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LUNATIC TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE. GREAT STRUGGLE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, July 18. A lunatic in charge of a constable threw himself out of a window on tho express train on the South-Eastern lino. Tho constablo and another prisoner seized the man’s legs. A desperate struggle ensued. Mile after mile was covered, tho lunatic’s body staying to and fro against tho side of the car. Tho men wore unable to atop the train. Whon nearing tho station, it was apprehended that tho lunatic would bo dashed to pieces against a post; but some line-repairers witnessed tho scene, and signalled the driver, who stopped the train a few yards from tho post.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 19 July 1902, Page 2
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