A hundred years ago
The fate of Miss Edwards still excites earnest attention in Liverpool, and is certainly one of the most inexplicable cases of disappearance, The young lady is 22, the daughter of parents in good position, and just engaged to a man to whom, as her family believe, she was very strongly attached, A month ago she left her father's house by omnibus to do some shopping, descended in the London Road — a respectable street — and walked down a broad side-road leading to another respectable street and there all trace of her was lost. She has vanished as if the earth had swallowed her up. Her family believe an elopement morally impossible. Some evidence, apparently trustworthy, that Miss Edwards had gone by railway to Shrewsbury threw the police and the family for a time off the track, but it turned out that the lady seen there was not the one missing; and now the prevalent theory is, that she was kidnapped, and taken into some neighbouring house of ill-fame, and is either dead, or ashamed to reveal her abode.
The Spectator, 11 October 1879
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