CURIOUS NAPIER CASE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 30 May 1919, Page 7

CURIOUS NAPIER CASE.

SUSPECTER O.S.M

Par Press Association

NAMER, May 30. When Jack Peat, who was arrested in Wellington charged with theft, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday he acted peculiarly. A medical certificate put in said that accused was pretending insanity and had done so while waiting in gaol. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence and removed to gaol. His condition became worse and lie was taken to the hospital-where he was set down as a suspected case of corehro-spinal meningitis. To-day his condition was very low. Peajb is a single rran who was employed by the Hawke’s Bay Club. He had only been in Napier a few months and it is believed has no relations in the Dominion. Ho was preparing to leave the country when arrested in Wellington on a charge of stealing a revolver from the Hawke’s Bay Club. It is understood he is wellconnected at Home. He served in tho war.