22 Notes on South African Himting, 
A Mail Robbery. 
ordinary mail cart; and one can conceive few 
things simpler than for four or five determined 
men to have stopped the cart on the way. 
I have forgotten the exact details of the 
robbery, but the main facts are something like 
this :—A gang of men determined to rob the 
mail, and go shares in the proceeds. The 
robbers set out, and made all arrangements to 
stop the cart. By some chance one of their 
number remained in Kimberley. The cart set 
off, was stopped, and the mail bags searched. 
But the bags were found cut open, and no 
diamonds in them. The would-be robbers 
returned to Kimberley, and the one who had 
been left behind came up for his share of the 
spoil. His friends told him the case, but he 
declined to believe them, and informed. It 
was then discovered that the mail had been 
robbed before the cart left Kimberley. The 
unsuccessful robbers were relegated to durance 
vile, and the real robber was, I believe, caught 
on the home steamer with two gun barrels full 
of diamonds. So they all met at last. 
Another curious case was this. Some years 
ago a big diamond was stolen. The suspected 
