PRESUMPTION OF DEATH
MAN WHO DISAPPEARED
COURT ASKED TO DECIDE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) j DUNEDIN, This Day. A. ease which occupied the. Supreme Court to-day related to the disappear-; unce of James Edward Hume, son of James Hume, the original proprietor of Ashburn Hall. James Edward Hume went to Malaya in 1902, and after a few letters had been received from him nothing further was beard from liim. Mr. Justice Kennedy was asked to presume that Hume had died, and after hearing counsel he reserved his decision. It is interesting to record that the brother of the man who disappeared is Fergus Hunie^ author of "The Mystery, of the Hansom Cab," who now resides in Essex, and a sister is Mrs. Mary.! Hume Willeby, her husband being the well-known composer.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 13
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130PRESUMPTION OF DEATH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 13
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