A Boy Lunatic at Large
[PER UNITED PHEBS ASSOCIATION.] Blenheim, This Dey. A boy..named John Rose .obtained a gun yesterday and sallied forth into the country. The boy being iu a lun-itie asylum in consequence of strange ex* 1 >its iu tiie Wanganui district 12 months aj-o.his parents gave information to the police who who captured the boy yesterdayaf ternoon When arrested he said he had shot a young woman, which is pure imagination. He states this is not the first time he has iinitatid Ned Kelly, and tbat while in the Wellington asylum he tried to han," himseif with sheets, but although hehun.. half an hour be failed, -because ihe had not tied the slip-knot pr >perly.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 68, 18 November 1884, Page 2
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