The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-10 00:00:00

TRIAL OF NR.. VTS.E.

(Concluded from yesterday's Exprcsa.)
fierjeant Bellantana said there bad been rumours oat of
boors which were wholly unfounded. One witness, the fe-
male searcher, bad stated that the prisoner had mentioned
the name of "Mary." There was no such person. He
thought that a prison searcher was not exactly the person
who should have been selected as a nurse in a care of this
description. Alter some further observations the learned
counsel called the following witnesses :
Mr. Richard Vise—l man a retired chemist and druggist,
and live at Bayswater. lam the uocle of the prisoner. the
brother of her mother. I had a brother named Peter VI"
who committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind.
My mother was of • very melancholy disposition, and used
to wander about the roads and lanes crying. A first COll6ll
of mine and other reletives,both on my mother's and father's
side, have been placed under restraint.
Oraw-examined by Mr. Chambers—My brother was not
married. He had been • chemist and druggist, but had re-
tared. He lived in my house, and committed suicide there.
He had met with no disappointment in life. He died from
taking Funk amid, and had been before committing the act
in a depressed and melancholy state. He bad always been
rather weak in intellect..

Dr. Hood, phvaician at Bethlehem Hospital, proved that
James Aynsheril, a lent oousin of the prisoner, ma the
father's side, was admitted in 11546 to the hospital and dis-
charged uncured. All forms of insanity were hereditary.
The kind of insanity of James Anyaherd was what was
termed paroxysmal, which was • species of madness that
ohm resulted in suicide or homicide.
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-11;e:ElisaZt;FrZnion;;TIniTo;d to various sate of
eccentricity on the part of the grandfather of Mn. Vyse on
the mother's side. He was called "Mad Saunders."

Mn Prick aid that the maternal grandmother d Mrs.
Vye once attempted suicide, and another relative was sub-
jotted to confinement in her own house on the ported of
insanit
Mr. William Dense said that he had an mutt who was
also • relative of the prisoner, who was subject to fits of
insanity.
Mr. Prick said that Mrs. Jane Taylor of Haviland, a first
cousin of the prisoner, was a lunatic.
Mr. W. Edney, of Ludgate-street, boot and shoemaker,
said he bad known the prisoner for some time. He made
two pairs of boots for the two children. The prisoner was
very much interested in their dress and appearance. I
always thought that her demeanour towards her children
was that of • very affectionate parent. I remember the
Monday before the murder. She came to my shop and
brought back the two pains of boots, sod appeared very
excited. She said they were not elegant boots, as she had
ordered. She was in a dreadful passion, and when I told
her I saw nothing the metier with the boots she stemd
her foot on the floor and said I was not to answer. She
complained about her own boots, and lifted up her dress in a
very extraordinary manner, 'and told me • gentleman had
found fault with the toes of ber boots. She stood in • very
wild state and dashed &horst the shop. She also said that
if she were me she would horsewhip my men. I expressed
my opinion to my foreman and shopmea that she was out
of her mind. She was generally very excitable.
Mr. James lam a draper in St. Paul's Church.
On the 72nd May I accompanied my wife to Mn.
3`2:40 , between one and two clock, to purchase • bonnet.
Vyss was upstairs, and we sent for her. She 'teemed
prenlier in her manner, and did not seem willing to
Weed to business. She Iso tore a flower out of • bonnet
very violently, and dashed it to the ground. There seemed
to& a kind of smouldering fire of temper ready to burst
set, and nay opinion was that she was not in • proper state
of mind.

by Mr. Chambers—Mrs. Spence found
fault with the bonnet before the prisoner tore the Sower
from it.

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Elisabeth Burkitt—l wee a servant with Mrs. Vyr for
some years. I remember the death of her child, at Surbi•
ton, in 1860. Mrs. Vyse came dowa when I informed her
that the child re ill, and stayed with it day and night.
After the death of the child her conduct was very singular,
and on one occasion she threw the tea-thing Into the fire.
She afterwards forgot the occurrence.
Cress-examined—Mrs. Vyes wan not intoxicated at the
time. In foot she took nothing stronger than milk and
water while she was nursing the baby.
Dr. George Merritt, examining surgeon to the Indian
troope—l am the medical attendant of the prisoner. After
the death of the child Mrs. \Tyr became subject to morbid
melancholy with occasional fits of paroxysm. Mrs. lire
always dressed with taste, and was very ladylike in her
demeanour, and appeared almost unduly anxious respecting
the health of her husband and children. I recommended
her not to leave town, lest the cessation of her usual occu-
pation should increase the melancholy. She is now two or
three months advanced in pregnancy. I behave she was
in a state of mania at the time the murder was com-
mitted. . . .

—.—
Croes-examined—l ground my opinion as to her mental
condition upon several circumstances—namely, herbereditary
taint, her irrational impulses, the deteriorstion of her health
from time to time, and her conduct throughout the affair.
I have noticed her rush away in the midst of conversation
with me, without amounting for her conduct. Her manner
of conversation was a!so excitable, and at times strange.
This was before 1 ceased to amend bar In February last.
Dr. Forbes Winslow—l am a physician, and have made
lunacy my study for twenty years. I have been in court
during the whole of this day.
Serjeant Ballantine—Having beard the evidence, what is
your opinion respecting her mental condition
Mr. Chambers objected to this question, and the court
ruled that it could not be put.
Examination continued—Under certain circumstances,
' where I knew there was a hereditary taint, I should suspect
that insanity would develop itself.
Crom-exaniined--It is difficult in ordinary mom to dis
tingniah between a paroxysm of insanity and of ordinary
neamon.
Re-examined--I should take into consideration the other
features of the case in forming an opinion.
Dr. Copland, the author of " Copland's Medical Die-
tionary,” expressed hie concurrence with the last witness.
This was the case for the prisoner.
Mr. Chamber, having rep ied,
The learned judge summed up, and the jury found a
verdict of " Not guilty, on the ground of insanity."
The learned judge. therefore, ordered the prisoner to be
oonfined during her Majesty's pleasure.
NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Jostles Oromptot.)
YHa HINDOIf WORDIM.

(Concluded from yesterday's Express.)
The cue for the prosecution having closed, Mr. Sleigh ad-
dressed the jury on the part of the prisoner.
The learned judge having summed up, the jury retired to
consider their verdict, and, after au &booboo of an hour and
• quarter, returned late court and delivered a verdict finding
the prisoner Guilty 0/ murder, with a strong desire to re-
commend him to mercy, is the belief that although at the
time he was reepouible for, his actions, be wu labouring
under great excitement, sod that he bad a belief that there
was something wrong about the young woman.
Proclamation having been made,
The prisoner, who bad to be supported by two turnkeys,
was then called on.

The teemed judge put on the black pp, and panned
senteuee of death iu the usual form, holding out oo hope of
mercy, but promising to forward the recommendation of the
jury to the proper quarter.
The prisoner was then removed in a sinking state.
The jury before leaving signed a petition to Sir George
Grey in favour of a commutation of the sentence.