Major Rathbone's accomodation in Hannover

[Eva Elisabeth]

(10-04-2013 08:49 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  It looks like some people knew that Major Rathbone was a potential threat to himself and/or others. Why wasn't he locked up, like they did to Mary Lincoln (without sufficient cause)?

What sufficient evidence was there that he was indeed a deathly danger to his family? And who should have been "they"? Who should have been interested in locking him away that much to get a legal process started (like Robert in Mary's case - who did spare no effort to gather "sufficient evidence" and "witnesses")? I can't imagine Clara would ever have done so.