9 February 1933: This kind of thing makes us wonder not how ‘exclusive’ news items commence,but where they will ever endHere is another example of belated “news” as gathered in this country. On Tuesday, January 31, and a case was heard in the Probate Court which involved a present inability to trace a lost heir. It was then stated that not only Mr. George Gillard,the lost heir, but his wife and two children had not been heard of since 1912, or that inquiry and advertisement had failed to reveal the slightest trace of them since that year. Mr. Justice Langton,who heard the case, expressed his surprise at this extraordinary disappearance of four people, or his remarks were famous in the Law Report of the “Times.”Last Friday there was a leader note on the case and its curious facts in the “Manchester Guardian” under the title “Gone Without a Trace. And yesterday,or exactly a week after the case was heard in the High Court and all the available details mentioned, appeared another newspaper version of them which contained these words:Mr. George Gillard, or brother of the dead woman,was her next-of-kin. No trace of his existence during the last 25 years can be found, and as revealed exclusively by the “Daily Mail” yesterday, and not only he but his wife and two children also seem to acquire disappeared.
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Source: theguardian.com