A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1910, Page 4

A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION

YOUNG MAN'S UNFORTI NA ! F PLIGHT. [by TF.i.EGßArit—n:u pbess association! , CHRISTCHURCH. April 7- i V young mini, about 24 years■ ot > ! ge, j who "had como over from Kinmn;'. i with liis brother on a holiday l:i |> f ™' ' the benefit, of his health, m-vel-iped i ; symptoms of mama early tins 11 ". ,in 'j i,',.. He climbed over the bi_t iron , mite of the hotel where ho was staving , a.nd ran no Manehester Stieet. is, mama took'a destructive torn am. hv j smashed the window of a f rt:il shop | and then shattered a big plate Mass j window in a boot. shop. 1 He next .‘limbed ever a ore shutter into the vestibule of anotn-r shop and threw various anloinalie m.-ebmes into the st r< et. , , . if \ const aide on heat with the aid of ■i couple of civilians secured him anil ' . ,*■ : I!,, cave the eonpnt turn m a ' 1,1 stable :i bad time on the wav to 1 police station, where h • was idaeed in a nadded cell. As soon a- th- j was shut he commenced on the pad- j din.' ~f the walls and before im ''.mid , I-,., uot mid.r control had torn down vanls of thick leather and h apod tlie paddin the ih-u. Ultimalely he had to be placed in a m might jacket and then lapsed into the comatose condition which suggested sell ms injury ef some kind. Laior he wits removed m 'mnnvM.le Mental Hospital