.

A case of sticking-up occurred on Sunday night under circumstances which are thus described by the Greymouth Star : —A man named Irvine Davis, now lying in the Hospital suffering from severe injuries, was coming from Moonlight Flat, intending to reach the Grey, when he was attacked between Langdon's public-house at the Arnold Junction and the coal mines, and was robbed of 37 ounces of gold together with about £3 in money. Davis was on horseback at the time, and it appears had been drinking. He had left the Coal Mine Township and was on his way to the Grey when three men attacked him—pulled him off his horse, and violently beat him about the head and face. Davis became insensible and cannot distinctly recollect how the attack was made upon him. When he became conscious he found himself being brought into town by a boat. He has no recollection of the faces of the men, nor is he able to give any reliable account which would lead to the detection of the men. Davis asserts that he was not umdcr the influence of drink at the time, but as by his own admission he had been exhibiting his gold and had called at two or three houses on his way into town, it is more than probable that, he was worse of drink and that he had been watched by men who hung round up-district public-houses for the purpose of waylaying men who are supposed to bo iii possession of gold or money. The unfortuuate man has been seriously injured, and some time will elapse before his recovery.