THE WELLINGTON MYSTERY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1296, 23 July 1886, Page 3

THE WELLINGTON MYSTERY.

A Strange Story.

Wellington, July 22.

The disappearance of Mr Levy, J P., Secretary of the Temperance Alliance, Is •till surrounded with mystery. On the arrival of the Hamoto from Sydney enquiries were to whetl e* b. |was a passenger by her to Sydney on the last trip. Captain Kennedy and other officers of the ship knew Levy well, and are positive that he did not leave in the Hauroto. Against this it is stated that on the detective making enquiries on board, the forecsbin stewardess, two sailors, and another man on being shown the pho'cgraph of Mr Levy said he was a p ~- Ssnger. The Evening Press to night says it has now been definitely ascertained that A* r A, L. Levy sailed for Syonoy by the Hauroto on her last trip to that place o. the Bth July. Enquiries instituted by the police show that Levy was at the railway station on the .9h June with Mias Bessie Ohlson, a Norwegian, with whom he was acquainted when he was residing at Norsewood in the Forty-mile Bosh It was then supposed that the young woman was going to her friends. It turns out, however, that Levy assisted to alter the addresses on her boxes for Sydney, and then Ohlson is known io have sailed fer that place by the Wakatipn oa that day (Saturday, Jane 19cb). On the arrival this morning of the Hauroto from Sydney, Detective Chrystall boarded the Vessel, and showed Levy’s likeness to those on board, when several of the crew recognised it as one of the steerage passengers There were some thirty—five in mil who had sailed • y the Hauroto for ! Sydney on the Bth July, the day he was missed. The purser states be was never questioned about him while in Sydney, and knew nothing about it until his 1 return here. i