U.S. Scoured for Vanished Briton

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 8

U.S. Scoured for Vanished Briton

PASSPORT AT HOTEL APTER HIS MYSTERY DISAPPEARANCE

New York’s celebrated Missing Persons Bureau has on its books the name of a young Englishman who vanished from his hotel in New York last June.

He is Thomas Lloyd Mathias, a traveller for a Bristol firm of paper makers, who arrived in New York from Jamaica on his way to Englarid.

Mathias has been traced to the Hotel Gotham, where he is said to have spent much time.

He also visited a number of friends, and the last time he was seen by ahy of them’was on June 25. He failed to keep an appointment on the following day.

He is said to have talked about returning to England in the .French liner Lafayette on July 17, but no trace of hint hhs been found in the sailing list.

In July the British Consul in New York advised the authorities Of Mathia’s disappearance. Inquiries have also been instituted y a Major Humphreys, of Philadelphia, on behalf of the family. Major Humphreys cleared up the hotel bill, which was unpaid at the time Mathias vanished.

Hbspitals and other institutions have been combed without result.

The fact that Mathias had temporary difficulty in getting a cheque for £5 cashed suggested'to the police that he was not too well provided with money. It is not likely, therefore, they suggest, that he has been the victim of rubbery.