The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1861.

THE WINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION.

(Oootineed from riTsborday's /spree.)

Mr. Henry Hancock examined by Mr. Xam/ake—l min •
surgeon, hare bees is melee for 27 yam .red am the
chief surgeon at the Charing-erase Hempilid and aim at the
Rove! Westminster Infirmary. I made a careful and mem
cal examination of Mr. Windhua's month es the
third day of this inquiry. It is • very pecu-
liarly shaped mouth • it is emmediagly barrow,
the upper jaw is draw. so math to a point in
freed as oily to admit of two teeth ill front. It merely
measures rather lass than an lath from one frost molar
teeth as one aide to the molar tooth es the other aid
whereas the average width of • healthy, well
jaw is from an inch and • half to an lash and three
quartets. The roof of the mouth, or the hard pada, imbued
of being more of a plane or concave, is extremely lofty aad
shaped like a pointed arch, so that it diminishes to •
peat degree the cavity of the nose. The depth
to the hack of the throat le unusually great. The lower
jaw is alao narrow, but not so much contracted as the upper
cm. His tongue is fully developed, liege I. proportion to
the Me of the jaw. Its • bugs tows is a small
mouth. This condition of mouth would affect very
materially the sound of his voice, would lead to the slayer-
* that had been described, and also to the easy and
apparently deagrereable eating. It would aho have a eon-
siderable effect upon the sppeanea of his hoe, and would
very much affect the tom o the laugh. I should doubtvery
much whether Mr. 'Windham could halloo or laugh se
other people do who have tot a similarly formed mouth.
The relative volume of the different air ie so much
interfered with by this arrangement that the mind
of the voice must be momearily Mend the
shape of the mouth would affect deglutition.
In deglutition the tongue is always premed amplest the
roof of the mouth, and in the natural formation of the
mouth deglutition and the swallowing of the saliva is done I
almost unconsciously ; but in consequence of the extreme
height of the roof of Mr. Wiedhards month,
that function would require some unusual attention
from the party himself, so that while from the size of the
tougue aorl the oontraction of the jaw the prawn upon the
=divan glands would produes, when ha was excited,
an unusual excretion of saliva, the height of the
roof of the mouth would provost the saliva being
conducted down his throat is the usual way. The same
remark would apply to awallowlm of food. The en-
croechment of the hard mime epos the cavity of the nose
must interfere with the pump of air through the nose
in inspiration, and it is obvious that is Mr. Windham's
cam, is order to obtain the prow at air into the
imp that he has fallen into the of keep* his mouth
open, and this habit, added to the peculiar action of the
muscles of the upper lip, draws the metre of the upper lip
upwards, and turas the inside tithe lip outwards, and gives
that apparently venal look which appears to be about the
lower part of Mr. Windhthe's MOW The formation which
I I have described makes eeoessery ea effort in him to re-
tain the saliva in his mouth. The formation at the tack of
his mouth would lead tolesd merles. I have seen similar
mouths. I questioned him when I was examining his
mouth, and be told me that seven years ago his mother
took him to Mr. Lietot, the dentist, in Wirmonestreet, who
extracted some of his teeth, and then introduced • plate
with pep or wedges iuto his month for the_ purpose of
stretching the upper jaw. He also kid me that it was •
formation eyeshot in his family es his wiethees ride, sod
he referred to three in partioalar who had • pemiliarity of
the same desoriptica. Is reforms* to Melbas, he said hi
mother attributed that to his befog been Merges tied, Ned
to an operatics having been Vezly preformed I
asked if he recollected it, sod he sad mid be re-
collected a good way back, but be Not reeellect that, as
he was an infant at the time. He told me be had paid pest
attention to the slobbering, mad hod sow Nearly eared him-
self. I first saw Mr. Windham on the Ist November, 1861,
at 132, Piccadilly. He was with me about three-quarters of
an hour. Mr. Neale was with him. I had no knowledge of
the case, more than I had from Mr. Neale. When I went
there I was shown to a room oa the first floor, where then
was a lambics laid out. I suggested that Mr. Wiedbm
should accompany me and Mr. Neale into another room.
He did so, and I placid him in • their that the light might
fall on him. He mid he wished to see me, because his
uncle, General Windham, was eachavourieg to prove him
insane ; that long before he came of age be had spread re-
ports that he was an idiot, and out of his mind ; that it
was very foolish of the general to treat hies so, because he
had repeatedly told him it would be were, for him (General
Windham) and his sons, and that, therefore, as his (Mr.
Windheni.s) father left him power by his will to cut off
the entail, he had done so. He had also told him that upon
a newt messes the _ pas& led seat him word
that if he weeded he would be V ha would set bye
him locked op. Witham raked him if be bed say evidence
to that offset, and he replied that the memage was sent
Rubel him bailiff. He added, "He sensed me of
keeping
isaproper eampiay ; he all to Mr. Roberba
Roberts has been • good Mead to me, far yon must know
that I have gall come into • ponies of my property-3,00M.
a per. Of this I bare to pay say mother LOOM. • year, sad
I leave yea to pees whether I ma support • wife, bop up
• "e pleas la the eoeutry, besides baring apartments is
London, ups the rear. I, therefore, was is want of
money. My father bed always osatacseerl me spinet getting
into the hands cis the Jews, and I wee determined sot to de
so. Now, Mr. Roberta was with me at my estate in the
country, when one day out *hag be said, ' Why should
you borrow money, paying interest upon interest, when you
have the mosey here uponour mister You have so many
trees, thee are being spoil and he offered to introduce ten
to a timber merchant who would not attempt to
cheat me by taking it in • lump, but would
pay me go much a foot for it Of mune I
consented, and be accordingly introduced me to Hems.
Lawrence and Fry, who are very respectable timber ow-
-1 chants, and who paid me 1,0001. down sad so much • month
up to .1,0001. • year for four ears, or AWOL is all." He
added, "The trees have sot been out for so m•ayyasn that
so far from the estate being injured it would be much
benefited by having the timber eat dim. You may
depend upon it I shall take can that they do not cut down
anything that shall injure the estate."
What further conversation took place *Mimeo you?
He said that after his marrime, eel coming to tows,
he could not afford to take a home, and therefore
his wife advised him to take apartments at Mr. Roberta's
house, be being her trustee. He mid he must decline telling
run what rent be paid, but he assured me that it was not
exorbitant. I asked him if they could bring any aceram-
tion of intemperaace or extrema extravagance against him.
He said no, he lived well but wee let intemperate, that he
was very food of driving homes, bit there was nothing in
that. 1 eked him Low many horses he kept. He said that
before Lis marriage he mile kept two, but that sines them,
as his wife was fond of riding on bareback, be bad bought
• riding horse for her, mother for himself, and two
horses. I mid. " That six in all thee r sod he said,
only four, two riding bosses sad two carriage homes." I
then asked Lim how much food be gave his horses He
said, " I keep them dowsed my Mate la the wintry, ad
lam very 'articular that my grooms do not cheat ma I
allow the homes as much se they eta est, sod each horse
has four feeds of con a day, and you can easily
tell bow much that is in the memo of a week." I
remarked, " But how much do you maks it yourself." He
answered, " We calculate differently in Norfolk to what
you do in London. You calculate by the Nebel of:quarter,
we calculate by the comb, but it is somewhere about a
back of corn a week for two hones." I said, " Yes hive
mot mentioned the Mew." "Oh," he replied, " that dose
ad coat me anything, my temente are obliged to lied me
with that." I then said, "As imanity has been alleged
spigot you, Lave you ever bean examined 1-y any medical
dm
ea the part of General Windham!" H. said, "I do
ad know whether it was amedical manor not, hut somebody
waled on me a short time ego, enameling that he came
about a debt which was owing him be my mother. I there-
fore began to suspect, and very quizkly bored him out of
the room, saying, he must know as well as I did that I
had nothing to do with my mother's debts." I then said
I was sorry to hear his wife had left him. He said very
calmly, Yea, she hes, but I knew when she is. I have
employed a detective to trace ber,bd I me plug to Sectlead
this erelong to brio* her back." leautioeed him spinet slag
any violence, het it should behreught forward spigot him,
sod he mid. " Yes mid act be afraid, I casi he Arm with-
out being violist. Mb* bows that I bye right co wayside.
I shall tell her that I me mother wader my kiryses advice,
that the law gives apeat power am • husband, end I shall,
therefore„ tell her to come balm without ma/rim say Ode
of work." He added, " Here, spin, they have epreed all
DAMN, of reports Mout my wile. Among others, that
whoa I maivied her she owed Emanuel. the jeweller, several
husdred pounds. but in fact the may owed Min somewhere
about Of., which she paid out of her own money." I think
that is pretty Dearly the whole of the conversetios I bed
with him. I asked his solicitor and another gentleman to
come io, and I pointed out to the solicitor (Mr. Rory
Hutchinsoc, I think), that I wee only • conselticg surgeon,
soil did not pay special attention to mental diseases, and I
advised that he should said for Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Tubes
Dr. Conolly. and Mr. Lawrence, who were considered emi-
rate authorities on the subject. Dr. Wieslow's name was
mentioned, bat Dr. Neale had previously informed me that
when be called upon Dr. Winslow in the &menisci.* the
of oleadoiag his services, he found General Wind-
C:l7:fine Is hie wadintroom, and consequently so further
application was made to him. I have not mode insanity •
special study, but I frequently meet with cases, and have to
form an opinion. I formed an opinion on Mr. Windham's
mad. I neither saw nor heard anything in that iaterview
which would justify ms in forming soy other conelusio•
the. that Mr. Windham was of sound mind. His conduct
was characterised by calmoes• mad • total absence of levity.
imp/chilly when he spoke of his father. I should my Mr.
Windham was a well-developed young man es fir as hie
physical uppraninee went. He Deems to me to have Casty
of animal spirits, sad to be the kind of man who would be
fond of athletic exercises.

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ILaba laicMarna.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—JAN. 6.
(Mere the (Thief Otwaraiaiewee.)
Hie Honour wee the only coractisaloser sitting to-day.
The list coatalaed 15 eases, ill of which had bees before the
court on forma. occasions.

IN u NAJIULL

This insolvent, a gentleman s coachman, at Acton, had
only ono creditor, a gardener named Chapman, who had
brought an action of @hinder about some old fence. The
result was that a verdict was obtained for IW., sad the
coats, upwards of 60/. The insolvent had been refused pen
Section, and now applied for a protecting order, to which no
objection was made.
The court granted a protecting order.

the parties did not know my sister from Ine,
and that the deed wu merely a security that
he should not go away or remove hi goods. The witness
went on to stye that the iustrumenta were put before her to
sip, when she went to the °Mu of the , and ao
questions whatever were put to her. If they haiaskedlsr
the question, she should have said that she was ask Emily
Peru, and have explained all out the traninetion, but
nothing whatever was said, and she put the name of Emily
Perry to the documents upon the repreeentations that had
been made to her by her Unther-in-law, and not thinking
that she was doing wrong.
This witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr.
Sleigh, but no facts were elicited that in the slightest
degree tended to cast any doubt upon her evidence.
Mr. Sleigh, in addressing the jury for the primoomPabsor,
commented upon the extraordinary course that had bees
adopted on the part of the prosecution in calling the pri-
soner. Martha Perry, u a witness to support the
sharp
against the other prisoner, and said that if the evidest
had given amounted to anything, it went to show that she
was innocent of the crime of which she had pleaded guilty,
for, if she had been deceived in the waT she represented by
her brother-in-law, most undoubtedly in the eye of the law,
and in that of common sense also, she was not guilty
of the crime of forgery. He then proceeded to com-
ment upon the facts of the case, and said that it
was admitted that the prisoner Martha Perry had
bad post confidence placed in her by her sister
Emily, and that there was nothing to show that his client,
Palmer, did not believe that she had her sister's authority
to sip the instruments that were the subject of the paused
charge.
The Recorder having briefly summed up, and called the
attention of the jury to all die material points in theca's,
therdelibseated for • short time, and then returned •
verdict of

Mr. Metcalfe said he wee instructed by the prosecutors to
ark that the wort should deal as leniently as possible with
the female primer.

The Rosiader„ is marasseatssos, mid he thought there
coati ►e so , Martha Perry, had
minty bees a tool Is the bairri UN other ' , whom
onadset ha the tray-' 's ha to bo very
bad indeed, for he had sat ealy boss guilty al the crime
of forgery himself, but bad dragged his mother sad mister-
in-law into the same difficulty. It was perfectly akar that
ha was the really guilty party, and that lb* ethers felt
it his issintmeoth aad under those circusathaess he felt
it to be his duty to siatemos him to be kept in semi-
tude for four yews. With regent to the fmmele primmer,
he 000sidwed that the justice of the ease would be met by
hie impoliag apes her the punishment of three menthe
impriseumeat, with Dist labour.

NSW COURT.
(Before Thomas Cheatham, Fog., QC., Oommon-Berjetat.)
Annie Vitae', 47, monied, ems indicted far atehnionsly
noting • certain corrosive fluid upon Mande Annie Vinton,
with intent to do her some grimes bodily berm.
Mr. Gent prosecuted ; and Mr. Sleigh defended.
The circumstantial of the ease were these :—The prom-
mixt:, daughter of the posmsr, is • child about tea
years of age, and lives with her father, who is separated
from the prisoner, at Greenwich. Upon the evening
of the 28th of November the prosecutrix was in Church-
street when she felt something it, water thrown upon her,
and turning round, maw the gamer, who went away.
The proescutrix, when Me got home, told her father
what had happened, and upon examination it was found
that a very weak dilution of vitriol was the acid which bad
been used, sad so serious injury MA bum the moult. The
mimeos, whoa Mhos into custody, mid that she had not
does it, bet that some boys with • squirt hod.
The stepped the ems, sad Acquitted the prisoner.

Mr. Lewie—He bee, but you will recollect, your worship,
that • witness may be recalled at any moment. The sum-
mon was applied for on Friday lest, and in the ordinary
course it would be returnable on next Friday ; but owing to
==lismode to Mr. Yardley the summons was sin-
returnable to-day.
Complaisant—l applied to bare the one beard to-day
because Mr. Llewellyn will not be required to be examined
V 14411 have to be examined on the other side, and 1
to have this charge over, so that I might not be de-
tained from the court. Mr. Llewellyn is already discharged
as • witness.

Mr. Lewis—That is not so. Mr. Llewellyn is not
dia-
oharfed from the summons, which requires him to attend
the investigation from day to day, and which therefore pre-
vents him going away, in case he should be recalled. There
are motives at the bottom of this matter which I am not
permitted to lay before the court just now.
Mr. Mansfield—l do not want to know anything about
motives. In all probability Mr. Llewellyn will not be
called upon again for his evidence, but as the order for hi
attesdanos NI formally hanging over him, it ought not to be
*witted that he can attend here. I must therefore ac-
es& to the application for an adjournment.

Two young women, named Bridget Welch, of Star-street,
Commercial-read, and Ellen Hauled', of sing-street, Brit*.
lane, were charged with stealing 13 yards of silk at 36, New
Bond-street, the property of Mr. John Atkinson and others,
silk tureen, he.
William Whitia, porter to Mews. Atkinson, of New
Boodetreet, said he saw on Saturday the prisoners in the
shop sitting on chairs near the counter, and being attended
to by an assistant. They were opposite each other. He ob-
served Welr.b take the piece of silk produced from off the
counter. It contained 13 yards, and was of the value of
31. She placed it under her mantle. Being on some steps
at the time, and seeing what bad occurred, be went and
informed his employer. The other prisoner bad her back
towards him at the time. Before Mr. Porter could charge
the prisoner with taking it, she dropped it.
Mn. Elizabeth Atkinson, wife of the prosecutor, who le is
partnership with Mr. Atkinson, said she showed the pri-
soners some shawls, and while doing so she observed the
corner of the silk protruding from beneath Welch's mantle,
and afterwards saw her drop it, with the remark to the
other that she should not be so foolish as to knock thinp off
the counter, and to be more oarefuL On going boot to the
muster she (Yrs. Atkinson) mimed the milk.
Drumm, 100 D, mid—Welch said they did not steal It,•
it fell off the counter, and the other said they did not steal
They pre false addressee, and no money wu found on
them. _

Impostor Heikki' said he should like a remand.
lir. Mamield said they had gone into a shop to buy an
expansive article without • shilling being foiled on them.
The penocers, being asked if they wished to say anything,
merely said they did not steal the mak.
They were then committed for trial.
WESTMINSTER.
Gibbs, a powerful youth, was finally examined,
elter7with felemiously killing and slaying John Edward
Pod
On the afternoon of Saturday week the deceased, his
brother.in-law (William Hodgson), and some others, after
drinking at • public-house at Chelsea, separated. There
had been some altercation between prisoner and decreed,
as it seemed, about • tobacco pipe. and the deouseda
Hodgson were proceeding through Bond street, Chelsea, at
about a quarter-past 4, when they met prisoner and a 0010-
paaion, when deceased, who was much Intoxicated, said,
" That is the man who insulted me," alluding to the pd.
sonar. The latter, who was excited by liquor, seized the
deceased by the shoulders, when Hodgson, thinking be
was about to strike his brother-in-law entreated him
not to do so, hat in the next moment
inflicted a blow upon him, and who
had been standing en the pavement with • pipe in his
mouth, fell beavil upon his bead in the mad. He was
picked up i and conveyed to Hodpon's apart-
ments in the where he expired on the
following afternoon, never laving spawn a word from the
time he received the fall, which wee weever, that the noise
occasioned by hie bead orsalsg is posted with the oarrikle-
pavement was inedind by sae of the whored as hie the
crashing of a firersrint. Morey after the Injury had been
inflicted primmer impressed his willingness to make every
compeDeakies is his power, and when taken into custody
after Pates death add, " I drink that does this."
Mr. Beejawis prields, of the Bing'.-rod, surgeon, said
he fogad the diseenied at lye o'clock on Saturday
afternoon is a elide ef petted kr edibility There was a
cestsesd wood ea the head, sided be had little doubt at
the time led assed eawsweiss d the brain. Witness
attswileil hiss es Ibe fl day, bee be continued isseedhle,
and was aside le swallow swything. Willies swim a
=dodos esealsalles. and to a very extensive
el the shun, with a Lige dot of blood greeds(
epos the beds, whisk wood the death.
Primes was fdly eoweitted far trial, bail bolsi taken
for his sppeeseses.