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(united press association,) WAVGAm March 17. A man named Martin, who has been missing foi several days has turned up all rifflit. A man named John Scott, baker, was found dead in his lied this morn>g-. ' Wellington, March'l7. A paragraph purported to be exj traded from a Sydney paper has been going round descriptive of a den in Syduey whither kidnapped persons are conveyed and imprisoned. It i mentions among other victims a man from New Zealand kept there at the instance of a business man, the reason being his efforts to promote temperance. Mr A. L, Levy, whose mysterious disappearance mid more mysterious explanation have been much canvassed left in the Wakatipu for Sydney on Saturday to obtain certain evidence for prosecuting a legal action that In contemplates. He had not soon this paragraph, hut his relatives consider it a corroboration of his s!ory, and say he was only let out of the den because the instalments wore not regularly paid. Levy said he hadbeen kept in a place of the sort described.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2550, 17 March 1887, Page 2
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175TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2550, 17 March 1887, Page 2
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