But on the assumption that the Government have good and
sufficient reason for not setting Captain Colthurst entirely at liberty, we should like to ask why ho cannot be allowed to go from Broadmoor to some Horne where he would be under such degree of control as would satisfy the Home Office. When he committed apparently criminal acts in the course of his duty of helping to suppress the Dublin Rebellion he was, by verdict of the Court that inquired into the case, still suffering from a very violent form of shell-shock. He was not responsible for his acts. A man with a most distinguished record for personal gallantry and public service, he had become the victim of pure misfortune. We want to know whether there is any example of an officer suffering front shell-shock being treated in the way in which Captain Colthurst is now being treated. The Government probably do not mean to be inhumane, as we have said, but their policy amounts in practice to gross inhumanity.
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