DREAM OF GIVING TERRY AWAY

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 6

DREAM OF GIVING TERRY A WAY

AWAY except a doubling man like Double- 1 ' day, and a nice sort of double he is. Every man m the community is reviling him, and he doesn't. feel very much chop now. It appears that ever since Lionel Terry was brought bgck he was restless, and they kept a very severe eye on him. That meant that when he undressed, his clothes were taken away, bar his shirt, and he had a 20-ft drop to the ground from his top window ; but that troubled Kirn not. He didn't , have far to fall, and he had a pair of pants (white) planted near the road. He is a great traveller is Terr^. and he soon found himself on . the New Brighton beach. Next day he was obliged bo call at a place near Kaiapoi for food (-and he earned it). Well, they gave him all he wanted, and he nearly ate, the house out. It was scandalous weather, and he procured a sack to wear over his head. The yarn soon got around that Terry was m the vicinity Qf Kaia= poi (how he must have travelled !•) and everybpdv waa on the alert, but plenty who met him never said a I word ; they never told the two peelI ers from that drinky district that they had met Lionel, and that he was not so far ahead. Well, he was caught beautifully, and aq h.e had a swamp on the ope side, and a gorse hedge. on the pther, he had no option but to give m, or fight the two peelers, and he may have been ABLE TP- PEAT THEM BOTH, but he said "I never kick." He was following the Waimakariri river, intending eventually to reach the West Coast, where they are so generous that they don't give anybody away, but the two constable^ ip plam plothes upset hjs plans. Tfley drove past him and got a man further on to hold their horse. Then they walked back' and collared Terry, who was a hit surprised. He took the bobbies for a couple of farmers, and that's how they look m the back country. He was lodged at Kaiapoi lock-up and was taken m to Christchurch next morning, being lodged m Sunnyside Asylupi very shortly afterwards, j-jg wjl.l ha^e $ WQi'se time then ever m that Asylum now, and nothing is more calculated to send him mad than to be compelled to live a daily existence, with people who are far' below his mental calibre. It's a profound pit-"- that the Government do | n<fi ggt fiim out c? SunnysJde and send him to his friends m England. A petition is beinc got up to that j effect.