Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-19
LIAR, CONSPIRATOR, LUNATIC.

LIAR, CONSPIRATOR, LUNATIC.
It behooves Brother Swsyne, the gar
bage contractor, or expander, to bestir
himself in lively manner. He has been
semi officially declared a liar, conspira-
tor and lunatic, and the next thing he
knows he will be charged with not being
"town born" Hs might possibly be able
to stand up in this community as liar, q
conspirator and lunstic. Other good men
have done 1t, but If the Board of Health
can formally OF Informally fasten
on him the stigma of birth in
some spot outside the direct in
fuence of the New Haven Green
he is done for. He will then never be re-
ceived In New Haven Society, or even al
lowed to continue to remove the garbage of
New Haven Society. So he must step
lively and make the best stand he can in
support of his charges. Perhaps If he
can show that he was not liar, a CON-
nected with the Board of Health, and that
1t was his connection with the Board that
made him such, he may escape with his
life and liberty even If his bread and but
ter are taken away from him.
We must again admire the process of de-
claripg man lunatic by the Board of
Health. First the clerk of the Board
whom the man has directly and plainly
charged with asking and accepting bribe,
and who has some money on tap for CIVIL
liams of Bridgeport" when civilians oi
Bridgeport" calls for it, says the man |:
| crazy. This is the deliberate and nm
| BIASED opinion of gentleman whose off
cial position and opportunities for thu
study of lunacy give such an opinion from
him great weight. The fact that the mar
has made q serious charge against
him needn't be considered. That Il
corroborative evidence, IL any wer'
needed, that the man is lunatic. The ex
pert opinion of the clerk didn't need an,
support, but as Brother Swayne hasn'
seen ft to goto Middletown, 1t has beer
thought best to again remind him that h
ought to. So the report comes that tn
Psntata, we mean the head man in tn
City Charter, and also the head man il
the Board of Health, has given his opinion
that the man is crszy-that he has hallu
cinations. OF course the fact that th
man has an hallucination about the Pan
tata has nothing to do with tn
soundnsss of the Pantsta's conclu
sions. The man labors under th
hsllucination that the Pantats ought I
have helped him when he went to him an
told him his etory. He has also an halt
cination to the effect that the Pantata nj
only did not help him, but that he hastene
to tell the accused officers of the Board {
Health about an interesting case of lunac
that had come under his observation. An
20 afflicted is the man by his delusions th'
it is actually reported that he has the deli
sion that the Pantata ought not to ha'
betrayed him to those whom he lunat:eall
believed to be after some of "the pork" (
his pigs.
Having been declared q lunatic by bo
the clerk and the Pantats of the Board
Health, probably Brother Swsyns ought
| confess Judgment and leave for Middleton
on the first train. But there is chan
for him yet. It's a mad world, and the
is great uncertainty about who in 1t q
the maddess. If Brother Swayne can
any way show that he is at least as sa
as the clerk of the Board of Heal
and the Pantata thereof he will have Pa
lic Opinion with him, and Public Opinio
whether sane or insane, is big thing.
1t should happen to turn Brother Swsyn
way he can rest his soul by saying Lii
Conspirator and Lunatic in connect
with certain names. Brace up, thereto
Brother Swayns, aud tell US what y
know about garbage, and about lying, OF
spiracy and lunaey.