LOVE LETTERS HIDDEN IN WASHING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 23 (Supplement)

LOVE LETTERS HIDDEN IN WASHING.

% In “ Guilty, but Insane,” an ex-in-mate of Broadmoor criminal asylum says that one inmate gained some local notoriety because he succeeded in conducting a flirtation with a female patient. The friendship started with occasional meetings at concerts. As

the woman was employed in the laundry, it was continued by notes pinned cunningly inside the articles sent to be washed. The romance ended abruptly when the woman lost her job in the laundry and her successor reported receipt of the notes to the authorities. In Broadmoor the most general form of currency is tobacco, an official ration of half-an ounce being issued twice a week. Tobacco pays the entrance fees for sweepstakes, whist drives and billiards tournaments, and forms the prizes for the various competitions. Entertainments provide the only occasions upon which patients of different sexes are in proximity. “ The female section of the audience was separated from the male only by the width of a and surreptitious conversa"tion, together with a furtive exchange of sweets and programmes, laid an unhappy emphasis upon the abnormality Of the inmates’ lives.