HOSPITAL PATIENT’S DEATH
A CHARGE OF MURDER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, January 24. At the inquest on Cecil Crouch, the coroner committed William Suckling for trial on a charge of murder. Suckling, who appeared to be deranged, said his reason for committing the crime was that he had been put in the wrong ward. The doctors had promised to remove him, but had not done so. He preferred death to staying there, as he objected to the noise. [An imbecile, Cecil Crouch, was strangled with a cord while in bed. Later in the day a blind_ inmate of the institution, Horace Suckling, was found to be suffering from severe cuts on the arms. He confessed that he had strangled Crouch and then tried to commit suicide by cutting his arms on a window pane, which he broke for the purpose.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19773, 25 January 1928, Page 5
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140HOSPITAL PATIENT’S DEATH Evening Star, Issue 19773, 25 January 1928, Page 5
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