The whole town was in a buzz with the story of the money diggers. Many repaired to the scene of the previous night's adventures; but though they found the very place of the digging, they discovered nothing that compensated them for their trouble.
The only circumstance that throws anything like a vague light on this mysterious matter is a report which prevailed of a strange, foreign-built shallop, with much the look of a picaroon,[1] having been seen hovering about the Sound for several days without landing or reporting herself, though boats were seen going to and from her at night; and that she was seen standing out of the mouth of the harbor, in the gray of the dawn, after the catastrophe of the money diggers.
Sometimes the Diggers aspire to nobler game, and succeed in entrapping the antelope, the fleetest animal of the prairies.
The farther Captain Bonneville advanced into the country of these Root Diggers, the more evidence he perceived of their rude and forlorn condition.
With this simple instance of vanity, in its primitive but vigorous state, we shall close our remarks on the Root Diggers.
DECEMBER 16, 2018 Another stolen
digger was used to raid the ATM at a bank in Ballybay, Co Monaghan.
The
digger began to emerge from a junction on the road just as the motorcycle pulled out from behind the HGV.
Police said that another person was severely injured during clashes between the company's security guards and illegal gold
diggers who were at the mine.
Construction firm MGL heard of his bravery and decided to name the new
digger Archie.
Michael Broomfield, 33, used a
digger during the raid on the ATM at Scotmid Foods, Craigour Road in Torphins.
CCTV from the Formby theft shows a
digger being loaded onto a trailer attached to a white van at around 3pm on Wednesday.
"At around midday we were walking along the harbour near the lifeboat house when we spotted a
digger in trouble on the other side of the River Coquet, the north side," said Alan.
The offenders left the
digger at the garage and it is not yet clear whether anyarrestshave been made, however witnesses said the cash machine was removed by the raiders.
They had stolen the
digger from a nearby construction site.
One photograph showed the whole front of the Spar shop completely wiped out, with the
digger abandoned on the pavement next to the cash machine.
