THE LEVY MYSTERY.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

THE LEVY MYSTERY.

About a fortnight ago we (Post) menfiot -1 (hat C i-istakle Walker hail left for Sydney on »|iecml business connected wit tl - department, and hail been instructed to endeavour to ascertain while in Sy Iney any particulars with reforenco t • Mr A. 1.. I.evy, whose mysterious dis-i-pp- »ra”--e f- in Wellington has excited so much comment during the last few weeks. Constable Walker has returned i by the Wakatipu, and brings infor- I liiatu n to the effect that he has ascer- ' t.lined 1 1 ust the Sydney police are in j p - ■'Ov.it tii fan anonymous letter sent to them from Newcastle, New South Wales, n whii-li th<-\ are informed that Mr Ijevy was a passenger by the Hauroto on her vt ini i.-e from Wellington to Sydney, but had no idea how he got on board; that the purser of the vessel could not give Iniu any information oil the point; that b- was in a ta/nl condition for three or f i ir days after leaving Wellington, having evidently lieen drugged; that after being -d.„ . foi sum- days he left fur Mel l-o ime ; tiiat he luwl w ritten to his w ife j fi n Australia; and that as soon as he | was in possession of sutlicient funds lie 1 w*• iHI return to Wellington. From the s-nipiims which Censtable Walker has | urn i- he 1 1 - itist'.ed that Mr Levy was a j pi • :iger by tin llauroto. A parrel with that gentleman's name upon it was seen on b< ard by a (a rson who travelled by the m s, i on tin. tri, in question, and a man i Mr Levy m halsevred to have b n it Sydm v for some days after the steamer arrived tl'.ere.