LUNATICS AT LARGE.
The Pai'is correspondent of the Dunfermlinp Free Press writes;— "lunatics at large are very rife, and perhaps, would be less noticed, only I 'they have the ugly habit of carrying revolvers, One has just confessed it was he who shot Dr Bochavd the oilier night m the Ohamps ElysSes, ia obediehce to a celestial voice. The pretty actress, Mdlle. Zandt, on arriving at her villa "the oiljer night, when a gentleman stepped forward at cjpmauded her —
love, or her life. A night calmmn conducted a fare to the precincts of the Charenton asylum, and on demanding payment, received, f.u- " disch.u^e m full," two balls m his hat and muffler. The late inspector ' of lunacy reported there was not sufficient asylums m France, and that one m ten -of the population of Paris was insane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2
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