INFAMOUS CONDUCT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 7

INFAMOUS CONDUCT

DR. ROSS EXONERATED. Received Nov. 19, 9.45 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 19. The medical board of inquiry exonerated Dr. Chisholm Ross, a leading .Sydney alienist, of infaii ous conduct. The board found the “charges not proved to its satisfaction, therefore there is no ground for the removal of his name from the register.”

still further. He became in a state of blind rage and said , “I’ll fix you!” His work finished, he realised what ho had done, became frantic and rushed away to where his gun was hidden. But his first plan of shooting himself had gone by the board. I think he was frightened to shoot himself. He put off the moment by thinking, “I’ll go and clean the rest up.” Ho obviously knew he had done wrong, because he expected the police to take him. I do not consider Townsend suffered from any mental disorder,” concluded Dr. Williams. “His symptoms in general were those characteristic of the soaker. It may bo possible that, for a second or so, he did not know what he was doing. He knew what he was intending to do.- Ho knew it was wrong, and when it was finished he know he had done wrong. He was stimulated to come back a second time against his judgment, through his extreme rage.” Another Mental Expert. Dr. H. E. Jeffreys, medical superintendent of Nelson Hospital, and a mental expert, said that every man who was drunk was, strictly speaking, insane at the time. Therefore, in that sense, Townsend was insane at the time he committed the crime, but he was insane in that sense alone. In two interviews with Townsend, he had found no evidence of insanity, and on hearing the evidence he could not reconcile the conditions mentioned with any known form of insanity. His opinion was that the crime was committed in a state of alcoholic frenzy. The Court adjourned till to-morrow, the Crown Prosecutor having further evidence to call in rebuttal.