LOST IN LONDON.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1702, 1 December 1885, Page 4

LOST IN LONDON.

A remarkable; case of a man being lost in London for .five. , days; and four nights within a mile or, two of his friends, and 'ultimately turning up safe and sound, has just occurred atNewing-■fcqii-butts. : An old man named Eryer, 80 years oiage, living- with his son at parsonage-walk, IJewington-butts, went out to get shaved, and as he did not i^Jiuni;;his;Son7went; to' look for him; .Finding that;, his ' father had; left -the barber's -shop; and jknowirig that, he was not even aware of the name of the place i&whicti he reside-3, andr waff an entire stranger to London, the son at once tioinmunicatedA witli the police at: Ken- . mngtorirlane, givingla description of the : oldA gentleman, r who could; easily be recognised from' the fact' that he had on < cine foot an* old 'cricketing: shoe J and on tfce other' alist slippW^''2^dthin'g v ' : 'w'asi -heawbofr the" old' man' until 'Monday afternoon, when the police officials at Chelsea sent word that on Sunday night -"anT-" old 1 man answering the descrijition Bad been found in an exhausted' state, Ta^-d'''-hftdf'' : lieW' v tek(^ rj tdV-tblß''Ohelsea ! A&finriiaV^ %^ left bin tine folldwih^da-y^^Monday^. T His son „ ppobeMedltoChelsiß^; only to 1 find that -nfe father bad l left' 'the \iMfmary' hours' "before, asking fo be 'directed to the high : tdi6d,'' l iad Evidently not "having- the; idea'b'f tbie vast ex-feritf* of ! '.the metropolis. On •\v r edneßdayaft&rr/o6h| a gentleman saw the old mah v at T vv raridsworth, a^d'lfa^ngTfeardnSf his dis-'j appearance, sent him' home. He* states; that on Saturday hearing ofj the fire at Jgeft-diiJgiftn,. 'hfe thought he. would go and see it. Confused by the; crowd ; he lost;aIl idea of- the 7 way backy and -wandered on penniless' and without; -fobd or drink till {Sunday nlghfc Nvhenj -he -Vas found, at- Chelsea; ''■>■ Me' adds^ -that? lie walked about on Monday :hop-' x. itig toTecbgnise' some spot* near home.! ?-A^y.|^jiyigave f hitia ar shilling, 'an'd^heMeptj -ina;lodging-hbusexhat"mghti-> He again! .pursued his' rambles: on> Tuesda^Aatt'dj «ometime after eleven r o'clOck piuii wasj taken to- another lodging-house ' by" a; •policeman. He^tarted^off again when', fie was- found by -the ge'ntleman'who! taent him; home. It ii remarkable that; : rafter he" war in charge' .of the' police at] "Ohelsea at eight o'clock p.m; on! Sunday; 'ptghti no co'mmuhication was made to' Kennington till two p.m. on -Monday,. A«nd although^^^ -|Q the police-station, he wandered about: M7AA. '•£••■•■•.?■:» ww'^^is^^ :x>:-} r

for five days and four nights without the police taking the slightest notice of him. He states that beyond the breakfast he had at the infirmary he ate nothing but a twopenny loaf; but he seems to be little the worse for his travels, as on Wednesday night he was enjoying his pipe as if nothing had happened.