A CURIOUS CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8789, 17 April 1907, Page 4

A CURIOUS CASE.

A good deal of excitement was caused by the sudden disappearance of a relative of the late lamented Admiral Tyron, Lieutenant R. Tyron, who mysteriously vanished ; from his regiment, the Dorsetshire, on the 30th January, having a day’s leave of absence, but was thenceforth ‘‘ no more seen of men. ’ ’ The case from the first wore a very ugly aspect. Lieutenant Tyron was known to have had £BO or £4O with him when ho left Dorchester, and to have subsequently cashed a fairly big cheque at the Hotel Metropole. It was naturally suspected that he had experienced foul play. This, however, was not the impression [of the police, who from the first repudiated this idea, and who now would appear to have been in the right. The portrait of the missing officer was widely circulated, and was published in a number of papers, the outcome being that a corporal in the Seaforth Highlanders thought ho recognised it as representing a young recruit who had enlisted in that regiment three weeks ago, and who, it is rather naively remarked, had been “regarded with suspicion on account of his gentlemanly bearing, and apparent knowledge of military affairs. ’’ So the corporal informed the police, and detectives from Scotland Yard promptly went down to Edinburgh to investigate the matter. Being interrogated, the young man at once admitted his identity, whereupon the colonel of the Seaforth Regiment placed him in the officers’ quarters, and detailed an officer to look after him, ponding instructions from the War Office, to which the Scotland Yard detectives made their report to-day. It is a very curious affair, and most disagreeable for the young man’s relatives, however it may turn out, as“'the onlj apparent feasible explanation of his conduct seems to be temporary- insanity.