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CLERGYMAN TO GO TO MENTAL
HOSPITAL.
(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUTCEDIN, This Day. In the Supreme Court Donaid Leacroft Freer, a clergyman, aged 43, for indecent assault on males, received probation for the full term of five years, a condition being that he forthwith enter a mental hospital as a voluntary patient, and- remain there till discharged by the superintendent. /The facts stated showed that Freer was injured by a high explosive shell in the war.
Mr. Justice Sim said he gathered that Dr. M'Killip thought the prisoner a proper subject for treatment, though not of unsound mind so as to be committed He certainly seemed to be on the bolder liin».
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 53, 5 March 1925, Page 6
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 53, 5 March 1925, Page 6
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