The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-25 00:00:00

Ile saw the prisoner when the use came on, and he was
ai drunk that he told him be was too drunk to give
evillence.
mined : Prismor freatiently came to him, but
be %vs generally in such a state oh at he would is it hay
„ohm, to do with him Prltener is brother-to-law to
Will on Mullett.
It-. Leach. of Sturralest. r. soil he knew the prisoner,
and hail teen Lig 'oodles' atter' lant. His bahits have
1, ~„ very in...sills". inOre mo of late, and in May last he
bat (tarried's tremens.
Mr. It. N. Howard, of Weyru outh, said he was present
when the prisoner wu collet .0 a witness, and ho watt in
such • state that be wit, n t lit to mo m.„ the het.
Cries:examined : The Lod C llef Justic a put the
quedion to him S 3 many times that witness believed that
he was of opinion he was drunk.
Vast rate el publicly no ohje itio a SO his tieing examined
_No, I male a remonstrance IT valet,; I, it 1 ili.l not
remonstrate with the lewd Caief hemmerlt w, thd
have lo.:eo monntrou, for us • to have dine so.
It-ex mined Prlaonor wee elonned in his evidetic •.
Arthil- Soupier., butcher, 5a...1 he TIM at the Anreloroe
lan at 11.1.1bary when the prisoner came in. It. began
q mrral .14. an I Witn 'At saw be had had drink.,
Albert William Dirt stationed at 11111a•thiwy.
ate,l ho saw the prisoner ju.t Wore he gave hi, evidenee,
emd lathey..l him t lle under the iiintlrOCJ of liqu ir. He
saw him in the 'mum:: of the Curt, and had to remove
Mr. Mailbag/a. in litimming up. hoped that, though the
j„... might say the priron-r isa, disgracell hitt:pelf, they
a out: n,t say he was. 111 l .1. 1..• .11• is lit .In , thee mo.t
find that • ba: he sore na, w.llOl and corrupt, and wato
the ohj• co t der
The Hon. 11. ro'erbige I, iintol itit that there we. an
imp miant motive tor aNi• dine as he did.
Esee:3l n was leviril on W Her g in 1., oral II
be atue imp 'stint they oho ti it • .hutH it from the f other
th.. CII. In order to support the ease, they colcoet.4
a fraud, and then it wail a. ea., for ou to c mcoet
IW•t nt false document. a. taro 0 tour. Tge mit •nor was
the hpober•in.law o• 11. tire Moll t• he hi,l',en he mid
to say he W.U1.1 Swear aeythin to into the D:ake's ; and
sugge.ted it was for IN'. 'UV... the false r erripts were
given sad odm to.for it we no' 41010 I those erip:swere
far. A. o 'he wan teing nek ! e I u..t deny he
migh• iinnit .Ive lon the it, .1. Lave gone into a
inu...:130.15r, as In 001'0 • on..t:iso 0 to. slot there M.-ained
the,' wage to •lio r n and oh in Im lal committed l's-
crime. b.: could at oi hick. It it wh4 I I, the
Eat, of the law and of swiely if &unto an mere rer,l,,
so • ximmt Sinop:vino a WWI 111.111. T T .1g I hi. lit lad)," r,
and POT I. work deli?, r dely and got lig pm, Co. tic
drunkenness any excipm to. hi. trim • : the ilea:ace of
drunkenness warn the 13101, shabby on resa toy trivia
perjury he ever heard.
use Lordship weht carefully through the avid nee,
✓emaking tbe plea of drunkennops wa. a very curio I.
ons; but ovoid they suppnoe :h • fit la jWy, an 1 eou i-el
were so blind a. all to he imp ea I smut It amino'
mereiitile that a man diould he ...tier ennima to be • ..: in •
sal um biratand questions put id .1 'in LH own aid., an
that WO he should be in such net to a. not to troll:. 4 .11.1
qty.tione p it on the other iii,..
ruin, yex attained the live iptv, and aft r e on.iderat on
the Fomman said they wished to recommend the pi...1...T
to enemy,
The Clerk of the Arraign,: Do yo 3 say be is guilty or
hot guilty? . .

The Foreman then returked a verdict of 1(11E4. with a
re, ,nuesedation to merry.
The Judie, st.tins be ha I no doubt a trick was pleve4.
eat that prisoner supported it .ith deliberAt• lie in the
prima. hz. lie al o.y, gattd rib ct to the I, commends.
lion of the jury. &al scntsuced i risoner to foot months'
herd labour.

The gridport Manslaughter Case.
Henry Alfred Toed pleadel n d eullty to a cha.i,re
rf the tnahelaughter of Levi Wail at Whitchutch
(*anodic Tutu, on the 6 b of May,
The Hon. Betnard Col: ridge and Mr. Symonds
reoncuttd.-b-ing hat timed by Mr Tithe I, hilton.
nod Mr. Moleworth SL Awls, M.P. for If eleton,
de.en.i.il Teed.
The learned counsel LT the prosecution, in hi•
opet.inc ad 'rtes. doted out it was no ibf. lice
ever th d th re wa....ouie 'night
be loon . th in in killed the other in in in defeodi, g
himself ant only then if he wis udo.:a. Jh free
dy as would serve that purpose. Turning to the
eri !teem Jr. then proc Wed to give a short hirtßy of
h e.,!? I I..et trot' the tw,i men. . .

B .wditvh .k t to an
0 enrv-nce on Match 27th. when prisoner tool • paper
dem ose,l about wivin.r up posse.sion of the istol.
Er die so,' he woul.l not give au,,, an refwei to t .ke
th.. tap r. PrLonee then put th-, paper on his
oh oiler. and shook a stick over the head of the
the-ase,i ffe eAlle•I him a

Elizabeth Bridle. wi.l,w of the deceued. pall her
ho-bin I died on May 16th. He wan broug'it h 4310
n ab,iut half-past oine at wszlit. lie was in
an awful atati—blood all over. Ito wee a de id
aim when be was • a-brought. " He after.
werli eruck h.q. son Hue, time, with a
Pt:elc. Her win threw him down. iii. May 6 h
d.ceapc I I-ft home at six in the moaning. After he
had 'heti hought bun, she attended him with her
ding der and eon, and nut for Or. Nutria. He wait a
OA P.O.
Jub Bridle, son of the deceased, said on April 3rd
pdainer ntruck him, and he knocked him down. tin the
thee if O. insult wienean saw his father'm hat. It was
then all ri.tht when he left. The hat pealucal we,
Bt. one. ( he bat wan very much battered.) On the
6th M ir hi tither had had s one cider.

Anilnnw Paull said his garden wan next to the fi-ld
which b-longs to the prim tier. He was in his garden
on the evening if the tith May. iii. garden We.
tepaiate I from the fl-Id by a hedge. lie
!nerd Mildle'si voice, and also heard a stick break, a.
he thought. lie then heard groanin4 and "
an if ...embody was in pita. He then heard the
uriiomer iasy " What busineas have y in here in.altin;
nwl" H. looked thr iugh the hedge and •aer him
laden and kicking. as he thought. Thin 'awed five
or nix minute.. an I during the while of that time he
dd nit se, the der:timed stand up. He beard the
Ix sonar order the deceased oiat • f the field. Wile...
new Vilia.. Ham.o I there at the time. Mrs.
sit t Mho. fl.,rw ii were only a soon istatica away.
Innis in.r ill lisrwo id to t aka lb.. sill.ou out of the
belt. nag" ,el hat aat Cti in hi. haiiil.

len-,1 by Mr. St. Anhyn : When ltrbile
wa...ut r•ot I he called the prisoner a rubber,
TI, th- r ,bber."

Emma .ne Ilarwo awe! that on the th.d May
oh- a.• 11.4 tither dr iaiug Bride out of the tiel
Tee i Wi. standing by the stall do She aft- rwards
i saw him with a ',tick ts his hand. Her lather dragge 1
Bridle hesr:y to the gate, sod then he got up nod
walked out into the to ol and sat down on a hem..
H-r mo• Ler went and picked up Bridle'a bat stud jut
It on Lin. Si.e heard Bridle cilliug Ohl Teed. t3l)
hoo.e Teed b.llowed While up to the New
Inn. .he I.llowei, and saw Bridle fail by Eveledsh
;at-, and afterward, tall down by the wall.
Cr a... rammed by Mr. St. Auoyn: When Sri tie
I Rowed Teel to the New inn he di I not w -1k a. if
be had teen injured, but walked in his usual sta. e.
t'e.es..-x mined by Mr. C .leridge : When hr
father wa.'.:rar zing 151.11. out of the field, abet. "light
there as. sons-thing this matter with ban, but rho
ti.ou.tht be La I recovered when he full •wed Teel. He
Wa• 4,-,cat when he went into the field.
Wil am liaraanhl, a tenant if said when in
Lie ,;arden Mr. reed called him to take the villain out
of tue field. Witness went into Vie held and saw
d.crated Wog He went and picked him up
aid carried him nearly out of the held; he then Vol up
an I walks lout lot . the rood and sat down. Dece
.1.1 not speak. Teed went up the road, and Bridle
followed. him fall down hear the public gate, but
he dhl not help him up.
His Lordship : Why didn't you help him up?
Witness: Became, he abused toe once for hell lag
him home. .

--ctrit;;;; continued Eveleigh told him he ought to
kali, him h me, but he di I not.
cross-examlned by Mr. St. Aubyns When be took
Bridle out of the field he thought he was too tipsy t.)
walk out. Did not think it are from blows.

Cuarlee Evelelgh steted he kept the New Inn. On
the evening in question Toil came in and said "A
tine state of things now fur • man to be attacke 1 tus,n
Lis OWO preini.es ; but I hove done something to ..te
heal of him with this stick." meanin.; a stick that he
hal in his hand. Witness lo Iced down the road au]
Par Bridle coming up, L.l ..d running down
his (we. 11.. tel "Old Toed, the house robber."
Witness saw Bridle on hi. Itue-s. Us was going I.
be:p bun, lout h g,t up ani walk-el away. At,, .10
T. 41. I. op the r •wl he fell 4.l.wia on his left ci e
the he•I.•• Wit .e.s went up to him an I saw that his
we Celt atorat. li.. w.O g. au I was 1/1,-. I
lie wut i it ~,d tis . .11 ii•l t•I
it .the • , I is.. Vat ktl.4ke
41.11 pitC P. Inat stick was enqugh to knock
•en i liil .eit with, I. t al. Ile A man."

He 61 not
wa vei y thual hurt wit,. tie saw him fir.t.
IV. !leery Edition I Norris, sp ate to the itij 'ries
F c,l%r 1. II • iia• aa lir.. alv.e.l on hi, Lit
hi 1. Ti.ere er..s a lafzet w• Avid iia the lita I. At the
lewer ( the ',Auk th-re vier- sev, ml ahra,i n. as
if c aleol by kick.. lie AfterwAril mule A post NO kw,
the gamma tet.enrions from Whi. h were that cleatn
W.+ .3014311 w titrAviwatien of 14.., I and fractur, of
the oku:I. Tee injo. ie. 3, pitted to have been noise 1
bY he3ll biwici from such a b:unt instrument as the
Pick tirsiduved. The News might bsve been caused
by kLking.
ilefeev, it itiourti at Lyme Regis, went on the
7th 3lsy to Itri.lle'm hot e, a id afterwards to the
Teed ...id y.n tome up strait
r Ile reis:ie Ih- was. Pr s ner Feel Bridle
idtuteil hdit on his own premi•es. and lam ed to show
him whew it took libie g .vo him the stick
(lu:ducejl) • l)tog This is the stick I k him
n. 14 ta• the char:e pc boner said' rut via/
C nil, I .111 is to hur, him."
1 he lea., ,c 1 having the iiity for
the the Judge summed up, and the jury
retiree I a 'edict .4 Giddy.
Seteral witueort t were v die I wit rl.o.ce to the
i.meabil. aft 1 relic:table charm:ter cif th. pri..cner.
The Jud.ie icia.cel the recite.cr of 15 In .uthe
with hard labour.

THE CORFE CASTLE MURDER.
.I..gepb Janice Kingrof 441, inks II nry Wright (33),
baker, wag irrlictool fr ft e wo.bol norv.ir.r ot • mao
wk supp.norl name wa• R. Dennis Riley, at Corte
on My 29th.
Prigroner plewierl at guilty I. Aga in lietment in •
firm .1,1 loud v-ice.

Kinoturd. du you desire
to le defe..ded Iv c..unarl
:Y.. eir.
.1 he .111,14 e : Thu I have I arned etlitB.l who hos
hin.lly undertaken yoar defercr.
M. st. Auhyn. M.P..un.l 'lr. V. lhal...(instruct-d
Iv %Ir. P. S. 1.. Ilu ap r tun prraet.ution,
in I Mr. MAtthewn defends I.
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B •er, • starver.r, produced • plan of the pint
Where the murder took place.

Miller stated she kept a IA ziew-house in North-
"r-t. Wareham. Plisoner and a man named Dennis
lteer mute La her house on littnnlar. 27th May.
Th.v atayed with her until the followitm Monday,
whfit they left. Sie afterwar Is now the body of
littrost.^

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Mat.howd You beard them have a dia-
l-1e...1W you'
Witues. : No. . .

.I.oke Syra • 6,sted he live,' in E.v.t...frest, Cork
11.41 e. He met prisoner and dee se.ei gout:: in the
grertion of fieraitige. Thy were j at-mg between
He saw the prisoner hit ill+ deceased
with hie fiet. ‘Votnere begged them io k,.mist. He
lo!.1 iirhoicer the policeman w I e efter them.
„I' • .er *4.1h.• wooll do for the - by.and•bys.
lie saw l.ri..ner ..s2.lllin the CVOoinj of the eine ally
St the pulieeentiri,n.

Jane Miller (re-c disd by the Judge) said the two
min aeeme.l verve siiiilge when they were with her.
Pri•onor s ern .4 tokn .w what he w le about, anti was
not a•range ot all. Tiny "leo? in thA same I el.
John rolling Snook sated he warns carpenter, living
at eorfo dle. On Monday, 29th M iy, hews. at work
in his shop Between VI .o- and lolr he heard a noise
outside. In Aced on', &ail stet the prisoner sitting oath.
21:1 yards off. He h-er I prisoner say he would
do for the —by-and-bye. At that gm, no one else
Was with him. About a goarter of an hour after the
ileoeated came up. He heard thous quarrelling.
Shortly dile they proceeded up ths road to tiwattaitot
prissner hsin.: about 10 yacht In fr .nt of dece,sisd.
Deceased thin lay down •n the grass against a at me
wall, lie was lying Hat on the gr mind with his lore.
head reiticg.... him hands, his face towsrds the ground.
hst was -if. The prisoner than ran forward, about
10 y ads, ant took a stone off the wall, and returned
where the decease I was lying. He held the stone
over his head in both hand., and throw it with all his
fore° up m the lack of deceased's bra I.
(the at no WA. produced. and at the Pight of the
murderous weapon, covered with bl set at one of the
ands,, a thrill of herror passel through the crowded
C •urt.j
Ile reput-ii this several time,. Ile and a man filmed
Smith took hold of ths prisoner. Alqtrwsrds, s h n
th- pakten' ot Wad "Yet killtd a man," he cud
3r. e th • well derlehts." l'ris iner did not
appear Vie WWI" for di ink at all. De, ased warn till
worse for drink, and staggered before lei :ay down by
tho aid, of the road.

.I.onsoi Smith mated be was a bricklayer, living at
Corte Cmtle. On the 29th of May he was in U.
mother'. house iis the fr .nt in ins. which faces the
road. He saw this prisomr pam the window. and a
minute or two afterwards he isaw a man bine Ice
thtwnwarde by side of the mid. Hi. hat had fallen
forward, and the beck of hi. h, ad was esp. sod. He
new prisoner r etiumieg towards decemed with the st ,ne
pro boast', with which he struck ilecsased three bl sets,
lie brought it down with sre it I cc', and ym could
fairly hear the skull crack. After lie had rweg the, c
Id *vs ilulivered be ran out, rn-h, as he WS4 in th • lict
• I d-livering another blow, he pushed him *h. a I an I
knocked him ag sinst the wall. Ile then to it him to
p ilicmdation, lie afterwards one the stone
(pro lace!) ts P. Wile.. 'ln the way to the police-
s:ail Ii witness' told peisoner he hull kilo I the man,
ad he replied "Serve him right, and a'l such
might to be served the same, lie ought to be served
the same as some of Oulu xer vet Cavendilh and Burke."
Witness' then cave him into custsdy.
Maly Ann Morrisetated that on tits day in queatioa
ph, a.w tine deceased man going up the street trying
Mug. t- he shortly alt nr saw soimner coming down
the curet wilt Smith an I Slos.k. roie went up to
sell. re decesa.ot was lyin.: on his face. lie was snaking
a fe irf ii nine, otruggli, g for breath, and she turned
I ..ver n.hi. back. _ _ _ _ _

.10.oi Mifl.r sta•ed he kept the Castle Inn, Corte
rivet.. Both prisoner and deceased came ta his
h .use, but he refused to give them anything. About
Wee-quarters . I an hour afterwards deceas..l wss
brosiAt to his h meet he was not quite dead, but died
hi I oa • hail the m

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Se geant him Wiles 'dated that on the Monday
.1,1.4 on the prisoner was brought to him by
,tili•h awl Snook. He went to the spot Ind rated,
am • foun I decease lin the state alnady described. On
deceand he found • pedlar's certificate, deecription of
deaceased.kc. Witadie. then went back to prisoner and
ark d his name, an I he replied Henry Wright. lie
cam' ined him, and in answer to the charge be said
"It he'd dea I, he's deal, hell die but once. I did
give him • crack ..0 the head with &stone. I am only
mior.. it ass not a bigger one. became excited, and
ha ag iin c .utiohed him. He void " What I am nay-
intl. quite t ue. I hive only known him • fortnight,
an I I would 10 the Fame to any man that tried to
lest me." 11-, search° I priamer and found POMO
songs, note-paper. dirt one penny. He produced the
stone, which weigh. hi pounds and • half.
Mr. Woo huffs D .ia•al he was • surgeon,
of Wareham. On Wait-Tuesday he made a post
nwritin ersmination of d ca.ei. There was no

in ok fviolence on the bo ly, except on the back of
the hea L Fe -no the re.ult .4 the pow in 'fete. he
gave it as his . pinion that death remote,' from the
i %juries which tuddit have ',ten idlicted by the stone
pr.i
Mr. Mathews : I believe you saw the pri.oner
Wotan.: Yes, on Monday eveuin4 ia thc hck.up
at Wareham.
What waeo his conditiln at that time?
lon very excitcd en Ham.
Did you notice anythin.: ...range ab ut him?
Ile seemed very elated, and his pulse was about
10.

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Dui you speak to him?
Yes.
Did he answer you excitedly?
He gave me the ides of a mail is akiirium Ormou.
Hare you had experience in caws of itssazity.
Vet, a greet deal of experience.
Mr. Matthews then quoted f,om Dr. Spence Tay'or's
Molical Jurisprudence, which it is stated insanity
I. trail-mit:o.i front psrent t, child, and readily super-
venes from very slight causes. There is a mania called
homicidal mania, awl a word rer suffering from such
might in.t express the slightest c ettition for his guilt.
(Witness c .ocurred in thi-.)
Mr. Nbittliew.: Supposing a matio grandfather or
grandmother he ire me. au.l he lose control of himself?
Witness I should say he was nut responsible for
wtc.t he w;,s .1. lin!. _

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The Jude: Whet did the rapid pales iadicate?
Gre it c,..rehral excitemeut.
The dada- : And miaht not thst excitement be
C dvahl by tue c .mtukcon of suchenact?
I: might.
And suppo..in: it *sided before, wouidi it be the result
of a disea-rd naiad
It w..ul I. . .

Mr. Web.ter, a SULTIIOII anti partner of the last
witue-s. cow urre i in Mr. Daudet • opmion as to the
kjaries bin.; sotficient to see 'tit for alsath.
Mr. W. E.G we lie al the IN.r..tpoitsr
ea .1, ih Kis iCr wan bro .ht there on Jim.. 20.1,
awl 4lice then he had se-m him rep 4l .y. awl tin I hal
rivtroalon with him on ordinary matters. Ile had
given ion, 11.1. and rational saa-wer.. lie heal Mad eon-
*ers at on with him on other subj-et 4. awl had referred
to his Lund:. awl about his past hot wy. Has bad
given in fectly reason able • ...were. He had no
✓.
an it to b lieve be was suffering from the slightest
deinn.on of any kiwi. tor had he the slightest reason to
b-liens he wan insane. In hi. °plaint he was of per-
fe .a y sane maw!.
The Ju tge : Then he is capable of knowing what he
d. es. _

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l'erfectly. my lord.
An I knows whether he is doing right or wrong.
l'..rfietly.
• continuing, mid be hid watchrd him more
particul ale for the purl, we of det.ralimiN in his own
tube, if he wee in•aue, andhisopinion WM that the ULM
w..e per f• ctly sane.
M dtiewa : Ilse, you noticed that Ids mind is
in_ed.

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N., I do rot think it
Have ,oia n hp cannot look you In the foes
when poetising to him, and that hi is very ex.
citable
No.

I. he • mut who would be wily excited by drink?
Sic. h- h.. be-n in the prison I ha. not Lad au
runty 1.1 veiling.
IL.° you t,J the oppor unity f v.eu.t if he would
be un luiy excited by .utall pr.vocsam ?
I 6.1 that iiple rtunitY.
Toe Jud .0: Wh.t opp.rtunity did you have?
I to:d him there wes very little chance of his We,
and moot likely he would be hanged.
Mr. Mat boa's: Very bandeau° 1 you, lam out, I
And that did not excite Lim?
That did not.
Vu don't think t Ist would excim an ordinary man?
I 'hink it would. .

Then. sir. in wiiat sense I. he ordinary if you think
It wool I excite an ordinary man. Would not that
rather convince you he was not an ordinary men?
I won't sey ; he was riot unmoved, but he did not
show extra r hoary excitement.
Has the a.. vein .r or the chaplain had as frequent
opt ortuuities of seein,g him as rm have
Very likely.
l'Arain Gen. rnor of WM. Pen in,
sp .k •to the e ps min I. Ile cc t•li 1Y
c.,g, • awe.' bite to be peculiar, for he feun lit peiftctly
Impoelible to gut hint to tie nis ere lln hint at any
time. When li. ',reseed him at any time there wa. an
irritahilitv hicli he found dilhiotilt to euoptees There
wax a c most int nimble and twitchiLif, and he directed
the atir4ea to watch him. its conieicred Lie wind to
be unido.:ed.
Mr. Matthewe You don't agree with Mr. Good
th,t he I. qui e MI!?
I ti al, hut I am not • Kkilled
Whether *lolled or 004 your opinion is that his mind
I. iito hood?
Yes.
And you thil.k drink would greatly excite him?
Ye.

%Vienna farther state I heithouscht it right to speak
ta him at, iut his ilef• nce, awl he was then 11,1 ry
carols... out hie:waivers were *.areely ratimal. There
ma Coo I to be an atter recklessness of life.
Rev. 11. l'nzet Itailwa, chaplain of H.q. Priatin,
said he had bail frequent opportunity of seeing the
prisoner sin, e lie It been there. He had cmversation
WWI hint on various aul.jects. awl referred to hie past
life. At times he we.. rational, but at othera very
Inc lament, not w mdwin.r. Ile saw him on th. first
day, awl 20 Vines since. Last Monday he had hi*
Isse. c with hini, about his library book.
Witness sp ke to him about hi. case, and at times he
was rational ;not one wont did he my to bim about
being defended. lie once Rake I him if he bad a
defence, and he "mid " Oh ! no, I don't care about it'
Mr. Matthews: And your impressims are that he
Is very peculiar.
Very lnde,el; excessively ss.
Witness further said hs bad roticed a twitching of
the foe, awl he did nil think he had looked him
stra.ght in titt face sinwl be bad known him.
Mr. Matth.we : And you think Ida mind is ow.
bing•eit

It Le ;rue.
The Judo : You think his wind is unhinged
now?

I do, my lord.
The Foreteum wilted Mr. Daniell to he recalled.
The doctor WWI th in qiet.n d as to the twitching,
which be said vs se ...114...imen ...existing with insanity;
but it often esi.t ti withoot insanity.
A w:sh we expreored by the jury for other
medical evidence, but the Judge said be was afraid
they could nstt hove :nog, indejendout evidence.
.J.,teph Brockton-, who kat ci itiaa.gate, was then
called and said he knew t. o pri.ouer from his birth,
hie m ,thrr beim; a connecti at of his wife. Ile knew
hin mother before he wan born, and years after. She
worked f .r him yearn before the pris .nn r was horn.
tier winnl was very much derang• d now. She wou'd
leave her work and roam about in the fieldt part of the
night. fin took her and the an (the Prt-oner)
int his and, doling Opera years she
iris I to cotawit suicide three times, and on two of
those times he Raved her life —once she tried to hang
heraelf, once to drown herself, and once to jump out
of the window. Ifs hod a keeper for her, and once
during bin absentee ho heord her stream, and on rumb-
ler upstairs, he just managed to catch her n;ght
Are., so she wac jumping out of the window.
She was afterwards taken to the lunatic asylum
at Camberwell. She cone out for about two years,
but she got worst, and she 1,1111 taken to the workhouse,

In the lunatic w'rd of which she died. Both hie
trandfather an Igrandmother die I in a lunatic asylum
The prhioner ncver erns right from a boy, and at
ltamsgat.e. 'here. on he nands, he weal t., sell buns,
he WAS cale,t" Mid Joe!"
Alfred II whir state be will a baker and pastry-
C., ili, at It tm•g ii. When pekoner was a lad be we
tempi. yed Isy Imu. and from thvs time to this he had
opportunities of seeing him from time to time. He
never thought he was perfectly right ; he was always
peculiar.

•Ii
atm I Morris Kinofor.l state' prisoner wor his
rnitoptist br,ther. Th.-re were four boys and two
kilris in the raw,lY• iii. Mother 4lied in & lunatic
asylum. and his I.r .there Grandfather and Grand-
:not h. rho h diefin lunatic asylum,. Prisoner', mind
'ever his own.

Pric n •r's ntat-Zuent, a% given at Corte C Asti% was
th.n

Mr. Matthews then addressed the jury for the defence.
The t isg wh.c 3 w. imp Led upo t them we. the moat
important that could fall upon niortalr to perform, since
upon the currant of their judgments would depend the
mlration r the ea:rifles of a fellow creature, and. In
Litt it tor 4,eir un i•ide.l ath.ntiora whilst he abould
0n.., upon them such ruatt,rs as app arad to him woi thy
calkd It fore them, be was sure he should make no
r.ti i. at. Thu ihat, rtons thio igloo it WU
to everraotints'e. Tne quest'oo they would
hese to determine was sybetbti th cries* 7._,Lich
a chorgeit to the account of the prieorter was • cm..
In- watch hi twist die, or wbether in the evidenft
:hot was before them th ty sow sufficieut to convince
theta that at tie time he couinti3 d the act which is
'liWalood of, he us. no in tit., pow lidos of his *ewes.
This was ttoe only qoettinn, because as they theroodv"
htteet,; ~,,tir i 4. o.f May. ice.l,2 1. : rie i:rlafter volts. w hid detailed the sad
cro,s-exerni,stiol to ahneytuttwoototputtboenme luchetulten
win
hoot edAye Had to elicit heti for the purposes
of hi• cam it seemed to him to, Ie very
Important that up In this day the unhappy maa
who sat tho-re, was excited, and so excited with
drink that he wos refueed urines at a publichunee
where he asked for it, t h.. spinien if the landlord being
that he had hal too much already. When that. who .Id
ne to reed tbe avid ...se y the light which was thrown
‘idoo it ao to tee i u litio i of the p,iehaer, he thoust3 it
would be Tory bop el ant inderal for them tt remember
that the prisoner was indatned with Ileum, d fund I so
'zilch with liquor that be eras ref used m iro fit by the Doan
.ho .1' conop tent tojedge what h condition
—the I madlorl ot the polilich u•e, whets be euqu,red fort.
Hut .1111.,stwus of fact wont.' not ir tuble them very much
in this smoky. What they would Lave t , decide were
with more ollfficuit questio 4 than facto. Easy wes it for
most lOU to dr•W Jed,. •theis frou. fact, which might or
might nit be c •rt D slneti am are wail, drawn, and
tulerenCee C 411,1 he • deli, .il• —alley might. r they lid oht
n,t be curnet. Bit to, mire .latkidt Was the duty
which was ca.t up in men who hat Out to deduct infer-
epic .o front fact, out woo hat to estrum and to *mania.
,rittcaliY and cite nty 15.0 he del cote argent-
/A ion of t..e mind. Why, it ea., indeed. throwing
totem Mort gls ti' I•.nct. era of the most Hrah to pautrets
he secrets of the human urn I. And great all teat
al lii ,hity must me under orditiary condition., It was
increaSt d • theiumn Hold by the mind that ha; now to
deal With being deranged, it shard, peculiar. We. it
not inap....aible, let alone the question of its being
I r huhoim lames, as be and they were, to look into such
thud so 'bat sf the man who wet sitting before them, and
soy with certainty, lie ierng what turned oPoll the/
cart duty, they expremotal that at such a time and in
such • mind theta woo ouch an iLtention and that
tutantion oily developed, di they certmiuly beard it
was—on Inleation to kill. Ile punted these matters out
se forming dttliiulties, and he thought he taught point
that one matter out as forming eh *bidets itupotsiltility.
Bit, high tloo tgh the fueCtiono misht be which they were
called up to t dis .harge. Lb le Wm but one Way in which
Lilly could deal with theta, and that was to the boat of the
competency they hat They must not claim /amber
attributes tow two attributes of mortals, they &mut rather
coulees that when they epproachei the cmsideretiou
such • ahlrject at this they groped manteMbat blindly
in the deck. They must cameos that they were
opt to bo in sled by the very lights by
watch they wtre guided, and they must confess that in
their ignorance they were apt to miataire the "
amps' tot error for the &ter of truth. C intent with this.
obit...yet ions, he proosteded t • shortly call their attention to
the emdenc t before theta. The whole issue wag what Was
the condition of the names mind on the 2).h May last,
and the result of choir decisieu would be either that he
would be donned to die or b • col:attract with those who
were intuit ot reason. Tbauks ti the clemency of the
mlicit (Mr. Bodge) who hal instrocted his I. &mad
friends on the port of the prosecution thauks
to his sense of jastice—Utere bad been brought
there three witness., of whom he heard, and whose
atteudance trace bail been al mocb by his testis,-
ti et as anyoue. Mr. Kane. and Captain Frith did not
know the motes mother woe wad. anti yet them in.
tervraves they described to those in auto • moaner that
they could iudge elm 'et with certainty what woe the con-
dition of toe maze., mind. Hs ww happy to
think that not in the nature of surmise and
theory was it that the evidence tor the prisoner had come
bettors them, thanks LO those who had c tuducted the pro-
secution. It was mraken to by honest men who had had
ample opportuuity of teilinor tome whim their obeereations
had beeu--01raervottOas wllicu rancel over the whoie of
the man's lue. He asked thew t i decide, not upon the
fantastic thaoriee et dOclors, and those tantwtic theorems
which they were accustomed to tind coining trotu poisons
Who lied given 'musky their espeuel care, but upon the
reliao4 evidence of wituassLi who could not be tuletaken.
Whilst he was upon that. subject he ventured to remark
on the evidence ce the do:tors, of which there were three,
two of wtioni had agreed. It the prisoner were iu another
petition in life, it be were rich instead uf poor, II he were
in the petition to call at his will by meow of his payment
the thousand theotiots who could be called for the
num.*, if the random.' given by his conhectious and
raiatiVes bed been fortitiel by the evidence of ecientist•
toll twenty timas over, what would be their optniou I Ile
could not tail medical witudosee fur the purpuso of hating
.Vitlabte ~.11,411 in ids favour, hut why bat not the
Pie socutiou called opt:atom agaitrat him! There woo no
lace of fund. the:e, n u want of resourams, lout os for him
po was the dimes. he outlined truce, lia preyed it
wgim bea disetso wine,. would out have a fatal 151 mina-
tiara. the learned c.kingel in COl.Clitsloll, lity
tat ig Itlatl. You wail oh ortly hams ti coati ier whether
this life shall be takes or whontoir it shad be spored.
Most e broom. meet solemn is your duty, but in
the can dderatioo et it I am quite sum you will not forget
what I have instied at your hands is not his In.ralarat out
his isitstaidie. 1 have O 'talked you for his !Aerie. I bee.
prsyed you tor his .ilfsr—a pricolem gsfs to One Woo steeds
uosa tho miry procip.ce of uis fate, with the past mu tie
time *Lice ic Unite heeled him, and sterility, which is
WWI , loathe boyou I. lu asking you tor the mans
ht• set me ..alt it wit.o this olmervation —do what you old
for Lim, MD sun can moor shims wilt. existent, neither joy
r happiness cmn eller And p:e.eoce Mete, Dither to Lends
nor r.lotrants can ever 1.!11.4 him eyiniattly, comfort, Or
is .ppMes• ; deal es metcituily aS ioa will with him, you
II .tocitu him tor the remainder of his days to the low
how:, relnesin
. . . .

Lauithter ie not mirth,
Nor tbooett the wad.
Nor words laisuair.
Nor min indikina.
The Judge haviog summed up, and explained they
nroit either find him guilty or acquit him on the
ground of insaiiity,
The jury retired, and on their return,
The (Jerk of Arraigua mad: Gentlemen of the jury,
are you all .greed

The Foreman: We are.
Llo you fina the prisoner guilty or not guilty.
We find the prismier guilty, but do Out cunuder him
responsible for his actions.

The Judge: That will be a verdict of •• Not
Guilty" on the grounds of insanity. 'rho prisoner
will be detained dating her Majosty's pleasure.