The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-22 00:00:00

THE ESHER MURDERESS.

Oii Weelneeday afternoon Mr. Sorjeant Payne,
the coroner for the city of London end Southwark, held an
lamest at Bethlehem Hospital on the body of Mary Ann
Bough, Dune to the Pnoce of Wales, who it will be
recollected was acquittal on the ground of imealty on •
charge of murdering six of her children at &her. in the
moth of June, HIM, and removed to thie establishment,
seder a warrant of the crown, in Avert of the same year.
The evidence of Dr. Hood went to Mow that deceased,
at the time of her admittance into the hospita/, bad
rerY good health. Shortly afterwards, however, she
inhibited eymptoms of mental ilerangemeat,
which meads him believe that commie disease wee
ring no la the brain and had heals so for some time. Übe
went on very well up to the 19th of November, BM, sad
re that day she had • paralytic attack affecting her left
side. That attack, however, gave way to some extent to
medical treatment ; but oo the 4th of December, DIM, she
bad another attack of apoplexy, followed by paralysis,
chiefly affecting the mouth and tongue. to the 27th of
Neptrwiber, Ditia, she bad another attack, which affected
the leas sad she almost lost the use of them, and her
sued bemires much weaker after this third attack.
lb the 30th of January, lehl, she had another slight
mealy& attack, and very soon after she became so weak
that she was amide to sat up, and a water bed was pro-
vided for her. She remained in that condition until the
ilk ism., when she lost all consciousness, gradually nod
legally sunk, and died on the evening of the imth. The
mesa of death was paralysis resulting from apoplexy,
ssgwl senor apoplexy. In *newer to the Coroner Dr. Hood
said insanity had something to do with the cause of death ;
tad although there eon considerable doubt expressed m
the propriety of the verdict —for when she was tried
there wee ace much eritlen..e to prove her insanity—yet he
lad me doubt that even then the Wain wee dimmed sad
that she committed the act while under the iDnUOMMIIof
: especially so, as it was proved some yeses before
lte eel she was attacked with paralysis of cowbell et the
himisphere of the twain, by which the Leila item wield to
ere extent be affected. She had lucid Loewe& le amble
in le Mile into conversation, but as her mid wee very
4rlteeed he did not tbilik she had eggr peeper areeeigeir
"...4 the moremitv of her grime. the wee aware of the
was ter which she had bees Net to the hospital, but is
:sbc':Z f her weak and depressed ewe, if she had
eIL wee lb. plaint Simmer that ever lived, floe
Be ewe of bar mild he doubted if ay coefideere meld be
Ittee liwr agealeeeemme ef welt she said. After me
whime_ the jury retuned • verdict of " Natural
duelk." Nis. Wee. wee shoat 50.

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