RELIGIOUS MANIA.
SAD CASE AT AUCKLAND. " I AM ST. PATRICK." By Telegraph —Pres« Association. Auckland, Yesterday. Just as the daily service was about to commence at St. Mattiiew's Church to-day a lunatic rushed into the church. He raced excitedly down the aisle and leaped upon the communion table. Seizing the cross, he began to cover it with-a scarf. When the verger ordered him down he declared that he was St. Patrick, come to life again, and also St. James. After a time his was persuaded to leave the chancel, and syas subsequently handed over to the police. It was discovered that he had recently hten released from the Christchurch mental hospital. He was examined by two medical men and afterwards committed bv the Stipendiary Magistrate to the mental hospital. He was a respectably dressed young man,, about 24 years of age. Remarkable to relate, this is the third instance of a lunatic invading St. Matthew's Church. The former unfortunates, a man and a woman. were lioth taken to the mental hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 364, 15 April 1910, Page 2
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171RELIGIOUS MANIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 364, 15 April 1910, Page 2
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