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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

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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

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circumstances

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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

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Not fit

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To such curious

delusions, Upon

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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

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