PRISONER FOUND DEAD.
TRAGEDY AT PETONE
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night
.Stanley Murphy, who had been arrested for drunkenness, was found hangel in the cell at the Petoue police station. He had placed the cell bucket under the observation window and had put Ins head through the aperture. The bucket had either been kicked or had slipped or been pushed away, and when the constable called the inspector they found Murphy was strangled.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 7
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74PRISONER FOUND DEAD. Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 7
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