The Oxley Tragedy.

Manawatu Herald, 9 March 1899, Page 2

The Oxley Tragedy.

» The Oago Daily Times' Wellins? top correspondent ttt!pgr>\ph* : — If. ha 9 tran-'pirr'd that Ehvtrd Li ton Civua Wilson, the man arrested in connection with ib> Oxlpy tr»g dy. i ideoiicil with the R-v F. L. C Wil-^n wh \ 17 ve-.rd ag \ wsn vieai of \\\ Sninr.rt' Church, P.ilrap.rston 'forth. Wilson is ivp u,ed to h- a ••<in«ularly powerful preiuher, but hi generu l conduct wis so erratic in 10 own dffnc j to his consfr.'gation, who on ons occa-'ion pent a d«lfK rt tion t" their gaid j , philosopher, and friend iv.tu the demand that; he should Hth<-r marry a mercurial French g iv^rnesj with whom ha had coo i-acted an intimacy or resign hiptßtorar.p. He did marry her and he pair lived in lodging for some iin*\ but eventually in consequence of information received. Bishop Hidfi Id insisted on Wilson's resignation. Vha Lit'.er hnd impoveri-ih^d hhn-'elf by extravagant living, and departed mstcorically, leaving a long trail of larger and smaller creditors in the r^ar. One of them, an o'd Pdlm^r---ton North reeid-nt. w^nt in pui'3iiit >f an amount of £12. He caugh Wilsun as Haw^ra and th 3 latter, wi h evident reluctanc, wrote ou> what purported to be a cheque fo'he amount owing, and d.nnanded md was handed a receipt. The I'al-»n-T3tonian crushed the eh que in f o hi* pocket, but when next day h - «)n«hed it over the counter at th bank it wa^ pointed out to him ihf he body of the document contained nothing but an instruction to giv ■ " old iSo-and-8o 12 kicks" out of th nlice or something to that eff et Wihnn was pupposed to have l^fo fo England at tbi* time, bur, hodrt^ertpd bU wife at Rio and disappeared Wilson's wife arrived in England p-nnilesa, but was taken chirgu of h\ her hn-bami'g relatinna, wh > are pai'J to bp very rich and infl'ipnti-il person in the Oid Country. M»ny old .Yfanawafu residents ivm- mber W I ■»n well, and ifrainisi'enc^^ nf bi< o ireer aie b 'ing freely interch ng «1 in thafc district at the present, time.