OLD MAN'S ABERRATION

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 4

OLD MAN'S ABERRATION

LETTER-CARD TO POLICE. 1 ' I (By Tcloenaph—Press ABisooiationd -y[i ' • i ■ Auckland, January 11. , Tho m.vstory which surrotindOd i tho di»j appearanOe of an Old nlah tiamed' J. J} Burrows ' fro;m- Dovoiiport last week haq been cleared up. r' ' ' -' \ Oa Saturdai* morning kit a eroled;lot< ter-civrd was received at the rßevonporlN polloe station, addressed "to whom it may ' oOlieern, caro polioe." The letter stated,' that tho writer had beon wfttidering aboutj Bleeping anywhere and existing anyhow.and concluded! ."I liopo that my body, will, soon bo found. May God, tho 011-forgto; toe One, have mercy on\me." . ■ . ' Yesterday Burrows was, discovered alive and woll by; Father Holbrook and Fathos Furlong, who tvere visiting TokapunA tor gethcr. Father Holbrook knew Burrows, and immediately recognised him. 1 ' ' The old man, when lipolron to, stated that ho had been groatly upsotatid worried at the timo of■; writing the, letter, which was pMined on Christmas Day. H« had boon'in bad health fer boiuo mouth's, and the letter was 1 written' ( Wli«i though that his troubles .jMuld be born* no longer. ■ ~ ••/ ''.. j When seen yesteWfty, , Btirrows ' Waa quite rational, and expressed regret that <jueh a lettor had been sent to the polioe.) Father Holbrook, 5 ' tvlid li be known tho ma», for several yeaks, speaks highly of him, and eays that Burrows is ft well-eutA cated Irian of Rood oharacter, coming frort a good English family. Provision is w bo made by his friends for the old tuatit future welfare, i