FLED FROM OPERATION

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 2

FLED FROM OPERATION

PATIENT CHASED BY DOCTORS AND STUDENTS. Alueli excitement was caused in 1 lio neighborhood ol tlit' Loudon Hospital, lu n a man bolted ■ Irom oue ol Ifm wards where be was being prepared to undergo an Operation. Dashing from Hie building practically nude, and 10l lowed but loot by hospital students and doctors, liw patient, as be passed some workmen, picked nil a black maekintosb belong* ing to one ol tbeni. and enveloping biinseif’ in it, ran swiftly ibrougb Oxford street and Sydney street into Rutland street.

In this thoroughfare be turned into a shop, and vaulting over a wall at the back, eventually bid bimsoll in the kitchen of premises in Sydney square. Hospital porters were called in. .and Ibe fugitive was taken back to tin* institution in a motor ambulance. Ho was in an exhausted condition, and was at once medically treated.