DUAL PERSONALITY

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

DUAL PERSONALITY

Girl Lost, Found, and Lost Again.

In circumstances involving a chain of coincidences usually found only in a novel, a blonde who was known in Bolton as the girl with the “Dresden china complexion,” has been lost to her mother, found, and now lost again, says a London paper. The girl, who had been mourned for three and a half years as dead is alive, and it is revealed that she has a dual personality. On February 1, 1932, Miss Mabel Elliott, aged 25, left home to go to work and disappeared. A countrywide search followed, Boy Scouts and ramblers combing the moors—in vain. About this time a girl who said she was “Edna Smith” was fund suffering from loss of memory in a shelter

at Southport and a home was found for her.

Recently she disappeared and a photograph of “Edna Smith” published in a newspaper was recognised by Mrs Warwick, of Bolton,'as being that of her niece, Miss Elliott. Mrs Warwick and Mrs Bolton submitted snapshots of her to the police who are satisfied that “Edna Smith” is—Mabel Elliott.

Mrs Elliott said: “This suspense is wearing mo down. I cannot believe that my daughter Mabel has been found. I had come to the conclusion that she had been drowned or had fallen down a disused pit^shaft. “Now the search will have to begin all over again. I cannot express my mingled hope and anxiety.”