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The Analyst (Monrovia)
NEWS
April 20, 2006
Posted to the web April 20, 2006

The saying "when the moon walks, day light is bound to catch it" has come to pass in
the case of a man described as one of New Kru Town's most notorious rogues.

Following years of unhindered pilfering, Archieboy met his fatal end Tuesday night at the Duala-Caldwell Road junction on the Bushrod Island.

He was said to have been mobbed to death after being caught stealing a mobile phone from another man who was on his way home from job.

There are several accounts as to how he was apprehended before being mobbed to death.

One report says he met his fate when a cutlass he had used in his missions was smartly taken away by the man (not identified) and whose mobile phone he had snatched. The report has it that this man used the cutlass to hack him.
Apparently God being on his side, according to some residents who claimed they were on the scene, after Archieboy took the phone, he attempted to run across the road but the cell phone owner smartly hit one of his legs to bring him down, instantly.
Without wasting time, the man allegedly got hold of the cutlass and began to hack him. Other residents seeing the victory of the cell phone owner also joined him and beat the deceased to death.

Another side of the story has it that he was hit by a moving vehicle as he sped across the road after snatching the mobile phone.

There was no one, including police officers to provide security details as to the cause of his death.

These accounts of how Archieboy might have met his death are therefore the only ones in the absence of factual account.

But as one resident who was on the scene said, "The biblical saying of 99 days for rogue, one day for master" has come to reality with the demise of the notorious rogue, then a dreadful criminal.

His lifeless body was left exposed at the junction as everyone who heard the news sped to the scene to take a glimpse at his corpse.

Mothers, fathers, the young as well as students on their way to school, diverted from their duties to proceed to the scene to see the lifeless body of the man who caused many to lose their hard-earned properties.

Part of his body was covered with old rice bags, blood oozed from his mouth and nose and as he lay in a pool of water, apparently created by rain.

One viewer described him as the worst criminal who ever existed in the borough since its establishment.

The late Archieboy was reportedly a son of a mini wealthy man in the Duala community, who has a very large compound.

According to those who knew him, his parents advised him many times against stealing others' properties but refused to change.