DEATH IN POLICE CELLS.
Press Association. DUNEDIN. Saturday. Gabriel McOambridgo. strangled himself in a police cell last night. Ho was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and was taken to the watchhouse, whore, oil account of bis violent heir'-vicur and peculiar appearance lie was confined in a padded cell. MeOaiubridge was visited in (lie course of ihe usual routine at 10.30 | .111. S mill at the lime appeared t-> lie well, lull’ oil opening the cell at ILK) o'clock one of the.sergeants ami a wntchhouse-kccpcr found the man lying face downwards on the Hour. An examination proved be bad torn a strip some inches wide off one of bis blankets, and making a running noose in one end, and placing a loop around his neck, bed pulled the other end until he strangled himself. Deceased, who was 29, is believed to be married, with a family. Koine eigli trail months ago lie was licensee ol tlm 'Wellington hotel at Nasoby, and subsequently tenanted the Brighton hotel,’but bitterly bad been employed as porter at Dunedin hospital.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2126, 8 July 1907, Page 1
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180DEATH IN POLICE CELLS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2126, 8 July 1907, Page 1
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