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MURDER, IN ASYLUM. I.NM ATE’S CON FESSION. -lY OAKI.FI PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Jan. 17. A, ghastly crime was committed at Ryilalmere mental hospital in the early hours of this morning, when an .imbecile named Cecil Crouch was strangled with a cord while in bed. Later in the day a blind inmate ol the- institution, Horace Suckling, was found suffering from severe, cuts on the arms. He confessed that -lie 'had strangled Crouch and then tried to commit suicide- by cutting his arms on a window pane which he broke for that purpose.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 7
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95STRANGLED IN BED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 7
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