A LUNATIC AT LARGE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7662, 19 October 1893, Page 3

A LUNATIC AT LARGE.

(BY miJOBAPU, PR ESN ASSOCIATION)

1' ; ' Auckland, October 18. •. Some excitement was causcd in Brighton Road, Parnell, through tho capture of a lunatic named John Henry Wilson. It appears Mrs Wilson informed Oonstablo Hutchinson on Sunday night that her •/ husband was in a stato of insanity. The family, consisting of the husband, wife, and tour children reside in Brighton Road.' Wilson was a commercial traveller principally engaged in the Island trade for a Dunedin firm. About three months' ago, when coming by the steamer from Wellington to Auckland, it is stated Wilson showed signs of insanity, and ho was put under arrest, but on his arrival in Auckland his friends took charge of f jn liim, and ho apparently recovered. Howif over, latterly, Wilson again showed signs > • of insanity, and on the advice of Oonstablo Hutchinson, his wife laid an information, which was sworn before Dr Giles, R.M., to the effect that her husband was insane, and unfit, to bo at largo. fijYilson was made aware of the stops $hich were being taken, and bccamo , vory violent. He armed himself with a short dagger, with which ho attacked his wife, who, with her children and the lunatic's father, lmd to run for their lives, and Mrs Wilson again sought Constable Hutchinson, and informed him of tho state of affairs. Constable Hutchinson 1 got the assistance of Coustaolo Lamb, - : and on • their arrival at the house they '' -found tho front door locked,and a crowd aboutthe place. Thoy could seo Wilson insido, with a dagger m his hand. They went round to the back of tho house, and found, the back door unlocked. ; Thdyfontered noiselessly, and seized tlio ■ • excited man before he was awaro of their presence, and.quickly overpowered him. Ho was" convoyed' to the Central Police Station, and' on the testimony of Drs. ' ! Lindsay and Philson was committed to tho Avondalo Lunatic Asylum.