DISAPPEARANCE OF A WOMAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 4

DISAPPEARANCE OF A WOMAN.

* " (BI TELBGItAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Chrlstchurch, January 15. A Voung woman named Mary Donovar joined the Mokoia dt;Ahckl(md' ; last week as . a steerage passenger booked Tor from whero sho was to bo conveyed to, Magdalen Asylum .at Mount Magdala.„ : From . inquiries 'made by/the police,:.it smm that the'woman .was seen by . a 1 police omcer at each port of call down' the liast; Coast, and was on board the Mokoia when t^t t vessel left "Wellington last ' Friday night. When the Mokoia arrived at Lyttelton on, Saturn day morning the police went on board to take charge of . the woman, but were uhabU • to find' any trace of her, and it. was at tin .time supposed that she must.have got unobserved; or. was, in hiding somewhere op board. . ■ v•■ i_' i. ' . The Mokoia proceeded on her. journey t<] Dunedin on Saturday-night, and_ returned to Lyttelton' on Wednesday : morning, ■ but m the interval nothing, was seen of tho missing woman, either on board the steamer or ashore. From; inquiries, made on board concorning tho lost woman,the police,at Lyttelton ascertained that one of fore-cabin stewards saw her walking about the decto-oa Fridav night slwrtly before midnight,-whett the' steamer. was Wellington a,nd Lyttelton. " Some of : her wearjng, apparel was'found on board, and is now,in:the cus- : tody of the police, who incline- to the belief that tha woman committed: suicide,by _ jumping overboard early on Saturday morning. . , Further inquiries are being made,-but it aefcms hardly- probable that any-.otker.solu-tion of the mysterious i disappearance will b& forthcoming.. . ::-.y -> ■•> ; .' / - ;