MISSING PEOPLE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5466, 26 August 1929, Page 2

MISSING PEOPLE.

RECENT MELBOURNE CASE. OTHERS RECALLED. After having been missing over four months, the body of a woman has been found wrapped in a blanket near Melbourne. Yet another mysterious disappearance has thus been traced. Even in the bed-policed countries of the world people still continue to disappear. Sometimes the disappearance, especially in the caie of girls, is the outcome of a .'“raving for adventure. This craving is not peculiar to modern life. Early in the eighteenth century a girl named Elisabeth Canning disappeared from her home for a month. When she returned she alleged that gipsies had abducted her. Certain gipsies in the neighbourhood were tried and two were even sentenced to death. In the nick of time, after further in'estigation, it was discovered that they were innocent. The girl' was convicted of perjury and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. There arc. however, many cases of girls disappearing who have neverbeen found again. A young schoolteacher and two lace-workers left their homes to go to work one morning in 1907, and were never heard of again. A disappearance that astounded New York occurred in 1910. Dorothy Arnold, a pretty twenty-five-old heiress, walked out of her home one December morning and simply vanished. Money being no object, a world-wide search for her was started, but it proved fruitless. Eleven years later a Connecticut farmer, whose wife had left him with*'the curious words “I have to go on again,” declared that his wife had confessed she was Dorothy Arnold. Sydney has an unenviable record, particularly in regard to missing girls. Towards the. end of last year no less than 23 were reported missing in three months, and only one was found. She was eventually discovered in service in a country town, but offered absolutely no explanation of her long silence.