CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7] — Page 7

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sir,

I have the honour to transmit for

your consideration the enclosed copy of a correspondence

which has passed between this Goverment and the Imperial

German Consulate with regard to the case of the criminal

lunatic, Karl Ahrens, and to request that this matter may

be made the subject of a special representation to the

German Goverment through His Britannic Majesty's Ambas-

sador at Berlin.

2.

On the 28th. October, 1897, Ahrens,

who was then in the employ of the German firm of Black-

head and Company was convicted of larceny and sentenced

to 42 days' hard labour. Soon after his discharge, he

was on the 27th. December again committed to Gaol for

vagrancy. On the 17th. March, 1898, Ahrens was once more

in 0801 and was certified by the Gaol Medical Officer to

be of wesk intellect. Again on the 5th, April, he was

imprisoned and was under treatment in the Hospital.

Finally on the 9th. April, 1898, Ahrens was admitted to

the Lunatic Asylm from the Gaol, and has been in the

Asylım ever since.

3.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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