LIONEL TERRY AGAIN.
■ » : - KEPT IN A " CAGE. ,, A SERIES OF COMPLAINTS. THE HON. 0- FOWLDS IN REPLY.-. Wo publish to-day a, letter .which' has; been forwarded to as by Lionel Terry, who is now an inmate of Sminyside lieu- - tal Hospital. Terry (it will bo recalled) hold 3 extreme views on the question o£ aliens mixing up white race, and some yc-ars ago he deliberately shot a Chinaman in Haining Street, for which • offence he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was afterwards commuted to , one of imprisonment for life. Ultimately he was considered to be a more fit 1 subject for a mental hospital than for a,, prison. More than onco since his moval to a mental hospital he has escaped from custody, and he now finds, himself incarcerated at Sunnyside Asylum, where special quarters have been, constructed for him. Apparently he is* anything but satisfied with his 'present lot, but from the official reply to hiscomplaints which is attached it would appear that the .Government considers - , that it is doing all that is possible to* meet his case. Following is the text of Terry's letter t^. ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5
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189LIONEL TERRY AGAIN. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5
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