Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
SENSATION FOR LORDS
UNIQUE CHARACTER INVADED
THE ENGLISH CHAMBER.
Admitted Having Been Inmate Of Asy-
lums-Sought Advice Of the
Lord Chancellor.
Special cablesram to The Evening Star.

Special Cabegram TO The Evening Star.
LONDON, March 4, 1905
The house of lords this week was the
scene Of an incident which is probably
unique. The lord chancellor and his col
leagues had taken their seats, preparatory
to continuing the hearing Of the appeal in
which the legality of the payment of strike
pay by the Yorkshire Miners Associa-
ton is challenged. when gentleman, wear
ing frock coat and carrying silk hat
appeared at the bar and, addressing their
lordships, stated that he had appllca-
ton to make to the lord chancellor for
advice. Being allowed to proceed, he said
he was practically a penniless man, and
had, therefore, no money to spend on the
expensive proceedings which would be nee
essary to obtain him justice.
Il am told by my friends he continued.
that In this free England of ours It is
impossible to obtain justice without paying
money. I say that is nonsense 1 IooK
upon your lordship not only as the repre-
sentative of legal justice but of divine
Justice"
Confined in Lunatic Asylums.
The application for advice then went on
to say that during the last fifteen years he
had been confined six times in lunatic asy-
lums, the periods of his incarceration TO-
falling about twelve or thirteen months.
On each occasion that he had been dis
Shoi sou lie Jldu DtSU informed tndt De
ought never have been confined. and
that he was more fitted to occupy a po-
sition in parliament
Only last Monday. which "by a strange
death of Charles Bradlaugh and the birth
day of my little GIRL he had been dis
charged from an asylum at Bedford, where
ne mad been confined for three weeks
If he had ever been insane he was insane
now, and wished to remain insane He
wanted to bring his case before the coun-
try. and ne desired the lord chancellor's
advice on how to do it.
The case of Beck and Dreyfus," he con-
tinued, ARE nothing to mine. / have no
complaint against my friends but against
the system of red tap which enables a
mans friends to call in a doctor. who. in
ninety-nine cases out of one hundred. is
infinitely less able than the patient him
self to fathom the state of that mans
mind. The doctor, from the very fact of
being called in, is satisfied that there is
something wrong with the man, and in
about three minutes he examined the state
OF MIND, which state of mind has taken
that man forty or fifty years to arrive
at
Blandness Of Lord Chancellor.
The lord chancellor said he could do
nothing for the man, as that was a court
or appeal, and they had no power to begin
an original writ in favor of a person who
had suffered. The applicant should go to
another court, and If he had no money
there We're means on the country whereby
a person could sue and claim damages in
lorna pauperis.
Applicant-"Can 1 apply at the lord chief
Justices court?"
The Lord ChancelIor-'I cannot give YOU
advice"
The applicant, who then bowed and re-
tired from the bar, is stated to be a man
of exceptional ability, and has recently
invented a cable, which is regarded as of
considerable commercial value