TRAGEDY ON CORNISH CLIFFS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 3

TRAGEDY ON CORNISH CLIFFS

SON OF FAMOUS ARTIST. In. spite uf u long and exhaustive *c.iiui> of the coastline, no truce has been found uf -Mr. Henry John, the -'G year old son of Mr. Augustus John, j K.A., who vanished while on holiday near Newquay, Cornwall. Mr. John had been staying with his aunt, Miss Mellleship, of Chelsea, at her cottage in the little village of Crantock. four miles from Newquay. He left lhe cottage in his motor-car. accompanied by his deg. and when he j did not return his aunt became ■alarmed. Hhe called assistance, and it I was learned he had been seen going |in the direction of Forth Joke, a secluded beach. A search party set out, and shortly before midnight they found his car in a narrow lanb, and later discovered his dog standing on the edge of an 80ft. i liit. apparently waiting for his master to reiuiii. The search was eon tinned liirougho.it the night, and next day Mr. .\ugu*tlit. John, who had been calle I from London, joined in the I’oJice, coastguards, scouts and visitors scoured the base of the cliffs ■ for mile*, but without success, and it is now feared that Air. John has lost his life. I'a.lier D’Arry, close friend and ! lutor ol Mr. Henry John, stated that I Mr John became n Roman Catholic j and studied for the priesthood, but Inter decided that that was not hij I \oealion.