A STRANGE STORY. An Aeronaut, Supposed to Have Been Lost, Leading a Princely Life,

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY. An Aeronaut, Supposed to Have Been Lost, Leading a Princely Life,

New York, October 17.— The " World's " Providence, R. 1., special says : As strange and startling as was the story of the disappearance of Frederick A. Gower, the telephono inventor and aeronaut, is the information of his reappearance, alive and well, in Bombay, India. Gower, who was a newsboy and subsequently editor of the " Press," in this city, left hie newspaper desk whan the first public exhibition was given here of the telephone. He contracted with Prof. Reid to deliver a lecture throughout the country' and afterward took the Franch capital as a field for introducing the telephone. Soon after reaching Paris he amassed a fottune. Having satisfied his thirst for discovery and invention in one direction, Gower set to work experimenting with machinery for a?rial navigation. He made exten°ive preparations for ascending in a monster balloon from Dieppe. The balloon went out to sea, and the only vestige of it that was ever found was the basket. Gower was given up for lost. He had, not very long before, married Mile. Nordica, the prima donna, who, however, did not live happily with her rich American husband. iNlow comes the story that on Malabor Hill, in Bombay, the vanished American is living in good health, while his brother, George Lewis Gower, is in France taking care of his interests. Gower, it is said, is a great friend of a handsome Indian Princess, and is the lion of a very lively European circle.