ANOTHER MYSTERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4103, 4 May 1892, Page 3

ANOTHER MYSTERY.

Clothes, but no Owner,

News from police circles have of late (says the till, Tims) been of a somewhat sensational character, and the latest item is no exception to the I rule. Following closely on the raid on betting housns' came the mysterious disappearance and subsequent discovery of the dead body of the young man Richardson; on Monday morning a man was lound dying in a pad-, dook in Sydney-street, and now comes a case of what may prove to be anything from mysterious disappearance to murder at Petone, Constable Lyflter came into Wellington yesterday afternoon and reported that a man named W.H. Curtis was fishing on tho Potone Wharf and found acoat,containing in tho pockets.a key, a pocket book containing papers, etc. Curtis said he also saw a dark brown felt hat in the water near tbo wharf, but could not get hold of it. The coat evidently belonged to a person of German nationality, for tho papers in the pocket book are all made oat in tho German language, and have evidently belonged to a person named Johann George Baldewein, One paper appears to be a passport, another a certificate of the bearer having served in the German army, and yet another is a certificate of birth. From these it appears that the former possessor was born at Broinen i» 1861, and the pocket-book has inscribed on it in plain black lettering the words, • F. Mißsler, Bank and Gledwechsel, Bremen, 20, Bahuofstrasse," flo further information has been obtained up to tho present, but to-day a constable will be sent to Petone to make a thorough search for the tody, on which, when found, an inquest will of course be held.

[By Telegraph.—Press Association.]

Wellington, Wednesday. The coat jfounij'on the Eelone'wharf has'been identified as that worn by a German named Johann George Baldewin, aged 31, who arrived here about four weeks ago tr'om Germany, via Australia, and who was a fellow passenger of Deeming in the Kaiser" \Vilhelm to Australia, He wasinsearch of employment here, and having been in a desdonpent mood it is.feared that [be baa committed suicide, The police are searching the beacb. .