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THE HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 1928.
A MISSING RECTOR AND HIS BUTLER.
MAN'S BOAST OF A GREAT SECRET.
POLICE BREAK INTO RECTORY.
WOMAN SECRETARY'S STORY.
BRENTWOOD, Essex, August 23rd.
Very strange developments have been reported in the remark able mystery surrounding the disappearance of an Essex rector and his butler.
The people concerned in the case are:
REV. FRANKLIN ISAAC HUTCHINSON, 45 years of age, Rector of Doddinghurst and Frincipal of St. Peter's College, Lewisham, 9. E., who disappeared on July 25th.
HENRY STRAW, a Yorkshireman, aged 58, with one lame leg, who has been employed by Mr. Hutchinson as hutier and odd-job man for many years, and who disappeared on or about July 21st.
Miss LAURA THICKIT, aged 24, Mr. Hutchinson's priváto secretary, who is now with her parents at Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, where she went on July 25th after driving with the rector as far as Bishop's Stortford, Hert- fordshire.
The rector was supposed to have gone to Ireland for a holi- day and Straw to Torquay for the same purpose.
is:
But one of the problems which the police are trying to solve
Why did Straw leave for his holiday without taking any of his clothing or belongings with him?
A close search of the rectory grounds began at 2.30 this inorning.
Straw, it is stated, boasted to the villagers of Doddinghurst that he was once secretary to the rector, and that the latter could not dismiss him, as he was in possession of a great secret.
STRAW'S £5 NOTES. ALWAYS WELL SUPPLIED WITH MONEY.
BRENTWOOD.
These are the known fücts con- cerning Straw, the butler:
He passed much of his time in the local alehouses, and although
friends at Döddinghurst seem to have been Mr. F. Barrett and Mr.) A. J. Beardwell, the church- wardens. Before leaving for his holiday on July 28th be handed to them all the documents relating to the affairs of the church:
Some of the people in the village disliked Mr. Hutchinson because he introduced E High Church ritual, but he was obviously in- terested in his church, for he and Misa Thickett spent a good deal of their time polishing up the brasses, staining woodwork, and grascally beautifying it. #The church was a credit to him," said Mr. Beardwell.
There was a serious incident here' this morning. Two men, one short, in a peaked cap, with a sailor's kithag over his shoulder, and the other, somewhat taller, with a soft hat, called at the rectory. Later they called at a neighbouring house and said they were sailors. They had called at the rectory to try and sell the rector some curios from China.
The police are looking for these two men. A window at the house
had been broken.
HOW THE THREE MET. CHURCH WORK AT SWINTON.
IN YORKSHIRE.
SWINTON, Yorkshire. Inquiries here, throw at interest- Mr. Hutchinson, Miss Thickett. and Straw came together under fone roof.
Mr. Hutebinson is à married man, but has apparently lived apart from his wife, an Australian, for many years.
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Miss Thickett and Straw became had always been taken back.
associated with the missing rector About July 24th Straw said he in his church work. When Mr. was going for his holidays and Hutchinson resigned the living gave the local postman an address and went south, Miss Thickett and nt Torquay to which his letters Straw
accompanied him, the were to be redirected. On July former becoming his secretary and 21st the rector was seen to drive constant companion while the ex- someone, who might have been lampman was promoted to the rank TJITAROEM Straw, towards Brentwood Station of butler.
No one, however, is prepared to say definitely that the rector's passenger was Straw, nor has any one seen the man since, but letters which were redirected to him at Torquay have come back to Dod dinghurst to be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
I understand, says the Daily Mail correspondent, that at 2.30 in the morning the police will begin a close search of the rectory and the grounds with a view to finding a alue to the double mystery,
To appreciate why the police forces in England and Ireland have been asked to co-operate in discovering the whereabouts of the rector and his servant, the follow ing dates and facts are important: July 21st (on or about)-Straw disappeared from Doddinghurst, being understood that he had gone
Instructions on holiday.
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His bedroom at the rectory was given that any letters received for.
found in disorder. The bed was bim were to be re-directed to
open just as he must have jumped address in Torquay,
July 4th-Mr. Hutchinson, ac out of it, and his clothes were A number companied by Miss Thickett, at-thrown about the room.
of other belongings were left be Peter's College,hind. tended at St. Lewisham, for the breaking up
The police are most anxious to ceremony, when, according to one statement, "he seemed worried get in touch with Straw, and now and depressed, and it was obvious that the mystery of Doddinghurst that he was making an effort to Rectory has been blazoned far and appear bright and cheerful before wide, it is hardly possible that he cannot know his presence in the the children.'
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July 25th. Accompanied by Miss Thickett, Mr. Hutchinson left Dod- dinghurst Rectory by motor-car. Straw told his friends in the They travelled together as far as village that after leaving Torquay Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, he would be visiting Gloucester where, according to Miss Thickett's and Sheffield before returning to story, Mr. Hutchinson alighted, the rectory August 6th, but in saying he would take the train to quiries in both these places have Liverpool for Ireland. He pro-tailed to lead to his discovery. posed to spend a holiday with his parents at Clontarf, Dublin, re- turning to Doddinghurst in a fort night. Miss Thickett, who is an expert motorist, continued in the car alone to her home at Swinton.
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My nephew," said Mr. William Straw, of Swinton, "was very de TJILEBOET voted to Mr. Hutchinson and when he returned to this village on the death of his mother a few months ago he said he would never come back to Swinton to live as he found his work and life in the south too attractive."
Rector's Irish Blood" Miss Thickett declares that she has no idea of the whereabouts of "He merely said he the rector. was going to Dublin," she said, "and got out of the car, telling me to go on and continue my six- weeks holiday. He did not seem ill at all, but was rather tired after his term's work, I do not know anything about any letter which Mr. Hutchinson might have written to his bishop.
An old housekeeper of 'Mr. Hutchinson's who was "at the vicarage during most of the time he was the incumbent, described him as one of the nicest men most times but at others he would fly into tempers. Afterwards he would apologise and blame it on his Irish blood. His wife some times visited him but never stayed longer than an hour or so. No- body knows where she came from, and I believe she was an Austra lian."
People in the village have told me that he always had a great deal of money and was continually changing Es notes. He boasted that he was once secretary to the rector, and that the latter could not dismiss him, as he was in Mr. Hutchinson's car, a saloon, is garaged near Miss Thickett's possession of a great secret.
home, and I learned to-day that she and her parents have been for several drives in it.
Straw promised to write to Mrs. Flack, one of his friends, but she told me to-day that he has not done
Mr. Hutchinson was due back from his holiday in time to take the services at his parish church on Sunday, August 12th. He has not returned. Inquiries in Ireland 50. show that he never reached the
Mrs. Kemp, of Rectory-cottages, home of his parents, who know who until a year ago was house keeper at the rectory, did receive nothing of his whereabouts.
But strangely enough, a letter & postcard from Paignton which This post bearing no address, but enclosed in was signed "H. B." an envelope postmarked at Rother card arrived on the day that the ham, has been received from Mr. rector left, but neither Mrs. Heimp Hutchinson by the Bishop of nor anybody in the village who knew Straw can recognise the writ It "tenders his re- Chelmsford. signation of the living of Dodding Straw went to Torquay as he
ing as his. This letter does nothing, bow-intended, it is a curious thing that ever, to explain the mystery which letters sent to him have been re- is commencing to gather about turned through the Dead Letter Doddinghurst Rectory. The police Office.
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have deemed it necessary to enter What is puzzling everybody in this somewhat forbidding house, this neighbourhood is that the own police entered the rectory and the រ៉ងផ which, standing in grounds, lies well back from the church a week after Mr. Hutabin- son left without applying for the road.
They found a strange state of keys at a cottage where they had They entered with the affatra. The breakfast table was as been left.
it was left when the occupants of aid of some tools. Whatever they the rectory set out, but, most found led, to a train of inquiries curious of all, Straw, the missing which is still in progress. butler, had apparently left for his holiday without taking any of his clothing or belongings with him,
What can be the meaning of this puzzlet
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THE CLOSED RECTORY 27 ROOMS FOR THREE PEOPLE.
Anonymous Letters,
Mr. B. Parker, who was church- warden while Mr. Hutchinson was
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