GRUESOME DISCOVERY.
MUTILATED DEAD BODY
MENTAL HOSPITAL ESCAPEE,
DUNEDIN, This Day. An inquest concerning the death of a Seaclift' Mental Hospital patient was held yesterday. The evidence showed that, the decased, whose relatives reside in Dunedin, had been an inmate of the hospital for six months, and during that priod had shown no suicidal tendencies. He was a middle-aged man and married. He escaped from tihe institution, and early on the morning following, when an attendant was walking around the railway line to re« SU me his duties atl the hospital, he discovered the body of the deceased, badly mutilated, having apparently boen run over by an early goods train. After taking the evidence of the hospitlal officials the inquest was adjourned to Dunedin for the evidence of railway officials. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1920, Page 5
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