MISSING BRIDEGROOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19917, 10 April 1928, Page 11

MISSING BRIDEGROOM.

LOST FOR NINE DAYS. FOUND AMONG THE ROCKS. SEQUEL TO A HONEYMOON.Suffering from loss of memory, cold, hungry, and dishevelled, Mr. Hunter Loder, a pastoral inspector of Western Australia, was found at Kiama, New South Wales, on April 5, He had been missing since March 16. Although he did not explain much of what had occurred to him since he had been wandering aimlessly about—he had walked from Sydney—his torn clothes, his pallid cheeks, and heavy growth of whiskers were a pitiful indication of his journeying and his condition... Mr. Loder was on a -honeymoon visit to Sydney, and was staying at Pettv's Hotel. On the afternoon of March 16 he left the hotel to draw a considerable sum of money awaiting him at the Australian Investment Company, and he ai'ranged to meet his wife an hour later in Martin Place. E.e did not collect the money or meet his wife, and he was reported as lost. Police stations throughout New South Wales were informed of Mr. Loder's disappearance, but no sign of him was seen until last Thursday, wvhen a man informed the Kiama police that he had seen a man "dossing among the rocks" on a rugged part of the coast about a mile and a-half from Kiama. The man, he said, appeared to be distressed. The police visited the spot and found the man and brought him to the police station. His clothes were torn as if he had been breaking through the bush, his whiskers gave him a wild appearance, and he was without food.

The man said that he remembered walking and walking endlessly and that he had decided to live among the rocks. This wild seashore somehow appealed to him. He had bought some food a few days previously, how long before he did not know, but ho had eaten it all, and he was now hungry." It had been cold during the nights, with the wind blowing off the sea, he said. . !

From articles in the man's possession and from the description that had been circulated to them the police were able to identify him as Mr. Loder. Mrs. Loder was at once informed that hor husband had been found. She was at Canowindra with her father, and immediately she heard of her husband's discovery and his plight she left for Sydney to meet him. That night the Kiama police stated that Mr. Loaer's condition,' following the food and attention that had been given him, appeared to be improving,