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A Curious Incident

The arrest of a man in New Zealand for the Colchester murder of seven years ago reoal'.s jsay the London Daily Chronicle) sonv* curious incidents of a kindred sort. In the same colony in 1885 a prosperous and muc'i-respected settler •was arrested ior the murder of hi. mother and sister in Ireland and brought home and hanged. The crime had been committed many years before, and he had no doubt come to feel perfectly safe. But the bodies of his victfms— recognised by their rings and brooches — having been found in a disused well in Ireland, the police set enquiries going. Once be engaged a"new.chum "to work on-his farm new Auckland and eventually took great interest in the man, who appeared to be a down at-heel younger son. The murderer was aJ. P. and it was the serving-man's duty to drive histnaster to town each week to take his seat on the bench. One day he drove him qu;ckly up to the door of the poltestation hurried him inside, and read hiswarrant to him. The detective had in the course of sympathetic conversation on tbe farm, wormed quite enough out of his " J*oßß "t° raake sure °* h*B man-

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