CITY RESIDENTS DISAPPEAR

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1929, Page 15

CITY RESIDENTS DISAPPEAR

MYSTERIES OCCUR IN' SYDNEY.

THREE CASES PUZZLE POLICE.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. -Copyright. Received Aug. 30, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 30.

The police daily receive intimations of people disappearing in the city or its environments. Some are the result of private unhappiness, some are wanderers, and in a few days others are found by the police. Three recent eases, however, possess mysterious characteristics. A Roseville resident. Edward Clifford Treloar, an inspector of a large business firm with branches in all the suburbs, left the North Sydney premises at midday on Wednesday, ostensibly for lunch, and has not- been seen since. He recently suffered from influenza and complained of tiredness; otherwise he was not worried.

Two puzzling cases led the police to drag the Hawkesbury River for several days past. Frederick Walter Broadhurst, business man of Roseville City, was returning from business to Newcastle. He broke his journey at Brooklin, on the Hawkesbury, where he hired a rowing boat and has never been seen again, though the boat w r as picked up at sea. In it were four shillings and a note explaining: “This is to pay for the return to the owner.”

The third man was Henry Jacobsen, a retired man who resided with his family at Danger Island, in the Hawkesbury River. He left Brooklin in a launch which he owned, it is supposed, to return to his island home. He never arrived and both man and launch have completely vanished.