NEW ZEALAND.
[pee pbess association. 3 OPUNAKE, April 16. A Mare’s NestOn Major Take and a detachment reaching the supposed scene of the ploughing, it was found that the report received was entirely without foundation. WELLINGTON, April 16. The Asylum ScandalAbout 2.30 this afternoon, John Henry WhitolaV, late superintendent of the Wellington Asylum, was arrested on warrant charging him with—“ That on the Ist of May, 1878, then being an officer Having the care of one William Macintosh, a lunatic patient then detained in the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, ho did illtreat the said lunatic patient by taking him from his bed at ten o’clock on a night in winter, stripping him of his clothes, taking him across an exposed yard, and placing him in a confined shower bath, and there keeping him under a continuous shower of cold water for the space of ten minutes, such being an indictable offence.” The information was laid by Chief Detective Brown, who was acting under instructions from tho Government, Whitelaw was admitted to bail, himself in £3OO and two sureties of £l5O each. Ho will be brought up on Monday and remanded.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2227, 18 April 1881, Page 3
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189NEW ZEALAND. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2227, 18 April 1881, Page 3
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