A MAN THAT TALKED.
SENT TO AN ASYLUM. LONDON. January 17. Hie .Royal Commission on Lunacy has begun the hearing of evidence on allegations of wrongful detention. The first witness. Hugh Holman, a naval architect, gave evidence that after an attack of pneumonia in 3916 he consulted an alienist, who sent six doctors to sec him. One of these certified him insane on the ground of his garrulity and hijesting remark that he had found surgical dressings in a meat pie which had heen served up in a nursing home. Finally.-the doctor promised to lake him to lie recuperated, decoyed him into a mental hospital, whence lie escaped at night-time by way of a winTho Chairman: Like the cat burglar! Holman was recaptured in Chancery Lane, but a doctor had in the meantime certified him as sane.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17455, 5 February 1925, Page 10
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