THE LILLYWHITE BLUNDER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 August 1901, Page 4

THE LILLYWHITE BLUNDER.

The sudden passage from confinement to liberty lias hud a painful effect (says the London Daily Mai) on pour Charles Lilywhite. Until his release the tension seems to have kept him up. Now that it is all over he has collapsed. "lie doesn't seem able to realise that he is free," said his brother to a Daily Mail representative. "If I wished to 1 could pull him about jus; as I liked. If I say ' Come here,' he'll just answer, 'Yes, I'm coming,' and come. You can't treat an innocent man like a criminal for close on eight months, and expect him to recover from it all at once. He seems as if he were in a dream." Mr Lilywhi'e is under medical treatment, but it is doubtful whether he will ever be the same-man again. His brother considers that years have been taken off the end of his life. It is stated by the " Auckland Observer " that Mr Lillywhitc, late of Wellington, is betrothed to an Auckland lady, and intends to return to the colony. He has suffered terribly, his nerves being almost shattered, and his hair, which was only thinged with grey a year ago, being now quite white. An ''Essex Telegraph," which has been placed" at our disposal, contains an account of an interview, in which Lillywhite stated that he intends to come back to Wellington.