DUNEDIN MYSTERY SOLVED

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18487, 31 October 1917, Page 2

DUNEDIN MYSTERY SOLVED

A MARRIED MAN'S ELOPEMENT j WITH A YOUNG GIRL.. AUCKLAND, October 3H Three weeks ago a. married man named 1 Henry Young, and a girl under 17, disappeared from Dunedin, their clothes being] subsequently found on the beach, amid the lupins. The mystery has now been solved by the arrest of Young in Auckland ou a charge of wife desertion, on which he has been remanded to Dunedin. j The girl staples that she became acquainted 1 with Young througih the latter frequently visiting her father at the latter'is house in Dunedin. An 1 attachment was formed 1, and they took frequent opportunities of meet- j ing. Subsequently her parent® sugigested that she should) go to the country for a month* holiday, and | she acquiesced) in this suggestion, but instead of taking the trip, she | agreed' wih Young) that they should leave Dumedin together. They arranged a plan of covering! their tracks, and at once proceeded to cairy it out. They purchased new outfits of clothing, for which the man paid. The latter then arranged for t the use of two rooms at a. hotel,

i where they changed their clothinsr. | Then they took the garments that they had discarded to the beach at St. Clair, left them there amongst some lupins, and -returned to the .city. Later 1h the day they left i Dunedin by '■'train for Ouinaru. They had anticipated tthat' it would be supposed that they had been drowned whilst 'bathing, and that therefore there would be .leas likelihood of their being traced. According! to the girl's narrative, the pair travelled by successive etages to Oamam, Asliburton, Christchurcfa, Wellington, New .Plymouth, and Auckland. They changed itheir assumed names at eveiy «ltage, always li availing aa "Mr and Miss." The girl asserts that they occupied separate rooms at the various hotels at which, (i they stayed until they reached Auckland, where they arrived on Wednesday last. A fortnight after leaving Dunedin. They kept apart during! the steamer journey from Lyttleton to Wellington, and did not once speak to eftch other on the voyage. On arriving, in- Auckland, the man and girl stayed at a boarding house as man and wife, and afterwards took furnished lodgings). The ' man obtained employment in "the city, but his mind apparently was ill a* «as8 > and he sunrendered him-: self to the police and was taken into custody on a charge of wife desertion. It ig stated that Young has four children. ' The girl is now in the care of a resident of Auckland, with whom she will' remain until the arrival of -her ■•.parents from ; Dunlin.-— '^peoial Correspondent.