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Rh special service men will make an effort to apprehend him upon landing, they have as yet no further indication of his sailing than this: They knew he was in Plymouth last week, where he evidently tried to find passage to America—and found only the bunk upon the Bahia in which he deposited his victim for Brazil. Then they traced him to Southampton, but only by another daring haul he made there. For he robbed another American there just before he sailed, and sent the new steamer rug and the new leather travelling box, which the American had just received from a London dealer, down to our dock and had them brought on board with the first-cabin luggage for this ship!

"So when I received this remarkable warning of the presence of such a man, and these gentlemen," he indicated the young American and the Englishman beside him, "brought their evidence that Mr. Manling had indeed followed his box and rug aboard, I finally decided to let them lay before you the extraordinary 253