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Rh and other characteristics are identical with those of the other communications received previously from the man who signs himself Manling. This was mailed in Plymouth early this morning. The communication, verbatim, follows:

To the Police, Press, and Public:—

As I have consistently taken the greatest pains, the letter reads, and have repeatedly subjected myself to great personal inconvenience as well as often permitted myself to suffer substantial losses to protect the persons and to preserve the respect and confidence of my chosen clientele, I am exceedingly pained and grieved in observing the stupid, insulting, and libellous manner in which the press and police have interpreted my visit at the Devonshire Inn last night.

Irrespective of my personal sensibility, I feel that I owe to those whom I hope from time to time to add to my clientele, that they should not feel the entirely unnecessary and 159