A SAD CASE.
(BY telegraph,—press ' ASSOCIATION,] " Napier, Tuesday. A girl named Augusts Peirsen, who about a month ago was arrested as being of unsound mind and discharged on the certificate of two medical men, wandered from her home at Ormondville last Friday. Search parties were out from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon, when she was discovered by Constable Schultz and . a settler named Hansen. She was found crouched under a a fallen tree in the bed of a shallow stream, about two miles from her . home." Her legs were immersed in the water, and it is feared she will lose the use of her hands and feet. After being cared for, she was brought down to Napier on Monday, and remanded to the Lunatic Asylum for medical examination.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7344, 3 June 1885, Page 5
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128A SAD CASE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7344, 3 June 1885, Page 5
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