SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 5

SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCES.

PROMINENT CITIZENS VANISH; RECENT HAPPENINGS PUZZLE POLICE. iUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph C-opyright.) (Australian Pre»s Association.) SYDNEY, Aug. 30. The police daily receive intimations of people disappearing in the city or its environments. Some zaire' the result of private unhappiness, some are wanderers, and 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 the 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, but otherwise he was not worried. Two puzzling cases have led the police to drag the Hawkesbury River for several days past. Frederick Walter Broadhurst, of Roseville, a city business man, was returning from business to Newcastle. He broke his journey at Brooklin, on the Hawkesbury River, where he hired a rowing boat, and has never been seen again, but the boat was picked up at sea. In it were four shillings and a note, explaining, “This is to pay for the return to the owner.” A third man was Henry Jacobsen, retired, who resided with his family at Danger Island, in the Hawkesbury River. He left Brooklin in a launch which ho owned. He was supposed' to return to his island home, but he never arrived, and both man and launch completely vanished.