GIRL IN CELLAR

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1931, Page 15

GIRL IN CELLAR

NO CLUE TO IDENTITY With her feet in a condition indicating that she had walked a considerable distance, a young girl, who was found beneath a house in Mount: Eden on Friday evening, is • proving a mysterious problem to the . Auckland Hospital authorities (states the "New Zealand Herald"). She is about 16 years of age, and while she appears, to be quite normal,, she has so far refused to give any indication of her identity. ' The girl was found in ■ a coal cellar under the house of Mr. A. Hansen, 15, King's View ,road, Mount Eden. She was in an| exh'austea condition and evidently had been there for some nights. In reply to a question whether she had entered the cellar on the day before, she.said: "No, I have been hero for quite a while." A hole scooped under the outside wall indicated that she had left her.place of concealment at times. , * 1 '■'.-■ On being questioned the girl persisted in her refusal to give her name or to say where she had come from. Mrs. Hansen, who' is a member of the Hospital Auxiliary, suggested that help might be obtained for her, but the girl said she. did not wish to put anyone to trouble. When it was suggested that her family would be worried, she said: "There will be no one inquiring for me." . The girl was removed, to the central police station and was examined by two doctors. They could make little of the case, and she was taken to tho Auckland Hospital, whero she has been subject to further examination. She has regained her health, and now chats normally with the nurses. She still refuses,, however, to disclose her identity, and any question on that subject remains unanswered. The case is in tho hands of the police, who arc prosecuting inquiries. : The clothes the girl was wearing when, found arO of fairly good quality, although vory dirty, and apart from her exhaustion, she appears to have been well nourished, these facts lending colour to tho surmise that she has been living in comfortable circumstances. S3he is of average height, with fair complexion and. straight bobbed hair.' When found she was wearing a grey-brown coat and skirt, grey stockings, and black shoes.