The Lyttelton Murder Case
* — , I PKB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CnBiBTCHffiCH, April 8. At the Supreme Court the evidence of the gaolers, also of the farm labourers with whom he had worked some years ago, showed that McManus had been constantly doing and saying curious things. The evidence of Doctor Overton was that he considered the man liable at any moment to a paroxysm of homicidal mania. Hia hallucination appeared to be that anyone throwing stones at him ought to be murdered. This was exactly what exactly what Cody did in fun.
The case lasted till five minutes past 8 this evening, when McManns was acquitted on the giounl of in-taniiy. He was ordered to be confined during the pleasof the Colonial Secretary.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 115, 4 April 1889, Page 2
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