ADVENTURE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL.
A HARMLESS LUNATIC’S ACTION. An alarming adventure happened to a boy at the lunatic asylum at Klagenfuit reeently, says a Vienna message. He was passing the building with liis brother when one of the patients called to them a*nd invited them to enter, promisin' l : them a pair of skates. One of the boys, wli© is aged thirteen. scaled the walls and accompanied the man to a c-ollar. There the idiot, who was considered quite seized him, stripped him, tied his feet together, and then hung him up, head downwards. Afterwards he cut the boy down and stuffed him mT the chimney, blocking up the hearth with pieces of wood. Meanwhile the other boy returned home and told his parents that his brother had entered the asylum. They immediately applied there, but the lunatic said the lad had gone after receiving the pair of skates. It was not till the next day that moans coining from the chimney attracted attention, and the hoy was found, half dead from cold, hunger, and fright. _ .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 7
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177ADVENTURE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 7
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