The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

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yew. and I bare bad opportmilies of mow, bee ses-
duet is bet *Raft sad ehilde m. met she amp epperied to
sae is be en ellintionate anxious, and &Motive mother.
lier hadeees tar bat daughters was evident and palpable to
everpeise. Tb• unreal of the prig mites husband to the
leastio asylum wee • greet calamity to the family. He
was hl a at ite of raving madness, and I was called upon to
siga • certificate, or order, that he might be removed, and
be was very much excited against me on that account. He
was eamesively violent, and hts conduct created great terror
esti alms in the mind of the prisoner, awl I believe she
maimemitted this act under a sadden impu se of distrectioa
See maga. It is Yin possible that at the present moment
the prisoner may be perfectly sane, and that would lc quite
Is aecindeses with the character of the mania under wh:cli
she labored at the time. I entertained such an opinion of
the state of the prisoner's mind before this occurrence,
that I recommended she should
was as, impression that she was very likely to commit
some act of teensy. I bad a eon venation with
the prisoner in October, and she told me then that she felt
an impression that she must destroy herself, and that she
should destroy bereft and her child with her. After this
she appeared to reeorer, and she told me her head was •
good deal better, and .he hoped to get ell right again.
By Mr. Knapp—lt is my opinion that at the time the
prt•uner destroyed her churl she was in inch a state of mind
as to he unable to distiorguish between right and wrong,
awl that when she did it she did nut know that she was
'committing • crime.
Mr. John Taylor, another surgeon, said he concurred in
the °pintos expressed by Mr. fidls, with regard to the (Im-
itation of the prisoner, and her state of mind when she com-
mitted the dreadful act.

Mr. Clark.nn, at the close of the cane for the prosecution,
seals a moot feeling and eloquent address to the jury on he:
hall of his unfortunate client. That the unhappy prisoner
had, with an instrument frightful to ba hold, deprived nt•
of her elsoldri •of life, and very nearly destroyed another,
could nut he denied ; hut he said it was tqually clear that
the melancholy circumstances in which she was placed had
unsettled her mind and di struyed her teaaon ; and that,
! al, Month she hail, in a mom, ut of detweration, committed
tho dreadful net, yet he urged that she was more an object
sympathy than of punishment, and he felt sun. that,
after the evidence that had been hod before thi m, they
would glad•y *Nutt her upon the ground that at the time
the art was committed the wretched woman was not in a
stole of mind to render her regomisitile for her actions.
The learned Judge was alt iut to sum up the ease, when
the I ry int* rpoird, and said it was unnecessary he should
do so, a they were un 00000 Ludy of opt. ion that the prisoner
ought to he Rooth, d upon the ground that at the time she
destroyed her child el.- was WA of sound mind.
A verdict of Sot Gaily, on the ground of insanity, was
then retooled, and th.• promoter was ordered to ho dtheined
in custody during her M ,ji sty'e pdeusure