LOSS OF MEMORY.
In Perth in July last, George Barry, dressed in a railway porter’s uniform, cashed a bogus cheque, and got £5 change. He was committed for trial, but developing a loss of memory, lie was sent to the Claremont Asylum, whence he was discharged last December.
Giving evidence on his own behalf last week Barry said that lie had been a shorthand writer and typist to the Geraldton Council. He had entered the railway service, and left that, and began to study astronomy. He got sunstroke, with subsequent headaches and sleeplessness. He was a football umpire, and umpired the day he passed the cheque, hut he knew nothing about it, oi- where he got the railway uniform from.
The jury found that Barry was insane when he committed the offence, and the judge directed that he be kept in custody till an order for bis release was given by the Executive Council.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 5
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