NO BRIDEGROOM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22183, 9 August 1935, Page 10

NO BRIDEGROOM

WEDDING POSTPONED P" MYSTERY 'IN DUN EE) IN CAR FOUND ABANDONED ; _ ; .. • , . ■ -J,.. . , ' ' POLICE SEARCH FRUITLESS [BY TELEGEATII —OWN CORRESPONDENT] DUNEDIN. Thursday The police in Dunedin are at present making inquiries to discover the whereabouts of a young man who has disappeared in very unusual circumstances. The man, who resides with his mother at South Dunedin and is employed in engineering work with a firm operating in a district south of Dunedin, was to have been married on Wednesday night. Ho left home in his car on Saturday to visit his fiancee and stayed at her parents' home on Sunday, leaving eat-ly on Monday njorning to drive back to Dunedin, a distance of about seven miles. The young man's family wpre awaiting his return to Dunedin to complete arrangements for the wedding, but the prospective bridegroom did not put in an appearance. They became anxious in the afternoon and communicated with the police, and a radio call was, sent out at 5 o'clock and again at 8 o'clock inquiring if any information could be given regarding the man's whereabouts. No response was received, and on the following morning, Tuesday, the car was found abandoned. So far the police have been unable to discover anything regarding the young man's disappearance or the cause of it. A curious circumstance in connection with the mystery is that the man rang up his employers on Monday morning and told them that he would not be at work that day.