STRANGE BEHAVIOUR
THAMES, February 10.
A man carrying a portmanteau called at the police station iajnd asked whether he could leave it there for a little time, as he was about to shift his lodgings. He was in a most excited! state. In .an interview ■with Senior Constable Beddek, he related' his grievances. He,was acting as protector to a palmist, and a quarrel had taken place between the pair during the day. After the interview witib. Constable Beddek the man asked* leave to takie som© things out of tlie portmanteau. He opened it, and was seen secreting, a razor. He was accused of doing so. and said, he wanted to shave. He was i« an exoitied and half-mad' state. The razor was taken from him, and he got ets(Cited. Between fits of crying and swearing he talked of a woman). He was taken in chaise,, and admitted ha was about to commit suicide. He. was charged this morning with vagrancy. He had recovered from his nervous state, and was convicted and discharged on condition that he left the district?. ' . ■ :
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11841, 11 February 1903, Page 5
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