MYSTERIOUS HOLD UP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16242, 17 January 1927, Page 5

MYSTERIOUS HOLD UP

EXPLORER’S ADVENTURE % - i — VALUABLE PAPERS MISSING

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received January 17, noonj LONDON, January 16. Immediately ofter the broadcasting from London of a talk dealing with adventures in Central Anieflt'a, m which tho explorer, Mr. Mitchell Hedges, declared that life would be very grey without excitement, he was the subject of a mysterious hold up in a lonely spo while motoring home to Bournemouth A man suddenly appeared, on the roadway and appealed to them to stop and assist an injured man to hospital. Mr. Mitchell Hedges’ chauffeur accompanied the man. When he did. not return Mr. Mitchell Hedges and a companion followed and were amazed to discover the chaffeur bound by ropes on the roadside. Immediately five or six men attackedthem and a struggle occurred Eventually the attackers ran off in the darkness. When Mr. Mitchell Hedges and party picked themselves up and returned to the motor-car they discovered that the explorer s handbag, containing valuable papers relating to business in Honduras, as well as several specimens of human heads shrunk by Central American Indians by a secret process, were all “Mitchell Hedge is obviously affected by the rough handling and is very reticent. He made a statement, that he did not want publicity thrown on the adventure, hut would give LSOOO to undo what had happened.