The Eyreton Tragedy.
Dunedin, July 1.
Mr D. Mason, of Waihola, relates a peculiar coincidence. He states that a man answering to the ‘ description of M.'Bean, now under arrest in connection with the Eyre*, eon murder, and bearing the same UarUe. came “ swagging "r, tor- his place in 1899, and was given employment by hini'. Mr Mason placed M'Lean to some ditching work, and in the performance of this*M‘Lean cut bis foot severely near, the toe with the spade. ; After this Mason noticed symptoms of Strangeness about M'Lean.’ The man refused his food, and when remonstrated with threatened to drown himself. Mason persuaded M‘Lean to return to his work, but the latter repeated to him that he thought it would be better that he were out of the world, and said that when his fits came he had no control over himself. He also told Mason that on one one occasion he had wandered away from a relative’s place in Australia, and that when he came to himself he was a hundred miles away from it.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 171, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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176The Eyreton Tragedy. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 171, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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