LETTERS TO JUDGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 9

LETTERS TO JUDGE

INQUIRIES ORDERED

MATTERS SUB JUDICE

When the Supreme Court sat today to continue the business of the criminal sessions the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) addressed the following statement to the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. C. H. Weston, K.C.):

"I have during the last two or three weeks received several letters which I am instructing the Registrar to hand to you. I and others have previously received many letters from the same writer, but those which were sent to me were all thrown into the wastepaper basket because they all seemed to be the product of a disordered mind. The man has now, however, commenced to write upon matters which were at the time and are still sub judice. That cannot be permitted. He has also written a letter to another person, of which letter he has sent a copy to me and in which he reflects upon the honesty of the administration of justice by- the Courts generally.

"I am ordering the letters to be handed to you so that proper inquiries may be made as to the mental condition of the writer of the letters. If he is sane enough to be allowed to remain at large outside a mental hospital, he should be called upon to show cause why he should not be committed for contempt." His Honour added: "I may say that the writer is not a person directly, or, so far as I can see, even indirectly concerned with the matters referred to."