STRANGLED IN POLICE CELL
PRISONER’S UNFORTUNATE
Wellington, September 13,
Stanley Murphy, arrested for drunkenness, was found- hanging in a cell in the Petone goal on Saturday night.
He had placed in the cell a bucket under the observation window, put his head through the aperture, and the bucket must have slipped away from under his feet. Without any play for the head, and the whole weight of the body hanging by the neck, the man was suffocated through the pressure of his windpipe on the lower inside rim of the circular observation hole. Murphy was only sft. fiin. in height. Before the body was lifted down the man’s toes were about a foot from the cell floor.
Murphy is a native of Lancashire, and had been in New Zealand aborit three years only. It is said that his parents arrived here from Home some three months ago.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 3
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147STRANGLED IN POLICE CELL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 3
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