A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2521, 6 September 1888, Page 2

A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

LBV TELEGRAPH—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The arrest of an alleged horse-stealer was made at Kapakapanui, near To Oreore, last night. A young man, named Jas. White, has been wanted lor some time on two charges of horse-stealing, and yesterday the police received information that a man answering his description was working in the district mentioned. Constables Slight and Carr repaired to tho place, and in one of the bnshtnen's huts found White, who took up a double-barrelled fowling-piece, and threatened to shoot Slight if ho advanced. White declared that he would not be taken alive, that he had been hunted enough by the police already and if they wanted him they would have to take him dead. Several times he was called upon to lay down his gun and surrender, but each time, according to Slight, he distinctly refused to do so. Ho slowly stepped backward towards his tent and Slight followed him up. Finally White stood still and said that if the constable advanced another step he would be shot. Just at this moment White made half a turn to the right as though startled by some noise behind him, and Slight was then able to see that the gun was fully cooked and capped, so he fired two revolver shots in quick succession at the hammers in the hope of disabling them, but missed them. White quickly recovered from his surpriso, and was again raising the gun te his shoulder when Slight fired once more, and wounded him on the left wrist. This caused him to drop the gun, and as he stooped in the endeavour to pick it up again Slight pounced upon him, and with the aid of Constable Carr, secured him. The two officers kept guard over their prisoner all night, attending to his injury as best they could, and this morning they brought him through the bush to the railway line where they caught the train to town. As the bullet has not been extracted, White was taken before the Justices, and remanded for eight days, and was then removed to the hospital, and when sufficiently recovered will be lodged in gaol. White is the brother of the man convicted for stealing the yacht Dido, which was sailed down to Lyttelton some time ago, and was on board at the time.