YOUNG GIRL MISSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 243, 14 October 1931, Page 10

YOUNG GIRL MISSING

WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL PREVIOUS STRANGE EPISODE NIGHTS SPENT IN COAL CELLAR AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. Barefooted and clad only in her night attire, tho young woman who was found in a coal cellar under a house at Mount Eden and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on October 2, left the hospital about 3.45 yesterday morning and had not been traced at an early hour this morning. She is 20 years of age. Last week the girl was in an exhausted condition and had evidently been in the cellar for some nights. She has since been under examination, and was greatly improved in health, but she had given no explanation of her action. While the nurse in charge of tho ward was attending to a patient in a side room yesterday morning tho girl left her bed ami went out through a doo leading to the hospital grounds. She made her way to Park Road, and wa« seen from a distance by a house surgeon. When the doctor was pproaching her she slipped through the gates leading to the Nurses’ Home and ran under an archway beneath the building to tho gully beyond. The doctor set out in pursuit, but by the time he reached the other side of the building the girl had disappeared. A search of the grounds and gully was made by members of the hospital staff with torches. No trace of the giri could bo found, and another search at daylight failed to reveal her whereabouts. The police were notified and a further search was made yesterday afternoon by the girl’s parents and a constable. ' It is thought that she may have gone through the grounds to the Domain or that she may have crossed the creek at tho foot of the gully, which is bridged, and be hiding somewhere in the neigh- ; bourhood of Kari Street, which is on tho opposite side of the gully from the hojtpital. The gully is fairly heavily bushel and it would be possible for her to lr il ( there.