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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 2 January 1913, Page 4

MISSING;FOR SIX WEEKS; \i ..'■;■'." " : 9 ', ' :■■ '"';;,'■;";.' 'v ' V' INDICATIONS OP i: TRAGEDY,' The 1 information bo fat: resulting frois' ;; police inquiries, touching the'letter, received at tho Dovonport policestation'; on Sateday (taya: tho Auckland ."Btnr'i':> of .Monday) shows that a'man named J.'' J. Burrows Ims been missing for soms ■ tuna, Tho letter Was signed "'J., J. Burrows,, and stated, that tho writer was starving ;.on Christmas Day,' because.' ho couldgot lib work. It hijlwi ascertained that an elderly man namcd ; J. J, \ furrows, who ■is a clerk: by occupation; } las «r¥ n from hisboavdinghouße in Picton Street, Ponsonby, for about dv. w « ok s. Burrows was a man recently. fi'om the Homo Country, and apparently Mil educated and well connected.. He hnd not_been in good health, for tonic '' tinap, post, and was not 'in regular oCcui Mm, but had been musing a Urine by bock canvassing. "Tliow who know liim . say Uiat ho had a number of good friends to whom ho could have turned without Hesitation for assirt&noe , l and they are, not inclined .to believe that ho. would imvo allotted himself to become reduced to the yorgo of starvation without mon, ■ . IQ ",'" B / J 1 . 115 «circumstances to tliom." ", Against this belief, however, is th« etalo-, rrtent of tho boardinghnuso-koepor that Burrows was at times despondent, and opoko oJ v ptitting ah end 1o (Junes. . 0* WftSi a clean-shawn, grey-haired man, about CO years of age and of short stature.'. Though indications point in tho direction, of tho letter being genuine, the qucition > -, remains-to bo definitely, «ttlcd»v'tho finding of tlio missing man, or,; of i,*vv - i denco that'ho has diedan tne.ibothetla . ... mrcumstanoes described in the lettetr;'