The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-12-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CAPTURE. UNEARTHING A GANG OF GOLD THIEVES.  A Sydney detective, who pemes under the narut of Edmunds, has just achieved, single-handed, one of the most successful coups ever recorded in Australia. It was no less than the detection and capture of the gang of miners who for a long time had been robbing the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company of large quantities of gold. The story of the robbery and the detection of the culprits as told is as follows :—For years pant -an astute and daring gang had carried ! on extensive depredations with perfect immunity. Gold was stolen in every form from both the I smelting and battery departnients. The charcial r was staleu froas the filters, the ash remaining in I the furnaces after hurnin; of the charcoal was I stolen, the aniaigain. the retorte I gold, and even I the emelted gad, was syntemitically taken. A Inumber of men were I,newn to sp?nil ars a. a week's wages in a night's revelry yet always have i plenty to spare, enil repeated efforts by the Mount Morgan directors to solve the mystery failed. Detectives were introduced into the mine as workmen, but without result. One was by ni-1 luck reocemhu-d and accosted be a ntetnter of a theatrical' company travelling through the place, I and the presence of the spies seems at all events to have been keine!' to too many wivon, about the mine for the requisite secrecy to be preserved. At last the directors resolved to more without &Yen their own chief officials having an inkling of what was afoot, and so they enlisted • the services of the Sydney detective Edmunds, who was a total stranger in Queensland. Edmunde landed at Rockhamptomunshaven, dressed in moleskin trousers, woollen shirt, ike. and set about gettingwork upon the mine, a difficult task, seeing he was known to not one of those in charge. Ho failed actually in getting into the service of the ouinpnuy, but obtained a job from a contractor at I bering work, which told heavily up in his physical I strength. He was fortunate enoagh, however, to I put up at an hotel which proved to be the headi Tarte:a of the gang. Edmunds drank and fritterI niesd with them: men, 'toasted of the quantities of gold and diamonds be had stolen on the Cape field:4, and waa soon an active warking iii mber of the gang, hand mid glove with the unsuspecting thieves. The detective stoie freely with them, assisted to disguise the gold, and in company with one man, Manion with whom he became especially friendly, carried it down to Rockhampton end disposed of it to cue of their principal " fenetw." a jeweller named Percy. So close" did the detective work that it required all his ingenuity to obtain spis,la secretly with thedireeters when he paid Itoekhampton one of these busineas visits. To get rid of Manzin, however, he feigned sickness, doubling humelup suddenly in excruciating pain, so that his companion in crime ran in alarm to the chemist's for a plaster, which he affixed with great solicitude to the officer's back, and packed him off to bed. Then 21,1angin, left to his own resources, ealliod out upon is drinking bout, leaving the chtective free to slip front his bedroom to the repdehvoua with hie employers. When all was ready ten constables, in iguoranee of the work before them, were brought up secretly from Brisbane and scattered over the ground, so as to make the arrest of thieves I and receivers simnitanously. Edmunds himself journeyed down to Rockhampton with Mangin I special coacli, provided with cigars and brandy, mid visited the "fence," where, by preeeticerted arranrement, they were interrupted by the police, All the other arrests were egoted with equal , mousse and e.pedition, bur it is stated that many more persons implicated yet remain to be captured , by another spreading of the net.  You have tried sad were piesseci with them. stimulate the liver, rermiste the Jewell,- and • the complexion. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Chemists, Is Lid. Illustrate Depot, 16, Holborn Viaduct,' , At Gloucester Assizes 'Cove vent, need death 46, ice Window murder of hi 3 Jet, near Stroud, on ' elusion of the _ "Thank you, my Icreti ; him."  141 r-.