A MYSTERIOUS FOREIGNER.
HIS SANITY DOUBTED. WELLINGTON. May 18.
The police are still puzzled oyer the sphinx-like foreigner, I.admit Groinira. His case was prominently before the public a few months ago when ho came to Wellington from the West Coast, and was charged with vagrancy. He absolutely refused to talk, read, or write, and it. was some weeks before even his nationality was discovered to bo Russian. An interpreter was secured, but still Ludmit refused to say anything, preferring to stand with his eyes fixed steadily on some object ahead. Doctors who examined him refused say that lie was mentally defective, and in the end it was decided that he was merely stubborn, so ho was sentenced to three months’ hard term expired yesterday, and last night ho was found wandering about Newtown, and was again taken into custody. All the time he was in the Terrace Gaol lay refused to say anything, and went about his duties quietly and apparently unconcerned. He was reluctant to leave the .prison yesterday, and had to ,bo pushed outside the gates. Not a word was hoard from him when ho was arrested again, and the police were once more confronted with the question what should be done with him. To-day an order was made that he be sent to ' Porirua for observation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3193, 26 May 1915, Page 56
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219A MYSTERIOUS FOREIGNER. Otago Witness, Issue 3193, 26 May 1915, Page 56
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