BOY’S STRANGE BEHAVIOUR
KFT.TF.VED TO BJE DROWNED. FOUND ON QUAIL ISLAND. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. David Skoeche Wilson, aged 17, . a Lyttelton youth who had been nussmg since Monday and was . believed to be drowned, was found this afternoon on Quail Island, a former quarantine and leper station, near the head of the harbour. It seems that he landed on the island on. Monday night and placed his clothes in a dinghy which was either set adrift or carried out by the tide. He had taken possession of the house in the temporary absence of the lessee of the island, and was found by the police hiding in a cupboard. The boy, who appeared to be suffering from nal* lucinations, was removed to Christcnurch hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 6
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