A MOTHERHOOD MYSTERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 13

A MOTHERHOOD MYSTERY

WHERE WAS THE BABY BORN? Owing to a woman’s loss of memory, the London police are trying to solve the three-fold problem of where her baby was born, whether it was born alive, and —if so—where it is now. On May 6, shortly before the expected birth of her first baby, Mrs. Mildred Evelyn Proctor, aged 25 left home at Park Parade, Wembley, Middlesex, for the purpose, it was understood, of visiting a doctor at Forest Gate, E.—where she formerly lived—the name and address of whom were not known to her husband or to her mother. Her mother, who had arranged to go with Mrs. Proctor, found a note awaiting her at Park Parade, reading: “I have gone on. But don't worry. I shall be all right.” Mrs. Proctor was not, however, seen again until 9 p.m. on the Tuesday week following, when a woman acquaintance met her on a platform at Marylebone railway station. On reaching home Mrs. Proctor failed to recognise her husband. All she could say was that she had a dim recollection of being helped by two nurses into a taxicab. She also spoke vaguely of staying in a nursing home, but could not say where it was. Her baby, however, had been born Mr. Proctor, senr., father-in-law of Mrs. Proctor, stated that the police were m communication with a woman at Forest Gate who said that she had been looking after Mrs. Proctor for some time during the nast ten days. Mr. Proctor stated: "I’d give anything if we could find the baby. My wife is apparently perfectly well. The baby has been born, and she can’t remember anything at all about it. “Except that she didn’t know me, or remember anything, she has been qui'e normal to-day. talking and even playing the piano. “The police have made inquiries at every nursing home, hospital, and work-house infirmary in the metropolitan area, without results. My father has visited every medical practitioner in Forest Gate, and none of them know anything of my wife.”