The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-26 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1858.

r her that the savants she had discharged should not go.
She had wanea to him twelve lemma slate she had beta
at bomb-beam Re may had two of thaw (Thus Wan
were mad.] The lesened owed sawd if the reminds, of
the hens weeenst saw y kind, coherent, sad albotialate se
am me mad, to wfMi all WINNOW replied in the alinaative,
but in many Maw=
era. dry were not, he had reams to
beam, bar own predasd
Mr. Wm. Hey—l see a surgeon at Leeds, Oa the lath
of Deoember last I was called up at four o'olook is the
morning by Mrs. Turner. There was a policemen with
her. He was carrying two tin bones. She told se she had
srrived that mooing at Leeds, and had gam to the bodes
of a Mind near Hadley, that she had tea and west to
tad; that during the night she was taken with seven pains
is the bowels. She was convinced mho had been poisoned,
rad lasamiliady mad up the beam She bid bar friends
she empected tbay bad rimmed her Ida autelhing she
bad to la bsr Ma. She than left the basest catrYind
the two bona, gad roaming • policeman ale Mid him her
sospietons, and mooted him to Mr le at=
Medbeter her, and recomme Mr to the
dBOSOre going away ass mid Mr purpose in coming
to Leek was to ham the mutants al the boas summing by •
=medical seas, as elm seemed while in Bar borough
beat poisoned. Tian Wen UMW PIM
a tarp pion of better, vomit, do. She said it= ,
have the Jars sent to Professor Taylor for intalysiek sad
abirwerde bid me that ohs would teas tam to Mr. Prow
tar'e, at York

The 28v. Thai. Fisher Redhead, inoembent of Redden',
wee mat examined at coesiderable lemph. He spoke to the
violemis whkat MOM pare ago he Lid noticed in Mrs.
Tenses conduct, sad of what ha saw end witnessed of her,
whw in December list be ream in mink of her. Whim to
fri shemist' shop she meld she bed plowed re the
Idellemp Hends the night before, end shebum elm emeandMai d
bads, emispowed to adanizuabor poises lobar.
Mr. Procter, surgeon, deposed to seeing Mrs. Tenser ,
for the Ant time on the 2let of December laat, when she
asked him to sachem the contents of two tin cases which
elm had with her, and which she said contained articles of
food sad vomit. She informed him that soma attempts to
teh.other had been made, and these she attributed to her
front whom she was parted. He declined to make
the psis, sad referred her to Professor Taylor. The
era day he saw her with Mr. Redhead, when she said she
had hem pole:mad the previous night at the hotel when
she had plopped They arranged that she should pto
Ms.. Potter's, and the asit nooming Dr. Simpea sad ha
vidted her. They load her *yin to make handl vomit,
as she said Mrs. Potter bed also isavoiareil to prim hie.
She told them that she hid bees enmity leveled by has her
sad that be intrigued with 'my wears be Neel, end
his own aervaats. They formed as egokee of her Nat All
WY of unsound mind, sad tbsy signed a paper to that
effect. That night he was called sip shout one o'clock. He
lead her in amp ay with • policeman in the Mower
Yard, and he reemeogreeed with haw her icaprepiely of
esadoot. Elbe velisel le go to a home where she said
allgogle hod has. sub le pekes hse. Se sad he weld
het have bit =kr Ohs dreemelmor, and W she vooll set
go Is Ye here she mei ge to abs She went
aore, god the heal dsp Mi. Neat the shame of Dr.
"hews) sad he Awe tho hr ismoyal to

Aireeiirlthont any remeeielemilea WWI
Mel sem bee three time et psi YR times balm
or Wedsesdey. He we of she vas se of
mind. I. oreeresmakedea add dee eru very much Im-
proved AIMS Detember, but the iislaefeek mu still there,
though is ..bed .d 11sea
Dr. Mineses said Het le weed with the previous wit-
less am ee ill. meeeeid slab mind in De-
ember last Al Um bonnie of lesr solicitor, on the 12th of
the promot emeeth Ihe ebbed Mr, sad had had ten interviews
with her dean !its yr ms MAUR now than she was in
Decersbee, bet be eru decidedly of opinion that the de-
lusion vosAltr white sh!t laboured in December still exists.

Dr. oirsit InTrfamsispetMCMa ie ;;;117;. 1;;;;;;
*nag yea, st the writes d Mr. Pemberton (bar WM-
tor), sad bed seta bar Mee them stem. Hs considered she
ame new
Need Wad Mooring under deisimm sad that Ms was of Oa-,
. ___.

—Mr. S. W. North, surgeon, dewed that he signed the
certificate, bat he had not ma bar dace.
Mr. J. W. Metcalfe, sad proprietor of Aosmlo
house, slated that he nesiwi Mee. Turner into his establieit-
runt on the Nth el Dieember. He noticed a want of
collectednem &best bar. ehe NM she wee glad she bad ever
thee. as a pines ef yeetastin, resignlig se • ream= dui dr
W wired her ph= IsteedeeMbili bar food by poem
who wished teMbre M. Mr. Peerhedea visited bet oaths
lam Jun, end else thee she benne owe thin', awl saw seed
the word poises. Ile Is in peesed he ea unsound state et
mind, and it would net be sit for bee in be at large. Mrs.
Turner had bum in, Athol bed Ivies adellod hem
hie house. She was eldest in Lamp end Warm He
admitted Ombra esiled lwr by lbe meat
a woman can far. He hem made bar"elitrlr p°6l=l=
him ; she had nadressed before him ; he would ma swear
that he had not said to bet, "Yon have stripped bikes army
mat before now." After bet escape he found hers' a lamb
Ea Blake-street, York, sad mud force to compel her to re-
turn to Acomb. She complained of her comb having bees
broken into her head. She screamed oat, it-t in pain, bat
she screamed out. He bad never beaten her physiciall_y.
When ha found her in Blake-street, she wee in bed. He
broke open the door. His authority for doing sob the fact
that when he had persons under his treatment he considered
it his duty to take every care of them. He might call his
groom to hie assistance in carrying her to the cab. She told
him he had torn the sleeve of her chemise off. She com-
plained othim treading on her foot, and that she was thrust
spinet the bedstead. His wife was present at the time' and
pat a pillow between the poor creature and the bed stock. No
complaint was ever made to him before now.
Dr. Segue, who is the medical visitor appointed by the
magistrates, stated that he had seen Mrs. Turner at Aoonib-
houae, and believed bar to be of unsound mind.
Dr. Take was called, bat did not answer, he having been
obliged to leave, and this cloud the petitioner's case.
Mr. Turner was recalled, and he stated that he had received
Inane letters from his wile whilst at /Womb in reference to her
trestmcmt then, bat that be did not remove her, believing
that her statements were not well founded.

The Commissioner had a long converntion with Mrs. Tut-
war, which was generally inaudible, aeons the table. She
denied ever having said that she bad been poisoned, or that
she had been mamma in writing her letters from hoorah by
Mr. Pemberton, her solicitor. Mr. Metcalfe's conduct to-
wards her was even worse than had been indicated by her
soused. She WU now in perfect health of body and mmd.
Mr. Asphalt said If Mr. Pemberton would produce Mrs.
Tomer In the morning she said not return to Amnia pend-
ia( thapeoesedings.
Mr. Pemberton agreed to do so, and the Inquiry use then
adjourned.
SATURDAY, JULY 24.
The inquiry was resumed at nine o'clock this morning,
P. Barlow, Beg. took his seat at that hour, end the mums of
the jurors having been celled over,
Mr. James, Q.C., with the perrOission of the Comenteeloner
and the jury, before he commend his address, called the
following witnesses in favour of Mrs. Turner.
Mr. John Owen said he was the keeper of an establishment
now Liverpool, for the cure of lunatics, and had bees so for
thhty-four years. Yesterday Mrs. Turner spent the ►night
at the hotel in York where Ito waa staying. conversed
with her upon a variety of subjoins. Did ant observe any-
thing In her demeanour or conversation indicative of un-
soundness of mind. Her conversation was coherent sad
rational. If say person laboured under an erroneous
imprint.= on any topic, reset treatment was likely
to Menem that erroneous impression. Quietness,
and gentle treatment were likely to remove such
se
delusions. His opinion decidedly was that Mrs. Turner
was of sound mist at present, and was able to manage her
akin.

-171;.. Omega Wilda. 111. D., said he bad bad scats expi-
ring* in the Westmont of lunatics, sad saw Mrs. Tumor
skate on Tbsolay. yastorday is court, and lot night at the
bolsi whoa abs was Maytag. H. had had oonvanations
with bar, aid vas et opinion that she was of said mind sad
AU to maw bse property.
Mr. Themes Moore, jeweler sad silveramith, Liverpool,
had known Mn. Tamer fur seven or eight yaws. Os
Thursday shows= hs had a aonversatimi with bar for
about four haws at the asylum, sad oonaidarsd her ra-
tional.

-117Panthales, ettorney for Mn. Terser, and tenet*.
foe bar under the deed between her sad her husband.
Never maw Mrs. Tenter from June, 1153, until the pre-
seat year, and in December last he hard that she wee in
an asylum. Received a letter from her In March last,
tad then communicated to Mr. Norria,the attemey for Mr.
Tamer, the costae= of that latter. Within a dm or two
after he presented himself itt the Ameab Retreet, mad maw
Mr. Metcalfe. Hs pretested the deed eshm, sod Warmed
him that he wee Mrs. Tuner's tresses. Mr. Metcalfe refried
le allow him to Me her, and that la ea unkind =neer,
ceservis" that be snowed so perms. to see patients moss
these who bad placed them In his establishment. [liir.
Jams hem reed the letter dated is Much last, in which
Mts. Turner complained of her= treatment in the seyium,
I that ell tear to her was deeded, she was deprived of
pas, ink, sad paper, and had sot the girlie's. of s
gaol.] Os Wag refused permission to Ise Mrs. Terser,
be mussel= -Mr. Metcalfe to taken bee that he
bed bees le ham ma =terns. with bar, sad he promiesd
to do so. Witness obtained permission from Lord Shaf-
tesbury and the board to visit Mrs. Terser, end he so-
cordlessly dld se on the let of Jens, la the pease= of Mr.
Metcalfe, when she related to him the trainmen she bed ex-
grimed is his ay/lammed rapeseed the diegseeing mg
alluded to yeeterdey. Re me Meek= at the seszl
immediately proceeded to Landes and saw Lord =
aft the subject, and obtained have ben Ida Wish= Se hem
interviews privately with Vire. Tyner. Legal
were instituted, and Mr. Terser bad to Ale a dos for sa
inquiry into the supposed homey of his wile. At the inter-
views he had with Mos. Terser Me °Rea empialeed bit-
th tears to her eyes, that she wee sot visited by her
Crees:mamised—Told Mg. Roe* st the reamescemat
el Jute, U sot earlier, of tea opprobrious epithets used to

Mrs. Turner, kr Mr. Metcalfe. He had had difference with
Kr.
his . previsady, but not upon any matter relating to
Ter
80-examined—Le all the ocaverestiona he had had with
Mrs. Turner he oessidered her perfectly ruse and competent
bilge.her MGM%
addroned the jury, 'blowing that his remarks
should be brief upon the case, WWI* his burned friend had
thereeterhed r one of the meet pallid stories that had
ever been heard, and he might ail or if the most cruel
dons& Mr. Tenor was ame et the highest respectabi-
lity, he had evinced the greetse kinh.= of heart and abo-
des towards hie wile, bat he led ism led sway, and that
most lamentably, throughout the whole course of these pm-
mew If there had base kind and proper treatment
@meshed towards this unlaelnesie weenie, the wits of Mr.
Teeter, the *mid leogebeellave beim metered la moiety, not
to her heehaw& berme sheenw separated hem Wm, but obi
woold ketigiesetagiereeleeed le tidsymmtef ber rental
faculties. leesehmlited that Me hots le the trey
history of this unhappy mike between , _sod M.
Turner, which had bees lapreprly kneed linesed had
nothing whatever to de with the present iaquiry, the simple
Issue to be tried being whether Km Tao was St to ham
the management of herself end properly. Wes the of sound
intellsot and jodgment, did ele power seilldent knowledge
end discretion to take tare of herself, were the issues which
the jury were sailed upon to try. It had plowed Mr.
Turner, however, and hill legal advisers, to rake up past
events of many years standing, having no earthly bearing
apse the present investigation. Beams there were dif-
ferences between Mr. Turner and his wife, whether well or 111
founded mattered not, which diff,,rencee led to improper
acts to each other, was the jury prepared tossy thetas amount
dens acts Km Turner presented indicatims of insanity
Wee every wife who felt jealous of her husband, who enter-
Wool enspidone that intrigues existed between her husband
end the seroottgiritt in tbe home was pooh a women to be
charged with ominity become she might evince a hasty
temper, manifest an ebullition of maiden, and he provoked to
commit soh d violenoe to be characterised as a person of un-
sound mind; God help poor woman If that were to be so.
Mr. Turner It appeared, boom ac painted with his wife
three years before he married her in 1846; and how did
they live together ; After :a while Mr. Turner absented
himself Ms. Lome was not her home, his bed mu not her
bed. He lived away from her, and was not that fact likely
to make her jealous of her husband ? Was Mr. Turner free
from blame, was he always gentle in his demeanour?
Did he iadulge in the me of no epithets to her—did no
language maps from him lips f In the year 1863
he and his wife had a house and Sax lived together.
Mr. Tumor, without any reasonable or notifiable canes,
before Mrs., Turner had used any deuce to him,
called fa a ppooliceman, and Ia that Ames presence be told all
his domestic servante not to obey any instructions from their
mistress, but only attend to his commands. Mrs. Turner
then did strike her husband, end a esparatioa was determined
upon. No wonder at her coadnot. elm was born in a lowly
sphere, uneducated, and had been betrayed to become the
ndstress of a man of high statics. Regretting her unhappy
position, and repining at the lot into which she had been
east, she at tenth revelled spat the man whom she loved
to marry her. Km devoted handl to the practice of those
little site peculiar to her am to win the beset of hr husband
W ONO, rem& sad rapist Mr. Turner soknowc=l
that his wife had rewlered his home he and cord
her Daly tothrOmete felling being bar jeiilousy . For this
they we espereted, end Mena Turner went to reside at Bath,
where she lived in pesos and respectability for four and a half
long years, end sabeequently she went to Scarborough,
in which town she conducted hermit with prepriety,
and was very economical, so careful, indeed, that
she had been enabled to lay by a considerable
sum of money, 7001., out of the allowance secured to
tier, and, through the agency of a respectable attorney et
Bath, she had ;placed that amount in the fund*. Was this
the women midto be imam ? Was she the person unable to
manage her Midis and to take care of her property ? Cer-
tainly not, se this fact testified. The learned maned re-
ferred, in the next place, to the time when Mn. Turner was
in Leeds, where she was kindly treated, and where she enter-
raised • deludes that her food was polio:easel—a delusion,
however_ , which sow no longer existed. M. Turner had no
oak hal& Mess in her mind at the present time, as she wee
um stow se for error in that reapect. At the latter end of
Deoessbir last Mrs. Turner came to reside at York, when elle
wrote • Idler te her husked. She believed that she had
beta paleard_lq moo me at the instance of her husband
that wee the itissisa soar which she laboured, and spot
that newel cis bud boss met to a lunatic asylum, where
ebe bed be ems* sad smelly outraged. She had been
struck at Ned ligedied down, deprived of all access to her
Amid the use of fen, ink, led paper, and the
leered stead untended that if any turnkey at a gaol had
tressed a primmer in the same meaner as Mr. Metcalfe had
behaved to Xis. Turner, the visiting magistrates would
have vleved enchAt man of his situation for molesting his
daty. Prisenenrwim tometfeted heinous edam were not
treated like Mrs. Tamer. They had weal to their solicitor
end friends; they received no harshness whilst in custody ;
it was only those unfortunate creatures whom God in his
Providence, had deprived of reason, and who became Inmates
of houses like those which Mr. Metcalfe kept, who were to
be cruelly trest4 who had to strip naked without cause, and
to be knocked nett bed-posts. The learned counsel believed
that throughout the whole country there was not such
another establishment In existence as that called Aoomb-

hoar, no establishment In which such atrocities were com-
mitted. Mr. Metcalfe had conducted himself in the moat
disputing manner to Mrs. Turner; he Lad treated her
brutall and she in consequence had twice made her escape
from hi. bones. That unfortunate lady, on leaving Acomb
the emend time, came to York, and took lodgings, when Mr.
Metcalfe, acoompsnied by Ms groom, pursued her. and took
her by force. lie burst open the door of the room in which
the wu laid in bed, and whilst he seised her by the shoulders
his groom seized her by the test, and an attempt was made to
drag her into the street and place her in a cab, naked u she
The poor lady was treated in the most barbs:ow
manner on this °melon, and throughout the whole period he
had had her under his charge his conduct had been of the
want description, and he might rest assured that he would
meet with that punishment which he so richly deserved. The
learned counsel concluded by calling upon the jury, as fathers.,
an husbands, as brothers, se men possessed of the common
feelings of humanity, to give their verdict in favour of the
poor lady. _ _

Mr. frapinall replied at some length, contending that the
evidence on the previous day clearly proved that Mn. Turner
wee of =mount mind ; and in conclusion he stated that,
whatever their verdict, Mr. Tanker had determined that she
should not again return to Awn:kb-home alter the Gruel end
harsh treatment she bed there experienced.
The Master in Lunacy having summed up,
The jury retired, and, after an absence of 16 minutes, re-
turned a verdict, by 19 to 7, that " Mrs. Turner wee of wind
mind, and capable of managing her affairs."

The Forman (Kr. CloOgi) Kw handed in the following
deennewit . _

" The jury cannot separate without reflecting upon the
disgraceful conduct of Mr. Metcalfe. the keeper of !womb-
house, and be to draw the atteation of the Connuissioners
in Lunacy thereto.
(Signed) "Jour CLouort Foreman."

•
The thirteen Jurors irlio had found the vanilla Om
attached their migmatite' to Ifia Isquiettkm, but the Imemen,
Mr. Clough, declined la append lb eigastare. Tkis tam&
sated the promedinp.