A CASE FOR INQUIRY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 239, 4 March 1880, Page 2

A CASE FOR INQUIRY.

A cun .-us narrative lias reached ns during’ the lasl few (lavs (says the V.K‘l ington Post). Aixn.it six, months , ago iv nv.4l known Molivi: rol Wellington receiver. u mile from an inmate .of the M unt View Asylum, asking him to oonm and s (' him, us he was confin'd tiiero be tirely without cause, Die solicitor at once applied to the Government tor the access rv order, yvlucn he obtained. An interview with t e patient convinced uiin that the case demandef investigate >n. He next obtained permi sion lor Hr. Diver to e amino the supposed lunatic. Lhe result of this examination was that the , patient—wh >, we may explain, was p we to-do : Tarmer, residing in on*.-, or the Wellington country district —was pronounced perfectly sane, and immediately released.: About a month a o the released Mr A cany to town, and informed the same solicitor that m* wiie had given him into custody p dav or two before for using threatening language to her. He was imprisoned for one night, and in the morning no one appeared against him. Ho wap ’informed, however, hy a friend, that another warr-nt for lunacy was out against him,“and he sought the solicit ws al\i• • as to what he shoull do, I TDiver, being satisfied that the case was perfect iV rational, agam interested himself in the case. This lime lie took Mr A to Dr Johnston, and an hour’s complete examiii’a'ion .resulted in both lloctors agreeing,that the man was in fu’l possession of his reason m every Sf*nc(! of tile wnnl. Mr A— subseiiuen'ly accompanied the solicitor to ins office ami made a fresh will, a former one having been drawn up umese■ < y in his wif ’s favour, Since this occurred wo believe the persecuted one has not been molested. 'lhere are twp points about the storv, as rebated to us which, if .-o’Tect, demand inquiry. One L is the statement that Mr A , wtiry , in the Asylum, was not allowed munieate with his friends, » a some months-’ confinement,-fU y eeeded in getting a letter pent to solicitor on promising to pay, nn . ing, a bribe of Do ; the other man’s assertion that one of the ■ who signed the. certificate-for initial » personal enemy, altercation