ALL MIGHT IN DITCH

Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 18

ALL MIGHT IN DITCH

OLD LADY’S ORDEAL [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 3. Unable to stir from the water into which she had fallen, Airs E. J. England, of Newlands, aged seventy-six years, spent all. Saturday night in an open ditch. She was not found .until fourteen hours after her fall, and was taken to hospital, whore her condition to-day was reported to bo satisfactory. Setting out to visit some friends shortly before 8 o’clock on Saturday night, Mrs England started to cross the paddocks. While on her way she fell into a ditch partly filled with water, which covered her body. She was unable to raise herself from it, and was forced to wait until someone discovered her or heard her calls. She lives alone in a small house on the Main road at Newlands, and her absence was not likely to ho noticed, her friends believing that she had decided to stay at home on account of the coldness of the night.. At 10 o’clock this morning a'cyclist who was passing the spot where she had fallen heard groans, and on investigating he found the woman. After her removal from the water, which proved no easy task, the free ambulance was called, and_ she was conveyed to hospital suffering severely from exposure and shock.