SIR JOSEPHS SHADOWER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12257, 3 July 1909, Page 5

SIR JOSEPHS SHADOWER.

MORE LIGHT ON THE MATTER

(Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, July 2

A Dunediu resident has thrown some further light on the sensational report that Detective Cassells has been sent /Homo to protect the Prime Minister from po&sible personal attack. The in- • formant states that he is well acquainted with the facts of the case, as he had been tho means of introducing the man in question to tho Prime Minister. The man was* well educated, and held a high place in the literary world at Home, and was the author of several books. Ha expressed a- desire to come to New calami, and obtained an interview, with Sir J. G. Ward in London. Asking about the likelihood of finding an opening in his profession in the Dominion, he was told he would have to take his chance, Sir J. G. Ward making no specific promise beyond saying that he would be pleased to assist the man if he came out. The man eventually came to Wellington, and secured a position on the staff of a New Zealand journal. "But," added the informant, "I am afraid the man is a dipsomaniac, and he was soon looking for employment." He seems to bitterly resent being inveigled, as he called it, to New Zealand, and wrote a number of threatening letters to the Prime Minister, some being so violent that the matter was put into tho hands of the police. The Prime Minister did not prosecute, as he did not want the man put in. gaol. The letters contained threats to shoot, and tho local informant is quite satisfied that the man will do serious injury if he gets the chance. He is a desperate character," said the informant in conclusion, " and I should not be a bit surprised to hear that he had waylaid Sir Joseph Ward."