THOUGHT HE OWED £1,000,000.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

THOUGHT HE OWED £1,000,000.

A LUNATICS HALLUCINATION. A man who imagined b» owed orer £1,000,000, while he had in reality a comfortable credit balance, had his bankruptcy annulled lit Scarborough County Court on the grounds of lunacy. Richard Huntley, a mercantile clerk and later farm labourer, filed a petition and was adjudicated bankrupt in 1917, when he represented his habiliti.* as amounting to between £200 and £300, , *nd his assets £28. The liabilities proved to be quite illusory, amounting to a little over £4, and his assets were recovered to £200, bis debts being paid in full. The man was found to be suffering from hallucinations, and was removed m December, 1917, to an asylum, where he ."till remains. Tbe form bis insanity took was that he owed vast sums of money, and he had put in a balance-sheet, said the deputy official receiver, in which he put his liabilities at over £1,000,000, three-quarters of which, he eaid, was due to solicitors. He had gone to the lank to try to get the necessary money as an overdraft.