biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-30

A CANDIDATE FOR AN ASYLUM.

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The Cambridge magistrates have committed a young
man named Horace Wright to take his trial for high-
way robbery under singular circumstances. lie had
stopped several persons and demanded money with
threats. I-le pet in the following statement :
I, Horace Wright, hereby ikelare that the following state-
ment is correct and true :—That I, on Fri My evening last,
at four o'clock, did hire a Loire from the Wiling School in
South-street, Grosvenor-square, London. I did leave London
on that said horse, Inifiressel wilt, the idea that I was riding
to deathless lame. My intentiod was to ride to York, and
after I hail reached my destination to return home, and trust
in God to be received into the arms of my tamily again, they
knowing the :dilation under which 1 labour. I further de-
clare that I had no control whatsoever over my mind, nor
was it In my power to deter myself from committing this
rash act. I was dragged on by an irresistible fate to achieve
the purpose settled in my mind, and I declare on my oath
that I would rather have sacrificed my earthly existence
titan glYell 111, the idea Bo litlllly stamped upon my irate;
RIO litAl, 1 WOUIII rather die the sleuth of a mad dog than
that it should have occurred.—liOnAeli Viumrrt.
It was proved that the prisoner wag a doctor's assist-
ant, and that he had hired the horse as he stated. He
ssid that he wished to be placed under restraint, as if
he were at liberty he should certainly ad in the same
manner again.
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