ANOTHER MURDER
INSANE PATIENT DONE TO DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). SYDNEY, November 9. (Received November 10, 12.35 p.m.). The body of Harold Besley, aged 27 years, who has been mentally defective since birth, was found trussed up in a sack at the Hawkesbury River near the Milson Island Mental Asylum, of which he was an inmate. Apparently he had been murdered by a heavy blow on the skull. The police believe that he was murdered by a fellow-inmate, as the thoroughness that characterises the crime is typical of nearly every murder committed by a madman during the past decade. Milson Island contains 140 patients, all of whom are believed to be harmless imbeciles, epileptics and idiots. Besley was very popular with the attendants and patients.
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Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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131ANOTHER MURDER Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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