NEWS OF MISSING MAN
BELIEVED DEAD FOR 3 YEARS
LONDON, January 29
The “Daily Herald” states that, for three years, Frank Atkinson, 30, of Keswick, was mourned as dead by his family. Ho left for Australia, in 1928; later his sister identified wliat she believed was his body; it was believed that he had been murdered by natives at Darwin.
His mother died grieving over the news of her son's supposed death. It; has now been revealed that he was, all the time, prospecting tor gold at. Fine. Creek. Mrs. L. Corti Young, another sister, living at Marlborough Read, Holloway, received a cable message from him, seeking his mother's address. She replied giving the news ef her death, and he answered that, he was unaware that the family thought he was dead.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1938, Page 10
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