CARL MOELLER'S SENSATIONAL FATE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4224, 21 September 1892, Page 2

CARL MOELLER'S SENSATIONAL FATE.

Further enquiry has elicited the fact that Constable McGill stated that when Moeller was missed, he called the attention of one of the ship's officers to the fact that a line was towing alongside the vessel, but little importance was attached to thomatter. It is impossible the unfortunate man could have swum very far after leaving the steamer, and the supposition is, that immediately Constable M'Gill left bim he carried out his intention of'making a dash for liberty. Probably lie ran down to hie berth, and secured a life-belt) which he put put around his body,. It is presumed that Moeller hurried on deck and slid into the water by means of a line, which he must hare clung to for some miles with the tenacity of a half-i drowning and despairing man, When the vessel dropped anchor in the stream, Moeller probably let go the rope, and being a good swimmer he made for the shore, intending probably to land at Clyde-quay, When picked up the corpse bore a fresh wound on the forehead, caused either by a blade ot the iship's propeller striking him or else by being washed against the foreshore,

' In addition to the charge on which Moeller was arrested, there are, says the Evening Post, at least a dozen other promissory notes in existence, for forging whiph lie might have been placed upon hi?, trial.y Nearly all the loan and discount offices in Wellington have suffered, and several of these establishments .hold three or four forged promissory, notes, varying from £2O to i3O each. .