WHERE IS MARY DAVIES ?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3325, 18 September 1911, Page 2

WHERE IS MARY DAVIES ?

———.— . —— —— - DETECTIVES STULL AT WORK. DISCOVERY OF OTHER PATIENTS. The body of the young woman Mary Margaret Davies, on I whose disappearance is based ' a charge of murder against' Dr. Bamu el Peacock, is still undiscovered, says the Melbourne Age of a recent date. The mystery of her sudden vanishment remains unsolved —-a matter of perplexing conjectures. Strain as they might at every source of probability, the twenty detectives employes on the case return in chagrin, baffled of immediate realisation.- But behind the more quickly worked out clues runs a- train of investigation which the department affirms is destined to greater achievement. That the woman went into the house of Dr. Peacock is an accepted fact. Despite his first denial to the- police, Dr. Peacock has now said it is so. Ho admits there was a “Mrs Nelson” in his house. His housekeeper has said the same, and yet besides there is the word of Clifford Poke and that of the girl Miss Parr. But when and how, if ever again, the body of Miss Davis left the house in Wellington-parade is the problem that lies before the department for solution. That bail might be granted the prisoner by noon of Wednesday was the order of the court, and the day of the trial was Wednesday . following. These facts _ brought the force early to their task, and again every effort was made to complete a further search of the house before the morning had passed. The intent was prompted by an intimation which strengthened the belief of those who adhered to the theory that if a crime had- been committed it probably was done in the silent week, when things were so directed 1 that only Dr. Peacock and his housekeeper occupied the house, and that the clue to whatever was done lay in the house in which it happened. The intimation alluded to consisted in a story related by a girl, who stated that she had lain sick in the doctor’s house for some days, until on a Monday—tlie day preceding the mysterious disappearance —when the doctor came and said: “We want your room; you must go.” Her room almost adjoined that in which Miss Davies lay, and was close to the bathroom. "Whether there were other patients in the house about that time the detectives are anxious to find out. The whereabouts of Miss May Coleman, the cook, who left when told to take a week’s holiday with the house maid, are believed to liave been ascertained. Other information to which importance is attached have reached the detectives, but as regards the actual whereabouts of the missing woman nothing whatever of a tangible nature has been discovered.