LIONEL TERRY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 12

LIONEL TERRY.

TQ BE REMOVED TO SUNNTSIDE. j Witt} hie yelling and screaming Lionel Terry has for some time past been making • almost every night hideou«. not only for j the -vtaTdere and prisoners in the goal, but ' • for the people living within a fairly wide j radiuS from ihe gaol. I»yttelton, however, i ' is about to be relieved from the burden of j j Terry's "protests" — for such h-e considers j : his nightly howlings. The special cell for j j his accommodation and safe custody in the \ : grounds of Sunnyslde Mental Hospital is j I now coaaplei«d and ready for hie reocp- I | tion. ! j The process of " tube-feeding " Terry, J which has had to be carried out daily for j the past 10 weeks or moie, is stiLl being j gone on with. T-evi-v, however, is said to ! have altered very considerably in his apI pearance, and seems to haw lost something of his grea-t strength Pour warders have every day to hold him down while the doctor from Sunnyeid^e fe&ds hjna. He expends the greater part of tw a^-7 in Bleeping, and is then, wide awake Ajl night to enable him to carry out hip hideous programme 9? screaming aa<* yelling His general conduot is eaid to be eitremely bad, and he &aem£ to take delight In glviM <w xnusb trouble and annoyance as possible to thoe* in &uthpj*ritj over hjija* Mr 6lo»ry gtatodl tJrtrt fiji

persists in misbohaving himself, and exhibits the greatest ingenuity in making trouble. Terry claims to be a gentleman, and demands of the warders that they should addrees him as "Mr Terry," and yet pereista in addressing them in the most grossly insulting- and disgusting terms. The quarters provided at Lyttelton for Lionel Terry having proved unacceptable to him, and the authorities having decided to lodge him at Sunnyside Mental Hospital, his transference was effected at an early hours on the 4th inst. (says the Press), Terry being conveyed from Lyttelton to Christchurch by the 12.10 a..m. train. On the trip to town Terry passed most of the time reading a newspaper, and comported himself as an ordinary member of the public. On the Christchurch Railway Station there were only two railway officials in evidence, and Terry alighted quietly from the train and in the company of the warders went to the entrance to the station, where a hansom cab and a fourwheeler were waiting. Terry and some of the warders entered the four-wheeler, which drove off along Moor house avenue towards Addingfcon, and the indications were that Terry gave those in whose custody he was no trouble on the journey to the Mental Hospital.