SPENDTHRIFT'S INSANITY.
WANTED -TO PAPER STAIRCASE WITH NOTES. London, June 14. Mr Justice Brown and a special jury are hearing a suit at Belfast Ihe first of its kind ever heard in Ireland, in which John Council, who was committed to an asylum last July, seeks a declaration that lie is sane. Connell, some years ag - o, inherited £03,000 of which £23,000 remains. The evidence against the petition included that of a ticket collector, who described how Connell, in journeying from Dublin to Belfast. han>ded over a handful of notes to Eree State, soldiers at several stations,, telling them to drink his health. The hall porter at a London hotel stated that Connell wanted him to paper the staircase with pound notes.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 3
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122SPENDTHRIFT'S INSANITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 3
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