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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 127, 16 April 1872, Page 7

On Mamli 19, as Mi Redly was work* ing in the lieisrhbourhood of his slaughter-yards, i North Lie veil-street, his attention was attracted I l»v a mnr running towards l.im from the I The man's clothes were disarranged and he hail I a long, heavy bar of iron in his hands, held above I hishead, making straight fur llt-ddy. Mr Ueddy, ; with great p/esenije of mind, concluded that the ; man was an escaped lunatic, am) cooliy called I out, " Hallo, sir ! come here, sir !" The lunatic i for such he w:is. threw the iron, bar in.o the l Inaltr, saying, "I* rot mV dinner done yet?' 1 I \fter pniiifi talk. Mr Iteddy in hu-el the pro if fallow to an i'l a siiriii'r-enrt, and took him to the i View Lunatic Asvnm, from whence he had JRsc:'ped tour hours lnvvvmslv, hut so slyly that tie was not missed until Ueddy drove Tip and isked if they had lost anv of their patients. i Phereupon a muster was called, and it was discovered that a patient' Was missing;. So Mr ] Reddy handed hack his passenger to the insecure keeping of the Government. — Jtolifikn Lender. Eighty 1 six motriberri ;irc- on the booKS of the Dunstan Eaud cf llojjc.