LOST FOR 16 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 11 (Supplement)

LOST FOR 16 YEARS.

RETURN OF WOMAN THOUGHT LOST IN TITANIC. FEW HOURS' VISIT TO OLD HOME. Mourned as dead for 16 years, Miss Eva Wilkinson, who was. supposed to have gone down in the Titanic, startled' her family at Coalville, Leicestershire, by returning for a few hours, and then disappearing as mysteriously as she came. "Hallo, mother, how are you?" was hev laconic greeting to her aged mother, who was overcome with joy and excitement. Sixteen years ago she was in domestic service in Leicester; now she is Airs. Robertson, and believed to be the wife of a doctor. Nothing is known of her life in the interval except that, after booking a passage on the Titanic, she did not sail with it on its last voyage. To her sister, Mrs. Blower, she revealed in confidence the reason why Bhe had never written to her family in the intervening years, or let them know that she was alive. The first intimation her family had of the extraordinary surprise in store for them was a message that the lost woman had telephoned to a Coalville j office to ask if her mother still lived in; the same house. Then c-ame a telegram asking them to meet her by a certain train. After a short visit to Coventry to see a brother, Mrs. Robertson left her house. Mrs. Blower confessed that she did not know definitely to what town her sister had gone. From one source it is gathered that Mrs. Robertson has visited America and that during the war she came over to France with the American Expeditionary Force in the capacity of a nurse, and was cap- [ tured by the "Germans and held prisoner until the Armistice. She told them that she was married and that she had lost j a little girl, but she did not say when ! she was married or in what town or | country she was living.