Wilmington, July 14—Mystery surrounding the disappearance of H.B. Livingston, proprietor of King Tut Grocery, this city, who vanished in broad daylight at Wrightsville Beach Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock has not yet been solved, police reporting tonight that they have no clue to the man’s whereabouts.
Mrs. William Craft, South Second street resident, said today that she noticed Livingstone on the platform in front of his store last night at 10:30 o’clock, saying that she had previously noticed Livingston leave his home in that neighborhood. Mrs. Livingston, wife of the missing man, said her husband left her boarding house at the resort about 5:30 in the afternoon. He was last seen at the resort a few minutes later at Lumina.
A negro cook claims that she passed Livingstone at Second and Chestnut streets at 6:30, one hour after Cato Livingston saw him at the beach.
A posse led by Deputy Robert Kermon scoured the beach late last night and early this morning, but no trace whatever was found that would indicate what had become of the man.
Livingston is understood to have about $600 cash on his person at the time he left his home on the beach.
From page 5 of the Wilson Times, July 22, 1924
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