A SEA MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 3

A SEA MYSTERY

PASSENGER BTSAPPEAES FROM A STEAMER. The mysterious disappearances of a. wellknown Sydney business mail, Mr. George Gauneoa" Jones, from the inter-Stato steamer Dhnbooia on a recent voyage from Adelaide, is occupying the attention of the Criminal Investigation Department. Upon the arrival of tho vessel at Melbourne on Saturday. Captain W. Miller reported that Mr. .Tones had disappeared, while the Diraboola was in the neighbourhood of Cape Nelson. Inquiries which have been .nißdo show- that Mr. •Tones is an orral dealer, -whose business address is Safe Deposit, Sydney. Ho was a first-class passenger by the Dimboola,. and had booked throngh from Adelaide to Sydney. He occupied cabin No. 26. together with a boy named Clarence Fisher and a young man named Oceleshaw. On that night Mr. Jones was vein- ill, as the result of the heavy weather experienced. The night-watchman, Howard T.ouch, noticed him on deck at three different times during the nisrht and early moraine. When emerging from his cabin, Mr. Jones, it seems, left his ■cabin and exit doors unlocked, and the noise caused by the banging doors was such that the watchman Terjuested him ro keep them closed. Early nest day Lonch was in the pantry, situated nearlv opposite tho cabin occupied by Mr. Jones, when lie saw the passenger walk past the pantry and proceed through a door leading to the deck. Mr. Jones was then dressed in his; pyjamas, and he carried a small kit bag with him. At li a.m. the deck steward went on duty, and Lourh informed Km that Mr. Jones was on dock. When breakfast time arrived, however, it n-ns notice/1 that Mr. Jones was absent. A search was made throughout the vessel, but no trace of him was discovered. There is no suggestion of foul play. '