GAOL SENSATION.
PRISONER'S FATAL LEAP. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) ' Duncdin, April i. A prisoner named Francis Peter Ranee committed suicido in gaol this morning. Just beforo 8 o'clock ho was exercising with other prisoners in a yard, which is about 20 feet above tho basement pavement, when, without any warning, he throw himself over the balcony railing, pitching on his head. Ho was picked up unconscious, and taken, to the hospital, lvhoro he died about 11 o'clock without recovering consciousness. Ho had given the gaol officers no reason to suspect that he contemplated such ■in act. He was serving a sentence of three months' imprisonment for false pretences at ITampden, and this sentence had nearly expired. Ho was a native of London, 30 years old, and only came to the Dominion in 1910. At the inquest a verdict of "Deliberate Suicide" was returned, no blame being attachable to tho gaol officials.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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150GAOL SENSATION. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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