CERTIFIED TO BE A LUNATIC

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 1

CERTIFIED TO BE A LUNATIC

Young Woman Arrested and Sent to Mental Hospital on Information of Her Qim Husband, but Doctors Adjudged Her Sane CHILD DIES WHILE MOTHER IN POLICE CELL .'■■.-. — -~v ■ t ■' ■ ; * (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Representative) II"" 1 "" "'""""" "" '""""""""" •»»'«»'» 111 ' 1 ""^^^ ..u.ciiiiiiii.imimiiiiiiMiiiniiiiiimiiiiiiiiniimii.iiimiiimmiiiiiiiiiHiiimi im<imii,i l <in.iiuim. l iimmi,u l ,i l iiui l m,unin l iii«nimmi l imiiMiiimi>iii^| || Sick and worried; torn from the bedside of her dying child; arrested on the word of her husband from whom she was separ- i| H ated; locked-up at the police station; and sent to a lunatic asylum. . jl || These were the experiences of a perfectly sane Wellington w oman a little while ago, and although she was not detained at the if II Mental Hospital, they were enough to unbalance the mentality of many normal people, . Jj If But worse was to follow. While awaiting legal formalities necessary to end her detention by the police her child died, and |f If when eventually she was released she found that her loved one had been buried two hours previously. And still she retained || i| her sanity. ' ' " if