MENTAL PATIENT FRACTURES SKULL IN POLICE CELL.
Per Press Association. STRATFORD, January 12. Norman Francis Dixon, single, aged twenty-three, a farm hand, was yesterday as a result of queer behaviour, certified insane and put in a police station cell for removal to a mental hospital. lie was in good spirits when visited at 7.30, but at eight o’clock he was found dead, appearances being that he had fractured .his skull with a sanitary pan. At an inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to a fracture of the skull, self-inflicted. No blame was attachable to anyone.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18053, 13 January 1927, Page 11
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