HANGED HIMSELF IN CELL
[Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 28. Thomas Pauling, a labourer, aged thirty-four, was found hanging in ilis cell at Mount Crawford Prison at 1.55 a.m. to-day. He made a rope by tearing his blankets into strips and tying the -- ’ together. Pauling was found in a state of helpless drunkenness, in Lambtoii 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. Deceased was to have been dealt with in the Magistrate’s .Court this morning.
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Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 17
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94HANGED HIMSELF IN CELL Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 17
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