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Case-book of Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C.... Chapter
15
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the vital and
con- sequences may be so terrible that no jury should be call- ed upon to enter into such enquiry; indeed it is more than doubtful if any jury can be competent to do so. The state of a man's mind, the degree of his mental stability, depends so much upon so many factors that it can only be decided, if at have all, by
persons who had
of experience years and training in such mat- ters.
a
(or Oficials), Jesus has touched my eyes. him If I have done wrong I am who lived
me
and love me, you will come was normal, and sce
and make me. happy.
Yours sincerely,
upon
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GOING ON
for
sions upon evidence such as ONE of No. dispute in
16
(when her
Words of Lunn
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE that his further found to be suffering from delu-
NE of the drivers on had jurisdiction in the recent which may well have caused the opinion
family" your own amazement to its recipients, and detention was justifled.
The responsibility
son, King Farouk, which subsequently remained During the latter part of that that?
ol 171 Porte de Versailles tried to prevent Fathla's mar- annexed to his medical records, nine-year period his condition releasing the inmate
"Dear Postal Official
becume improved, however, asylum in very great, and the arul permission was given to difficulty in forming a definite to Pont de Sevres - is a riage to Gali), "Well, then, ar-
call to
will let you in." opinion upon his condition may burly cheerful man called bitrate our pleket lasue, and wo persons
The queen cold "No". neighbour be still greater, but I confess Pierre Bernadotte.
has These last few days ho willing to make things right. hood, all of whom formed the that I was much disturbed by
carried with him a I love you. If you love Jesus opinion that his mental state some points of the evidence as proudly
the different
under the examination letter he receiveti
I HEAR from Lady Mabet Sweden, It is a
that Lunn
her husband Mr Blank made of Mr Blank during his royal seal of In October 1921
reply to his owa note of good Arnold Lunn, is in America on escaped from the asylum, and detention,
of his round-the- wishes to the new King Gustav the last lap remalued at liberty for 14 days
VI. after which interval he could
For Pierre,
the bus driver, to the Lunacy
direct to Murren in time not, according
be retaken under the Unfortunately the sympathetic and Gustav, the king, are cou-
Christmas. from the Laws,
order. If it considerations which arose in cins; both descend
Lunn, the man from a green was Marshal
who made ski-ing a country original reception
further to detain the case of Mr Blank tended Bernadette who was desired
a lunatle it would be to
the legal Issues of Napoleon's Grand Army,
great international sport, him as
swamp was
King Gustav V, often
qualified to talk on many other. necessary to have him recert!- which were really fundamental This was never done; in- to his claim for damages.
changed greetings with Pierre. Acd.
subjects as well, And it seems to Dr X, that With
regard derd Mr Blank voluntarily sub-
plenty of people wish to listen heen appointed mitted himself to further medi- gentleman had
at which he under the Lunacy Act which In addition the report stated cal examination, that Mr Blank was suffering was pronounced to be sane and defined his duties and respons?- from delusions, one of which consequently no longer able to bilities. was
that his wife had been un- restraint. faithful to him. It is right to lalin state that no evidence whatever
W. S. Blank (n sinful man)," Mr Blank's medical advisers took a very serious view of this document, which they attached to the report they made upon his mental condition.
Delusions
Only injury
Cx-
world lecture tour. He will fly
Other Truman to him.
was given in any way supporting Damages claim to be detained under his care thought that was...
of being lar
Own defence
tu
circumstances
High dudgeon
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about THIS is a story disappointed horse th while Arab charger which was groomed for the role of carry- ing a triumphant Mussolini ir Alexandria.
a place in history,
It is starring, in front of a
"Quo
Vadis," now nearly finished after many months work in Rome.
Monty is 64
OFTEN, as he walks to his
In Australia he was called: omec in Grandview, U.S.,
on to speak two or three times. Provided he acted in the District Director for West-
JI day.
And just recently he went to There is on record in the As-
good faith and honestly bellevedern Missouri hears people say- County town Fize Courts of a
that Mr Blank was a fit person Ing: "you know for a second I a Trappist monastery at Geth
Where- remani, Kentucky, where the the case of a man who was be-
with "Mr munics brutal assault
were temporarily ing tried for a
and further 100k reasonable upon he breaks in
leased from their Vows of upon the warder of a lunatic
the truth of this suggestion, but
precautions in his investigations, Truman. Well, # is."
For
is Vivian silence in order to talk with the director sylum. The man himself had
Blank deter-then he the at
time it might well Same
Thereupon Mr
personally could be
the President'e him. been an inmate, and according
have been argued on Mr Blank's, mined to institute proceedings. under no
that Truman, liability for to his own story he had com- behalf that many a married mitted the assault with the sole might possibly be under a siml- and to claim damages for the detention; and Dr X contended brother. and there is a strong
wrongful detention he hat that there was not and could not resemblance between them.
Vivion has
in no interest and definite purpose brought before a jury, so that at his apprehension in regard to affered and the many years of be the slightest evidence that
own wife without necessarily
mental anguish he must have he acted otherwise than in the polities, rarely goes to Wash- **I've no last he might have an opportuni- being regarded as a fit subject undergone. He did
Saya he: not bring honest belief that Mr Blank'sngton.. beyond any for detention in an asylum. ty of establishing
completely However, this combination of his action against the doctoru mind was deranged and that he danged reason 10" doubt that he was
who
Queen trumped satisfied
originally certified him, as took all reasonable precautions would be protected by the in h Mr sane and that he should never
they
WITH A view to economis-
Thanks to the Eighth Army Blank's family that his mental
to the Commis- have been incarcerated.
ing on the 100 dollars (£36 the Duce never
ride, got his condition had become affected, Lunacy Laws, but he named as
Defendants (i) The Commissioner in Lanacy, he contended and they accordingly consulted
hotel suites, men who certified sioner who detained him at his that even if he was wrong In 14.) a day they have been pay. But, thanks to the film indus Egypt's try the horse has at last won two medical
Nazli, Queen
her him as insane, and he was re- office in London, and (i) Dr X his belief that Mr Blank was in for
daughter to his insane on that December day He conducted his own de- moved to a private asylum pre- who took him back
For hours he had cross-sided over by medical super-
Mental Home, fence,
in 1912, the only injury that Princess Fathis, and son-in-law for
The action was tried before he had caused to Mr Blank was Bhlad Gall, have been searching charlot, in the monumental film witnesses
the intendent named Doctor X. examined
at Mr Justice Lush and a Special to detain him in his office for San Francisco for a flat. Mr Blank only remained
Now they have found one prosecution and had conducted
bedrooms, three bath legal arguments in a manner so this asylum for about a month. Jury and from the outset at two hours until the car from
that three enormous pubile in the asylum arrived, and restrained that At the end of this period the tracted reasoned and
any damages the jury awarded rooms, fifty dollars a week-in he had satisfied every person in medical superintendent formed terest.
LORD that
FIELD-MARSHAL Court that he was as sane
Mr Blank was the opinion the
Called into the winess box, should be limited to that short a fabulous penthouse overlook-
ing the bay. quite sufficiently recovered
They
called in to be able Mr Blank's demeanour was be period of time.
furniture. MONTGOMERY has enter as they were; and then
of ΠΟ to return home to
told his his family, yond reproach, He suddenly a point arose,
movers, painters, and decorators, ed his 64th year. By the end of scomed
Mr Blank was thereupon seen dreadful story of long incar-
But it doesn't look as if they it he may have laid down all ac materiality, which
He by two visiting Justices, who ceration inseuse him without res abuse, issued in order that he should treme moderation, without
and with ex-
live command. calmly tirade of
the
By the time the case drew to will be able to move in.
Doormen at the penthouse do For if, as seems likely, burst into a
of the its conclusion popular feeling appearance particularly directed against the be released on leave for 28 days. slightest
the local union. Supreme Headquarters cour or indignation. No
set up at Royal Family, so violent and
one was running 30 strongly in Mr not belong to
five ing
Montgomery's to march in front of it; and Versailing, absure that within two minutes
who had not heard that story Blank's favour that even the So the union ordered a picket Western Fowero is
men na could ever have imagined his learned Judge was temporarily
nations Q. at Fontainebleau
H. Q the same people were
disband. GENERAT beyond all question, not
Mr Blank's brother was re- sanity had once been in ques- deflected from a true interpreta- Queen Nazil's removal
will comman that he was mad, but probably
He offered himself un- tion of the necessary legal im- have refused to cross the line. will
that the Desperately. Mr Gali invited EISENHOWER homicidal manine. Without quested to attend the asylum for tion.
could, the purpose of escorting the hesitatingly for cross-examina- plications. He ruled
they the pickets to his housewarm- the new formation. were entitled, jury
they would only let I hear that "Monty" that outburst the jury
thought nt, to regard all the ing-it
them get in. Union head Russel take a hond in laying the foun quite possibly, have been in patient to his house. Mr Blank tion,
great displeasure at
that, ns dations but many years of incarceration as
sto Dreyer refused, his duced to make a grave mistake, evinced
accompanied by
being damages upon that basis. Το
he will stan Queen Nazli, however, "Ike" appears, If no jury should properly be being
also held that there was called upon to enter into such brother, who, red, was
his
How could enquiry, no advocate should be the cause of required to cross-examine a per- fcation, and indeed stated that cross-examine sun nenossibly evidence upon which the Jury Dreyer has made an offer. "You aside nitogether.
would prefer to be escorted this time he had been
might and that Dr X did not in fact take reasonable precau- son for the same purpose.
remember few more un- by the police; but this was nounced by experts to be com- tions to satisfy himself that Mr
thought to be unreasonable, and pletely sane,
ous Blank was insane. so Air Blank left the asylum in incidents as had occurred nine
With that interpretation before there was the years his brother's company
them the jury the law before high dudgeon,
cicarest answer. To a man who
hesitation had no
as to the On the next day Mr Blank saw has suffered from the treatment verdict they should return. They many different people. Two of them, doctors, thought that he of a quack doctor anything may young against both Defendants
have happened, Even the cur- o
to Mr Blank by was not in his right mind. Many
sum of view his family history was un-
wuy of damages the could be explained in the case £24,000, satisfactory. His mother had others, some of them business fous letter to the postal officials and awarded
directly contrary ca died in an asylum, although the men, took actual cause of her insanity was view and considered he was per- of a man with extreme religious It was a most unfortunate re- views who har suffered from sult. That was an immediate never explained in court. His fectly normal.
On the second day of his temporary des- was there
view of elder brother
took a different freecom
who Mr Blank
to one incident he was unshaken, appeal to the Court of Appeal cribed as "eccentric, bordering
After paying certain On the day he visited the office the law from that expressed by London,
one of which of the Commissioner in Lunacy Mr Justice
Lush. They held on insanlly for years."
business calls, war on his bank, during which he was completely normal; he that there was no evidence of having to lack of reasonable care he appeared to be quite normal, was able to call witnesses
prove it; and anyone who le caled
office of a at the
been taken, and further that any Comissioner in Lunacy. There alleged the contrary was wrong, damages which would be pro-
Many witnesses were called perly as to what was some dispute
perly payable by the Commis- Mr Blank by the defence; doctors and sioner must be limited to such actually occurred.
to ruise mental experts who had visited one
ited amount as would be attributable presumably desired
at asylums
at which to the propricty questions as
his office. Accordingly confined. All of them thai he received some treatment of much that had happened to different times Mr Blank had solely to the short detention in
'm, but on his first arrival the
dismissed entirely, Commissioner himself was not expressed the opinion that the action against Doctor X was present in the office. Mr Blank detention had been Justified, but trial was directed as against the
an Assistant who their position in the witness box Lunacy Commissioner, but was seen by
ad- which caused him to become
an extent stated that he could not make was very difficult. It was
head nor tail of what he want- mitted that Mr Blank had never and that he became delirious,
Blank talked been violent, and their evidence as to his mental condition was
Poor Mr Blank. remained in that condition for ed, though Mr
incessantly.
necessity composed
of
The next I saw of him, generalitics. The one definite not the end of his misfortunes. point of apparent substance lay when he was sitting-a
can
I
happy experiences than the day when I had to cross-examine a farmer whom I shall Kentish call Mr Blank.
He was married and
in the
of
year 1912 was fifty years of JOSEPHINEW nge. From a medical point
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Not fit
certt-
and in
came
Many witnesses
the
been
ot
pro-
To such curious
delusions, Upon
of
the
and a now
In the river
That was
was Inno
in the alleged delusions, which Aguro-outside the room I oc- When the Commissioner op- had from time to time been cupied, as Attorney General, in
scene he in- certified as continuing, but that the House of Commons,
Night geared upon the terviewed Mr Blank personally point so far from assisting the after night he sat there alone, One of the most peculiar was and came to the conclusion that defence was turned to ridicule and I was compelled to pass him visit that he paid to Borstal pri- he was not in a fit condition to by the briefest cross-examina- sen. He hired a motor car for remain at large. A telephone tion.
he was message was sent to Dr X, re- the purpose, in which
solicitor and
questing that a car be sent to accompanied by a
the red convey
the to patient agent whom he desired
a
land
Responsibility
to be present as guarantors of asylum, and Mr Blank was de- "One of the delusions from his position and reputation, a tained in
the Commissioner's which Mr Blank
was stated
more
that
as I went to and fro from my room. What he was doing there I never know. He never moved and never spoke but his con- tinucl
WAS presence then I could endure. I sent my
to tell him policeman he wished to ask the Governor's Omice until the car with two to be suffering was that his wife found his presence to be embale
to preach to
ask him not to arrived. This had been unfaithful to him?" ter male attendants permission for him
rossing and to those prisoners who were under
during that "Yes,"
sit there any more. He received As there actual detention sentence of death.
"And you stated in your romy message very apologetically were of course ne prisoners at very short period was the only
responsibility port that the delusion was still and courteously. Borstal under such sentence the possible act the
I never saw him again. visit well have seemed for which could be held to rest continuing?"
Yes." upon the Commissioner person-
Within a comparatively short pcculiar.
"And continued during all time he was dead. His body November 12, 1912, he ally,
the River From that day in 1912 Mr these years?"
was recovered from summoned to his house the re-
as a mental "Yes,"
Thames. He was drowned. porter of a local newspaper to Blank remained
"Did you happen to find out
TOMORROW: whom he dilated a remarkable patient in various asylums until account of certain visions of October 1921. He was periodi- whether or not his wife had in
visited by Visitors in fact been unfaithful to him?"
The Courtauld which he gave detailed particu- rally
The witness had no idea,
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