LIONEL TERRY.

Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 5

LIONEL TERRY.

- Letters to Ministers. Lionel Tony was captured at Sheilield (Oanteibury). He was in ale lei smoking when the police arrested him. Lionel Terry, under date " Coil's n\\ n country, September _!:h," writes to Ihe Times inclosing correspondence he had with the Government. tn a Ion;/ letter writton from Sunnysi.le mental hospital on Aligns! iMih to t he Premier lie sets out that the death sentence passed upon him substituted one for imprisonment for life without his permission and the .literati' n he clearly and definitely refused loaecopt. This he had notified the [Minister of Justice in af >r r letter and also had laid the matter before the late I'remier. To the former he says he received an unsatisfactory and evasive reply and to the latter received no acknowledgement. He describes his committal to L'hristchiireli Asylum as "a disgraceful and cowardly subterfuge." His letter to the Premier concludes: The law admitting a rice oi aliens into this Colony is either a jus! and beneficial law or an unjust and injurious law. [f it 1)0 hel 1 to be just, 1 heteby exercise my right as a British subject in demand thai 1 shall be execute.! in accordance with the sentence passed upon me at my trial. If it be held to be unjust then by the same right I demand its abolition and my own freedom. If, however, I, sis a British subject, am refused my right t" ju 'i- I '. then I, on my put, must lefuse to remain a British subject since I cannot even preten ! to respect the nation which withholds justice t'r its neople nor is it reasonable or natural b!;ftl 1 should." Replying on August 20th, the Premier stared that the matter was under the control of the Minister of Justice to whom it had been referred for consideration. Terry again escapes. Lionel Terry again escaped from Sunnyside Hospital on Sunday night. He was locked uii in the ordinary way. Liter on it was discovered th it he had broken down the shutters ol his window, forced open the window, and let himself down to the ground- a distance i>r 2')f* by means"! ~ rop.i inside mil of his bed clothes. A Strong force of constables are in search of him. lie has again been oapMinvl. lie slates that he would not kill another t 'hinainan if free. Killing one was as suilieieiit a protest .as the killing of ;V).