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-the thieves' harvest.
FOOTPADS AND COUNTRY
VISITORS.
CASES OF DAYLIGHT . ASSAULT
AND ROBBERY.
An influx of visitors from tihe country :
always affords ojiportunilies that are eager
ly welcomed by city sharps for the exercise
of their wits, and slioiv time is perhaps tile
most prolific of all seasons for the propa-
gation of such oportunities. Thieves and
magsmen are busily at work on tho more
guileless among the show visitors. Many re
ports of ' their operations have already
reached tho police, and probably there are
a vastly larger number of eases that are
not brought under tlio notice of the offi
cials. .Some -of; the reported cases show
that in carrying out .their filibustering the
thieves exhibit unbounded daring. At 3
p.m. yesterday.
Ed. Cobbledick, carrier, from Traralgon,
wont into a lane off I.atrobe-street. » lie
states that he , remembered la; ing knocked
on the bead .by someone who followed bin-, ,
and that when he regained .consciousness
his watch, gold ; filled chain rind five,
sovereign had- disappeared.
_ At midday John Fleming, a .gropni, .
from Dorecn, complained of having bcc.i
attacked by two men at the corner ot
Elizabeth and Franklin streets. One of the
men came behind him. while he was walk
ing along Elizabeth-street, put his arm
around 'his neck, and threw him down,
while the other took £1 15/ from liis shirt
pocket.
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