SHELL-SHOCK SUFFERER.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19054, 19 September 1933, Page 4

SHELL-SHOCK SUFFERER.

"WENT NEARLY INSANE.” PLEA BY REV. JASPER CALDER. (By Teieg-rapn—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. “ I have spoken to an officer who was beside Lowndes at Bullecourt in 1917, and he tells me that all young men who were in that bombardment never fully recovered," said the Rev. Jasper Calder, who was called to give evidence for Leonard Hilton Lowndes at the Police Court. Lowndes was charged with trespassing on his wife’s house while they were separated, and with boarding trains without money. Mr Calder said defendant enlisted at 16 J years of age and six months later went through Bullecourt. He had since suffered from acute shellshock. He was all right except when the bouts came on periodically. When he took liquor he went nearly insane.

Mr Calder also told how defendant had more than once telephoned at midnight, and while weeping had said he could feel himself slipping and was afraid that he might do himself some Injury. After 'consultation the magistrate adjourned the case for three months, to allow defendant to return to a relief camp.