SHELTERED IN HOSPITAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 November 1945, Page 4

SHELTERED IN HOSPITAL

escaped mental patient BELIEF OF POLICE Auckland, Nov, 28. While every available- member of the Auckland police force was searching during the week-end for Colin David Jarvis, aged 20, the only one of four patients who escaped from the Auckland mental hospital last Thursday still at large, the wanted man was a patient in Auckland Hospital. This, at least, is the belief of the police. A man believed to be Jarvis was admitted to hospital under the assumed name of John Gardiner shortly after 11 p.m. on Saturday suffering from concussion. He wa s discharged at midday on Sunday wearing a bandage over his left eye. The man seen to jump from a train at Huntly at daybreak yesterday answered the description of the man treated at the hospital. On arrival at the hospital the man believed to have been Jarvis walked into the casualty department. He was bleeding from an incised wound near the left eye. He told a doctor he had fallen over. Several stitches were inserted in the wound. To-day the search for Jarvis in the Huntly district was continued, a sergeant and eight constables being sent from the city to assist the local police.