A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 4

A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

Miss Violet C.ha_*les**drtli recently ; created a sensation at Home* She ?peint a great detii 6f ihohey And f&ti up heavy debts, made ta&iif.. friends^ .ought . motor-cars and rented fihfi •louses, managing to satisfy everyone ■vith a statement concerning a large rum of money that would come into he.*' hands on her twenty-fifth birthday. When her difficulties were becoming swious, she went motoring near St. Asapli.wJth her sister and a. chauffeur. The car collided ' with a jtorie wall on the edge of a cliff . on *6n6 jeashore, and the sister and chauffeur .•ushed to- the police with an account if how Miss Charlesworth had been lung over the edge of-the cliff by the force of the impact. .-■ At; first the stor-v of the accident, was accepted, but after a week or so stlSpieions. beto grow. No body c°ldd oe found, nor did .the' rocks at the foot of the cliff show any signs of the alleged tragedy. Another strange-, feature was that though Miss Charlesworth, according to the tale told by the two survivors, had been flung vioiently through the glass wind-screen of the motor-car, the machine, itself had "not been damaged by the collision, with the. wall. "". The -mystery .vas the newspaper sensation of the 1 day during the "first three weeks' in Ja-nuary, and its filial solution was lue to tlie prominence given* to. Miss CJiarlcswoi-th and her affairs. An intelligent Scotch policeman was im-r .pi'essed by the similarity between the jffisfeing lady and a lonely maiden vwh'o 7 liad' suddenly appeared, at an hotel in \ Tobormory. He communicated with his superior officers, and presently a imall army; of detectives and newspaper nieii were demanding informa-. tion from a very much alive Miss Charlesworth. At fiv.st she denied her identity, claiming the itsme bf McLeod,. but after a day or two she recognised the futility of this course and proceeded to offer, elaborate explanations of aU that had occurred. '•'."■ " "' " !