A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 5

A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

.' ; MISS GIBSON'S BODY FOUND, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht. (Eec. November 21, 1.5 a.m.) .' Sydney; November 20. The body of Miss Gibson ' has been found in the , sea near Manly. . ■ Miss Gibson and her sister Nellie, who is twenty-two years old, were staying.at "Lorraine,"., a boardinghouso facing North Steyno Beach, kept by Mrs. Dent. The girls went for a walk together about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Noveinber 1, and had gone as.far as Queenscliff Head when the elder girl said she wished to he alone, and asked her sister to leave her. This tho other did, and walked back along tho beach to "Lorraine.". As 6he went-in- tho' gate sho looked -round and saw Bossior-ae she believes—walking along the beach in the distance, ae if returning also. The chances are that Miss Nellie Gibeon was possibility which she quite recognises—that 1 it was not her sister she saw, or that it ! was the missing girl, but that she went back again. Iu that case she may have been, washed ■ off the rocks near ..the Queensclift headland.. This could easily happen. Just at the spot . the curious . formation of the beach causes, tho waves to break suddenly, over the rooks.. More than one'person has been washed" in at this very placed Last summer two girls and a man were nearly drowned there. , The tide was running out when Mise Gibson disappeared. It was full at 7.48 a.m., so that at 10. o'clock it must 'have been running strongly. Tho .place is:W!J of undertow, and very treacherous.' Miss " Gibson, they say, had no troubles in the i world, beyond the fact that she had lately been in ill-health. Moreover, it was,known that she held the belief that suicide was unjustifiable under 'any cir--cunistances. .