MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT'S DEATH
By Teleernrli —Press Association Cunodin, September 28. An inquest concerning tho death of a Sencliff Mental Hospital patient was held to-dav. The evidence showed that deceased. whose relatives rcsMo in Dunedin. had been an inmato of the institute for six months, and during that period had'shown no suicidal tendencies. He was a middle-aged man and married, lie escaped from tho institution last night, and early thih morning, when an attendant was walking along tho railway lino to resume his duties at tho hospital, lie discovered the body o[ deceased, badly mutilated, having apparently boon run over by an early goods train. After taking the ovidsncc of hospital officials, tho inquest was adjourned to Dunedin i'-.t tho evidence of railway officials.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 3, 29 September 1920, Page 7
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124MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT'S DEATH Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 3, 29 September 1920, Page 7
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