MISSING CASHIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 20

MISSING CASHIER.

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. SKRVICK IN" HOTF.K. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON". November 2. .lark Kvdiis. known to hundreds of provincial business men visiting London. lias disappeared. He lias for 2S vein's been ca-hier at one of the oldest and largest family hotels in the West Knd. lie has been missinjr from his home in the suburbs and from the hotel for >i fortnight. I'olice are assisting to find him. Tfis wife and two children are mystilied by his di><ip[M>aranee. Kvans. a middle-aged. unassuming man. proud of his loiijr service with the hotel, recently told a reporter a .strange story of his early strubles.

' I slept for a week on the stc]*; of the Opera Umi-e in Maris." lie naid. "I was penniless nn<l starving. "f.ondon hotel managers would not promote me from my [losition a< page boy because I could liot speak French •wid had no experience of French hotels. I ran away from home and arrived in I'aris with about C-. ''When T was (let-pent to an unemployed waiter gave me shelter in his «anet. \\ c searched f«ir work together. ' An employer had a vacancy. He saw us both, but gave me the job because I could speak F.njjlish. Hut 1 had only I lie street clothes I was wcarinff. My friend waved the dilliculty on one side. "I wore his winter's suit and in return kept, our home goin;r." An ollicial of Ihe company owning the hotel where Kvans worked said: "He has for 2X years been one ol" our most trusted employees, lie has handled many thousands of pounds of the company's money, but we have never had a single compbi int It is believed that Kvans mav bo suffering from loss of mornorr.