Escaped Lunatics.
Robert Burgess escaped from the Seaoliff Asylum on the 10th instant. Description : A native of the north of Ireland, forty-six years of age, 5 ft. 11 in. high, slight build, fair complexion, fair hair, reddish beard whiskers and moustache; dressed in brown-tweed suit, dark-tweed hat, blucher boots ; clothing branded with a cross. He was committed from Oamaru on the 25th February, 1901.
(See Police Gazette , 1901, page 71.) William Robinson, who escaped from Avondale Asylum, has been arrested by District Constable Rowe at Henderson, and committed to the Asylum.
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 9, 24 April 1901, Page 103
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91Escaped Lunatics. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 9, 24 April 1901, Page 103
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