TIMARU.
[special.] Jan 14. A servant girl named Mary Connor, aged about 18, hung herself at Waitohi Flat yesterday. She was supposed to be insane. Some weeks ago a prisoner in Lyttelton Gaol, named Morgan Harper, showed signs of insanity, awd was removed to the Asylum, whence he escaped, and the police have since been searching for him. Yesterday a man was arrested here for being drunk and disorderly, and was leaving Court after being fined ss, when Detective Neill recognised him as Morgan Harper. The prisoner says he feigned lunacy in gaol, and thus imposed on both the gaol authorities and medical men. He will be sent back to the Asylum, and from there to Lyttelton. Heavy rain has been falling for the last 43 hours, and has done a great deal of good.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3360, 15 January 1879, Page 3
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135TIMARU. Star (Christchurch), Issue 3360, 15 January 1879, Page 3
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