AN HOUR WITH A MADMAN

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 43, 21 May 1879, Page 2

AN HOUR WITH A MADMAN

On Thursday evening last, as Mrs Charles Roe, ofj&e I)?nbigJi HpteV, $&}s% ing was sitting "-in: her private pario^vshisV was surprised by the. entrance of a rather jaunty-looking gentleman, who, taking up his position m front of the fire, commenced beating the Devil's tatoo on the mantelpiece. After he had successfully gone through about fonr bara of that delightful harmony, to the accompaniement of his own humming, he wheeled suddenly round and bid the landlady igood evening, , When she had replied to tlie salutation, he continued, " I. suppose you| don't know me, Mrs. Roe ? " Mrs. Roe acknowledged the correctness of the supposition; when the stranger replied, "Oh myfnames is Luby, ruby, booby. I; was here a few years ago, but I. have been m the Lunatic Asylum since then, and only go.yfr^e.- ; a few : days ago," Although wcom the commencement of the strange acr, Htetotance Mrs. Hoe had had her suspicions them realised by the: admission was not calculated her, more especially as the visioat into, " Whiskey hot ; whiskey a tot ; like a tot j and if riot be got. It must be got" kept repeating over and overaccompanied with pantomic his- unwilling auditor was out of her wits. Whether .attention not having order, he determined to elsewhere, it is hard to the Denbigh m the san^e he .had entered, ajid Brown's Hotel, where of a gun, lie bailed up to slumber, preat the same time BB^^fnaT fresh supply of jinggling doggrel, to the effect; "I'm going to, shoot, going to shoot, to shoot ; to shoota^uute, a great big brute; and that's a truthj a; downright truth." After he had indulged m this playful little pastime for some time, to the- very great relief of , his captiye he placed the dangerous toy aside a^d betook himself to the bar where he joined m the general cbnv.eraatiori. In the inearitin\e word was sent to Constable Price, who remained outside while a me33en|g#Stw§nt into tell Luby that a gentleman wisned to speak to him.' Upon seeing the Constable; he immediately took m the situation at a glance, and finding Himself thus trapped, he took the matter very philosophically, merely remarking that he was well used to siich things, apd hadoften been m custody ; before. The - poor fellow who was really as . hiad as a March n.are was', brought up br^Vft charge of lunacy, an.d re- 1 manded to Marton, We understand that' a few weeks before he made, his ,re-appearr ance m. the district, a letter was received. from England from his f^iepds-—\fho are very; well bff-rma^ing. inquiry, as to bis whereabouts; when, according to his own account he must have been m the A*sylum, Since, the above was m type Luby was brought before Mr. Ward^ and as it appeared his aberration was the result of an ovep ;indulgence, from' which , he had totally recovered, he was set %t liberty, ; - - "