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STATEMENT OF CHARLES WILLIAM MCKENNY

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Red' 24 TEB 19

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OLLFOL*

I am the Superintendent of the Government Civil

Hospital.

On the 11th. November 1918 at 7 p.m. Inspector George

8im was brought to see me at the Government Civil Hospital

by Sergeant Cockle.

Inspector Sim was in a state of great mental excitement.

His eyes were glaring. Hệ did not appear to know what he

was talking about. He did say "Save me saveme". He did

not appear to be drunk in the ordinary sense of the word.

At the time he appeared to be irresponsible. In my opinion

he was suffering from a complete nervous and mental break-

down. I did not question Inspector Sim at the timeas it

would have been useless.

I told Sergeant Cockle to take Inspector Sim to the

Police Ward which he did.

I saw Inspector Sim about half an hour later. He was

then more quiet, he appeared to be stunned and in a state

of great depression. I ordered a sedative and gave special

instruction for a watch to be put on as I feared Inspector

Sim might commit suicide.

Inspector Sim had a very restless night and would not

speak to anybody.

On the morning of the 12th. November 1918 Inspector

Sim's mental condition was still far from normal, and with

After great difficulty I managed to get him to talk to me.

great persuasion he told me he had had a lot of trouble

lately that since the Gresson Street affair he had

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received three anonymous letters that he had only shown

one to his wife. He said he was in very serious trouble,

He paid at the time but he did not know what had happened.

he had gone to a case of robbery and that the gentleman

whose

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