The End of Dr. Drummound. Identified as the Missing Assistant.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 3

The End of Dr. Drummound. Identified as the Missing Assistant.

At last the mysterious and doubtful career of the late ''Dr.''Drurnmond has, been satisfactorily cleared up. "The sudden ,disappearance of .the psuedo' medical man, who at one time carried on ' an extensive practice at Ashfield, "' N.S.W., and, in consequence of certain allegations., mysteriously left, that colony with some i£6, 000 in. his possession,) is doubtless still fresh in the tninds, of the public.' When 'it .became luiown that he .had absconded. f torn Sydney the matter was placed in , the -hands of the ' Detective Delpai'tmeo t, , -and * with £he.> view of establishing, his .identity,- a, photograph of the' doctor,' was,itnmediately despatched to the Dr. Diummbnd.nowresidingin.R'ome. On receipt of tha likeness,* thje doctor! afc once recognisedit as beingthat.of.his'nvissing.assistant, George Very Wood, \\vho while the doctor had been touring on'the continent^ suddenly decampe,d with his diplomas ; ,an(J asriothingcould beascertained of themissiagr man's subsequent' whereaboiits, rthe<doctoir came to the conclusion that Ije'shad. committed'suicide. The time of this (occurrence ( occurrence ►\Vas in 1864, 'when the doctoi- was practising in 'London. f j But, " before " thp X secoadl '-Dr.'l>rummond cqv\lS' , be ,acpused;of -this? crime,' shortly after he Kad^beej^capfcuredt at Colomho,,he expired' frpni ar^, apoplectic "fit. ' Thus J the last link has bean .added to 'the most peculiar,, and p^y.sterious chain of. events inthe^careepof f ,Dr.^l>rummond.

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