PATIENT ESCAPES.
MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. (Per Press Association.' WELLINGTON,’August 11. An inmate of the Porirua Mental Hospital, John Dillon Corrigan, aged 27, who in 1932 was ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Minister for Justice, escaped from the institution on Sunday. Corrigan was found by a specially empanelled jury, sitting in Palmerston North in July, 1932, to be insane and unable to plead to a charge of murdering his parents, John and Ellen Corrigan, at Mangamahoe, near Eketahuna, on March 28, 1932. The whereabouts of Corrigan is at present not known and a search is in progress. It is understood that Corrigan never caused the slightest trouble during his detention, and an official says there is not the slightest cause for alarm.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 257, 12 August 1936, Page 4
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