A PICTURE MYSTERY.
Ransom Paid.
Three months ago there mysteriously disappeared from the Wellington Academy of Fine Arts a picture entitled “Surry Hills,” by W. B. Leader. The picture, which is valued at about ,£SOO, is the ptoperty of the city, and the Mayor was approached by correspondence in a disguised handwriting to pay a ransom for the restoration of the painting. The letters were signed “A. G. Ransom,” and at first was demanded. The Sailor’s Rest was indicated as the place where replies might be sent, and subsequently a certain column in the New Zealand Times was suggested as a medium for negotiations. As the money was not forthcoming, the thief wrote, threatening to cut the picture into pieces the size of postage stamps and return it in that form. Another expedient adopted by the bolder of the picture was to tin eaten the Mayor with personal violence unless the demanded was paid. Eventually, the demand was reduced to ,£SO, and this sura the Mayor paid out of his own pocket, with the result that the picture was restored on Fiiday last, as mysteriously as it was taken away.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 3
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190A PICTURE MYSTERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 3
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