The American officer, in writing of the disappearance, explains the he went down to the steamer President McKinley last month, and] had dinner on board with the pur-
"The conversation led to stowaways," the letter continues, "and he (the purser) told about Captai Reynolds. The President Mok ley left here about 3 o'clock on this date (early in Joly) and had the usual search for stowaways outside the harbour, and none being found, she sailed on her way.
"About 7 o'clock that evening, a well dressed man went to the purser and told him he was a stowaway: and broke. He said he was tain Reynolds, and turned over a small overnight bag containing a some papers. to get to 'America and was willing to work or do whatever the ship's officers ordered. His papers' showed was discharged during the war as captain in the Australian forces and had enlisted as a private in the American Army and commissioned 'a First Lieutenant and was discharged as such.
"After the war he drifted around with his wife and children and they died of cholera in India, after which hho came to Japan. (He was an artist or a writer—I am not sui just what he said he was). At any rate he did not get employment and went broke.
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