A MYSTERIOUS CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8881, 5 August 1907, Page 2

A MYSTERIOUS CASE.

Per Press Association. Ohbistcjiotick, August 5. A sensation was caused hero hy the finding on Sumner Hills by two boys on Saturday of a man’s coat, vest, watch and chain, with a letter half out of a pocket. The letter was addressed to Mrs A. W. Nelson, Union Street, Christchurch, and undated. The boys took the letter to a constable, who found it was to the purport that the writer, Arthur Wellesley Nelson, intended to take poison and throw himself over the cliffs when the poison commenced to work. The cliff where the clothes were found is 250 feet above the sea, but not so sheer that a body so precipitated would reach the water with the fall unstopped. Search was made but no body was found. The swell prevented the lifeboat crew landing, but a sailor let down by a rope from the ’cliffs searched every possible place and found no signs of the body. Nelson, or Wellesley, who is known by other aliases to the police, was bound to appear at the Supreme Court on August 13th*on a charge of selling drugs for an illegal purpose. It is suspected the whole trick was intended to save £IOO bail and to escape trial. At any rate the police are very sceptical. Visitors to the exhibition will remember a daring young man who, under the name of “Demos” performed a sensational cycling feat at the water chute. Nelson is the man.