PHANTOM AT LARGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 5

PHANTOM AT LARGE.

AN AUCKLAND MYSTERY. ' A ROMANTIC EXPERIENCE. ; Auckland, December 31. A young man presented himself sit the Onehunga police station at -about. 11.30 last night and reported , that a lemale passenger whom he had driven

out from Auckland in his cab had left the vehicle and threatened to commit suicide by drowning herself m the Mansukau harbor. '

Sergeant Rogers accompanied him into Queen street, but by that time, tfie woman, who is of middle age, and giving her place of residence-as Upper Quteea - ' street, Auckland, had .re-entered the vehicle. She stoutly denied that she had threatened to take her life, and said that she was ready and waiting to be driven back to Auckland. So fai> as- • caji be learned the adventure ended there.

The police at Onehunga saw the ve-„ hide leave that suburb on its way back to Auckland, and enquiries made of the city police this morning failed to reveal any further tidings of the cab, its driver, or the passenger. • '* When interrogated by Sergeant Rogers the last-named seemed to he in a normal state of mind, hut it is not improbable that she Wad been indul£irig in liquor to a mild extent. The cabman's story \v; l -s. that the woman had haile'd him in Auckland late in the evening, and asked him to drivo her to Onehunga. He further stated that, when she threatened to take her life he thought it his duty to inform the police. Upon leaving Onehungia towards midnight, he undertook to drive the passenger hack to her home -in Upper Queen street. The woman gave her name to the police, but she declined to state the numher of her house. The driver gave a" -Mine to the police, but it was not that of a registered cabman.