THE WELLINGTON LUNATIC SCANDAL.
[By Telegraph.]
Wellington, April 16
About half past two o’clock this afteinoon John Henry Whi tel aw, late Superintendent of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, was arrested on a warrant charging him with “ that he did on the Ist day of May, 1878, then being an officer having the care of one William Macintosh, a lunatic patient, then detained in the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, ill-treat the said lunatic patient by taking him from his bed at ten o’clock on a night in winter, stripping him of his clothes, and taking him across an exposed yard and placing him in a confined shower-bath, and there keeping him under a continuous shower of cold water for the space of ten minutes, such being an indictable offence.” The information was laid by Chief Detective Brown, who was Acting under instructions from Government. Whitelaw was admitted to bail, himself in £3OO and two sureties of £l5O each. He will be brought up on Monday and remanded. THIS DAY. Whitelaw is remanded till Wednesday!
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2519, 18 April 1881, Page 2
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172THE WELLINGTON LUNATIC SCANDAL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2519, 18 April 1881, Page 2
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