CORRIGAN AT LARGE
ESCAPE FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL MURDER CHARGE RECALLED [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 11. An inmate of the Porirua Mental Hospital, John Dillon Corrigan, aged 27, who in 1932 was ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Minister of Justice, escaped from the asylum on Sunday. A specially-empanelled jury at Palmerston North in July, 1932, found Corrigan to be insane and unable to plead to a charge of murdering his parents, John and Ellen Corrigan, at Mangamahoe, near Ekctahuna, on March 28, 1932. , 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, and an official states that there is not the slightest cause for alarm.
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Evening Star, Issue 22415, 12 August 1936, Page 2
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130CORRIGAN AT LARGE Evening Star, Issue 22415, 12 August 1936, Page 2
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