The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

TILE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
SEVENTEENTH DAY.
ALDERSHOT, Tuesday Morning.
The Court reassembled at 25 minutes to 11 o'clock.
Surgeon Gavin A. Turnbull, of the Gth Dragoons, was
recalled, and examined by the court.
The Court—What was the practice in the Gth Dragoons
regarding prisoners taking exercise F—The practice was
that they were recommended by the surgeon of the regi-
ment to the commanding officer, and they got the exercise
recommended.

You stated in your cross-examination that you had fre-
quently seen Sergeant Major Lilley during his arrest. You
also state that you never visited Sergeant Major Lilley in
his first quarters, How do you reconcile these two state-
ments ?—I saw him frequently between. the date of his
removal from his first quarters and the day of his death.
How often before the 18th May ?—I cannot exactly state
.how often, I cannot remember.
You have stated that in the first instance you refused to
make any additional report on the post mortem examina-
tion of Sergeant Major Lilley, and that you afterwards did
so on the information received from Colonel Crawley, and
the report made to you by Assistant-Surgeon Barnett.
Be good enough to state the exact words used by Assistant
Surgeon Barnett when conveying to you the information he
received on which your addendum was founded ?—As far
as I remember, Assistant Surgeon Barnett stated to me,
when I requested him to make the inquiry about the brandy
that he believed aconsiderable quantityhad been consumed.
Those were the words Assistant Surgeon Barnett used at
that time.

Then Dr. Barnett made no report to you. It was you
who directed him to make the inquiry ?—Yest I directed
him to make the inquiry.
You then considered his report so complete and satisfac-
tory that, in the conscientious discharge of your duties,
you deemed it necessary to the best interests of the service
to make the addendum alluded to ?—Yes, on the evidence
then before me I considered it was.
You have stated that Sergeant Major Lilley's was a case
in which a coroner's inquest would ordinarily have been
held; that Sergeant Major Lilley died from heat apoplexy,
of which you have seen a good many cases. Were courts
of inquests held on all or any of those cases F—No, not in
any that I remember.
Were there other cases of death from heat
oapoplexy at
n
Mhow during the hot season of 1862 ?---No,
member. t that I re-
member. I don't think there were.
Does heat apoplexy ordinary attack men exposed to the
weather, or those who keep themselves close F—Either heat
exposure or too much confinement would produce heat

apoplexy.
You say you have seen several cases of heat apoplexy ,
Were any of those cases quite sudden, and did they occur
without any particular predisposing cause ?—Some of the
cases were sudden, but they must all have had some
predis-
posing cause to produce them.
At what hour did you receive information of sergeant
Court)--"Thy did you state
Major Lilly's sudden attack of illness ?—i never received
you. l quantity of
any intimation whatever that he was ill.
)deceased was in the
By the prisoner (through the Court
in your addendum to your report that on You
you found
the statement to be correct that the
ghethe period
habit of drinking a considerable qua •
during the arrest ? How did
was considerable, and that it was
gaunt Major Lilley duernint brandy daily
earn that the quantity
of the arrest ?—As I
consumed daily by Set-
have already stated,
had made to mo, and the r assertion that Colonel Crawley
Surgeon Barnett. With. r report made to me by Assistant
quantity," our opinion ‘ regard to the term " considerable
taken to was that ifsuch
Sergeant Major Lin , . quantity had been
consumed a considerable Ly s bungalow he must have
both Mr. Barnett e quantity, But at the same time
Lilley was consumi and
I overlooked the fact that Mrs.
The President —Never
a considerable quantity.
you found you mind Mrs. Lilley. On what did
considerable r conviction that the sergeant major drank a
quantity'of brandydaily 9 On the assertion
made to me by 1 • .—.
Colonel Crawley and the report of Assistant
Surgeon Barnett.
By the prisoner (through the Court)—Did Assistant
Surgeon Barnett tell you that the consumption of brandy
by deceased was daily as well as considerable ?—As far as
I remember, ho did.
Mr. Oliver Barnett, assistant surgeon of the 6th Dragoons,
was called for examination by the Cow t.
The Court—Are four or five glasses of brandy a day a
usual medical comfort for a woman in a consumption during
the hot season at Mhow F—l consider that in the cuss of
Mrs. Lilley, who was suffering from extreme exhaustion,
that four or five glasses of brandy a day was not a consider-
able quantity for her to take, especially as the great irrita-
bility of her stomach and bowels did not enable her to take
solid food or nutritious broths.
You have stated your conversation with Colonel Crawley
regarding the brandy supposed to have been consumed by

Sergeant Major Lilley. What caused you to return to him
again and ask if he wished you to make any add i t ion to your
report in the sergeant major's case P—As the commanding
officer had brought the fact to my notice, I deemed it my
duty to represent it to Dr. Turnbull.
At what hour did Colonel Crawley speak to you, and at
what time did you first communicate with Dr. Turnbull
Colonel Crawley first spoke to me about 5 o'clock in the
morning. We remained on parade until about half-past
seven, and about eight o'clock I communicated the subject
of the conversation to Dr. Turnbull.
Report as nearly as pos.4ihic tha words in which you con-
veyed the information to Dr. Turnbull and thsteonsaltation
you had with him in the office of the hospital ?—As nearly
as I recollect I informed him of what Colonel Crawley had
said to me in the morning as to Sergeant Maier Lilley's
having been supplied with such a large quantity of spirits
during the time he was under arrest, and that as Mrs.
Lilley had communicated to me that her husband had been
in the habit of taking some brandy and soda water every
day, I considered it my duty to take notice of it.
You have stated that you waited on Mrs. Lilley and
asked her about her late husband. Was that before or
after your consultation with Dr. Turnbull F—Before my
consultation with Dr. Turnbull. (After a pause) I don't
mforeeanmbyefcoornevmerysactoinovnewrsiattniohnimin tihne
thee arlymulidudrlueinogf, tbhuet dbeay-
about the addendum, and when the addendum was written.
State exactly, or as nearly as you can, all that passed he-
wed), you and Mrs. Lilley at that interview ?—On the 9th
of June, after my conversation with Colonel Crawley, I
waited upon Mrs. Lilley, and asked her if the statement
made to me by Colonel Crawley was true or not. She said,
he (meaning her husband) took some brandy and soda water
her
passed
on other subjects,
in reference sid
or brandy and water every day, but she thought not enough
hope
oopclte
not.him
The harm. Do you think it did, Sir ? I replied, I
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all that passed?—A
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?—All that
with
The Court—You thought it had done so much harm that
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you added it to your report as a predisposing cause
decease?—Assuming that he had taken so much. It had
been so emphatically stated by Col. Crawley that he had.
c of him
Did Mrs. Lilley tell you the quantity of brandy her hus-
band drank daily ?—No ; she did not mention any definite
quantity.

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—As
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said
Upon what grounds did you form your professional
opinion when on consultation on the report which was em-
bodied in the addendum 1)--Upon the statement made to me
by Colonel Crawley in the morning, and the admission of
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had consumed or partaken of some brandy and soda water,
Who drew up the addendum, signed by Dr. Turnbull,
stating that he had found on inquiry that the deceased
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The
Court shortly afterwards adjourned

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evenincr

INDIA-OFFICE, DE c. 5
The Queen has been pleased to appoint th
Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Bart., G. 013 Right Ron.
be her Majesty's Viceroy and Governor-General ioCt Indi.6.l":°
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 8.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Acting Deputy-Assist-
ant Commissary-General Edward Thomas Price to la
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 8.
The following promotions, dated the 30th ult., have been
made in consequence of the death of Admiral of the Blue
Sir James Hanway Plumridge, K.C.8., on tho 29th ult.:---
Vice-Admiral of the Red the Hon, Sir Montagu Stopford,
K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir Frederick Wm.
Grey, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the. Blue Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley,
Bart., to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admirals—John Babour Maxwell, and John
Rivett Carnac, on the Reserved List, to be Vice-Admirals
on the same list.
Rear-Admiral of the Rel the Right Hon. Thomas, Earl
of Lauderdale, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Thomas Henderson to be
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Kellett, C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain John Russeßto be Rear-Admiral on the Re-
served List.

Captain the Honourable Thomas Baillie to be Rear-
Admiral of the Blue.

Retired Vice-Admirals—James Montagu, Sir Alexander
Dundaa Young Arbuthnott, Knt., and William Hothatn,
K.H., to have the rank and title of Retired Admirals, in
pursuance of the Older in Council of 7th May, 1858.

BANKRUPTS
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