A LUNATIC AT LARGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT.
Sic, — In answer to your correspondent signing himself " One who has seen him whilst in Confinement," I beg to let him know that the name of the writer, fi S. Q-.," is at the foot of this, and what I wrote about Blnke I saw. There was no hypoorisy at all about it, I have heard several persons speak about him since, but in a manner quite the reverse of shunning him. I heard he was offered food, but refused any but bread and water. Likely this had been his late diet. I knew the maa before he went to Karori, and I must say he has not improved from his eccentricities since he wont there, but seems now more eccentric; Your correspondent seems like ono who cou* aiders my remarks fall on him personally } but this I cannot help. The letter " S. Gh" could not have been read iv Greytown till 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, und Blako was at that hour far on hie way to Wellington in charge of the police — not from anything I have said, You, Mr Editor, seem to be in possession of all that took place after his leaving Featherston, so I will not tell you^ about that ; but it seems others were of my opinion. I hope your correspondent will follow my oxample by letting me know his narao. I am under the impression that he
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•wrote on the spur of the moment, and probably he bas regretted it since ; but I cannot B'-iUfc my eyes to the fact that it was a very insolent letter. I enclose a local taken from Saturday's "Mercury" on the same subject, ■which you may probably find room for in your paper. I have lived in this province more than twenty years, and know something of the people generally, and do not beliero there could be found many (besides, very likely, " One who saw him whilst in Confinement") that would either shun, hoot, or persecute a person in Blnke's position. I cannot understand how a place built for such people, under the care of tho Gorernment, with the skill of medical men, should suggest the idea of its being a place that would make a man worse. — I am, &c, J. GL Cox.
Fcatherston, 12fcb July,
A LUNATIC AT LARGE.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3252, 15 July 1871, Page 2
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