LUNATIC IN A CHURCH.
LEAPS ON COMMUNION TABLE. ■ AND SATS HE IS ST. PATBICK.' IBr Teleeraph.—Press Association!* Auckland, April 13. . Just as the daily service was about to commence at St. Matthew's Church today a lunatic rushed into the building. He raced excitedly down the aisle, and leaped upon the communion table. Then, seizing. the cross, ho began to-cover;it with a scarf, and, when'the verger, ordered him down, he declared that he waß' St. Patrick como to life again, and also \ St. James. After a time 'he was persuaded to' leave the ohancel, and . was subsequently handed over to the police.. Jt was subsequently discovered. that he had recently, been released from' the Christchurch Mental Hospital. He was . examined by two medical men, and afterwards committed-: by the resident', magistrate to the'. local ; Mental:. Hospital.- He was a respectably dressed young man about twenty-four years of • • age.. * ■ • " ■' ' : Remarkable to relate this is.the third instance of ai lunatic invading St. Mat- . v thew's Church. The'fo'rraer unfortunates —a man and a woman—were both taken ■"/■' to. the Mental Hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 791, 14 April 1910, Page 5
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