CASE OF JEMMY MACDONALD.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1703, 3 August 1875, Page 4

CASE OF JEMMY MACDONALD.

[To the Editor of the Evening Star ] Dear Sir,—The letter of the manager of the Old Men's Refuge, in Saturday night's Star, with Mr Graham's report attached to it, is about as impudent a piece of falsehood as could be put on paper ; and that, too, in the face of Dr Philson's prrfessional testimony to the contrary, which must be well known to hoth Mr Graham and his worthy sub. Jemmy McDonald was treated in the Hospital for more than a year by Dr Philson, and that gentleman sent him to the Refuge as an incurable case of brain disease, suffering violent fits and almost idiotic, with the sight gone, all from the same cause, and yet this man is allowed to torment and insult him, and then to have him dragged about by a policeman like a thief; and to crown all. 1 c writes to the Star to tell everybody this most helpless of God's creatures is a loafer. I often wonder how long it is going to last. It almost is enough to make one doubt whether there is justice here or hereafter. But mercy in the Refuge there is none. This man finds pleasure in'nagging and insulting the inmates. I don't envy him his disposition. No, sir, "I would rather be a dog and bay the moon, than such a Roman."—Yours, truly, Old Stnrad.—[" A Visitor " writes to the same effect as the foregoing.]