Mystery Of Missing Barber.

Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 40, 21 October 1927, Page 2

Mystery Of Missing Barber.

Through a detective going into a hairdresser’s shop in Stock well, in South London, for a shave, a mystery which had puzzled the police for several weeks, was cleared up recently. It was early in July that Mr Albert Jurd, aged 33, a hairdresser, of Shirly, disappeared from his home, after telling his wife that he was going to take his dog for a walk. He said he would not be gone more than ten minutes. On the same night, Mrs Myrtle Cotton, who is 26, and the wife of a dock employee at Southampton, also vanished. She had told her sister that she was going for a walk. The two farr.i’iss hid been on friendly terms, and Mrs Cotton had spent the evening with Mrs Jurd.

Then came a period of mysterious silence, with no new;, of either the missing man, the missing woman, or the dog—until the detective went for his shave in South London.

The man in whose chair he sat was Jurd, and as the officer looked in the mirror, the likeness between the barber and the missing Southampton man struck him. It tallied so closely with the published description that he was positive it could not be merely a coincidence, and when Jurd left he was followed to a private house in the same road.

The Southampton police were informed by telephone, and relatives arrived later to take Jurd home.