A MYSTERY AT PAHI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 94, 16 December 1912, Page 5

A MYSTERY AT PAHI.

COUNTY CLERK FOUND DEAD. BANK CLERK MISSING. (Por Press Association.) Auckland, December 16. Samuel H. Sayers, county clerk, was found dead on the road at Paid. The report to the police adds that a young man named. David Duffaur, bank clerk, who was in company with Sayers, is missing, and the bank keys have been found on the Paid wharf. It is supposed be committed sui cido at Otamatea River. Sayers and Duffaur resided at Paparoa. Duffaur i > a nephew of Mr. Percy Duffaur, of Auckland, 21 years of ago, and an expupil of King’s College. Ho joined the National Bank about four years ago, and was transferred to Paparoa two years ago, performing the duties of clerk. Mr. Duffaur received a telegram stating bis, nephew was missing, but it throws no light on the mystery. Later. Meagre additional particulars from Paid are to the effect that Sayers was riding on the road when a stirrup broke and he fell from his horse and was killed.

Duffaur sustained such a shock on witnessing the fatality that he became demented, and it, is presumed, drowned himself.