METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7404, 12 August 1885, Page 5

METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.

[BV telegraph.— association.]

Christchurcu, Tuesday. A peculiar case was brought before the R.M. Court to-day. A man named Savage, whose aanity is doubted, was charged with travelling on the railway without a ticket. It appears that he has a mania for cheap travelling, as he recently went on board one of the steamers, and took a trip to Wellington. When he got there he could not pay his fare, and had to do seven days in gaol for his imposition. As noon as ho was free again, he quietly walked on board the first steamer going to Lytteltou, aud took a cheap trip back again. At the end of his return he had another period of incarceration under the Vagrant Act, as it was clear he had no intention of paying his passage, and no lawful means of support. Inspector Pender said that most of the railway guards knew Savage as a man with a mania for travelling on the cheap, but occasionally ho got the best of them as in the present case. He had previously been examined by two doctors, who could not agree that be was iusane, but as Mr. Ecetham, R.M., thought his actions more like those of a madman than anything else, further examination as to his sanity was ordered to be made.