CHILD PATIENT ESCAPES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3241, 10 June 1911, Page 4

CHILD PATIENT ESCAPES.

“I WANT TO GO TO MOTHER.”

Glad only in an abbreviated and som- . what dilapidated shirt, a sturdy-limb Tittle lad of tender years raced breztnLessly down the central avenue ox H.A Park, Sydney, on a recent with a stalwart policeman in hot p« " suit. The little fellow ran well, but long legs proved better than sma ones, and after a brisk chase the scant-ily-clad fugitive was overtaken an made captive. “Don’t take me bade to that place,” begged the little fellow, pointing with his ehuoby toiefinger in the direction of Sydney Hospital; “I don’t want to go back there any more. I.want to go home to mother. Pleas© let me go, and lo p straight home —yes, really, I will. J J, c constable, however, was obdurate, ana tiie little fugitive was taken back to tiie hospital, where it was ascertained he had undergone a minor operation the night before. How he escaped from trie hospital, and in his undressed condition. too, is a mystery that ie at present puzzling the heads of the aut-lioi-ities, who say that it is almost incredible that anyone, let alone a tiny tot like the child in question, could walk out of the hospital without being seen. iSti.ll, the fact remains that the child performed the feat.