A NOTED CONVICT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2070, 13 October 1885, Page 4

A NOTED CONVICT.

Garuktt, the well known bushranger ami hoiiao breaker, Jied the otlicr day from acnto bionchitis at the Wellington gaol, and it n observed as a jtrange coincideii'-c that the foicman of the jniy ,it the inquest w.»* one of the victim* stuck up by him at Maungatua. Garrctt'a proper name was Henry Rou<<se, tlia son of a small farmer at Harby, in Leicester slnie, England. He commenced hib cuieei of ciime by breaking into a hoimin IM.S, foi which lie >\as sentenced to penal servitude. At that time the most despeiato class of criminals, instead of being sent to Tasmania, were conveyed illicit to Noifolk I^ltind. On the break up of the penal establishment there, he and other convicts were sent over to Tasmania, wheic they completed their sentence. During the excitement of the Victouan goldlields he migrated thither and formed a gang which committed a number of robberies, the most important being the sticking upofabankat}3allarat eaily in the year lS.j-t. A fine haul was made, and for a considerable time all the membeis of the gang escaped justice. G.irrett, with a fair companion, went to London with his portion of the spoil. The home police were apprised of his absconding, and he was ultimately ar rested and brought back to Victoria, where he was sentmced to eight ycais' penal servitude. Shortly after his release the Otago Goldfields were discovered, and in ISG2 along with Burgees, Levy, Kelly, and othei noted ciiminals, he came over to Dunedin, with the view of going up country to practice their profession among the diirgers. It is said that Garrett professed to have another object in view — to search out one of his accomplices in the Ballarat robbery, who bad turned Queen's evidence. Early in 1862, Garrett, Bui ii 9, alias Anderson, and a number of then committed a series ofiobbenes at Maungatua, taking possession of a particular point, one day fiom sunrise to s-inset, and sticking up travellers who passed. Among the«e travellers was was the late lamented Father Moreau, who was then returning fiom a mission on the Tuapeka goldh'elds. Garrett and one of his companions insisted on bailing him up, while the other desperadoes, some of whom knew the reverend gentleman, objected, and he was allowed to go by unmolested. It being mentioned to him afterwards, Father Morean remarked that the bushrangeis would not have got much if they had bailed him up, as all he had in his possession at the time was a threepenny bit. After this Garrett escaped to Sydney, where he was apprehended, and was returned to Dunedin. On the l.">th May, ISC2. he was tried in the old Supieme Couit house, and received a sentence of eight years for the Maiingitua affair. Before the completion of hih sentence he had to be removed to the hospital. Knowing the man'.s dcs per.ite character, the then Conunibsioner of I'olite, the late Mr Brannigan, bad him cxtiaditcd to Melbourne as a ticketof leave mm out of his district. There, however, the anthoiities were quite as anxious to be rid of him, and lie was sent back. Mr Brunton then kindly took Ganettin hand, .mil he leqularlv attended his ministrations at Failey'.s Hall. One evening, instead of going upstairs to his devotions, (irfrit-t deployed to the right, .md managed to get into Mr Allan's seed shop. Foitunately for himself, Mr Allan and Mr Reid visited the shop that evening, and found Gairett in the act of robbing the till. The police being close at hand, he (the burglar) was given into safe keeping once more. Before this exploit many people were anxious that Garrett, whom they rcgaided as a reformed man, should have a chance of redeeming his character, and among others who piovided him employment at his trade— that of a cooper — was the late Mr Thomas Birch. .Prior to breaking into Mr Allan's shop he was arraigned on two indictments for housebreaking, and being found with housebi caking tools in his possession. For these otlences he received a sentence of twelve months. He plcaded'guilty to breaking into Allan's shop, also to another charge, and was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. In his lodgings was found a large quantity of stolen pioperty of vaiious kinds. In January, ISiji, lie was transferred to Lyttleton, where he was released, but though about 74 years of age, he could not lesist the inclination to burgling, and was soon in tiouble again. Lately he was transferred to Wellington. A day or two befoie the opening of the Exhibition in Christchurch he met an old Du ned in fellow prisoner, and wished to enlist him for the purpose of committing robberies No murders have been laid to his charge, though it was a favourite saying of his that "dead cocks cannot crow " Dining the whole of his career in the Norfolk Island, Tasm.mii, Victorian, and New Zealand gaols he was generally disliked by bis fellow convicts, who looked upon him as a mean, low, cowaidly fellow, as he is described by the notorious Burgis*. While at libeity in Christchiirch light manual labour was found him, and it will be remembered that he contulmtul a series of .scumlous ai tides on "I'uson Expediences" to a now defunct Chiistchuich wicty papei.

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