GASPARINI'S ESCAPE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8275, 22 September 1888, Page 2

GASPARINI'S ESCAPE.

FRENCH CONSUL INDIGNANT. IMPUTATIONS WITH KEGARD TO NEW ZEALAND. [per press association.] Sydney, September 21. — The detective authorities here do not believe that Gtasparini jumped overboard on the voyage of the Wakatipa from Wellington to Sydney, and are of opinion i that as he was only convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy, lie was able to command plenty of money and sympathy. The detectives believe that Gasparini was on board the Wakatipu when the search was fruitlessly made for him. The Prenoh Oonsal-General here has expressed indignation at the action of a Minister of the Grown iv ! New Zealand, who, it is stated, prominently concerned himself in Gasparini's behalf in referenoe to the raising of subscriptions to defray the oost of applying for a writ oi habeas corpus for the release of the prisoner in Sydney. An official communication has been received by the Consul-General stating that the Minister referred to conversed with Gasparini on the Wellington wharf just prior to the departure of the steamer Wakatipa, and that he also gave messages to the deteotive who was in oharge of the prisoner. An attache to the consulate states he saw a man resembling Gasparini in the streets of Sydney after the arrival of the steamer, and oalled the attention of Detective Walker to the ciroumstauce, but he denied that the man watt Gasparini. The attache adheres to the belief that this man was Gasparini.