A CHRISTCHURCH MYSTERY.

Evening Star, Issue 12732, 5 August 1907, Page 6

A CHRISTCHURCH MYSTERY.

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finding on Stunner Hui.- J L-y ;■*■!> beys *■*-, Saturday of a man"? coa. 1 :. vest, watch, arci chain, with a loucr hi!: out of one n: th,' pockets. The 1-ettor was 3viir<* : od to Up A. W. Nelson, Union -nvet, Chript church, and undated. The boys took tho letter tc a constable. It was to the effect that th« ■writer, Arthur Wellesley Nelson, intended to take ]x>ison and throw himself over tho. cliff when the jioisnn commenced to work. The cliff where tlio clothes were found in 250 ft above tie sea. but not so sheer that the body so precipitated would roach tho water with its fall unstopped. A search was made, bnt no body was fotnid. The: swell prevented the lifeboat crew landing, but a bailor was let down by a rope from the cliff, and searched every possible place, but without result. Nelson, or Wellcslcy, was known by other names to the police He was bound to appear at the Supremr Court on August 12, charged with selling drugs for ill* gal puqxv.es. It w suspected that the Thole tiling is a trick to twvo CIOO bail and cscajx! trial. At any rat', the polioe ;:re very sceptical. ViKil<"Tf> to the Exhibition will remember a daiini; yi-une man who, under the name of "Demos," performed a sensational cycling feat at the water <Lutc. Nelson is the maji