VANISHED MILLIONAIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 11

VANISHED MILLIONAIRE.

UNSOLVED CANADIAN MYSTERY. The announcement that the assistance of Scotland. Yard has been invoked by the Canadian police to solve the problem of the strange disappearance of Mr Ambrose ,1. Small, the millionaire theatrical magnate, of Toronto, discloses one of the strangest missingmen mysteries of modern times. Inquiries made in London and the chief provincial towns have thus far proved fruitless. Mrs Small, the missing man's wife, and the Capital Trust Company of Ottawa and Toronto, trustees for his • estate, have offered the record reward of £IO,OOO for information as to his whereabouts, it alive, or, alternatively, £3,000 for 'the recovery of his dead body. A reward of £IOOO has also been offered for information a« to the abouts of Jolm Doughty, Mr Small's secretary, who disappeared three days • after his employer. A warrant lias been issued for Doughty's arrest on a charge of theft of between £20,000 and £30,000 worth of war bonds which the police found to be missing when they opened Mr. Small's, safe deposit vault. The police state (according to the Daily Express) that they have definite proof that Doughty, following his disresided for nearly three weeks in Montreal, and vanished thereafter as suddenly as he had appeared, leaving luggage and private letters behind him. Even his shaving outfit was left out on the washand-stand, as if he had disappeared 'in a great hurry. Mr Small was last seen sitting in his office at the Grand Opera House, Toronto, which he owned, on the afternoon of December 2, and, although more than six months have now elapsed since his disappearance, and the detective forces of Canada and the United States have "combed" (ho American continent for the faintest trace of (he missing man or liis movements, Ihe case is as much a profound mystery now as it was then. The mystery is enhanced by (hi: fact that, Air Small shortly beifore he vanished disposed of most of hia theatrical interests for £360,000. He had received a cheque on account for £1200.000. His last known action on tin- nfternooir of his disappearance \vas to iiny in this cheque to a local bank. ' ' Mr. Small disappear of hi 9 own accord, .lias he lost Ills memory, isHi# the victim of foul play, or has he been kidnapped?