SEA MYSTERY.

Mt Benger Mail, 26 April 1933, Page 4

SEA MYSTERY.

MISSING PROFESSOR. TRAGEDY OP THIRTY YEARS AGO. FEATURES 01*' REAL LIFE DRAMA. Sailors in windjammers of about 30 years ago, are asked to la Ip in clearing up what may prove to be one of the most amazing mysteries of the last half century—the disappearance of Professor Samuel if 'Elmar Taylor, once noted in Manchester, Blackpool and Douglas as “The wizard who looked like Hall ( aine.” Taylor, who was missing after a boating accident off Port Sodcrick, Isle of Man,, about the year PJOd, was presumed drowned, but startling inlormalioH lias reached Ids widow and children that lie is still alive and in affluent circumstances. “('lues have come from sever,si quarters," Mr Wilfred Taylor, of Eiixton, near Manein ster, tells a pressman, “and they are >o remarkable that I trust they will soon lead to a solution of the mys- !< ry and restart father t<> ms mother. who has mourned him so faithfully all these years. Boating Tragedy. “idle hot duty afternoon he put out Horn Port Soderiek m the Manx Maid, a rowing boat, for a leu hours cool air and fishing, ills companions were an artist and a post, oiliee tebmraph operator. I lie little craft capsizul in a sudditil squall and unis one of the i !ii t e set foot on shore again. "Dad, however, was an exceptionally strong swimmer- lm emnd k'.ip afloat lor hours in a In a\ yst a and 1 ha\e aiwa\s < lung to the liuoiw that perhaps he was piektd up In an outward bound sailing ship and taken to India, say, or seine other pi.-uv 1 lonisands in mots jrum England. ’Pi ople Will, Ot eoliise, Say, 1 nt! , il lii‘ Were rescued ill this w a;>, lie would surely has e let iiis wit' and ehiidian know.' My aosw i r is that pi'obaiiiy lie was >uSieiung !rom loss (if memory. His lead may have been injured. '' My tin on. is supported by lis eno .s we have n reived. The lirst eame to me in Liverpool, when 1 was burning to eateh a train. A man stopped me and said, 'Your name's Taylor. Your father was J.-■ t drowned at Port Emu nek. 1 s. w him a iit tle w Idle ago. llt was well dressed and was wearing | "And a ft w w < eks ago mv sis- I t 1 r was Sitting in a Malicio.ster 1 tram ear, when a fellow passengt v I a man who was a perfect strangle j to her, said suddenly \ our j fatin ris aii \ <■ and in atfbmnt cir- j GiiiUSi MiivM S. \\ MS SO Ustolili- j ded Ity tins statement coming, as 1 \ say, so abruptly from an utit r | stranger, that she couid lieitiori speak nor act, even when she saw j tin. man pieparing to have lie !! am. A mariner who has commanded! o any a sailing ship, gives his j opinion thus; "'1 he professor’s; sou m putting forward no stupid j do ury, uas iiis \ erdiet. 1 lon‘t * forget that a sailing ship, picking ] up a man in the I risk Sea and j then squaring away, say, for 3d,-* IKH) miles run to San Franeisco, i v.oiild not be a modern liner j equipped W itii wireless. She would be out of touch with band and the ordinary ways ol men for, months. j “True, the rescue w oubl be 1 1 logged, but the rescued man him- 1 sell might walk ashore in the first port she touched, and the ship in j sell might nut get back to jot home for three years. In cireunist a net s like these, a man who ' bad bis! his inemoiw could easily ■ bse iiis bearings for the rest ot >' liis da vs.” i