An Adelaide Levanter.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 169, 24 January 1888, Page 3

An Adelaide Levanter.

It -will bo remembered that nearly two years agoH. E. Wood, Curator of Intestate Estates, Adelaide, levanted frern South Australia with a largo sum of money. How much is not exactly known; but it is supposed to be about £IO,OOO or £15,000. One intestate estate which was worth £7,000 he carried off in bulk. It was believed ho took au American route. For some time the Govern went announced his capture as probable ; but nothing has now boon heard of the matter for soma time. It was persistently lumoured that, although the A mei lean police, stimulated hy the reward, offered to givo clear information as to the defaulter’s whereabouts, several pcoplo of influence here were deeply interested in 1 's not be' lg brought back, The othor day an old friend of Wood’s received a letter from a South Australian, who came 'across the ox-curator in a rising city of Northern Mexico, where he is comfortably domiciled, and has risen to the position of corregidor, and enjoys considerable popularity. He has purchased a fine haeiend of some 10,030 acres, near the National Mexican Railroad, and lives ha’f the year on his estato, whero he dispenses hospitality with true Mexican liberality. On the Sunday when his quandom fellowcountryman met him lie was presid'lg at a Hull fighi in'his office of first magistrate of tho city. It docs not appear what has -become of his paramour, with whom he fled from Adelaide, whore he left a large fan 'ly ; hut in Mexico, tho honors of 1 's establishment wore porf oimed by a chaim - ing daughtor of the country, whom ho has married. Too Sonora Wood is said to havo brought her husband a substantial dowry in addition to her beauty.