SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 3

SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.

SUICIDE FROM VENTURA.

'■Ji’i By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, March 20. David Lynch,. a steerage passenger .by the steamer Ventura, from Auck- ;• r» laird, jumped overboard, and was drowned./ His body has not been recovered, V

' ANi UNDESIRABLE RETURNED • ' TO SYDNEY.

1 (Per Press Association.) lj AUCKLAND, last night, . s Daniel Lynch. the lunatic who jumped overboard from the jVcnjtura, arrived in 'Auckland by. the Sonoma on March 10. Ho was found wan- £, dering on the wharf by a constable, to' wham he said bo was going to . Sydney by train. He was arrested, and brought before tho Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, who, after an exainin- ■ at ion by two doctors, ordered him to be sent on board the Ventura, and to‘ bo returned to Sydney, In Court bo secruod rational cncugb, except for frequent lapses of memory and intelligence. He said ho was a Hitman, recently at tho

Sydney, gas works, and had a wife . in Sydney. Ho could not say how ' ho got on boaixl. Tho doctors Found him. to be a lunatic, and the Oceanic Company, to avoid the cbli- . 2 : ', gation. of Dion, elected to return Mm’, v -to Sydney. This was done with tho consent of the Magistrate, tho ship talcing all responsibility. Tie did /not seem at all suicxidaiiy intent..