A SYDNEY MYSTERY

Dunstan Times, Issue 1199, 20 February 1885, Page 3

A SYDNEY MYSTERY

A romantic episode in connection with one oi the mem ers of the Permanent Force is current. Some few months hack a soldier named Wallace was missing from the barracks, Search was made for him, and at length his body, indentifiod chiefly by his uniform, was found floating in the . sea near Botany Bay. An inquest was lielu, and an open verdict was given. As he had a goon record m his company, he was buried wiilx mili- .,~. ~ , „ , tary honors, and his untimely fate was regretted by lus comrades. Some rings and other trinkets found on his body were sent to bis sister in MeU i i• i I , . bourne of winch place he was a native. but wi hiu the past few days the lost soldier turned np in the flesh, having been eomtortabh enjoying himself in the bosom of Lis family ever since his leputed death; he received,

to his great astonishment, the rings and other mementoes of his own decease, so kindly forwarded by hiscom- 1 rsdes in arms. .The key to the mystery is that Wallace and a friend exchanged clothes, and that the former treated himself to a holiday surrenti* tiousljy. But howtheyoung man who was buried with a warrior’s rites came by his death, will probably be a mys« tery until the great roll is readiTown and Country.