MURUPARA GIRL POSTED AS MISSING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 27, 1 December 1950, Page 5

MURUPARA GIRL POSTED AS MISSING

Daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Gibbs, of Murupara, Nancy Gibbs, 22, a domestic aide, of Christchurch, has been listed by the police as a missing person. Her parents have not seen her since she abandoned her nursing training at Rotorua Hospital three years ago, nor heard from her since she wrote home on the day that Cecil Robert Gurr Otto appeared before the Hamilton Court on a murder charge in October of 1948, “The door has always been open to her, and always will be,” her parents said. It was only through two other daughters, Joan, of Mangere, and Dulcie, of Mount Eden, that Mr and Mrs Gibbs learned that Nancy had gone to Christchurch. Her parents said they were under the impression that Nancy had obtained a job as nursemaid which would take her to Britain. They hoped it were so, they said, because they felt it might solve a personal problem they knew she had, Early this month, the Gibbses continued, they heard that she had met a friend of the family in Auckland, to whom she confided that she was being taken to,' or going, to Australia and Britain till the Korean* situation turned in favour of United Nations.

After that, acording to the friend, Nancy Gibbs intended to go on to the United States.

Some few days after Sunday, November 12, a constable called upon Mr and Mrs Gibbs and told them that Nancy could not be found. All that the couple could tell them was that she evidently had been to Auckland three weeks earlier, and had expressed the intention of going overseas.

At. the time of Otto’s trial for murder, it was stated in evidence that he had contemplated marriage with Miss Gibbs. Her parents are apprehensive because her disappearance coincides with his escape from custody.