A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
The police at Clinton are, says the Otago Daily Times, engaged in the investigation of a case which at present has a mysterious [ appearance about it. A bundle of woman's clothing and a tin box containing three bonnets were found in the Pomahaka River on Wednesday, inside the box being a receipt in favour of a Mrs Matheson from a Dunedin dyer. About Saturday last a person of that name, who had obtained in Dunedin a maintenance order for 5s a week against her husband, a rabbiter on the Pomahaka; arrived at : Clinton, en r'qule for Pomahaka, and she -was taken over tKe river by a settler - on horseback, and deposited near Matheson^ house. ' From that lame she- was riot: heard" of, and the discovery of the clothes in the fiver lias caused -an Unpleasant g'ens-itio^.*- '■"■■'■ j. -.-'■ - -f • -■• - •"•
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5502, 29 February 1896, Page 6
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141A MYSTERIOUS CASE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5502, 29 February 1896, Page 6
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