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THE CASE OF THE

M.P. WHO VANISHED

Many people who know him believe they

Victor' Grayson since he dis- appeared in 1920. Is he still alive?

have

seen

Victor Grayson Is Alive now he is 72. He may be sitting beside you in the bus us you read this but he is unlike ly to give himself away.

Grayson was for several years the greatest weaver of words and mover of masses that British Socialism had ever known outstripping (according to one authority) Keir Hardie, Ramsay Mac Donald and Philip Snowden,

Born in 1882, the son of a Liverpool carpenter, he became a red-hol convert to Socialism, and in July, 1907, conquered the Iberat mironghold at Coinc Valley. He as fair-haired, pale and so emotional that his words often moved him as much os they affected his audiences.

The life of an M.P. hardly

sufled him. He was suspended

for refusing to obey the Speaker

Principal Information QMeor nt the G.P., told this story:

Victor, Grayson-

+ He was gging:home from his work by District Line. "A man ard a woman, entered at Sloane Square and sat: opposite me. 1 said to myself at once, "That's Victor Graypuri, He wond morning dress and top hat and Grayton, N.ZE... was wound. In 1924 a friend saw, the back and to be about 60. He he dropped out of sight it would like a prosperour back by because of gymo financial dif od at Fascheracie. In 1913 he of a man who hail the time broker Them, leantually letsky and the Do When Cantant was roscheet from the Army but bulidad Grayson at an open dressed and fry vivacious, might them under e pen-name, in February of that your his wife bir meeting in front of Mald- have been 30 pr just over. But no such letter came. died giving birth to their second stone Gool. Two nebola spoke bu mode the mile laugh and one Grayson is alive he has pulled child. The child did not survive, him. S

to have she called him Việ

off the classid trample of hola unlike the first, a giry, who sald: "I used to stayed with her inother's family, stuff. I'm Vietor Grayson." Un-

trace.

Grays became moodler than before, but he still wanted to retum to political life.

fortunately the man disappeared from a corby public house while waiting for someone who knew Grayson well to meet him.

1929 Victor

In Lid he plan then to disappear from the world that now spurn ed his talents and rebuild a new

under another name?

A friend found him in the year 1920 at Liverpool Docks,

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Flossier on Grayson at Scotland Yard is thick-but holde

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peare.

"As the train entered West. no shswer. His Bographer, Mr Grayson's minster Station the man fitted Reg Groves, believed that there Bre people in Britain, who palet mother died at the age of 74. his rolled umbrella and pointing tell of Grayson mente Grayson had not communicated to the platform exclaimed jocu- but out of rock for Conte with her and she then half-arly Here's the old firm and own wishes have held their

the both laughed. believed 'ke, was dead—or at any rate suffering from kass

"The woman said, 'We-inust metnory.

look in sometime, Vie (meaning that country. A significant pointer It is possible that Grayeon inft the House of Parliament), H to this is that when talking of nodded in agreement and smiled. taking ship in 1920 Grayson 'I loft the train and they con- was reverting to his childhood.

tinued their journey,"

When he was 18 he stowed away Mr Campion, o fully qualified from these very Liverpool docks barrister is today still sure that and though he did not get tire man he saw was Gmyspu.

very far was still fascinated by ships.

McDONALD

tells the Fifth in our series

The World's Strangest Stories

was: "seen"

and finally the husky-vploed Grayson told the man, Herbert Then suddenly in 1932. when scalot was defruted in Colne Val- Eastwood, who had been chair- Grayson's was zu almost for key in 1910. Two years Inter man at many of his political gotten name, signs of a trenkdown became meetings that he was trying again, upparent, He was nnedy, sperose to get a boat for Dublin. Ho asted given to sitting alone,"

High Living

His enemies that was because of the high would tell you living he had embraced when for from the slums and industrial mistry which had sent him to Westminster.

However, in 1912 he married Ruth Ningale, who geted, as

added the significant phrase... An old colleague of his, Mr A, "It'll be the last journey I shall G. Murray Gay him from the muke

top of a buscar: Charifig Cross Station. A few weeks later be gras missing. It was now September "I rushed down the stairs,” 1020. He had told his mother said Mr Murray, "but he was that he was on his way to speak lost in the crowd. "I am dure it was Victor, I don't think I

at Hull. He never arrived.

could have been mistaken for.

A little later an hotel off the knew him yery well. He looked Strand returned a travelling best and was smariiged, but to his mother. The belongings his shoulders werd nót, qüite ao inside were' Grayson's:

Ereet as ho carried them in the

This is the story the hotel

י

Ruth Norreys, with Tree in "The manager Mold: A man, who hod Was it Grayson?" He never an injured head and arra, book- resanded 10 hopeals, from old

Man Who Was."

That title sould well have ap plied to Victor Grayson at that tume. He had risen ilke a rocket It the political sky-and he had fallen

od à DOUIL The

man bad walked-fritada to poune forward. Paling out of the hopel the same night searches were made at each and peyer returned. The bar was sighting. No try. found fit the room

st

"He was reported Inv NOVE

no substantiated evidenon that without result. There is, in fact,

A pipe squrch was made to have died in Australia?, 1 td

lodging hou have passed, his fast" days ip a

Then seven years later-in

His wife fried in vain to help him to make a political come he Wild ever seen agame bock, In 1910, widle with bar da New Zealand-she was then with Of course die wes reported as June 1939-anodiser::man" which abouring Shakespearian com- beling abaoeven spotted to CH KRW Cagisón reported seeing pany-ho enlisted, Private Victor never by anyone who knew bird), ham? Mr Sidney Campion, now

WHISPERING SEAMSTRESS

A

By ROBERT WHITTLE

to the trees at the edge of the

Nakura, Kenya. twelve

months, "old 'i jubi Rebpoen, wife" "af" Kamau, had been a member of the Red

mikero. Mau Maui tor

„known to be likk

no one wanted to.

joca by offending.

That was the last sighting by anyone able to recognise him.

Was the man with, the injured farm and, head Grayson? Or bad. Into London from Toronto, the man stolen the bag, in a two years irgo, came Grayson's scuffle in which he received the sister, Mrs Auguste Greenwood injurice? Or is Victor Grayso hoping even them to find some chulding to himpit now as be trace of him. Reoning the of his disappearance reads these words?

yard Ho that the family did not worry

could be. He could even be first when he was missing-for that qualy gent Han' tiefe ho had often told them that if

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