MISSING FROM HOTEL
Clad only in a pair of underpants, a singlet, and a pair of socks, a man believed to be Walter George Duncan, a seaman, aged about 25, ran out of the New Occidental Hotel, Lambton Quay, at 1.30 a.m. yesterday and has not been seen since. The man had booked in at the.hotel, and at an early hour in the morning came down the stairway and went out the front entrance into the street. The night porter was unable to stop him, and telephoned the police. A car was immediately sent i from the police station, and other con- I stables on foot and on cycles searched for the man near the waterfront, in i which direction he was seen to run. No trace of him was found. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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