MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2844, 27 March 1878, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.

tßeferring to the mysterious incident which occurred at Port Adelaide between 12 and ,1. o'clock a.m. on the night of February 28, the South Australian Eegis■ter states: —" A driver named William Wright, in crossing the Jervois Bridge, feeard groans, and called the attention of the Port police to the matter. Upon going to the spot they found a girl in the mud near the bridge at the Glanville side of the river. She was insensible, and they removed her to the Glanville Hotel. They used means to restore consciousness, and sent for the nearest medical man, Dr. Mackintosh, who followed up their treatment, and she soon recovered. She was then conveyed to the Casualty Hospital, where later on she was seen by the doctor, to whom she gave the following sensational account of herself:—She stated that her name was Anna O'Mara, aged :18, and in the service of Mr W. H. 'Thompson. On the previous night she was sent with a message, and was waylaid on the Jervois bridge by a woman ■who represented herself to be a sister xrrom Melbourne, and made an appointment to meet her at half-past 9. She kepi the appointment, and the woman broi/ghfc a man with her, who afterwards attempted to commit an assault upon her. She, however, resented his attempt*, and she was* then held by the man while the woman took off some of her clothing, after which she was forcibly put into the water, from which she had a narrow escape of drowning. Dr. Mackintosh inform us that the girl has every appearance of be Ing truthful, and is modest in her manner. Moreover, ho says the police found her only partially dressed, and life was all but extinct. We learn that the young woman was an immigrant by the Eodney, and has respectable relations in Melbourne. Her dress, hat, and

boots were found at daylight close to where "he was rescued. From the posi■^tion and ciroumstanoei in which she was found it is considered impossible for the cirl to hare got out of the water without . aid." . ' , • .. '