KAIPARA MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 8

KAIPARA MYSTERY.

ONE MAN DEAD ANOTHER MISSING. REMARKABLE THEORY. ' (By Telegraph.—Press Aesodation.) Auckland, December 16, Mr. Samuel ,H. Sayers, County Clerk, has boon found dead ou tho road at Pahi, on. Kaipara Harbour. The report to tho police adds that a young man, Mr. David Dufaur, a bank clerk, who was in company with Mr.-Sayers, is missing, and bank keys had been found on the Pahi wharf. It is supposed he was drowned in the Otamatea River. Both men resided at Paparoa. Mr. Dufaur is 21 years of age, and is a nephew of Mr. Percy'Dufaur, of Auckland, and an ex-pupil of King's College. He joined the National Bank about four yeaxs ago, and was transferred to Paparoa two years ago, performing the dutie9 of clerk. ■ . ■ ' Mr. Dufaur has received a telegram stating that his nephew is missing, but it throws no light on 'the mystery.. Later. Meagre additional particulars from Pahi are to the effect that Mr. Sayera was riding ,on the road when his stirrup broke, and he fell from his horse and waa killed. Mr. Dufaur sustained such a shock at witnessing the fatality that he became demented, and, it is presumed, drowned himself.