THE DARCAVILLE MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2675, 3 December 1909, Page 5

THE DARCAVILLE MURDER.

A QUESTION IN THE HOUSE

(Special to “Times.'') WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. Some days ago Mr. Stallworthy put a question to the Minister in charge or mental hospitals regarding the case of the man George Allwood, who, shortly aftet his liberation from Avondale Mental Hospital, murdered a woman in tile streets of Dargaville. Mr. Stallworthy wanted to know what steps the Minister intended to take- to prevent similar unwise liberations in future. Yesterday afternoon the Minister gave a long answer setting out in full the facts of the case. On admission it appeal's that Allwood was laboring under a delusion' and an hallucination of hearing. Ho recovered quickly, but was kept there until he could no longer be detained, at the end of five months, and was then discharged. * At that time lie could not legally bo longer detained. Ho was warned against taking alcohol and painkiller, to which latter lie was heavily addicted, and promised not to do so. When lie was seen in the hospital by a doctor alter the tragedy he gave the impression of a person recovering from a drinking bout, and it was found that he had started drinking on the day of life discharge from the mental hospital. Later on he developed a condition of preternatural fright due to the approaching trial and he died in about two days. No possible cause of death but heart failure was discovered.