WOOED AND WON

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 26 (Supplement)

WOOED AND WON

AUTHORESS DUPED. SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN. DISAPPEARED WITH MANUSCRIPT. A beautiful 28-year-old woman writer appealed to Scotland Yard to assist her in a dramatic search. She sought a mysterious maji who, she alleges, gained possession of a valuable manuscript belonging to her, proposed marriage, obtained money to invest on her behalf—and then vanished. The writer is Miss Angela Mary Lawless of Bayswater. who says she has published poetry under the name of “Angela Gresham.'’ She has herself offered a reward of £IOO to anyone who will give her information leading to the discovery of the missing man, or to the recovery of the manuscript which is irreplaceable. “I met him in Tune of this year,” Miss Lawless told “The People.” “1 showed him the manuscript or a book T have written—a book upon a subject which I believe is bound to command the attention of the whole world —and lie offered to place it with a well-known publisher for me. Some little time later he proposed marriage, and I accepted him. “I gave him sums ot’ money at various times, which lie offered to invest for me. and when he had obtained upwards of £3OO in this way, he said that, when lie had made that £3OO into £IOOO, we should get married. The £IOOO was to help buy my trousseau and to pay for the expenses of our wedding and honeymoon. /‘Now he has vanished utterly, and with him my manuscript, which is one of the most precious things I possessed. He mentioned the names of numerous people in important positions in the literary and journalistic world, who. he told me, could vouch for his character. “I have since made inquiries from some of the people lie mentioned, but none of them knows him, or has ever heard of him. He claimed to be the financial editor of a famous London newspaper,” Miss Lawless added, “but nobody connected with that paper knows anything about , him. The missing manuscript contains material which would create a literary sensation. It deals with revelations made to me from the planet Mars and other matters of a highly dramatic and interesting nature.”