N.Z. WOMAN BADLY TREATED

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 15

N.Z. WOMAN BADLY TREATED

TAKEN BY FORCE TO INSTITUTION CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY (Received December 8, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 8. The "Daily Mail" tells an extraordinary story of how a New Zealander, Mrs Stanley P. Broad, living in the West of London, was mistakenly taken to a public institution as a mental suspect. She was sitting in her home alone when, according to her own statements, she was seized by tv/o ambulance men and forcibly taken to the institution, where she was undressed and put to bed. Her protests were not heeded until a doctor examined a visiting card in her handbag and discovered that the ambulance had been sent to the wrong address. "I told the men I was not the woman they asked for, but in spite of that I was taken in the ambulance without a hat or coat," said Mrs Broad. "I struggled to get away and called for assistance. 1 was released immediately the mistake was discovered and received an apology, but I do not accept it. The matter is now in the hands ot mv solicitor." The "Daily Sketch" says that the ambulance men have been suspended pending a full official enquiry. ■