N.Z. WOMAN’S ORDEAL
TAKEN TO MENTAL HOME ATTENDANTS’ SERIOUS ERROR [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, December 8. The “Daily Mail” relates an extraordinary story of how a New Zealander, Mrs Stanley P. Broad, living in the West End of London, was mistakenly conveyed 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 two ambulance men, and forcibly taken to the institution where she was undressed, and put to bed, her protests being unheeded until a doctor examined a visiting card in her handbag, and thus discovered that the ambulance had been sent to the wrong address. Mrs Broad said: “I told the men that I was not the woman that they asked for. Nevertheless I was taken in the ambulance without either my hat or my coat. I struggled to get away, and I called for assistance. I was released immediately that the mistake was discovered. I received an apology, but I don’t accept it. The matter is now in the hands of my solicitors.” The “Sketch” says that the ambulance men have been suspended pending a full official inquiry.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1933, Page 7
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