A SINGULAR MYSTERY.
The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser, writes :— r lhe sud-
den disappearance "of young women like Miss' Edwards is -not- so, uncommon as pome people' -geem to think, though "happily 4etr cases "excite the same •amount of .notoriety* In private con-versation-one hears now and again of such cases," and a member jrf- Parliament recently told me that he knew of a aimiliar case in Lixerpook ~While
walking ' through the town-one night he met a respectable woman cryirg bitterly. Jn.reply to. kind interrbgattian,;sh"e tokVhim.that four 'days previously j, her daughter, a young girl' engaged- fin a : dressmaking business, had\di*sappeared from her home, and all inquiries l , had failed, to arcertain her thereabouts.' The hon. member,,' with characteristic.energy, tflvk up : the case, enlisting the police in "his service, a.' search of,several, days was made without immediate 'success;*' -In the end a-,-clue was. found, and & - arr-ri.t...obta:ned for tiie search of a particular house in a -notorious quarter of Liverpool... The house \yas quietly "surrounded b/ the police, and the "lion. ■ member,. acc«»m-' ipanied by a 6uperihtendt'nt: ; of poljce in,, plain ..clothes,., "entered. Thry . were aeeeivei with gracious demeanour, and weS4fes Biiiiles*" by - the i proj rietrix of th«» -establish m-iit,. *» German. Jewess (i considerable 'Ws- »na!-attractions, dressed/ in the height of -fashion, -and..,wearing, •costly." Hlt d-nleani-ur pud.deuly,, .changed* when sl.e learned the nature of their errand, .and- she was
evidently incliiifd t>' show, fight. Brit .; on- Being * shown the. warrant and informed' of the arrangement outside, she' - capitulated and permitted the search to tie ■ made. ), 'ihe/ girli/was' not ■in the house, but evidence of hrr having been there recently was forthcoming, "at, sight of .which the woman .confessed that she was ; then atth. Hall, consigned to Hamburg. By the aid of the telegraph the girl was rescued before long, and it turned, but that she had been drugged, got into the hour e, and then ~falren to another house.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 233, 7 February 1880, Page 3
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320A SINGULAR MYSTERY. Temuka Leader, Issue 233, 7 February 1880, Page 3
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