MEN DISAPPEAR

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 11

MEN DISAPPEAR

SYDNEY POLICE PUZZLED

Sydney, August 30. The police daily receive intimations of people disappearing in the city or the environs. Some of these disappearances are the result of private unhappiness and in some cases the wanderers return in a few days. In others they are found by the police. Three recent cases, however, possess mysterious characteristics. A Roseville resident, Edward Clifford Treloar, inspector of a large business firm with branches in all the suburbs, left certain North Sydney premises at midday on Wednesday, ostensibly for lunch. He has not been seen since. He recently suffered from influenza and complained of tiredness. Otherwise, he was not worried.

Two puzzling cases have led the police to drag the Hawkesbury River for days past. Frederick Walter Broadhurst, of Roseville, a city business man, was returning from a business visit to Newcastle, and broke the journey at Brooklin, on the Hawkesbury, where he hired a rowing boat. He was never seen again, but the boat was picked up at sea. In it was 4s. and a note explaining: "This is to pay for the return to the owner.” The third man was Henry Jacobsen, retired, who resided with his family at Dangar Island in the Hawkesbury River. He left Brooklin in a launch which he owned, supposedly Io return to his island home. He never arrived and both man'and launch have completely vanished.