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Show Deserved HI Liberty. Tho smnrtest lunatic who ever escaped es-caped from an English asylum seems to be a .well-known Hadley man. Wearing a silk hat and a frock coat, he walked into a newspaper office In Hadley and after writing a thrilling story of how to elude the vigilant attendants at-tendants at the Staffordshire county asylum, asked tho editor to publish It. According to his story ho waited for a foggy night and then, after loosening the screws in his cell window, win-dow, descended to the ground by a rope ladder. He then visited Stockport Stock-port and the poor law officers to look over the lunacy law. After learning that a lunatic could not be apprehended after 14 dnys of liberation unlesB a fresh order bhould be made out against him, he gave hlniBolf up to unrestrained un-restrained celebration of the new year. Ho complained In his story that the iisylum system wns too prisonlike and that it discouraged and depressed him. |