WHERE IS "ANDY" STADE ?

NZ Truth, Issue 1272, 17 April 1930, Page 5

WHERE IS "ANDY" STADE ?

Mystery of Missing Man Who Vanished Two Years Ago RELATIVES APPEAL TO "TRUTH"

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/^ISBORNE provided the last mystery VJ of this nature when a little boy strayed from his parents' side m a show ground and was never traced. As if the v earth had opened and swallowed him up he vanished. Every effort to. trace him failed. GOING TO WORK From time to time. "Truth" has been successful m tracing' missing persons and knowing this the mother and sister of Frederick Andrew Stade recently asked that an effort be made to find i out whether he is still alive, or has met

some lonely and untimely end. Generally known as "Andy," Stade left his home which was then m/ Auckland about the end of September, or early m October, 1928. It is understood that he was going to work m the Pokeno district. From that day to this he has failed to answer

about those with whom they may strike up a casual acquaintance. A man might . stay at an outback hotel or boarding-house for a night and leave the next morning, and through some misadventure/ or unfortunate happening, fall into a river, or become bushed, or even be the victim of foul play, and be literally obliterated. Can it be that "Andy" Stade has met with some such fate? Is he one of those who has been buried as a person unidentified m an unmourned grave? In those words so often heard m the Coroner's Court — "the body of some person unknown"— there is often a wealth of tragedy and anxious waiting, for though it may be an exaggeration to say: /'Everyone is loved by someone," there are few who have not someone who knows and possibly appreciates some good point, however obscure, about them."

any letters addressed to him and repeated efforts to trace him have proved fruitless. \ His next-of-kin are naturally anxious to know whether he is dead or alive. They have seen from time to time accounts m the papers of bodies being found and there being some doubt as to the identity of the deceased person. .. Is it possible, they wonder, that, some untimely fate has overtaken "Andy" Stade for they are unable to believe that he would be alive and -yet ignore them for so long a period and' keep them m a state of anxiety? RETURNED SOLDIER His mother, who is getting on m years, describes him as ,of medium height, brown colored hair, neither dark jnor light, crippled m the right arm, a scar under his left eye, brown eyes, clean shaven (when he left home), inclined to be bald on the top of his head, and among his other attainments ho drives a lorry. His age is given as thirty-three. Stade saw service m the World War. ' It is m the hope that if he is alive "he will relieve the anxiety sufFered by his mother by writing or coming forward, or that those with whom he is now working, or has worked, will write and say where he is, that "Truths has been asked to give the^matter publicity. If on the other hand Stade has met with some mysterious death m some lonely spot there is just a chance that there may be someone who can give a clue as to when he- was last seen and what he was doing at the time. His sister has suggested that he may be suffering from a loss of memory due to war nerves for otherwise his long silence would be unaccountable if he is alive. It is not so impossible as it may appear for a man or woman to disappear and leave no trace. In the hurry and stress of modern life people are often too self-centred to bother