INQUIRY ASKED FOR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 4

INQUIRY ASKED FOR.

' .BY ESCAPEE FROM MENTAII •' HOSPITAL. (By Tdograph.-r-Press' Association.) , Auckland, January 2i. ; So i far no' definite . announcement, has been made concerning tho Department's intentions in the case of tlie man John-.' son; who .escaped from, the Auckland' Mental' Hospital three weeks ogo._ Johnson is perfectly willing to leave his hidinj}place and give himself up to tho authorities provided lie is afforded an opportunity of proving his claim to sanity:, Mrs. Johnson wroto recently to tho Minister asking for a thorough inquiry, and was referred to Dr. Beattie, medical suj iierintehdeht at the Mental Hospital. Dr.. Beattie is away on a holiday, and is not duo back until February 7. Mr. J. R. Lundon, solicitor for Johnson, to-day wroto to tho Minister asking that a board of inquiry should bo set up ,to inquire into Johnson's case, and stating'that im-, mediately tho board was so constituted, Johnson would come forward for cxamina*' tion. ;