A MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 1 May 1913, Page 7

A MYSTERY.

STRANGE AFFAIR. IN .AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) , Auckland, April 30. A casualty case ivasj admitted to the Auckland Hospital last night, -which seems to bo surrounded I)}' a good deal of mystery. The namo of the victim of the accid'ent is George Dale, a married man employed as a cooper. Ho lives at Ellorslie, and presumably came to town last evening to seo the illuminations. Somewhere in tho vicinity of G o'clock he must have been standing or walking on the tramline in. Customs Street, for at G. 30 a cab drovo up to tlio hospital with Dale, unconscious, inside. The only explanation which tho driver could givo was tlhat the passenger had been placed in tho cab by someone who said he had been knocked down by a ti-anicar. This "Good Samaritan" paid the cabman's faro, and directed him to take the unconscious man to the hospital, where he still lies. According to a bystander's story, Dale, in some way, got between a tramear and a motov-cav, .by one of which ho was knocked down, though neither driver seemed to notice the nccident, both vehicles continuing on their course. Tlkto were a good many people about at the time, but no one apparently thought of notifying a policeman oi' of seeking mcdical aid. The genoral opinion of those who taw the. man lying; in the rondway was that ho was (load. He was pickeil up for dead, jmd a cab hurriedly summoned, and the unfortunate limn 'placed inside, the driver being instructed by the. one who linil paid the fare lo sot oft' in all hasfe for the hospital. This iiislmotion the driver carried out, tlu> hospital authorities reporting Hint, the unconscious man was received at (i.llO p.m., sull'ering from concilium of the brain. Up till I his al'tfrnoou neither the tramway authorities nor Ihe polire had reeeiv«l any notification of Hie accidcnt.