EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 214, 15 October 1909, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES

A WOMAN'S DISAPPEARANCE. By Cable.- -Press Association.—Copyright I London, October 13. Extraordinary disclosures were made in connection with the examination of the ■bankruptcy of Miss Violet Oharlesworth, whose tragic disappearance after a motor car accident and her subsequent tracking down by the police last year caused such a sensation. Miss Oharlesworth alleges that she hid great expectations from several gentlemen, including £155,000 from Mr. Alex. McDonald, who was last heard of m Melbourne. The Official Recorder suggests that these gentlemen are mythical.

Miss Charlesworth suddenly and dramatically disappeared on the night of January 2 and as the result of a motor ear accident she was supposed to have been drowned, but she was eventualy traced by the police. It was stated at the lime of the accident the car wis' travelling along a road on the face of a el iff and that the ear collided with the wall skirting the roadway, with the >-j----siilt that the lady was thrown over the wall down the clill'sidc into the sea. Jt was estimated that the water was not more than a foot deep at the time of the accident. Coullieting stories of tile mishap were told but there was not a great deal of reliability placed on the story. The lady's financial position lent weight to the theory that the accident was merely a blind to account for her disappearance. She owed a stockbroking firm £IOO,OOO, a London firm £2OO, and there was also a writ against her for the recovery of £2BO.