LIONEL TERRY PROTESTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 64, 24 June 1910, Page 6

LIONEL TERRY PROTESTS

AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WAtfTS TO GO TO, GAOL. Christchurch, June 21 Lionel Terry is quite' confirmed in Mi opinion that he acted justly and meri toriously in killing the old Chinamai fir Wellington. He says that it was .pari of his "mission." He was asked if hi «flttld not Have gained more satisfactory results for the ."mission" by going 01 to the platform, and' taking other peace ful means of convincing the public o the realitv of the "yellow peril," Hi reply to that was he would have ibeei regarded as a fanatic, and people wouli soon have ceased to take any notice o him. He had completed that (phase o the campaign,' he said, fov his pamphlet eering efforts. The killing of the ol Chinaman was the •natural outcome o shis "mission." The gravity of the .posi tion first dawned upon him in Canads In California bis convictions wer strengthened', and in New Zealand h wi sired to prevent anything like a Chii ese invasion in a young country whic was well adapted for that kind of thini He had ibeen quite prepared' to (pay tli penalty provided by the law, and t meet a felon's death, but he strongl iprotested against solitary confinement j a mental hospital. It'was a form < ■ punishment which he had not expecte and which was quite illogical. If 1 were not to .be hanged, he wished to $ •back to gaol, where he could mi amongst the prisoners, mud with a woi here, and a word there, do some good. The Lyttelton Times thinks that tl . public need have no fear whatever thi Terrv is suffering any injustice, or ai hardship. "He is obviously seeking f( notoriety," says the Times, "and wi . stop at nothing to gain it, but his cai does suggest that without any undi privilege and under proper restriction our gaols and asylums might be mai freer of access to the accredited repr srntatives of responsible newspaper However, there is no tendency in Ne Zealand towards the sensationalism yellow journalism, and the saving gra^ of publicity is the (best corrective in the world for the misrepresentations of the inevitable mischief-maker."