Suicide of a Lunatic.
(UNITED' PRESS ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, "Wednesday. About 5 o'clock this morning, when the Hawea was 'about 20 miles from this port, a lunatic mined Kaye managed to get through the porthole of the bathroom unobserved, and went overboard and was drowned. It appears ,• that Kaye was being conveyed:' to /Wellington m charge of a keeper, his sister and brother-in-law having recently arrived from England for the purpose of taking him home m the Arnwa which leaves Wellington p.n Saturday. This morning the lunatic was allowed to go into the bathroom alone, and being allowed there half an hour and not replying to the keeper's knock, a : seaman was let down the side to look m the porthole, who reported that it was open, but he could see nothing but the man's clothes. A boy then got throngh the porthole, and opened the bathroom door. It was found that Kaye must have squeezed himself through the hole, and l\ave got drowned. , ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1649, 4 March 1886, Page 4
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