STEAMER MYSTERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2128, 15 May 1920, Page 3

STEAMER MYSTERY.

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. Dr. Hyde, of Terras, Otago, who was a passenger by the Union Co.’s turbine steamer Wahine, which arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from Lyttelton, disappeared either during the vessel’s passage or within an hour after her arrival at Wellington. So far as could be ascertained, the missing man was last seen alive at 9.30 o’clock',on Thursday evening, when he turned in to his hunk. About 8.30 o’clock yesterday morning, when the Wahine had been berthed about an hour, Dr. Hyde’s coat, vest and luggage were found in his cabin, hut his pyjamas and trousers were missing. As very few passengers were then aboard it was a difficult mailer to elicit any information regarding the missing man’s movements prior to his disappearance. Dr. Hyde, who is described as an elderly man, made two or three trips between Wellington San Francisco as ship’s on the Moana, which vessel he left only a few weeks ago. The matter of his disappearance was reported to the police yesterday. The Wahine experienced an unusually rough passage up the coast, and it is possible that Dr. Hyde was thrown overboard hy a heavy lurch of the vessel.