THREE MISSING MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17803, 30 August 1929, Page 8

THREE MISSING MEN.

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. THE POLICE PUZZLED. MYSTERIOUS CHARACTERISTICS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Received Aug. 30 1.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 30. The police daily receive intimation of people disappearing in the city or environs. Some arc the result of private unhappiness, some of - the wanderers return in a few days, and others are to unci by the police. Three recent cases, - however, possess mysterious characteristics, A Roseville resident, Edwaftl Clifford Trelear, an inspector of a large business firm with brunches in. all suburbs left the North Sydney premises at inid-day on Wednesday ostensibly for lunch, and has not been seen since. He iccentJy 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, of Roseville, a city business man, was returning from a business visit to Newcastle. He broke his journey at Brookiin, on the Hawkesbury, where lie hired a rowing boat and has never been seen again, but the boat was picked up at sea. In it were four and a note explaining: '‘Tills is to pay for the return to the owner.” The third man was Henry Jacobsen, retired, who resided with (his family at Danger island, in the Hawkesbury River. He left Brookiin in a launch which he owned, it is supposed, to return to his island home. He never arrived, and both man and iaunch completely vanished.