HAS GREEN GUYED?

NZ Truth, Issue 159, 4 July 1908, Page 3

HAS GREEN GUYED ?

The BMe That Burst a Blood

Vessel.

Where, Oh Wheref Has He Wanderefi To! ■■• v ■ ■■ i

Greymouth and its peacefril law-abiding , residents have been somewhat perturbed over the disappearance of a gentlemanhe is . evidently not worthy the name of i man— named Sydhey K. Green, who was | engaged to be married to a Miss Holmes'," of the same West Coast town; Green ap- , pears to have left Greymouth with a friend on June 22, and. his whereabouts^ have, not yet been discovered. On ltt'iday a person wlio answers to the description of the missing Green, handed ih the ~'tol_. .. lowing obituary notice to Mr Harry Bishop, ' of' the; "Evening Post" commercial, •staff :— -'■ .-. .",'■';" ''' ■•-' On the' 20th June; 1!J08, .at '"Wellington, suddenly (burst blood ves--sel), .Sydney R> Green, of Brunner, , Wejst Coast ; aged 2H years. The -person stated that he and Green had co'nte v ' ; from, ;t be West -Coast and .'"'' '^ "'(fefiJßN'. HAD BEEN SICK, and it was thought at first lie would have to be left, at Nelson.- However,' 1 the two came on to Wellington, and, according to the "person," .Green had a vio-, lent - fit of coughing m Woliin-gtion and ' burst 'a blood vessel and died from loss of blood. As the "persons, statement appeared -to be ..geAuipe^M^fettslSS^^^?. cepted the adves^ementf and * t also /.yrote? out', a similar advertisement to be, ,tele- f graphed to the Greymouth '-Star," as the 1 person- pretended -.-inability to construct a 1 satisfactory riq,ti©_f The * 'person" took | ihe notice aiway afld apparently telef -jyraji-eant' to I Greymouth, as the Welling-' ton police received a communication from the Greymouth police . intimating that Green's young lady and her relatives were greatly concerned at the unexpected news and HAD EXPRESSED GRAVE DOUiiTsas to its authenticity. Enquiries were made by the Wellington 1 police, and, it was then ascertained that no such death had? been registered with the Registrar of Births, Marriages ahd Deaths. Enuuiry at the. "Evening Post" office revealed the fact that the "person." had not given his name or left his -atldrdss, consequently the task of tracing tjtie liviug corpse was made greater. A gentleman at Berhampore, however, came to light withjthe information that two. men frpm the" West Coast, one of whom was apparently the living . corpse of Green, had been /staying with him a. few days and. had -for some reason brother booked passages :to Sydney "m fictitious names, so that j!t would appear that the unfaithful Green had left these shores for a sunnier clime. ','Truth" is anxiously awaiting - further • develop-. menJs. ' ;■■'■ ... . •..'.-'•