SHAVE ENDS MYSTERY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 12

SHAVE ENDS MYSTERY.

FACE IN A MIRROR. MISSING BARBER FOUND. Through a detective going into a hairdresser’s shop in Stockwell, 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 (hat Mr Albert Jurd, aged 38, a hairdresser,- of Shirley, disappeared from his home, after tolling his wife that he was going to take his dog for a walk. He said ho would not be gone more than 10 minutes. On the same night, Mns Myrtle Cotton, who is 26, and the wife of - a dock employee at Southampton, also vanished. She had told her sister that she also waa going for a walk. The two families had been on friendly terms, and Mrs Cotton had spent the evening with Mm Jurd. Then came a. period of mysterious silence, with no news of either tho missing man, the missing woman, or the dog—until tlie detective went for his shave in South London. The man in whose chair he sat was Jurd, and as tho officer looked in the mirror the likeness between tho barber and the missing Southampton man struck him. It tallied so closely with the published description that he was positive it could not bo merely a coincidence, and when Jurd left he was followed to a. private, house in the same road. The Southampton police were informed hv telephone, and relations arrived later to take Jurd home.