Michael Adams

There's a good chance that's gold thieves.

So what they would do is they'd go out late at night or early in the morning to catch these guys when they were sort of either setting up or about to come back in with their stolen gold.

So anyway, on the 28th of April, 1926, these two cops, and they operated on bicycles.

They rode out of town on their bicycles.

Some of the robbers were also on bicycles or on horses or horse carts.

So, you know, there weren't a lot of vehicles at this time in the gold fields.

There were some.

You would.

You would.

Exactly right.

Yeah, you think they'd be skimming a bit off the top for operations for the budget.

Operational purposes, yeah.

I'm sure that the cops thought that.

Like, why do we have to be on bikes, you know, when it's bitterly cold and all the rest of it, you know?

So they ride out of town.

And that's it.

They're just not seen.

And no one's worried because they often go out of town on these stakeouts.

They don't tell anybody where they're going so that it won't leak out.

They're not keeping anybody apprised.