CONSTABLE DISAPPEARS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 256, 8 April 1915, Page 8

CONSTABLE DISAPPEARS.

SENSATION CAUSED An NAPIER.

By Telegraph.—Press Asso'ciation. Napier, Tuesday. The strange disappearance of Conj stable Donald Shaw, of the Napier police force, has caused quite a sensation. The missing man has not been seen or heard of since Thursday night, and his friends have grave fears as to his safety. He was on duty till 5 p.m. on that day and had been granted a day off for 'Good Friday, ar,c! COiiseqiieiitly 110 notice was taken of the fact that lie was not seeii about town on Friday. When he failed to report for duty on Saturday, however, inquiries were at once made, but no trace whatever has been found that would suggest his whereabouts, Constable Shaw's property at the police station, where he was in the habit of sleeping, is all in order, and no document of any kind has been found to throw any light on the man's strange disappearance. Inspector McOrath stated to a reporter that for some time past Shaw had suffered a good deal from insomnia, and on his applying for sick leave was granted six weeks' holiday. After being away for four weeks, visiting Rotorua and Auckland, he returned and reported himself fit for duty. Shaw is'a heavily-built man, about 5 feet M inches in height, with fair hair and a light moustache, usually waxed at the ends. lie is a single man of about 38 years, and speaks with a pronounced Scotch accent. He was dressed in mufti when last seen. It is feared that something serious has happened to him or that he has merely lost mental control as a result of many sleepless nights and is wandering about. He is of a quiet unassuming nature, and certainly not in any financial troubles, as he has a. credit of four figures at the bank. He has relatives living in Greytown.