A Strange Delusion.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4879, 17 November 1894, Page 2

A Strange Delusion.

;. !,, ; The vagaries' of,.a, Jpnatic very inucli interested several residents of f Morrison's Bush on Wednesday ovent ingsays the:Wairarapa Standard, 1 He was observed in tho swamp, and ' t and on being 'questioned said that ; he'was' hiding from Mrs Besant.who wanted to iriakea Maii'atmaof him. 1 He also declared that Madame Bla- ; yatsky wns constantly requiring ' him to be shot, but'.warning, him t that if ho was not shot exactly in tho _ centrpof thp'foreheadihownsa lost man.'' } There ;wero other whisporing objects all about him!, and to escapo. them and perhaps get sliot in a decent afld; workmanlike man- . ner, ho procured "a spado and [ started broaking into'' llfj Waite's honso at about two o'clock in the morning, MrWaito, whom.it takes a lot to alarm,-parleyed ;W'itb.,him and mentioned the police", which' greatly delighted him, as offiiring a ready asylum from both Mesdames Bosanfc and,Blavatsky, and other Iwonying spirits. Constable Eecleton was sent foiyand was more welcomed by the man who was'' wanted tlinii. usually falls to the lot of a policb officer. By three o'clock aim. the man whose name appears to bo- Whonn, was safe in the loCk-up andlater in the day was examined by Dra Boy and Spratt, .and lmandedior medical treatment,' 'to ascertain if' it is aoaso of-lunacy or D.T.'b. The r-imfprtunate, youngo man was brought up befowHis. Worship the Mayor, ahd;-'Mr.C. W.-Homblow, J.P.tliis(FHday) morning and as he was iio better he .was committed to thb-Asyluin; ■ ; declai-ed that Mrs Besant's. .spirits; and -Madame Blavatsky pntsido the doorof the'cellalj night waiting to shoot lirmand'mdke.a spii'it of him, The doctors' opinion is that he will boall right.again after about three months in the Asyiiim,' •• r