"But I have just received final instructions by the 'wireless'—relayed by the St. Petersburg—to arrest at once and hold for delivery to our special officers in New York, the man named Preston, now known to be identical with the one who was under surveillance at Ely for the cathedral crimes but was let go upon representations to the police now discovered to be false. He was actually arrested at Polporru, but again freed upon the representations of the same friends who are now known to have perjured themselves for him and sworn, for him, to an absolutely false alibi. The identification is further fixed, if necessary, by cables from Brazil, where the Bahia has arrived.
"And further, I am instructed to arrest and hold with him for complicity and conspiracy—to what extent is not now known—but certainly for perjury at Ely and later at Polporru, Miss Ethel D. Varris, upon whose false representations this man was allowed to pass our police in Cambridgeshire, and upon whose
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