A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 922, 24 November 1910, Page 3

A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

MISS GIBSON’S BODY FOUND 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 boardinghouse facing North Steyne Beach kept by Mrs Dent. The girls went for a walk together about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 1, and had gone as far as Queenscliff Head when the elder girl said she wished to be alone, and asked her sister to leave her. This the other did, and walked back along the beach to “ Lorraine.” As she went in the gate she looked round and saw Bessie —as she believes —walking along the beach in the distance, as if returning also. The chances are that Miss Nellie Gibson was mistaken—a possibility which she quite recognises—that it was not her sister she saw, or that she went back again. In that case she may have been washed off the rocks near the Queenscliff headland. This could easily happen. Just at the spot the curious formation of the beach causes the waves to break suddenly over the rocks. More than one person has been washed in at this very place. Last summer two girls and a man were nearly drowned there. The tide was running out when Miss Gibson disappeared. It was full at 7.48 a.m., so that at 10 o’clock it must have been running strongly. The place is full of undertow, and very treacherous. Miss Gibson, they say, had no troubles in the 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 tinder any circumstances.