AN ASYLUM TRAGDY.
ONE PATIENT KILLS ANOTHER
SYDNEY, November 24
A tragedy has occurred at the Gladesville Asylum. A patient named Samuel, wrenching a bar from his bedstead, battered to death another patient named "Brown, who was asleep in the adjoining room. He next tried to kill two attendants and was secured after a struggle. He was normally harmless, hwt was subject to mental storms.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 5
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65AN ASYLUM TRAGDY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 5
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