A MYSTERY MAN
f'PEIttfECTLY HAPPY" IN HIS CELL. A man of mystery is in custody in London for failing to register, but in spite of tho efforts of the special branch detectives of New Scotland Yard his identity is undiscovered.
Ho is a, iuan ,'of strange "''personality. For the hettcr part of the "day lie Bits alone in his cell thinking as hard as.a parrot,-.but'he is not so talkative. He smiles when an officer asks him' if ho will divulge his name. "No good," he will say, in English, tinged with an unknown foreign accent, ." [ am perfectly happy here, and I do not mind how long I stay. An interesting Iniilding, is it not?" That is as far as lis conversation iakes him. The suggestion has been made that like two other notorious visitors to England thid mysterious man came over in ft German submarine and was deposited 011 the coast. The police are not inclined to that view, although his clothes iind boots are so new as to .suggest that they might have been bought to replace old and wet garments brought from Germany.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 280, 15 August 1918, Page 7
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185A MYSTERY MAN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 280, 15 August 1918, Page 7
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