TRAGEDY AT PORIRUA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10444, 9 October 1911, Page 5

TRAGEDY AT PORIRUA

ONE PATIENT KILLS ANOTHER. ' By Tdegr<iph—P*eu Association. •.« Advjtce"';was ; in; i».TO;:,i/hiß i afternoon oif a tragedy at the rua mentid; asylum, a patient havVeportedV .killed : anotherT" Dr McArthur, BM., the Coroner, has gone out to hold an enquiry. 'Wo further particulars are at present available. . '

DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. AN OVERCROWM) ASYLUM. By Telegraph--Press Association*. ' This Morning. A horrible tragedy occurred at the Porirua Mental Asylum about 11 o'clock on Saturday, Frank ■ Peter Renall assaulting John William Henderson, and Ibeating him to death ■with a chair and his fists. Henderson was admitted to the Hospital in April, 1908. He came from Wanganui. He was 4-1 years of age, and married. Renall is about the same age. He was transferred from Mt. View Asylum to Porirua last year.' An attendant >heard a sctfffle in a room where Renall, HendersoD, and six others slept. On rushing in, he found Renall on top of Henderson, assaulting him with both, fists.. The attendant pulled Renall off, and then found Henderson was dead. Renall said .Henderson had struck him, but he bears no marks of violence. Eiglit men' were sleeping in the room, .because of the lack of accommodation. An inquest was held this afternoon, the jury finding that deceased died from shock caused by the injuries inflicted by Renall while in a state of. mania. -. rider was added that the attention of the Government should be drawn to the overcrowded state of 'tho institution, thereby causing the day rooms to be used as dormitories. '•',''''•

A special telephone message received 'by the "Age" from Wellington last night stated that an inmate of Porirua, named, Frank Renall, had killed another, inmate named John William Henderson. The latter, who was previously at Mount View, is said to leave a wife and f«mily in Wellington. The unfortunate man Frank Renall was a iformer resident of Masterton, and.was committed to Porirua m 1906. .