RELIGIOUS MANIA.
DANGEROUS YOUNG MAN. SIEGE WITH WEAPONS. MELBOURNE, January 2. A young man named Harold Morris, residing in Kensington, was suddenly seized witli religious mania. He fired a shot through the window of a clergyman's residence and then returned homo, where he armed himself with an axo ana razor and barricaded himself behind a table in the dining room. For two hours he defied his parents and - the police, threatening to take his own life if they advanced. Finally he cut his throat and was sent to hospital in a critical condition. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 5
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