LUNATIC AT LARGE
DAMAGE AT ASYLUM AERIAL BOMBARDMENT (Received September 11, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Damage amounting to £lCO_ was done by a powerful 25-year-old inmate of Abergavenny asylum, who, escaping on the pretext of visiting a. brother in another ward, defied capture. He climbed to the roof by a waterspout and threw tiles at the attendants, and caused the inmates of one ward to be transferred owing to tfie danger of falling masonry. Cricketers playing nearby were bombarded with slates, and the man wrecked an air shaft before he was captured, exhausted, at 2 a.m.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 9
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97LUNATIC AT LARGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 9
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