THE MISSING PORTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 7

THE MISSING PORTER.

BODY FOUND IN V GARDEN. A REMARKABLE 'DiMSAM. The body of Daniel Condon, the elderly porter, who disappeared fiom the Auckland Hospital, - ho ,- e he was employed, about 1U o’clock rnc limning about seven weeks >go, was lound amongst some shrubbery in a garden in Carlton Gore Road yesterday afternoon, says Thursday’s Auckland “Star.” The police wore immediately notified, and in removing cfic body, discovered alongside a fourteen-ounce hottle of lysol, a quarter full, vil.li a laliol bearing the name of the Auckland Hospital. Deceased, who came to the Dominion from the Old Country seven ears ago, was abou.t ml years of age. He was a man of quiet demeanour, and somow hat disposed to despondency, and just prior to his disappearance had suffered from an attack of influenza. Ha had no relatives and very tow friends in New Zealand.

a remarkable dream has been revealed in connection with Candon’s death. A lady friend at Hawera, where deceased was employed three years before coming to* Auckland, wrote to a nurse at Hie Auckland Hospital a week or so ago stating that in a dream she had seen Condon lying amongst some send) in a garden close to the Hospital. The letter was written at a time when no trace of the deceased could ho found and searching had proved fruitless. An inquest was. opened before Mr 1 iios. Gresham (Coroner) and a jury of six at the Criterion Hotel this afternoon. Evidence was given as to finding the body, and Dr. Moir stated that the body was too far decomposed to determine the cause of death. William Murphy, cook at the Hospital, said Condon appeared despondent on the morning he disappeared from the Hospital, and his recent illness was apparently the trouble. Mr Fenton, resident secretary of the Hospital, said deceased, as porter, had access to the dispensary to obtain lysol as required for use in the wards. The jury returned a verdict of “Found dead, there being no evidence as to tho cause.”