MISTEBJOTJS Dlf f PPEAB JISOB OS A Wej, iihgton OiTOJc^^ 'mwai ' named Henry Kirk, formerly a oierk m tbe ernpjoy of Mr," P. K. Watty, has been ■ massing from Wellington for a considerable, time, under. circuHistaacps that. hare, caused a, great deal of anxiety to his friends. It appears that h«. was allodgejr. at OloT.ely , Houss, The Terrace, a boarding-house kept by; Mr. Neilsjoni; and^or i^aiß.simjß;pr*tiiouß -to ihis. disappearance; — which, took pjace to-vrards'.-tiie.--lattor' end of January, list — he, yrds very strange in~hi».jnanner. He./irai rbnj ope occasion .examined by tirp medical men, with a yie^ to hid being, committed; to the -LujsaiJo^ylnin,' but|^hey: prp^iou^cefl| ihitn to be sane, and! 3 accordingly he/was liberated. Sonje. time' after this he went up • to the gaol and colly requested that he might be hanged there and then. He 'was send aw*y amd one. or two attempts -were made j to get' him admitted to the hospital, but
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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 53, 3 July 1880, Page 2
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