The Battersea Romance.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1896, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Battersea Romance.

Miss Edith Lanchesteb, the young lady whose removal to a lunatic asylum and subsequent release by the Lunacy Commiseionora roused so much controversy last week, ia the daughter of Mr W. H. Lancheater, a wealthy architecb of Kingston. She is 24, and a young lady of great intellectual ability and impulsive enthusiasm. She has a small income of her own, and for several years has been supporting herself first aa a High School teacher, and than as assistant secretary to a goldmining company in the City. She matriculated with honours at the London University, and speakß several languages. During the lash few years she has been living in Battersea, and has been an acbive speaker for the Socialists, and becoming a candidate for the London School Board. She became engaged to another Batteraea socialist, Mr John Sullivan, formerly an artizan, now a clerk in the city. All the documents and other evidence connected with the removal of Miss Edith Laachester to Rochampton Asylum have been placed in the hands of solicitors, who have submitted them to counsel for his opinion as to the advisability of proceeding either againsb Miss LanChester's relatives or Dr. Blandford. An opinion has also been asked as to the expediency of proceeding againsb one of Miss Lanchester's brothers for technical assault on Mrs Gray. Both Mies Lancheater and Mrs Gray, however, are, it is understood, averse to any further action being taken.