A GRAVE CHARGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 407, 2 July 1881, Page 2

A GRAVE CHARGE.

A report of a singular and astonishing nature is published by the Auckland Observer.” It is said that on the fourth of last month a young man named o.Bailey was brought before the Bench and committed to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, on the medical testimony of two well-know doctors. There is nothing very unusual in this, but it is also asserted that he was not mad at all but in the height of a fever, and consequently delirious. The informant of tn© Observer states that he was brought out of his bed before the fever had reached its crisis, and taken to the station in a cab. After he came out of Court he was so weak as to he unable to stand, and the constables were compelled to support him. He spoke rationally enough to them, and told them he was suffering from fever. Until after the sentence of banishment to a madhouse had been pronounced, he had i no idea what it was all about. The most sorrowful part of the story is that a lady who was engaged nursing the alleged maniac also caught the fever and died. There are other matters (adds the Observer, which have been related to us which we do not care to make public ; but the whole report is of so strange a nature that for the credit of the authorities it is to be hoped it will be contradicted.