STORY OF AN ABDUCTION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12500, 29 March 1909, Page 1

STORY OF AN ABDUCTION.

Mr Victor Grayson, M.P., was prevented by a curious comedy from de T livering a speecli at the Labour Conference at Portsmouth,, which had been expected with much interest in view of the condemnation by Labour leaders of his "scenes" in ParliaIt was a comedy planned by Mr Fred T. Jane, the well known naval writer, arid Lieutenant Wilson, a retired officer of the Indian Army. A powerful racing car was driven up to Portsmouth Town Hall just before the. delegates to the conference adjourned fo- lunch. Mr Grayson was induced to enter the car by an invitation to see the sights of the townrand he was driven off and kept away from the conference till it was too late for him to make his speech^ . „ Mr Jane asserts that he organised the whole affairas a joke. "I heard the other night," he says, "that Mr Grayson was to make a speech at the Labour Conference next afternoon, and I arranged to get him away m my motor for the afternoon. Lieutenant Wilson, a few days later, himself disappeared. . He stated that he was lured to Southampton by a bogus telephone message which he believed to have come from a friend.. He declines to make any further statement, except Z say that he believes that Mr Grayson and the Portsmouth Socialists were not concerned in the incident.