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Missing Man From Mexborough – Canal Dragged

December 1927

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 17 December 1927

Missing Man From Mexborough – Canal Dragged

No trace of the missing- man, Edward Ramsden (45), widower, of Wellington Street, Mexborough, has been found.

He left his home to go to his work at Messrs. P. Waddington and Sons, Ltd., of Mexborough, and following his usual custom he called the Post Office for the letters for his firm.

From that point his movements became unknown and his non-appearance led to police investigations and the abortive dragging of the canal by friends who considered that Ramsden would probably have walked along the canal bank to the works. There is no evidence directly suggesting a tragedy, and the fact that the missing man was not in the best of health when he left his home the last time raises the query whether he is suffering from loss of memory.

Sad aspects the mystery are that his mother feeling keenly the anguish of uncertainty, and that his fiancee, with whom he had arranged to married after Christmas, has been ill since his disappearance.