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 twenty-two, 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 mouth 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 swallOwecl her up. Her family believe an elopement morally im- possible, and it is certain she met with no -accident, as every hospital has• been visited. Some evidence, apparently trustworthy, that Miss Edwards had gone by railway to Shrews- bury 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 kid- napped, and taken into some neighbouring house of ill-fame, and is either dead, or ashamed to reveal her abode. That fits the facts as no other theory does, and should induce the municipality, if the family are unable to afford it, to offer a very heavy reward. The only other probable solution is elope- ment for religious reasons, but there is not a trace of evidence to justify the idea.
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