Florence "Molly" MUNT  

 

21 year old Molly Munt was last seen at her home in St Hellier St, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria early at 12:30am - just past midnight - on Christmas Day, 1933.

 

27 December 1933 - The Advertiser

POLICE SEARCH FOR YOUNG WOMAN
Left Home In Gown And Slippers
MELBOURNE, December 26.
The police are puzzled concerning the mysterious disappearance from her home at Heidelberg early on Sunday morning of Molly Munt (21). Miss Munt's last words when she left her home, wearing a dressing gown and slippers, were "Don't put off the light: I'll be right back." Her sister, Miss Alvie Munt, to whom she spoke as she left, heard her walk down the path at the side of the house, and heard a trellis gate slam. Then the sister fell off to sleep, not knowing that Miss Molly Munt had failed to return.
She has not been seen since then by members of the family, or the police, who made a thorough search today. Miss Munt's father said today that they were afraid some harm had come to their daughter. She had all her Christmas gifts ready for distribution later in the day, and seemed quite happy when she retired to bed.

28 December 1933 - The Age

The Heidelberg Mystery MISSING SCHOOL TEACHER.
Said to Have Been Seen by Neighbor. Police completely puzzled.
A neighbor of -Mrs. A. R. Munt. mother of Mollie Munt, the 21-year-old school lonelier who has been missing from her home in St. Hellier's Street, Heidelberg
west, since early on Sunday morning, has reported that she saw Miss Munt standing alone at the front gate of her home. This was about 12.30 a.m., which was the
time her sister saw her walk out out the back door of the house, and expected her back almost immediately, as she was clad in nothing more than a dressing
gown and a pair of slippers. The neighbour did not take much notice of her, and is unable to say what happened to her.
Other reports — none of them substantiated— have been received by the police. One of these was to the effect that the missing girl was seen waiting outside the
railway station at Clifton Hill. But the C.I.B. has not yet made any definite progress in the case. The greatly worried mother of the girl has expressed belief that her daughter, with some unknown motive, is being forcibly detained somewhere, otherwise the mother is confident that her daughter would have communicated long since with her
parents. Or if the missing girl be not held against her will the mother in that case clings to the belief that she had become overtired as a consequence of hard work at her recent musical examinations, and may have lost her memory. Parties' of soil rollers have scoured the surrounding district for miles, without finding any trace of the girl.
The father of the girl discounts the theory that his daughter has lost her memory, but he is as puzzled as the police to account for the extraordinary disappearance of a girl who only a few minutes before her unaccountable disappearance was getting ready for bed, and was wearing her dressing gown.

 

30 Dec 1933 - The Age

MISSING GIRLS. THREE NOW ON THE LIST.
Three girls have now been reported missing to the police. Following on the disappearance of Yvonne Dorothy White, 15 years, from her home in Hawthorn-
road, Caulfield, on 1st December, and of Molly Munt, 21 years, from her home at St Hellier's Street, Heidelberg West, Melbourne on Sunday last, the disappearance was reported yesterday of Mary Gardiner, 10 years, a ward of the State, who left the ome of her employer. Dr. U. II. W. Farrow-. Main-road, Fern Tree CS til ly . on Wednesday night. She left while Dr. Farrow and his family were out of the house. She had been in Dr. Farrow's employment for a year.

 

17 Jan 1934 - Worker

No trace has yet been found of Miss Molly Munt (21), who mysteriously disappeared from her home at Heidelberg, Victoria, on Christmas Eve. Police records show that every year in Victoria about 250 girls disappear, but 90 per cent of them return within ten days.

 

DRAMATIC MOVE -WAS MOLLY MUNT KIDNAPPED?
MELBOURNE, Saturday.

Sunday 14 Jan 1934 - Truth

AFTER officially deciding- to discontinue the active search for Molly Munt, 21-year-old school teacher, who disappeared in an amazing manner from tbe Heidelberg home of her parents in the first hour of Christmas Eve morning, the police to-night caused a dramatic new development In tbe mystery by taking a man to the C.I.B. office, where he was interrogated for a lengthy period, and then released.
Detectives have now adopted a definite kidnap theory, and a. selected possle was immediately dispatched to make inquiries along a new line. Whether Miss Munt is dead or alive is likely to be established at any moment.