Escaped Lunatic.
Jambs Rea escaped from the Seacliff Asylum on the 20th ultimo. Description: A native of New Zealand, twenty-two years of age, 5 ft. 6 in. high, medium build, fair complexion, dark-brown hair, small fair moustache only ; dressed in darktweed coat and vest, moleskin trousers, dark-tweed hat, blucher boots, oross branded on clothes; was formerly an industrial-school boy, and committed to asylum at Invercargill on the 18th Deoember, 1889.
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 5 June 1901, Page 133
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70Escaped Lunatic. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 5 June 1901, Page 133
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