A Sydney Mystery.
A romantic o|■;>o■ 1;* m eonne-emn wit 4 one of the members >'.f the Permanent Force N current, -ays the 'l' mvu urd Country Joiut. ;!. > me t-w m-mllis back a sobiCr nann d Wallace was mm-ino from -'be C rVicks Search w;V- unite !•'" 1 * 1 111, and ,uf length his 1" 'lc. identiic'd cint i'v bv his uniform, was f .mil t!<>ntiii«r in the «ea near 1> ton. An impiest was held, and an omm verdict was gwcn. As he ha ! a good record injhis comranv h<* was buried with military honour?, and his uutini-!y fate regretted by his comrades. Some rings and other trinkets four; ; on ike K dv were sent to his sister in Melbourne, of which place ho wa? a native. But within the past few days th > 1 sc soldier turned m> in the _llc-h. having been C»m fort ably enj \vt;i-' bimscU iu the b'aom of his fa nny ever -ince his reput'd d-mth ; and wince he received, t0 his c a-t oiishinim-t, the rings a id other in'meat os of his own decease, so kindly forwarded by his comrades in arms. I'he key to tho . , v ,tery is that Wallace and a friend excuauged clothes, and that the former reate i himself to a holiday surrepti-
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1660, 14 January 1885, Page 3
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248A Sydney Mystery. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1660, 14 January 1885, Page 3
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