T HE SUNNYSIDE SENSATION.
BASIS OF MURDER CHARGE. iP.- leicrrapb.—Owu Correspondent.! ( URISTCHURCH. this da^. h is stated that the allegation on Inp authority of which Joseph Chapman was arrestPd and charged with murder a to the effect that the deceased, who was an unruly patient, at the Sunnyside Mental Hospital, refused to go to" bed one nigh;, and the accused, in endeavouring to force him to do so. assaulted him. Some days later the deceased died, and a: the inquest a verdict was returned, in accordance with tbe medical evidence, that death was due to hemorrhage of the lungs. A relative of ihe dr-ceased man. who was pn-ent at the inquest, when seen i.i .'. ' L> itelton Time-'- reporter, stated that the verdict was that death was due to h».morrha.ge of the luntis. There was no e\i'cn c given t.j indicate that anything unusual h.id happened, and the relatives sained tin impression that death wa= due to cun.-umptijn. The announcepieui i:i the newspapers thut in arrest had 1 ; i made in connenion with the ca-e w:! = the iir-t indication that sometbin._: unusual was alleged.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 8
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THE SUNNYSIDE SENSATION.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 8
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