A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1910, Page 3

A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION

yot/XG MAN'S rXFOKTI'NATI

PLIGHT. [BY tki.eck.vph- pek press ASSOCIATION*] CHRISTCIII'HCir. This |> a .v. A young man. about 24 years of age. wln> bail come over from Knniara. with bis brother on a holiday trip for the benefit of ids health, developed symptoms oi mania early this morning. He climbed over the hi- iron gate of the iiool where lie was staying and ran up Manchester Sl n • ■!. His mania took a desti uctive turn and lie smashed the window of a fruit shop and then shattered a lug pbit • glass window in a boot shop.

lie next climbed over a vile .buffer into the vestibule of anoth- r shop and tlin w vai ions automatic :...i,biii<-s A collslahle oil beat w ith . Il- aid of ■i eoiijde ot civilians secured him and put hint in a cab. lie gave the constable a bad. Ht'le oil the U.-IV to the police station, where he was pl.-nvil in a padded cell. As soon as the doro was shut he commenced oil Ihe pad ding of the wails ami before ii•■ could |„> -ol under control had lorn down yards of thick leather and h. a; -d the padding on the tlooi. I'ltim itch hbad t i be placed ri a straight jacket and then lapsed into the comat-.se condition which sim---sied seri -us hrain injury of some kind. LaU.-r he was i-emuv<-d to Sunnysidc Mental Hospital.