MENTAL HOSPITAL ATTENDANT CHARGED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 1, 13 December 1928, Page 5

MENTAL HOSPITAL ATTENDANT CHARGED

/ALLEGED AobnULi u.; r ATI tw » CASE FIlUxVi POKIRUA.* WEJdANGT'JN, Last 'Night. , Th(j. case wits continued before Mr,. E. I'age, c>.*u. 10-clay, m wuicn, Tyrer, an attendant, at tntj jforiruu i mental Hospital, is charged with: causing bocluy hariii to a patient. A junior attendant named Quin tail gave' evidence fuhy corrobrating complainant's story.' He said ho m the: room while .the assault \ took place*' but had hot interfered iurtne.r than, to say the man had had- enough. Witness proceeded t.o say that at accused’s instigation he had agreed to a 'concocted story oi; a fight having taken place between the ■ patients and had sighed accident forms to this eft'edt* buf witness said they were not true. '

Accused’s counsel, when the, pro* cetidings opened, said the accused intended to plead not guilty, I Dr. Macky, of the hospital, who examined the patient, said he would believe the pitieht’s story as his word could; be relied on. .:>% William' Mosley, an attendant at the hospital, maintained that the pat-

ient wag injured; in a light with an--1 other patient,. When on the ground' he ; was kicked by a third patient. Witness had not taken much notice ol the fight. He did not, know why he had not mentioned it in his statement to the detective.,