A MAD KING'S RECOVERY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 November 1901, Page 4

A MAD KING'S RECOVERY.

Insane persons do occassonally recover their reason suddenly, and, therefore, through it is very unlikely, there may be truth iu the story told by the 'Cri de Paris' tha r . after twenty-five years of hopeless insanity the uafortuuato King Otto of Bavaria has recovered his reason. The accounts of the unforsunate monarch lhat were previously received were that tho mad King went on all fours, ate like a dog, and refused to wear any cloths, and never spoke. Now the French paper asserts that it has received authoritative information from Munich that King Otto talks freely and sensibly on any subject, although after the manner of one recovering from a long illness. He knows nothing, of course, of the death of his mother, Queen Marie, or of his brother Louis 11., and is equally unaware of tho fact that he himself is now King. He speakes of the events of 1876 as though they were but yesterday, while his mind is a perfect blank of events which occurred from the moment he was stricken with the awful affliction. Otto was born in 1848, and was stricken with insanity in tho autumn of 1876. He succeeded his brother Louis 11. in 18S'l, but, in consequence of his condition, his uncle, Prince Luitpold, who was born in 1821, and is next heir, was appointed Begent. The Court and Cabinet aro reported to ba much perturbed at this unexpected recovery.