MISSING AUSTRALIANS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1929, Page 5

MISSING AUSTRALIANS

PROBLEMS FOR THE POLICE. (Australian Press Assn.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 30. The police daily receive intimations of people disappearing in the city or environs. Some result from private unhappiness and some wanderers return in a few days. Others 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 suburbs, left the North Sydney premises at midday on Wednesday, ostensibly for lunch, and has not been seen since. He recently suffered from influenza, and complained of tiredness, otherwise he was not worried.

Two puzzling cases led the police to drag the Hawkesbury river for several days past. Frederick Walter Broadhurst of Roseville, a city business man was returning from a business visit to Newcastle. He broke the journey at Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury, where he hired a rowing boat, and has never been seen again, but the boat was picked up at sea. In it were 4/- and a note explaining “This is to pay for the return to the owner.”

The third man was Henry Jacobs, retired, who resided with his family at Danger Island in the Hawkesbury River. He left Brooklin in a launch which he owned, ®it is supposed, to return to his island home. He never arrived and both man and launch have completely vanished.