The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

THE CAsE O

PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, 8017TH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending August 31, 4,918 ;
total number Moos the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th Ma 12.91), 1.177.956.
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CHIsT, CITT-ZOAD, &C.—The number of patients under
treatment at this hospital during the past week amounted
to 685, of which 56 were new ewe.

knives and other dangerous article■ from the room, hut hid

overlooked the box o[ matehem.

The coroner ;idled 1.!

know whether persons who had shown a desire to column
suicide by throwing themselves frompllerieswere allowed

to roam ;hoot. Was there no reotrarnt need? Dv. Kent?

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thorn said there was no restraint used. It was gond for tbi
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t one purse in common. Mabel, gettin7 at . -••— • ----nearer umwas ts very InCRIISICIIIs to leave the mates*
Edward Mr
of leading a wandering life, returned to his there. The witness said that an attendant had reinowd
knives and other d us article, from the room. but hsa were brought i
the two accused, to get rid of his presence, overlooked the box of matches. The coroner wished * in stealing aal
needed them, beat out his brains while he wan know whether persons who had shown a desire to commit Property of th,
then carried the body to a field, to lead to the suicide by throwing themselves from galleries were allowed place, Wandsv
he had been murdered by strangei s. Blood-Mr. Mayo,
thee were, however, found concealsd in the to roam about.. Was there no restraint need! Dr. Kemp .
thorn said there was no restraint used. It was good for the to withdraw tl
the mime being clearly proved a verdict of patients to leave them quite free. The Coroner said that tbs been in Mr. l'
returned, but with extenuating circumstances. onlye
magistr
engaged c
I sentenced to hard labour for life, and the object of his inquiry was to prevent oases of this kind taking
Th
0 years of the same punishment. Place. for another case of suicide at the MIMS asylum hadcoms
before him in which the patient had while an attendant's vms to admit
RESTORERS."—ORS most successful room was being scrubbed slipped into it 11111 i committed receiver, who 1
ifaelles was Michell, a Florentine. There is at suicide with a knife taket, from the house. It would la
t, io the imperial collection at St. Petersburii, well to see if such eases could not he prevented. It win meat. It was
that Fisk,
own to be one of his forgeries, yet placed as a
stated that there were four attendants to each ward, meld have bought tl
ITaelle. Italian " restorers" again have done four were not sufficient the law should compel 21 to be less, but he ti
1 to complicate the question. An anecdote employed. The jury could add anything to their ter round and m.,1
nk, in the Quarterly Serino some years aem, is diet they liked. The doctor said the patients wee Mr. Haynes
ting. "We once asked an able itslisn restorer not allowed string, Tones, knives, or matches, and that to be
PyriTeliTit
er met with any pictures by a painter of the they were never left alone. The deceased, who slept with e nail
:heel of considerable merit, whose only work two other patients, was visited every hour durin7 the nillit, admissions ma
we are acquainted is in the Louvre." " Oh, She had act herself on fire at I I o'clock in the morning. The magistr
okly replied; " the very first job upon which Leaving the matches in the attendant's room was so oter be received, at
eyed was In converting one of his pictures into sight. The jury returned a verdict. "That the deceased what he wool
lo da Vinci now in a well-know gallery. Since committed suicide by wetting herself on fire while in a made before tl
frequently repeated the operation, and I don't state of unsound mind." We have been informed that Mr. Mayo I
ne now existing under his name."— Corithill sinew the introduction of the modern non-restraint system drawing from
c September. at Bethlehem Asylum suicide has diminished among the on with it and
.eirelee MUSEUM, SOUTH Kvismoron.— patients by 80 per cent. , The ossiristr
Mna to decide
risitors for the week ending August 31, 4,918; The Surrey Standard records the death, in his
I' since the opening of the Museum free daily 77th year, of the Rev. John Scobell, rector of St. John's utot
ta.Terce •
L 8581,1,177,958. trateeizioat
IYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OP THE leoted that some years ago there was • riot in the strelts.
Mr. Price a
r-itoaD, E.C.—The number of patients under 1 of Lewes on the occasion of the interment by the late b!r.
I this hospital during the past week amounted *smut Hart.
ter who
Southover, and of All Saints, Lewes. It will be mesa.
The !Imelda
lash 56 were new OWL bad been a member of the East Urinstssd Sisterhood.
I Neale of Miss &obeli, the rev. gentleman's thumb ,