A New Zealand Mystery

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 8, 5 July 1887, Page 3

A New Zealand Mystery

J /( Aiistr^^^n, . IBth sTnne^J | i * J cisco b^is been trying,; withr the zeals of; Ids profession to-get^ih&fcpttomiof; n strange case, in ; wiich : there figures some persons^ Iwhou were formerly .living in ; t Zealand.., T The.prinei--;p^..'o]bjept: pi \, Jus attack. wae-onjj 'Henry "s£./ Oarr, " sewing. Machine agent and chief sachem of a knot 6i spirituaj£s,tß," noted.., for his ,**-petu- *? lani° disposition" iani^ ." loVe^ of , Qonjtroversy," and -ti&e'"]ob' iae reporter, has undertaken is., to ; find put hoy Garr;lud l ''liM^^^e;{a;nurae) got post session of a girt 'named Alice'Burrpws:, ' now about 15. Mrand Mrs'Oarr hare i I>een married' not quite twb'years^the previous haine being May Cvr r tain, though Carr says her surname was Beppe. Both were in New Zea r land ; the .girl Alice, and also a boy -lia^i^Frfetidy, crossed the^adific with them ut.^JuneHTMy^ ! I=B^s, but the marriage took place in San Francisco ; v.©n theirsarrival^ 'iCfie daed^a^ beeSme public property through ■ some legal proceedings being-taken te get the i, girj, out of Jthe i Magdalen- lAsylum^ in which she was placed by Carr. Carr's . : >llegatipnß is that-ehe'becamemcious, and wasjuncontrollable, but the nuns report her to be -excellent in her bet haviour, and .she depies j all I the sin 6 imp^teji^ $o :her iby Carr, who eontraf diclsjhis, own statement by .admitting that he iiadtried to persuade Alice to Tpiarrjr^his son, .a street^car cpnduetor^ - SO^yearß of age^ girl having got into the ABylum waiits jto-rstay there to be away from the Carrs^ ' Both her parents are dea^i" She said they lived afif^Gfiatiiani,'' Neir Zealand," wnere her father was "shipning clerk, but -there 4eing no such pdst-tbwn in the colony, the repdrter : must have writjten the name wrongly down. As she remembers^ that, her ,; father '(whosd 1, name was- iJohn Burrows) owned sev4 eral houses, andiihat she herself wore ■o Always' t l hide VjlotheSj" itia. surmised by "th#;San Francisco reporter that the -Can& possessed— themselves -of~whato evgr property was coming to the Bur; rows children ; but Carr says that thb father'w^ ala^OMg maiijand laughs at the idea of his -owning houses. It is a very* queerlcase— the modest bef ihe, girl -in fiourtiand -witn "'thenuns, the fearful things said about Garros many self-cohtrai dictions, [jandlTarious^mikibr incidents all contributing to awaken curiosity and,andesi*e%o"g«t Jit the truth of th? ■■?-jßtorj^. perhaps, no.w that therCase i^ '';"^.^^ J aowßpap^ttß/ itr^wSi attract notice in the"rieht .Quarter in Ne\^ r.ZHatenß;-'It 3 6dMis'tliat the Burrows family consisted kit A four- ohildren-4 three girls, Mary^l^), who is marrie<| . ito:one of Xfarttg Bon> lii New : Zeklanld: Thereßa r (10), Alice (15), r and Frank] The cas&c^ttpiefl^ee columns of the -^Weekly CjhTOntcley/jitfrApril 28, an 4 outline portraita'are given of all perj sons conspicMous^in ifc As the Society for the "Prevention of Cruelty to (%ii-. dren has interested itself in 'Alice l ffl S'p^obable ihat 1 the^etithj plete facts will in due, time be gath--^ited tog^ther^ and iaken j at any*afei:to. : pi i eTeni'Me'<g4rl going back into the custody of the Carrs. i