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"To a sanatorium "; and when I pressed the matter they said I was going to a sanatorium near an asylum. I told the wife that I thought it was an asylum, and they said it was not, but it was a sanatorium adjoining. I knew she would ferret things out for herself afterwards. 156. Mr. Robertson.] You escaped later on, about the 4th January, and made your way back to Waihi ?—Yes. 157. You arrived at Waihi about 2 o'clock in the morning? —At about half past 11 at night. 158. Then you hid between the ceiling and the roof of your house for how long? —Until we got a reply from Mr. Massey. Dr. Beattie saw Mr. Lundon, and Mr. Lundon wrote and said that Dr. Beattie said if I liked to meet Dr. Beattie any day in Lundon's office he would grant me twenty-eight days' probation. 159. For how long would you be in the roof of your house?— About seven weeks. I never came out from there, and the police were searching the house for me without producing a warrant. 160. After that you got a letter from your solicitors asking you to give yourself up into custody, and you went to Auckland ?—Yes. 161. You got twenty-eight days' probation, and before the twenty-eight days had expired you visited three doctors separately, the certificates from whom have been put in? —Yes. 102. To the effect that you were mentally sound?— Yes. 163. Mr. Isitt.] What distance is your home from the police-station?—lt would be between a mile and a mile and a quarter. 164. What time do you say you were at the police-station that morning? —About a quarter past 11. 165. What time do you say the medical examination took place— when you finished up with the second doctor ? —Somewhere about 4 o'clock. 166. When did the first doctor examine you?— Somewhere about 2 o'clock. Dr. Craig arrived at 2 o'clock and the other doctor arrived somewhere about 3 o'clock. 167. Did you tell Sergeant Cooney anything about hynoptic influence?— No. 168. Did you tell him anything about epilepsy? —No. 169. Dr. Hugh Gribben (Deputy Superintendent, Mental Hospitals).] With reference to these attacks that you had, would you describe them to me as well as you can. First of all, with what frequency did you have those bilious attacks? —I have no bilious attacks now. I have not vomited bile for a space of about twelve months. 170. When you were in the habit of having these attacks, did they occur frequently or Beldom?—When I was a boy I would have them at the space of a week if I ate fat. 171. And did they increase or diminish or alter as you grew older?— They diminished all along. 172. Could you tell that certain articles of diet would affect it?—lf I was to eat a lot of fat I would naturally be bilious. 173. That was always the case even when you grew up to manhood?— Yes. if I was to eat a lot of fat. 174. Did these attacks occur at any particular part of the day?—No, it just depended on what I had eaten. 175. How long did the attacks last, from the time you first felt yourself a little out of sorts until the time you were back to your ordinary condition again?— They would only last for the space of about an hour or an hour and a half. Perhaps longer at other times; it might be according to the food. 176. You would say the attacks would last from an hour to two hours?— Yes, from an hour and a half to two hours. 177. You do not remember any attacks that got better in under an hour and a half —you did not have frequently a passing sickness for two or three minutes and right again ?—Oh, no. By the way you are putting these questions, I do not know what you mean by " passing sickness." 178. I mean, indisposition of any sort? —No, I have always been in what you call good health. If I was to rush over breakfast or dinner and not chew my food properly I would have a bilious attack. 179. Will you tell me how the attack came on : first of all you felt, what? —A little swimming of the eye —not exactly sxvimming, but just as though the eye glared a little. It occurred to the right eye more frequently than the other. 180. A glare before both eyes, sometimes more marked in front of the right?— And also a pain in the forehead. 181. A pain more frequently over the right eye?— Yes, not a pain, but a headache. 182. Was it a constant or jumping headache or any particular character, or an ordinary headache?—l have only had one sort of headache. 183. Is it a throbbing pain?—No, not like toothache—a steady headache. That would increase until I would feel sick. It was just exactly similar to sea-sickness. 184. That increased till you vomited? —Yes, until I put my fingers down my throat and made myself vomit. 185. Did that vomiting correct your condition? —Yes, I immediately got right. 186. Did you ever see any lights in front of your eyes—flashes, with headache, and so on?— No. If I had a bilious attack come on I would not be able to see Mr. Payne at the end of this table. 187. For how long?—I suppose it would last for about half an hour, and then as soon as the headache came that would go away. 188. Did you know what was going on during the time of these attacks?— Yes. 189. Quite certain?— Yes. 190. You did not lose account of anything?—No; I could always converse and know what was going on.