A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8504, 6 August 1907, Page 5

A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION.

By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, August 5. A sensation was caused here by the finding at Summer's Hill by two boys, on Saturday, of a man's coat and vest and watch and chain, with a letter half out of the pocket addressed, "Mrs A. W. Nelson, Union Street, Christchurch." The letter was undated. The boys took the letter to a constable. The letter is purported to be written by Arthur Wellesley Nelson, and pointed out that he intended to take poison, and throw himself over the cliffs when the poison commenced to work. A search was made, but no body was found. A swell prevented the lifeboat crew landing at the foot of the cliffs, but a sailor was let down by a rope from the cliffs, and searched every possible place, but theie were no signs of a body. A man named Wellesley is known, by other aliases, to t'.ie police. He was bound to appear at the Supreme Court on August 12th on a char.e of selling drugs for illegal purposes. The police are sceptical over the incident. Nelson is the man who under the name of "Demos," performed a sensational feat at the Exhibition by riding dorn the water chute on a bicycle.