WOMAN'S' AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5937, 26 March 1913, Page 3

WOMAN'S' AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

YOUNG MAN STILL MJSSINC. j (Ter Press Association.) ! Taihape, March 26. | 'the mcmber3 of the party have not yet all turned up. One of the party I named Bingham, ag:d 21, has not yet j been foucd. Waters and Willoughby \ turned up at Waimarino yesterday i badly knocked about and suffering from hunger, fatigue and exposure. They left Miss Coates and Mr Ringham on Monday afternoon. Bingham j was exhausted and unable to proceed ' further, and Miss Coates decide:! (o j stay with him. Miss Coatej was j found later under the Makatote via- j due;, having wandered nearly forty! miles. She is in a bad state, suffering '■ from chock, hunger, exposure, and j ; wounds on the legs, feet, aid hands, j She is in a delirious state and says j : she saw Bingham go over a waterfall on Monday afternoon, and, later, she saw his hat and coat in the stream, However, her present condition as the result of her sufferings, is such ; that Shis verison is rut fully credited. Search parties arc out looking | j for Bingham, who is a chemist in ! the employ of Mr A. Doig, Wanganui. ' 11 is mother is a widow residing in ' j Dannevirke. '