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STATEMENT OF CHARLES WILLIAM MCKENNY
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Red' 24 TEB 19
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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