ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM
SEARCH PROCEEDING
An inmate of Porirua Mental Hospital, John Dillon Corrigan, aged 27 who was in 1932 ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Minister of Justice, escaped from the asylum at Porirua on Sunday evening last. Corrigan was found by a specially-empanelled jury, sitting in Palmerston North in July, 1932, to be insane,, and unable to plead to the charge of murdering his parents, John and Ellen Corrigan, at Mangamahoe, near Eketahuna ' on March 28, 1932. His form of insanity was diagnosed as paranoia, or persecution mania.
The whereabouts of Corrigan are at present not known, and a search is in progress. It is understood that Corrigan has never caused the slightest trouble during his detention at Porirua and an official of the Mental Hospital Department sta'es that there is not the slightest cause for alarm.
Corrigan's description is as follows: Age 27 years; height, sft 7in; hair dark, but turning grey; good build, and clean shaven. He was wearing a grey tweed suit when he escaped.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 10
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173ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 10
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