THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
(PER press association.) Nelson, May 5. The remains which were discovered in an unoccupied house in the Maitai Valley on Wednesday last have been identified as those of a man who came here from Wellington. His name was Percy King, alias Watson, alias Wilson, alias McCasker. He was a native of Australia, 37 years of age. In September, ISS4, he was convicted in Wellington of forgery and uttering, and sentenced to six years’ penal servitude. On being liberated he came to Nelson, and was in lodgings till Friday, Bth March, when he left, and nothing more was heard of him. He left a book at his lodging! with the name Percy King in it, and some of his belongings found on the body were identified by the people of the bouse.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 897, 10 May 1889, Page 28
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