SUICIDE IN A LOCK-UP.
[Umtkd'Press Association]
Woodville, this day.A prisoner named James Cameron, alias Barlow, hanged himself in the lockDp last night. The prisonor was being taken to Masterton to answer a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. It appears ho took a strap which jje had previously concealed on his person, and fastened it to the grating of the cell, and then slippo.d liia head through the noose. A son of (lis was sleeping in the coll with him, but _ knew nothing of it until awakened jn the morning. An inquest Will fre hold.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 3 February 1886, Page 2
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96SUICIDE IN A LOCK-UP. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 3 February 1886, Page 2
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