HISSING MAN RETURNS
PRISONER IN TURKEY. LONDON, Dec, 20. B&tchejor, a flrst-elaes stoker, who r-fls believed lo hav© 'been drowned on tho H.M.S. Cressy on September 82, 1914, has returned to his liouie at West Croydon. His appearance gave his pensioned mother such a shock fciat she became critically ill. Batdhelor arrived in the neighbour. h9od nino Weeks ago, and collapsed in the street. He was treated at an infirm a*T, ixit v't: UE3.b!e to ,t connected .account of his wanderings. He now declares'that a ship, believed to lie Turkish, picked him up after the disaster. Imprisoned in a eastle, he was compelled to work at odd jobs', and cams across nobody to speak English, until recently an official put liim aboard a steamer which landed him at Newcastle.
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Otaki Mail, 7 January 1924, Page 3
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