Show I I MISSING I PEOPLE OF A YEAR I I Detectives Say they Amount to I Eighteen or Twenty Thousand I I Tlte police Inspector said About ten I I I years ago I was watching some workmen I work-men pulling down a row o old rivet j side houses that had a desperately bad J reputation time out of mind and I can recollect what u start It gave me when < they showed me that nearly every house had a great trapdoor through which anything could bp dropped Into the race of the tide beiow Many a poor chap had gone to his death that way Ill go ball But I can tell you a curious thing that happened only the other day A man had been drugged I I and robbed but he told us that before he became Insensible he had managed to lock and bolt his door and locked I and bolted It was when he came round again How they had got In and robbed him he could not imagine Well we I searched about and finally discovered that the door was really two coverel one I within another He had locked and i bolted the inner door into the frame I I are enough but then the frame itself I 1 I was only another door with separate I I hinges of Its hlnc own I i 1 suppose the list of those reported I missing is Jute a short one In these days Is I it not I I Some 18000 to 20000 C year But dont look startled Moro than three quarters of them turn up again In some way or other You see the list includes i strayed children and runaway lst boys to I I begin with Then wih there are the men who get locked up at night for some thing or other and either are too care less or topashamed to htlel send to their wives with the result that wih the the poor wo men rush oft to the nearest station In ftflon the morning to make Inquiries Quite a number of men go and hide after quarreling with thqlr wives Why I came across a case the other day where a man ian lived tor tour years within halt an I ° of the wife hed deserted without her UndinE him A big town Is lie only safe pace for big tlint5 fvln onl Haft hide comfortablyCas a fellow lints sells Magazine |