MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2882, 3 January 1891, Page 4

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

Al;(H:i't,lie middle nf July last year, Mr Benjamin Xelson Bowden, son nf the Rev. T. A. Bowden, Xelson. mysteriously disappeared from Richmond Park Run. Karal-a district, Auckland. .Notwithstanding an exhaustive -f irch hy tho police ivn 1 tlio settlers, nothing has ever heon ioitt-d to throw licht nn tho four questions propounded—ll :id hi; been murdered '! Had liD committed suicide Hud he, mot with si f.it.il accident'! Had (»• purposely hut secretly loft tho district The relatives have just pri liter I a pamphlet in which they recount all the circumstances of the mysterious affair in the hope that anyone perusing it may forward any information they may have -übsi: piently gathered, and which they think may assist in throwing light, upon tin' mystery, ,\ re ward ot L'-> it Is stater), will be paiil to the lirst person who shall make known with certainty the fate of Mr B. X. Bou-deri, whether ho lie at the present time dead or alivo: t5 will be. paid if the. information supplied should ultimately lead to the conviction of any individual for violence done to his person, whilst in the less probable eve.nt, of Ins forcible or involuntary detention, IJL'OO will be paid to anyone who will return him s.ife and sound to his parents'home, and furnish evidence that -hall lead to the conviction of the ollender or utlcndors.