AUTHORESS MISSING
LEFT HOME IN EVENING
CAR FOUND EMPTY NEXT
MORNING.
(Sydney Sun Cable.) ;•■,. (Eoccived 7th December, 11 a.m.) Jj
LONDON, 6th
Mystery attends the disappearance ofl Mrs. Agatha Christie, the well-knowi* novelist, wife of Colonel Christie. Sh«j spent the evening with her husband* then packed au attache case, and sud» denly departed, notifying tho secretary that she would not return that night. Noxt morning a Jjoj?'found her motorcar, containing''ait attache case, twoj pairs of shoes, and some wearing apparel abandoned, stuck in a hedge on! the brink of a cliff at Newlands Corner, a beauty spot ' near Guildfoird. Judged by appearances the car skidded after running down hill without brakes.
The police scoured the country and dragged ponds' fruitlessly. Tho husband told the police that his wife recently suffered a nervous breakdown, necessitating her going on a holiday t» France. , ' ' Later. There is no further trace of Mrs. Christie. Her husband states; t.iat he was unaware that his wife intended to! leave home, and he left home for tM week-end before she started. "' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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174AUTHORESS MISSING Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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