A LUNATIC IN A POLICE COURT.
A telegram in a recent issue of the. Melbourne Argus states that at Murrurundi a lunatic named. O’Brien created a panic in the Police Court. He was brought before the Bench charged with being a dangerous lunatic unfit to be at large. Suddenly in a paroxysm of anger the lunatic upset the books on the lawyer’s table, sent the Statutes of New South Wales flying in all directions and making straight to the Bench demanded to know from the alarmed Magistrates what they were doing there. “Am I a murderer 1 he shouted in a frenzy of passion; “HI soon see all about this.” He then - seized a heavy inkstand, and hurled .it furiously at the head: of one of the Magistrates, Mr Evans, who ducked and avoided the blow. The inkstand and contents hit the chair on which that gentleman sat, making an indentation in it, and scattering the ink all round. Mr Evan s face was besmeared all over. The other Magistrate fled from the Bench, The police seized the unfortunate and conveyed him struggling from the Court, which was a scene of uproar and confusion.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1016, 2 April 1883, Page 2
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