THE MISSING WOMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1918, Page 4

THE MISSING WOMAN.

The body of Mrs. Emma Liza Osborne (wife of the Rev. S. S. Osborne), who disappeared from Nurse Harvey's hospital, Vivian street, early on Tuesday evening, was found at about six o'clock yesterday morning in the lower lake at the recreation grounds by Messrs. Jas. Soanlon and Arthur Ambury. The body was at once removed to the morgue. An inquest was opened before tile District Coroner (Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.) at the Courthouse yesterday morning. SubInspector Hutton represented the police. Lena Elizabeth Harvey said she was in charge of a nursing home in Vivion Street, known as "Wyvenhoe." She identified the body lying at the morgue as, that of Emma Liza Osborne. She had been in the home about 13 weeks, suffering from a nervous breakdown. She saw deceased several times on Tuesday, and she seemed particularly bright and happy. She asked deceased if she would go for a walk, and she agreed. She rt turned in about seven minutes, and deceased was missing. That was a little Tsefore six o'clock. The alarm was given, and a search immediately instituted. There was nothing in, her manner ■to suggest she would act in the way sTio had done. She had been improving in health every day. ' The inquest was then, adjourned gine die. ■'