LUNATIC AT LARGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 23

LUNATIC AT LARGE.

A MAS' FROM BROADMOOR

Once classed as a "dangerous lunatic;" Frank Long, wio was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in 1919 for shooting at and wounding a policeman, escaped from Pecfcham House llerctal Hospital-, South Loudon; .....

Long escaped while taking exercise under tie supervision. pf attendants.

When some distance away from .the nearest watcher he scaled a wall, six feet high, and dropped from view. - .:_. . By the time the attendant had followed

him over the wall fie tad vanished down a side street

c lh 1919 Long, who has been known- as Abraham '.;.Samuels; .Sidney Woodlands, karri Brent; and Alfred Hart, was .seen loitering with another man 'in Fiichley High Street. .... ........

The suspicions of two policemen were

aroused,; and. when, the ofllcer's went to arrest the men; Long pulled out a revolver and fired five shots at them. Ohe. officer was slightly wdnuded In- fob Eh hands... Long's five years were spent: in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. After■ivdrds' he was transferred to- a. county

asylum. Friends later secured his removal to" tie private institution at'Peckiam.

Though once classed as "dangerous,'J he is said to be harmless, and his friends had hoped to .be able to- take hint away from Peckham. in a few weeks' time.