A HORRIBLE DELUSION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 9

A HORRIBLE DELUSION

BEER THAT WENT TO THE DOGS. The rather snusual behaviour of a man as he walked along Cuba Street on Wednesday attracted the attention of a constable. Every few steps the man in question would halt and kick wildly and viciously at the air, and then proceed again. A slightly swaying gait accompanying this strange behaviour furnished the constable with a clue, and he approached the individual in question. "What's the matter, my man," inquired a, constable interrupting another display of animation in the lower extremities. The man gave one more violent lunge with his foot, and with an expression of hopeless despair, pointed in the direction he had been aiming tho and muttered: "See those dogs? they have been following me about all day." There was another wild lunge as he temporarily kept at bay a phantom canine. "I have gone from pub to pub to have a drink," ho continued, "but no sooner do I get the pint in my hand than that " (another vicious kick) comes and drinks it. All day long," he continued, "they've drunk iny. beer ." Here the constable interrupted, and arresting the troubled man, made sure that tho "dogs" would steal no moro of his pints of beer that day by taking him to Lambton Quay Police Station. Mention of the man's "horrible delusion" was made in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning by Inspector Ilendrey, when the victim of the delusion was remanded for a week for curative treatment on a charge of helpless drunkenness.

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