DEGOYED IN O A MADHOUSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 203, 29 June 1903, Page 2

DEGOYED IN O A MADHOUSE.

JOURNALIST'S AtiVKNTURB IN PARIS. How easy it is to get iDto a madhouse, shd how Kurd for the sane man to get ou*', writes tur Paris correspondent, is shown by the ex*raorditary txpetience of Mr Clem nt Bertie Marriott, formerly on the Paris staff of a Londcu journal, and diirjrg the Franoo-Ger man war and the Commune the speci ) oor respondent of a provincial news paper. His fatner was assistant chaplain at the British Embassy Ohapei wh«n Loid Cowley was British. Ambassador to Fratce. Mr Marriott declares that on No vemfcer 10oh of last year, after reoeiv iog the visit of a medical man unknown to him, he was decoyed downstairs, pushed ioto a closed ciriiage by twi< strange men, and driven off, in spite of his shouts and Btrugglep, through the ctoffded stree's of Paris to the Gnaren ton Asylum for the insane," whfc«e( he was confined in a room with a number of raving mamic.i. He demanded writing material, and wrote two letters, one to his eolici or, and another to tbfc British Ambassador, Sir Elmund Monson. After a night of terrible menta! angui-h Mr Marriott was examined in tbe morning by tho doctor, who told h : m that the medical report on which he bad been admitted deolared him to ba suffering from the delirium of jwlousy (''diire de jalousie), apparently, i due'o intoxication,although thepaiient stit d that hu seldom took anything stranger than diluted wine and had nev r been intoiicated in his life. Dr. Chiis ian, medical officer cf the asylum, a few days later certified that there was no reason for Mr Marriott'sdctoation in the institution; but in 1 spite of this i*; was not until the Eng--1 shmsn had suffered fifty-seven days' confinement in the madhouse that ht w»8 released through tho combined fF r!a of the British Embavy and the Consulate. He wns very weak and ill, and l .oked five years older. Mr Marriotl'- is now bringing an action iqt .£2OOO damages against th ;se whom ht holla responsible for bis iccarcr-ration. I have vt rifi 'd Mr Marriott's statements, and csrtify to thnr accuracy, adds our correspondent. The victim of this strange and dis greeabl! . dvonture admi's that he owes it_lc_ his nationality that he id a free man to d ty, for as sooi as the British Embassy lmirned < f his confinement "Mr loglis, Consul-General, and Mr Attee,' Vice-Uossul, inpes'igitod the master and 8 ctrnd tia release. Daily Mail.