NOT A TRACE FOUND

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 67, 13 December 1926, Page 9

NOT A TRACE FOUND

DISAPPEARANCE OF MRS. CHRISTIE PROLONGED FRUITLESS .. SEARCH (Rec. December 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 11. There has perhaps been no greater search in England than the week-long efforts on behalf of Mrs. Agatha Christie, the authoress. Every inch of country in the vicinity of the abandoned car has been overturned, fruitlessly by hundreds of police and civilians. The police activity changed in form to-day. The theory now is that she is alive. Letters from all over England are reaching the police telling of strange women everywhere. The majority are useless, but others suggest possibilities. , The strangest is an anonymous document posted to the police reading: “Do not continue the search further. It is useless. Everything -is well.” ' The handwriting had obviously been disguised. Colonel Christie had long undisclosed conversations with police chiefs, after which lie said: ‘’The police are up against it.- They cannot say what is the real solution.” The police are working on three propositions. One is that Mrs. Christie’s disappearance was planned deliberately in accordance with many plots contained in her novels. The second is that private troubles caused her to take her life, though the fruitless search in the neighbourhood largely discounts this. Finally, she mav have been murdered and the body conveyed elsewhere bv car. 'Certainly it is the most complete disappearance without trace that the police recollect