THE MORRISON CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 122, 11 September 1876, Page 2

THE MORRISON CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVESINft MAIL. Sir,—On Saturday evening, whilst reading your account of the extraordinary outrage committed at the Hospital, and attempted suicide of the perpetrator, a gentleman requested me to go and sae the woman Johnson, alias Campbell, who was lying in an express near the Police Camp. On reaching the express, I found a large number of people congregated, and heard some expressions, such as, " What a cruel s'ame ;" "It is really most inhuman ; " What are Hospi'.al Committee doing to allow Dr. Waitt to turn a woman into the street in such a state V On enquiry, Inspector M'Cluskey informed me Dr. Waitt had given her to be expelled from the Hospital. The warder, not knowing what to do with her, hfw taken htr to t':e Police Camp, most assuredly not a fit placs for a woman in her condition. The police, not knowing what to do with her, a gntleman present reqnested them to take her to Richmond* Hotel, and call in medical assistance, an"! he would defray the expenses and call in medical assistanc. Dr. Dale and ~ r " Fleming were soon on the scene, and v- 6 ? all declared her to he in a most danger 01 '. 3 state, and quite unfit to leave the HosPJ tal. Dr. De Lautour has also visit=d the woman since. I must confess that it wss

it only my onnion-, bub r>? tho*': present, '$ \i more dist •trf» 'trig s'g fc ! ail no", been 1,, in Oamaru. The poo- woman i> a 1... | r i',V.'lt: filly ••'.VtlVil with SCI>"«. blH"U<', |( p>-iii»i'«--. Fb>v a linear, ni"c'v Tvs* a ~,!('', ci>iM h-r ; i-ut <>i tlit> Hu'.piii'.l :it ~> hour of t'.e fv:ii;ii:: a poor wr .■fe'n I 3 n t F>'iti;r. enp> c'allv a wo-nan, <frii P.• ./.In UK-!. T'l"V knew fltlt We'l lit: ■ '-im- ,;|, •' wlm i» (T(xv+|«l' i *'*t « " ,; '," I tvl t a' alteniptt'd'to tn lib t roafc.eon* Micuh'y li' r how wa» des rted >\n t dexiic of find t'm !„ Hi-", or tfv tn -<\n* to ,ciire a foftf. ■ What wonld haw b'ei ,ciiHM"(]il- no'" if f. is poof wom'-rt '-Iff n taken b> I'l i• f ru«i,<l.(<r t: > prid fount il the r '<xt. mo ntng. I prs me a *r*ir tor would 1 ■»*■«■ (« r,» Fuel iirnt M>kie on'. f think, if *>nly to .■t the en>U ot Justice, s ie-niig'it haw u ull'>W*d to remain in the institution it Morrison had been tried. If >on t the- wjmariv I t' ink ymt wilt agree It m<s that, whatever the "Woman";* ehatin?- tnay have been, it was a moat inimtv n n, l uric'aritaide net on the port Dr. Wait, and ortv f%>se "Vtng of the otesit .investigation. lam ini'ortne I; poor mature is highly connected |l in fJundee- and fJlasgnw, and, «ing from In r language, she has rero.l Tn< r.> than an ordinary edneatron.— in, &C. ' rUrtzr-.N. '.". t am- informed that a member of | I'loHrital Committee wrote an ovder to j iVti dieali Siiperitrtendent, rvif ewting ito allow Is v woman t:*-*- Ft main in tho j|iilii.l until the heaping of Morrison's t, whiub takta plaee to-morrow. This in- was signed by time members of ninittee ;. and farther, two members of FlmiM« Committee, als ■ the Rev. Mr. Id, inttwiewed Dr. Waitt, who t\U~ ;tly rt fnst dt! eif rMintst. Surety themnitteu wilt not smbmit to thi* omit.

lit,—Allow ui» ti> point wn-fc to your mriat notice that the object of ywtr tint article on S'ahutfay fast, in con(ion with to "«. xtraoritinairy oatjro.!»t>." on whom yott employee! so mtreh mh." (I mean the woman Campbell), ;tu be seen at a late hour on tfe n%ht thu same ttay in-the bottom of an *xs»,. in Tnamss-atveet,. shivering in the il, ;uut singinbf—- '• A'as-'f foi» tt\« rarity Of 4ih«iptiait dianty t'a{&4.ffif. sun. Ohi/ifc i&-|>tt*lt--vilv >o?ar a wKofcM-ityfu-f, Hume• J*ha*(s fiou v" 'on tr>M fsivklta CampfceUV h,* Vi»tn *»mvantt t tl.uifc |:iidttn<>ih«i.eVKirt lasts n%ht : f.wt as lldiow altTklSottt her ami ru r L'e r p*-r----s voir can .inform an inpm-iug pttWitr f»ho uum« to be placed in that position that ocuaaiori, " With HMrtnttierß tw go." t litis tiei-n stated in the morning paper t byufeiurttkat jj,«-nt.tfm«n certified 1 toi unfit n«SH for Ptmovat fc'vorn the ffosil. ft' this* is true, I t.tppft we a'tati r iiintß alio lit it t.'.tough yinn-loading iintiH. t am, &c, lfinmrit,. Ctth S-'epfc., t$7V. 'V« lad to at e that there was ?ny \i»%" iihnirh »>nr rtpovt. ft was siuvply iiramnt of plain tWts. ft is the tirstfc w \vi> lave Nant t! at Caw[ hidl was iinif the word.* ovrv totvisspondenfc lias suit in- lkr in< >ntl■. F d<. E. iVf. J;