ELOPMENT.
A MYSTERY SOLVED. • Auckland, Oct. 30. , The mystery attaching to the disappearance from Dunedin on 10th October of a man and a young girl whose clothes was found on the beach, has been solved by the Auckland police. A married man named Henry Young, a labourer, aged 34 years, was arrested on Monday on a charge of wife desertion, and today he was remanded to Dunedin. The girl, who is barely 17, in a statement to the police, said that Young and herself, after leaving their clothes on the beach, had travelled by stages to Auckland, under assumed names, and since their arrival here last Wednesday they had lived as man and wife. The man had obtained employment in the city, hut on Monday he surrendered to the police.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 1 November 1917, Page 3
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130ELOPMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 1 November 1917, Page 3
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