PRISONER FOUND HANGING
SUICIDE IN CELL. Thomas Pauling, a labourer, aged 34, was found hanging in his cell at the Mount Crawford Prison at 1.55 a-.m. yesterday. He made a rope by tearing his blankets into strips and tying them together. Pauling was found in a state of helpless drunkenness in Lambton Quay on Christmas Eve and was arrested and locked up at the Central Police Station. He became violent, however, and was removed to Mount Crawford., An inquest will be held.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 81, 29 December 1928, Page 22
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