A BANKER PUT IN A MAD HOUSE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7955, 27 August 1887, Page 3

A BANKER PUT IN A MAD HOUSE.

The sudden imprisonment of tho wellknown banker, Baron Seilliere in a lunatic asylum, is also greatly exciting the people of this city. The utter want of personal protection, and the terrible facility with which anybody can get an enemy consigned to a madhouse, explain the intense anxiety awakened b}' the sudden iacarcaration of a man so lightly connected and bo widely known in this capital of speculation and amusement ; and the impossibility of communicating with the Barori, access to whom is rigidly refused by the physician of the asylum to which ho has been conveyed, ad-Is to the feverish curiosity with which the question of his incarceration is being discussed. Tho American Minister, Mr. M'Lane, is demanding the Baron's release of tho Government, on the ground that he had I taken the first steps for becoming an American citizen. Whether the unlucky Baron is insano or not, it is- 1 certain that French law in regard to insanity is exceedingly dbfective ; nnd tho " instances " being brought forward in the press of this city, illustrative of the ease with which a sentiment of hatred, revenge, or cupidity can obtain the consignment of a sane party to an insane asylum, and tho enormous difficulty of obtaining the release of a party thus victimised, are causing a general sense of insecurity and alarm, fully justified by the imminence of a terrible danger, to which all are really posed. The Baron is the brother of the Princess de Sagan and the Marquise de Galliffet, two of the most conspicuous of the habitues of the Tuileries under tbe Second Empire, a pair of cronies of the Prince of Wales, but inspiring little confidence or respect in private life.