The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

THE TVALIVOR7IH MURDER.

The plea of insanity is definitely fixed on by the
friends of William Godfrey Youngman as the one
to be used and relied on at his forthcoming trial for
the monstrous offence with which he stands charged,
and they lose no opportunity since his commitment
for trial, to speak of several of the family who have
been confined, and died from insanity. At first
the malady was said to be confined to the father's
family, and it was mentioned that the grandfather
of the accused had been so afflicted, and actually
died while insane; and now it is added that he has
inherited the complaint maternally, his aunt, that
is, his mother's sister, having died at Peckham Lu-
natic Asylum. Whether this be true or false, it is
quite clear that, neither in his manner since his ap-
prehension, nor in the numerous letters which he
had addressed to the unfortunate young woman,
Maria Wells Streeter, is there the slightest indica-
tion of a disordered intellect. From the inquiries
made by the police, it appears that it is four years
since he first met Maria Streeter at Lewisham
when they were fellow-servants in the establish-
ment of a gentleman named Hadley, and though he
had then professed some affection for her, he made
no offer of marriage, or even of love; on the con-
trary, they parted in the ordinary way, and it is
quite certain that from that time until the 18th of
June last (as will be seen by his letter to her) he had
neither seen nor heard anything of her. The decla-
ration of the young woman who was present at his
last examination, which declaration is capable of
legal proof, shows he not only professed violent love,
and was about to be married, to another, in Feb-
ruary, 1859, and was only prevented from carry-
ing out his intention by his apprehension and
conviction of felony on stealing his master's
plate. About the middle of June last the prisoner
called on a friend of Miss Streeter, at Lewisham,
' and expressed a particular desire to have her ad-
dress, bat her friend, who never entertained any
great opinion of the young man, at first refused to
let him know anything of her whereabouts, and it
was only his assuring her that he " knew of some-
thing considerably to her advantage" that she gave
the address of a gentleman in Hyde Park-gardens
into whose service she went after leaving Lewis-
ham. He at once proceeded to the house of the
gentleman indicated, and having there again ex-
pressed a great anxiety to see her to communicate
something to her benefit, he got her address. What
his object was in thus seeking the poor girl out, and
bringing her under the same roof with him in her
last biding place on earth, is a matter which must
be left to the reader's imagination.—Observer.

The Asiatic telegraph has now been carried
down to Jezirah, on the Tigris, a hundred miles north of
Mosul. As the works along this interval between the Kur-
dish and Mesopotamian capitals are being rapidly pushed
on by Messrs. M'Callum, it is expected that before the end
of this month messages will be transmissible direct from
Stamboul to Nineve. " Shades of Jonas and Sardana-
palus," says the Levant Herald, " what an advance on the
slow couriers of three thousand years ago 1" •
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