VERY CURIOUS EFFECT OF SUNSTROKE.
[Feb Pbbsb Association.] INVERCARGILL. B«Pt. 10. - A man named James Watson, atjptef* bended the other day for tile theft Of women’s stockings from a clothes line, WiS found to be carrying a quantity of fetticUr underclothing in a damp state. Betejf brought up at the Police Court, hiA counsel submitted that Watson had at 6UN time suffered from sunstroke, and WasjlUfr always responsible for his actions. TnlO Magistrate, however, sent him to gaOl tot two months for the theft of the stockings, the other articles not having beenolatetw. On being stripped at tbe gaol it Was found that Watson had, under hie own garments, two embroidered chemises, two bodices, and two pairs of women’s drawers (calico and flannel), and a woman’s singlet. Tilt constable, who was despatched to search the hut which the man had occupied At One Tree Point for two months, found a further quantity of women’s Under* clothing there. It appears as if it wOrd & case of monomania.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8903, 20 September 1889, Page 5
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166VERY CURIOUS EFFECT OF SUNSTROKE. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8903, 20 September 1889, Page 5
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