TYPISTE DISAPPEARS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1925, Page 5

TYPISTE DISAPPEARS

POLICE VAINLY SEARCHING. til OVBLE—press association— copyright LONDON, Jan. 10.

The police are 'vainly searching for Elsie Cameron, a pretty London typiste, who has been missing since December 5.

Norman Thorn, poultry tanner at Crowborough, states that he received a letter from Elsie, his linancee, saying that she was corning for the day on December (3, and asking him to meet the train at Groombridge station, when they would continue the journey together to Tunbridge Wells. Norman, not seeing Elsie at the carriage window, travelled alone to Tunbridge Wells and returned to Crowborough. He sent a. post card and received a reply from Elsie’s parents at KenSabrise, stating that Elsie had left them a note saying that she was going for the week-end to Crowborough, and they were extremely anxious about her. Norman added that they both wished, to marry, but he could not ask her to live in a ramshackle hut. His own impression was that elie had never left London. It was possible that she was suffering from loss of memory. BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL. LONDON, Jan. 10. The most extensive search of the Crowborough countryside for the missing girl, Elsie Cameron, was fruitless, but a. piece of grey foxtail, evidently belonging to a- woman’s fur, was found in a lonely lane, and has been handed to the police, who are not certain whether it will afford a clue.

A large force of police will to-day begin ,a search of the Ashdown Forest-, an area of 30,000 acres. Bloodhounds may possibly he engaged. Norma-il Thorn, Elsie’s lover, interviewed by the Sunday Times, said he had an old pair of Elsie’s shoes in his hut, which he was willing should be scented by bloodhounds. He thought it possible that she wandered into the forest, where they often cycled, but he had no reason to- believe that she left London.

“A cruel rumour has been spread about me,” Thorn said, “but they are all lies.” Thorn in other expressed the fear that- Elsie was not alive.