WALKING IN STREET

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1927, Page 3

WALKING IN STREET

HOSPITAL PAT HINT IN NIGHT ATTIRE. AUCKLAND, July 0. Two motorists who were proceeding up Symonds street, at about two o’clock yesterday morning were amazed at the spectacle of a young woman clad in a red dressing-gown and red bedroom slippers coming toward them on the right hand footpath. She was walking briskly and the fact that she seemed oblivious of everything about her unado them think that she was walking in her sleep. There was some doubt about it, however, w|heu the car was turned round and she glanced at. it ns it pass_ ed her slowly. At times she became unsteady in her walk and would grope toward the fence as if for guidance. Ascertaining the direction in which site, was heading the motorists hurried to t,he police staion and informed the sergeant oil duty. After a brief search the wanderer was found near the l niversity building in Symonds street in a semi-conscious condition.

In the n(enntTme the Hospital authorities had communicated with the police station stating that a woman answering to tho description of the one seen in Symonds Street was missing from one of the wards. She was returned to the hospital and last evening it was reported that she was apparently none- the worse for her early-morning walk. Some months ago the woman was operated upon -by a doctor living near (Symonds street, and it is stated that she had worried about her illness continually. It is thought that in a state of delirium slie left the hospital for the purpose of visiting this doctor.