The gold thieves and receivers and the illicit canteen keepers who supplied the natives with liquor were up in arms at once and appealed to President Krueger.

They represented Trimble as having served in the English Army, and as being in receipt of a pension from the Cape Government, further stating that his appointment was an insult to the Boers, who had been thus judged unworthy to provide from among themselves a Head of Police.

Mr.Esselen, who stood his ground, was dismissed and replaced by a Hollander, Dr.Coster.

Mr.Trimble, chief of the detective force, was replaced by a man who had previously been dismissed, and has since been dismissed again.
As it was useless to depend upon the police for the arrest of thieves, the directors and officials of the _City and Suburban Gold Mining Company_ took upon themselves the risks and dangers of police work.

They caught two notorious characters, known thieves, with gold in their possession.