MORE ABOUT THE WIMBLEDON MYSTERY.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1054, 27 February 1882, Page 2

MORE ABOUT THE WIMBLEDON MYSTERY.

The Daily Telegraph has the folfowing additional particulars of the case: — "The deceased, who was a cripple, began his education late in life. He was nineteen years of age of a most agreeable disposition, And very talented. Unable to get about save in his wheel chair, he spent a large portion of his time in reading, and acquired a fund of knowledge which placed him at the head of the School There appeared to have existed between him and his brother-in-law a warm affection. The latter, alluding to the extreme curvature of deceased's spine, has been heard to declare that it would require a very slight fall to injure him, and improbable that the deceased would survive the age of twenty-one, although those engaged in the establishment, apart from the principal as well as the medical man who regularly attended the students, testify to his continued good health and freedom from sudden attacks of illness. In August last, while the deceased was stopping with his friend at Shanklin, in the file of Wight> Mr Lawson gave him a pill, representing it to be of quinine, from the effects of which he suffered considerably. Mr Bedbrook also recollects that at different times Lawson has sent him medicine for his pupil, but on each occasion, on finding that it disagreed with the deceased, Mr Bedbrook discontinued the doses. All such medicine retained in his possession he has handed to the police authorities. Lawson is stated to be of a roving disposition. He went through the Franco-Prussian and Turko-Russian wars, during which he had gained medals. Since then he had some practice at Bournemouth. According to the information furished to the police, on the death of Mr Malcom John the property he was possessed of would revert to Lawson's wife, the sister of the deceased. This property is stated to be considerable. As a fact, however, it was just about sufficient to maintain the young man comfortably. Not long after his relative's departure the deceased began to feel ill, and recalled the sensations he had experienced at Shanklin. He gradually grew worse, and commenced to vomit His shin, he said felt as if it were being drawn up, It is positively stated that the paralysis of his lower limbs was not in any way due to what he had taken. It is said that after the youth had been carried upstairs, and lay in intense agony, he cursed his brother-in-law, and cried out 'He has done for me this time.' The deceased bore a most exemplary character, and was never known to use such language prior to this occasion."