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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,

FARM HOUSE TRAGEDY

SHOT BROTHER AND SISTER.

A brother and sister were found shot at 2.30 on July 21, at Well Farm, South Tawton, Devon, and it is believed that the affair

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Justice Salter in the King's Bench entanglement over the sale of Division, London, in an action In some furniture and the fear of a which Mr. Joseph Fernand Gras-legal action. selli dei Moscatelli, costumier, Albemarle Street, London, claimed a sum of £102 for goods sold and delivered and for work done from Mr. Charles Bowen, Chapel en le Firth, Derbyshire.

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1927.

OUT-OF-DATE LUNACY

LAWS.

WHERE CHANGES ARE NECESSARY.

Recent happenings that have be- come public emphasise the need | there is for the laws relating to Persons supposed to be of unsound mind to be revised, writes a mental specialist to a London paper.

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The shot persons. Mr. Richard In published criticisms relating RAWALPINDI Lane, aged 56, a retired draper, to the unsatisfactory state of MOREA and Miss Emma Lane, aged 68, things as matters now stand two DEVANHA both natives of Winkleigh, Devon, points have been more especially KHYBER were found by a constable lying emphasised: outside the farm where they were on holiday. The woman was dead. and the man lies in a critical con- dition with severe head wounds, double-barrelled shot-gun. at Okehampton, Near by was a

Late on Wednesday night they left the farm for a walk.

That the doctor ought to be MALWA better safeenafiled against the KASHMIR possibility of litigation for wrong- MACEDONIA ful certification.

That if the present state of things is allowed to continue, doc- tors will refuse to certify persons of unsound mind and that dan- zerous lunatics will thus be al- lowed to roam at large to the dan- ger of the public.

Tons

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Destination

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· 10,953

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3rd Sept.

17th Sept.

12th Oct.

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9,114

1st Oct.

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10,986

15th Oct.

8,985 11,120

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In considering the first of these her five days ago for a holiday. Mr. Lane at one time was believed Questions it must be recognised TANDA

that no general practitioner necd] ST. ALBANS to be wealthy.

The story of his financial deal-run any risk when dealing with ARAFURA ings in furniture was told by Sir Pauper patient. The law as at present framed allows the doctor George Fowler, of Messrs Fowler, to call in the relieving officer to Legg and Young, solleltors of take the patient to the Infirmary. Bedford-row, W.C., who said:

Here a person is placed in what is Some time ago I learned that known, as the Observation Ward, Mr. Lane had lent money to a where he or she is kept for three man who had a lot of furniture days. At the end of this time, settled on him for his use during if deemed to be insane, the pati- his life, the furniture to pass to ent is then certified and sent to an his daughter at his death. It asylum. was a trustees' settlement and I Another letter read:-"Please act for the trustees.

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The real difficulty arises when a send me something that I can get When he lent the money Mr. person who is not a pauper is a summer coat Cannot you ren-Lane naturally required a security being dealt with, for the laws as lise my position in this hent. and took the furniture as such. at present constituted make no TALMA cannot go to Lords on Wednesday When the man did not pay the provision for any such preliminary in my fur coat."

money Mr. Lane sold the furni-observation before the person need NAGPORE Mrs. Linda Bowen, giving evi- ture, probably unaware that there be certified. Here it is that KHYBER dance, said the sums her husband was a settlement in existence.

remedy is to be found in one of ST. ALBANS sent her, were not sufficient to

the most important recommenda MALWA supply her with food and clothing.

tions of the Royal Commission. NYANZA She had had no money for clothes since 1920..

Bowen

Cross-examined-Mrs. denied that she had involved her husband in thousands of pounds of debt while she was living with him.

Mr. Charles Bowen said heal lowed his wife £100 a year as dress allowance for some time, and then stopped it. After that he paid most of her bills and gave ker money when she asked for it. This went on until about 1920, when she was very heavily in debt, and he objected. He thought he had paid roughly £7,000 in settle ment of his wife's debts.

MADMAN ON A ROOF.

LASSOED BY POLICE AFTER STRUGGLE.

A lunatic more than 6 ft. 4 in. tall, who escaped from a padded. cell at the City of Westminster! Infirmary, Fulham Road, S.W., climbed over roofs and parapets

Disputes With Sister.

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30th Aug.

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4th Oct.

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I tried to recover from Mr. Lane.homes or hospitals for at least | ARAFURA One day he asked me to give him a month; and possibly six months, MACEDONIA a letter saying that there was no before the person is certified. claim on him, as he had given £8,000 to his sister and she would not return it while she knew that a claim was pending,

This would at once rolieve the a burden general practitioner of that he ought not to be expected As Mr. Lane could not produce to bear, and would afford him time a receipt for the 28,000 and did in which to transfer the responsi- not know how it was invested, Ibility to experts qualified to deal asked him whether he received with matters of the kind. any income from the money. He replied that his sister sent him small sums from time to time.

I

told him that if he would agree to make a reasonable cash payment within a few days I would give him a letter stating that we had no further claim or him. He left the office saying that he supposed we would take action against him, and I have not seen him since,

SMUGGLED RUBBER,

(Continued from Page 1.)

and kept attendants and police at to ascertain the best opinion out bay for nearly an hour before side its walls and voice it within. he was lassoed and recaptured..

1am going to refer in a moment The man, who is about 33, was to the Malayan Trunk Telephone arrested, in the West End of Lon- scheme, and I have not the slight don on Friday night on suspicion

insane.

was

Would Aid Patient.

Legislation on these lines would also, be to the infinite advantage of the patient, even if actually of unsound mind. By affording opportunities of treatment away from the confines of an asylum many persons would be given a chance of being made well in a way that is denied them at pre-

sent.

One reads of the good that is done to a certain class of case by detention in an asylum-& statement that is perfectly true in some instances. The advocates of this, however, appear to ignore the fact that it is equally true that that there are other cases

are likely to be made infinitely worse when they find themselves in the atmosphere of an asylum.

The suggestion that if general practitioners refuse to certify

of drunkenness, but after medical et idea what the public view is, people the public would be at the examination found to be except of course that it is inter-mercy of raving lunatics roaming ested in the right thing being at large is calculated to create So violent did he became that done with a scheme of that magni-alarm.

But in this matter of rub- he had to be strapped to a stret-tude. cher, and was taken in an ambul ber smuggling, in the gravity of ance to the Westminster Infirmary, the facts and in the gravity of the where six policemen and atten- consequences, I believe, sir, you dants were required to place him may safely take it that I am vole in a padded cell.

ing, however inadequately, the real sentiments of the whole com

He was visited every few minu- tes, but just before 3 a.m. the cell munity.

SO-

In reality the homicidal lunatic forms but a very small porportion of insane persons. When called "raving" and at large, n person can be dealt with as effec- tively by the police as by a doctor, and when not of this type, but nevertheless homicidal, he is pro-

was found to be empty, although I desire to say, and I am au-bably much too subtle as a rule the door was locked. The luna-thorised to say, that my honour for his real mental stute to be Lie, who was proportionately well-able colleagues on this side of the Retected by anyone other than a built for his height, had apparent table are at one with me on this doctor versed in mental diseases, ly squeezed through a fanlight subject. We stand united.

A much larger proportion of only 12 inches deep and 15 inches broad. He

And, with your permission, sir,cases belongs to the class that are found dressed WILS

dangerous to themselves, in the only in a shirt on a flat roof 30I will read to this Council a re- feet above the ground.

solution recently passed unani-sense that they are suicidal, while mously by the Malayan Committee by far the largest group of insane Laughed at His Pursuers. of the Rubber Growers' Associa-people are perfectly harmless, both themselves and to others, Ife threatened to kill anyone tion and endorsed by the parent and call for no haste in regard to

Association in London: "That approached him, and laughed at

certification. his pursuers as he made his way this committee is of the opinion

If funds are available, both of along walls and gulleys. Police that the quantity of rubber which

be and other attendants at the in-it is persuaded is being smuggled these classes of cases stitution joined in the chase, and out of Malayu is impairing the effectively dealt with in nursing the man finally reached the roof efficiency of restriction; and that homes, or in their own homes as of the porter's lodge. sitting as representations ought to be made preliminary measure, without its tride and refusing to move. to the highest authorities that the being necessary to certify them." Ladders were placed on cach preventative systems for suppress- It is among the poor, therefore, unlawful trac be who are not actually paupers in side of the building, and while ing this

and co-ordinated the sense that they come within the medical officer attracted his strengthened attention on one side, policemen throughout Malaya without delay. the provisions of Poor Law relief, armed with ropes, climbed up the Other speeches were made on that the greatest hardship is met other.

the subject and the High Commis-with, and here it is again that sioner, in reply, said he would do the recommendation of the Com- what he could with regard to mission, if adopted, would come

as a great boon. smuggling.

Every time they approached the man dodged out of their way, threatening to hurl his pursuers to the ground. Finally the police- men, who were in a perilous post- tion, on a narrow ledge, threw a lasso over the fugitive's head.

The following ships were ex pected to be in wireless communi- A fierce struggle followed, in cation with Hongkong to-day-- the course of which the man pull Rawalpindi, Santhia, Talma, ed down a lump of masonry, Ranella, Van Overstraten, Presi- which just missed his cantors. dent Taft, City of Glasgow, With difficulty he was trussed and Moren, Hanol, Mentor, Michael lowered to the ground, but was Jebsen, Tjikini, Tjikembang, Sul- se violent that a dozen men were yang, Anhalt, Adolf Von Baeyer, required to put him into a strait Menado Maru, Harunasan Maru, jacket.

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Later he was removed to private mental home.

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