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HE . ‘MISSING » ———— MACLEANS - + Thirteenth Instalment HE day after Melinda's — mother received the tele- gram from Territet the next clue to the missing family’s movements was found. . On September 17, 1953, six days after they disappeared, it set the iuxestigatars on a trail which petered out on the borders of the Russian zone of ‘Austria, but which most clearly indicated that Melinda had ne to join her husband, It was the discovery In a ausanne garage of her blac, hevrolet car. The propriety wid the potice it had been Ie! ly a woman with three sma children not long before 7 p.v on the previous Friday — sik earner—ana a, ticket ick beneath the windscrepn~ viper indicated that it was} to le calied for the day after fits fecavery — Friday Septgn- er he knew proved conclusively that, sumetime al Jeast after she left her apartment in Geneva, Melinda knew she would not be returning on the Sunday even- ing, as sbe had told ber mother. Tt also showed thut she knew then that she was not going to spend the week-end with friends in a villa at Territet. | But whether she knew these things belore she left home we do aot know, ‘The discovery of the car, only a hundred yards or 0 from Lausanne station. soon led to the ext step. Melinda and her chil- it Was found. had taken the 4 ‘on the train, and also by a Swiss professor who was travelling on it and who noticed a worried- Jooking Melinda and her three children boarding it at Lausapne. Evidence soon came to Yaht atht Meiinda_and her family|left {if train at Zurich. For a day or two there were doubts about}ner next movement. for she was nT RE: DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al ESPIONAGE - R (Bufile 100-371183) NEWS CHRONICLE SEPTEMBER 9, 1954 LONDON, ENGLAND hts BB ree Deen 7p Ol. Se acta ate cy Fala MARKED FH QOS : AEE ee te ee