The Making of a Madman: Lionel Terry. By Frank Tod

The Making of a Madman: Lionel Terry.

Publisher: Dunedin : Otago Foundation Books, 1977. SCARCE.

Very good hardback with jacket. No inscriptions, minor marks. Jacket is quite worn, rubbed and chipped.

Edward Lionel Terry (1873 20 August 1952) was an English white supremacist and murderer, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions after murdering a Chinese immigrant, Joe Kum Yung, in Wellington, New Zealand in 1905. The New Zealand Supreme Court convicted him of murder on 21 November 1905. Originally, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life incarceration within New Zealand psychiatric institutions. Over the next 47 years Terry was imprisoned in Christchurch's Sunnyside, Dunedin's Seacliff Lunatic Asylum and Lyttelton Prison. He was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This did not prevent some New Zealanders circulating a petition for mitigation of his sentence, although the local Chinese community circulated a counter-petition in response. 222 pages with illustrations.

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