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Mt Benger Mail, 1 April 1914, Page 4

The surprising spectacle of an excited inun rushing about Little liourke Street unuttired, except for a little short shirt, and shouting " Police ■" in stentorian tones, alarmed the policeman who was prowling about that locality at 1 u.m. (.-ays the Melbourne Age). The undressed wanderer, with waxing arms and loud appeals for police protection, dashed towards luni and the other constables who began to gather. It was obvious, as some hosJ pital dressing was detected beneath the hying shirt, that the man had escaped from the Melbourne Hospital and after his excitement was subdued he confirmed the policeman's decision by pointing to a wound in his side and explaining the presence by a series of dreamy whisperings. "Four men died at the Hospital last night, and 1 was afraid 1 would die 100, if I stayed there," was one of the things he told the constables as they carried him bu.k to the imstitutiou. It was subsequently learned thai he was Albert Sherber, forty-live years of age, a labourer from Cobrarn, who had beeo successfully operated upon four days previously. While the nurse was away from his bedside he crossed to a window, and effected his escape by jumping about twenty-live feet to the ground. Luckily he escaped injury when he struck the ground, and now he is little the worse as a result of his strange excursion. Two deaths, in both cases adults, from infantile paralysis are reported—viz., Mimnie Phillips, aged 24, who died at Whakatane on Wednesday (the day on which she was to have boon married), a«d Ernest John Gibbs, aged 19, who died on the same day at Christchurch.