CRIMINAL LUNATICS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 53, 30 August 1912, Page 7

CRIMINAL LUNATICS

ESCAPE FROM AVONDALE Mental hospital.

[BI TILZGftAWI— -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] "vf AUCKLAND. This Day. ■•A Two men named Smith and Brock- | - bank, criminal patients, escaped from ! ,-jthe Mental Itospital at Avondale at 6 « , : o'clock last night, presumably by using - skeleton keys. Both men have beencon- * cerned in burglaries. Smith has been -* in gaol for several yearfi. He was sup- * -, . posed to be malingering at the gaol, and " J was sent to the asylum as insane, but is " jnow perfectly Bane. He is described as' c' a man with very little ability, but very -*" cunning. Broetbank is a man of- very 1 <•■ considerable ability, and is really ih- ' ' sane, but it is impossible for a layman - to recognise his insanity. He has been "lin gaol several times.

••I A. L. Wilson and Co. advertise a clear•'''jing sale they are conducting on Monday, „ ■ commencing^ at 11 a.m., at the Telegraph •■Stores, Pipitea Point, when a quantity V of bras*, lead, and copper scrap, also •'„ 'steam engine, cable-hauling engine, and ' 'a lofc of electrical and telephone fittings . will bo held. .. - Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will Bell ,'t f u collection of unredeemed pledges ia , » t thf»ir rooms on Monday arid Tuesday jD«st, oommefidifig afc 2 oclock each day,, • ©a account al Mr. Fruhaaf, pawnbroker, • •' Cuba-street.