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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1932, Page 3

members of the I.WAV. organisation wllo"werM J .seht£h6b‘d iw i :'. k 191'7 tcfi'fifteen years’; imprisonment- for - seditions - conspiracy and ;’ attempted arson.- He served over three -years’ find was then released oh a judge’s recommendation. /Since then lie- has lived quietly'With.his wife and in recent, years has tak-'ien'no’active-share in politics, or public life. Mrs Fagin thinks "that his- with-' (dtawal front , his Old ' associates .raised up’dnenii.es against him. 'Fagiif lis ‘Russian by birth; the na'nie of a, certain Russian is mentioned; add Mrs .Fagin lias told the- police that “there j ire people; in Sydney who could say j what : has become of him.” The police are inclined to the belief that there is foul 'play somewhere and that Fagin is :being held for some purpose by oeople ill-disposed towards him. His wife is quite certain that lie did not. intend to go away, and that he. uould ’not de-ert her—and so, as a famous • poet has it, “here the story stays, at least so far as I understand.” And, no doubt, “Robert Browning maker of plays,” .could find many a subject “niade to liis hand” in the ©rifninal records of this great metropolis.,