MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 886, 1 September 1926, Page 8

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR

HORSE OWNER MISSING

WHAT BECAME OF COLEMAN?

REPORT OF JOCKEY HASTINGS

MAX WHO NEVER SEEMED TO RE WORRIED. (Per Press Association) 1 Auckland, Sept. 1. .When the Rarawa arrived at. Hastings from New Plymouth at 8 o’clock this morning the police, were, informed by W. 0. Hastings, the jockey. that his employer, Charles W. Coleman, was missing from the steamer since 5 o'clock.

Coleman and Hastings occupied the same cabin,. Coleman retired at 8 p.m., in the bottom hunk. He was asleep when Hastings went to bed, two hours later. At 2 o’clock Coleman asked Hastings to get him some aspro tablets from the steward, who could not supply them. An hour later the steward gave Coleman some water. He went to sleep for two hours, Coleman then got. up and. said he was going to the.lavatory. He was not seen afterwards..

Hastings said Coleman always appeared in a good humour, and neve’ seemed to be worried.