A PRISON SENSATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9047, 20 March 1906, Page 5

A PRISON SENSATION.

TRAGEDY IN A POLICE CELL. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] HAMILTON, March 13. A man named James Mills, who was arrested at Ngaruawahia on Saturday, on a charge of the theft- of a watch, v*a6 found, dead in the police cells there on the fol- 1 lowing morning with hi 6 throat cut. Another prisoner, who occupied the same cell, says- he knew nothing of the tragedy until he awoke in the morning and found Mills dead. The inquest was delayed for the attendance of the chief detective. . Later. On, Saturday an .old man named James Mills was locked up in the Ngaruawahia lock-up on a charge of theft. A man named O'Brien, alias Dolan, was latex put into the same cell, also on a charge of theft. Constable Cavanagh searched both prisoners before locking them up, and visited the cell at 12.30, when Wills appeared to be asleep. At 6 o'clock on Sunday morning O^Brien called' out, and Constable Cavanagh went to see what was the matter. He was told by him that the. prisoner Mills had cut his throat. A*i inspection by the constable revealed that this was so. The man's throat was cut right across, and 'he was quite dead. A razor was lying alongside the body.