MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES NEAR SYDNEY.
Murder Suspected. (United Press Association.] jj SYDNEY, December 2. D Glenbrook, a small township on the Blue v Mountains, has been the centre of two 0 , eases of sensational disappearance, which a in both oases poiut to murder. v An advertisement appeared in the Syd- c ney newspapers seeking for a man with t s capital to join another in a prospecting t l venture. A retired »ea captain named e j Weller replied and came to terms with r , the advertiser, and accompanied him to ttl Glenbrook. Weller then disappeared. n Another misßiug man had aUo replied s , to the advertisement, and went to Wen- w brook to meet the advertiser, n This Day. j t Tbe lagoons aud watefholes at Glen- - brook have bean dragged for mi&ong budie.3 but without success. A peculiar coincidence in connection with tue case is that a man giving the name of Capt. a Lee Weller sbipped for aan Francisco from Newcastle l»=t mouth. It has traLS- * piied that the real Frauk Uarwood, whom a man named Butler is supposed to have v represented, is at present manager of a mine in Western Australia. Butler is *" Baid to have somehow obtained possession | of one of Harwood's testimonials.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 285, 2 December 1896, Page 3
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