The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

THE MANIAC TRAVELLER.
The following are some additional particulars re-
specting the subject of a paragraph which appeared in
The Sun yesterday. The paragraph detailed the circum-
t
stances of an attack made y an insane person on a
gentleman named Parker, in a carriage of the Derby
mail train, on the North-Western Railway:—
On the morning of Tuesday last, the 13th inst., about
half-past eight o'clock, a horse and cart having on it the
name of Charles Higgenbottom, Stone-bridge, Wines-
don, drew up at the entrance-gates of the workhouse of
the parish of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, situate in
the Gloucester-road, Kensington. The cart contained,
in addition to the driver, police-constables 101 and 115
of the D division, who had with them a wretched-
looking object covered with dirt and blood, and who
was securely bound down with strong cords. On their
being admitted into the workhouse-yard, the policemen
stated to Mr. Blackwell, the master of the workhouse,
that the person Ike, had brought with them was a lunatic
who had been ley
early that morning at Kensal-
grgep, in the parish of Kensington, under the following
circumstances :—At 'an early hour, as some labourers
in the employ of Mr. Edward Salter, farmer, of Notting
Barns Farm, situated about midway between Notting-
hill and the General Cemetery at Kensal-greon, were
going to their work in the fields, they saw a man in a
state of nudity with the exception of a pair of trousers
and a pair of fine cotton socks, covered with mud, dirt,
and blood, come over a hedge into one of Mr. Salter's
fields, from a swamp through which he had crawled,
near the Great Western Railway. The labourers told
him he was trespassing, and that he must go back, upon
which he became much excited, and on their attempting
to enforce their directions, he became so violent that it
took 12 of the labourers to secure him ; and so convincd
were they that he was an escaped lunatic that they
hound his arms securely with-strong cords to prevent
him doing himself or others further mischief, and then
handed him over to the police; Upon hearing that
statement Mr. Blackwell directed the unfortunate man
to be taken out of the cart, and conveyed into the in-
sane ward of the workhouse, which was done. When
there, the cords by which he was bound were re-
moved and a straitwaistcoat put on. Mr. Guazzaroni,
surgeon, of the terrabe, Kensington, who is medical
officer of the workhouse, was then sent for to
examine his state and condition, and in the interim
efforts were made to cleanse him from the dirt and mud
with which he was covered, which was found to be a
most difficult task, as while doing so it was discovered
that his arms and other parts of his body had numerous
lacerated wounds, into which the mud, &c., was so
grouted, that they could with great difficulty be cleansed.
He gave no account as to how he got into the wretched
plight into which he was, but on being questioned as to
his name and where he had come from, he stated that
-his name was Osborne Markham, and that his apart-
ments were at No. 94, Mount-street, Berkeley-square.
A messenger was immediately dispatched to Mount-
street to ascertain the truth of that statement, and on
his going to No. 94, Mount-street, he found that Mr.
Markham Osborne lived there, and that that gentleman
had been expected home on the previous evening from a
shooting excursion at the Mirquis of Bute's ; that he had
come up on the previous evening in a first-class carriegeof
the mail train on the North-Western Railway, his man-
servant being in a second-class carriage; and that on the
arrival of the train at the terminus, the servant, ongoing to
the carriage in which his master had sat, found it empty,
and his master's clothes, with the exception of his
trousers and socks, with his gold watch, &c., lying on
the seat; that in consequence it was thought that the
unfortunate gentleman had cast himself from the train
during its progress, and his friends had been in active
search after him during the night. Mr. Guazzaroni on
making a minuter examination of the wounds, found
there was one at the back of the head of rather a serious
character, and also two severely lacerated cuts on the
left arm just above the elbow, one of which extended to
the bone. So numerous were the wounds that Mr.
Guazzaroni was engaged in attendance on him and in
dressing the cuts until four o'clock in the afternoon.
Shortly after the return of the messenger from Mount-
street, Mr. Harrison surgeon (we believe), of the Albany,
Piccadilly, came to the workhouse on the part of Mr.
Osborne's friends, and again visited him in the evening,
when, appearing more quiet and collected, he was re-
moved in a fly from the workhouse to his lodgings in
Mount-street. The strictest secresy has been maintained
by all parties connected with the case as to who Mr.
Osborne is, and the motives and causes which led to his
extraordinary conduct, but there is every reason to be-
lieve that he is highly connected, that he is related to a
Noble Duke, uncle to a Marquiss, and the brother of a
titled lady. He is stated to be, in appearance, about 40
years of age, and about five feet nine inches high,