"Borderline" Gases: Where to send Them?

NZ Truth, Issue 1029, 15 August 1925, Page 6

"Borderline" Gases: Where to send Them?

A case bearing on Miss B. B. Baughan's advocacy of a special institution for "borderline" cases came before the Hamilton Magistrate's Court the other day. Magistrate * Young was admittedly m doubt as to where to send prisoner, and finally decided m favor of reformative detention.

"Truth's" South Auckland rep. writes: The theft of a cycle, and subsequently of a razor, a mirror, and an electric torch, has led ,to a tall youth : named Norman James Murray making' several appearances lately before Magistrate Young at Hamilton. 'His Worship seemed to be m a quandary as to how to deal with the youth, as ■ Mr. Young did riot consider him quite : .normal, a conclusion borne out,' to ; some extent, by the -fact that the < youth has already served several years 1 m a mental asylum. On the face of i things defendant appears to possess 1 his full senses, but some of his ac- < tions, which have led to his appearance m Court, would tend to create an opposite opinion. y However, when he came up for sentence on the charges, he was remand-

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Ed for medical observation at Mount Eden, but the gaol surgeon declared that he was not prepared to certifythat" defendant was a fit subject for a mental 'hospital. His Worship (to Senior Sergeant Sweeney); What do you think is the best thing to do with accused m his own interest and that of the State? He does not seem quite normal, and it is very difficult to know what to do with him.* His Worship observed that for many years accused had beem m a mental hospital, but recently had been before the Court on several charges of. theft. .

; The question, said Mr. Young, was whether he should be sent to the Borstal Institute or for reformative detention. However, he did not think that to send him to the former would be satisfactory. One had,s- of course, to be guided by experts, as \ to defendant's mental cbiiclition. r

Accused would be under- close .observation" if undergoing detention, and he ■■would order him to be detained ,-J'for a period not exceeding three years on an original charge of the theft:' of : a bicycle. 'On the other informations accused would be convicted 'and discharged. ' , : ' ■"■ ■" •-

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