ACCUSED ATTENDANT OF DANCING ON HIM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 1

ACCUSED ATTENDANT OF DANCING ON HIM

MENTAL PATIENT’S STORY “KICKED AND PUNCHED,” HE SAYS Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A special Magistrate’s Court was held at the Mental Hospital at Porirua to-day, when Henry Dixon Tyrer, an attendant, was charged with causing actual bodily harm to a patient of the institute. , . It was alleged the patient, whose condition was stated to be serious, had been kicked by the accused. After two doctors had given the opinion that he was competent to give evidence, the . complainant patient related the story of having broken the window of a room in which accused slept. Accused said that witness should be lbadC to Clean up the glass or he would make him. Then in ' the presence of another attendant,. . the patient said accused threw him down and kicked him a number of times on the floor, afterwards picking him up and punching him, then dancing upon him with his boots. The evidence was taken in the asylum hospital ward. After the patient’s evidence had been taken accused was remanded until next Wednesday.