GIRL LEAVES HOSPITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 10

GIRL LEAVES HOSPITAL

A SEARCH IN PROGRESS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 12th October. Bare-footed and clad only in her night attire, the young woman who was found in a coal cellar under a house at Mount Eden and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on 2nd October, left the hospital about 3.45 yesterday morning and had not been traced at an early hour this morning. She is 20 years of age. Last woek the girl was m an exhausted condition, and had evidently been in the cellar for some nights. She has since been under examination, and was greatly improved in health, but she had given no explanation of her action. While tiio nurse in charge of tho ward was attending to a patient in a side room the girl left her bed and went oat through a door leading to the hospital grounds. She was seen from a distance by a house surgeon, but slipped through the gates leading to the Nurses' Home and ran under an archway beneath the building to the gully beyond. The doctor set out in pursuit, but by tho time lie reached tho other side of the building the girl had disappeared. A search of the grounds and gully was made by members of the hospital staff with torches. No trace of the girl could be found, and another search at daylight failed to reveal her whereabouts. The police were notified and a further search was made yesterday afternoon by the girl's parents and a constable.