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London, England, 1844-05-09 00:00:00

days after that. He underwent the discipline. of a person
who had received severe concussion of the brain. He was-
under my care for at least a month. I saw Sir Lawrence
Palk, and told him that after the accident I did not think the
prisoner would be a capable servant. .He was a groom in the
service of Sir Lawrence. Palk. I thought the injury which
he had received was likely, if he took the smallest quantity of
liquor, to prevent his being able to take care of a pair of horses.
I have had experience in these sort of cases. I had to treat I
a soldier in India for concussion of the brain, and the result
was, that I was obliged to invalid him and send him home,
for he was entirely unfit for subsequent service. After con-
cussion of the brain a person is very liable to excitement.
They are easily excited. A person, after having received
such an injury, might become disordered in his mind. That
is my opinion, from works which I have read on the subject.
The prisoner, after the accident to which I have referred, was
taken, by the direction of Sir Lawrence Palk, to a place
called Kenton. It was my opinion when he left the hospital
that he would ultimately became unsound in his mind.
Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—The soldier to which I
have referred was quite unfit for the duty of a soldier, as he
would frequently lay down his musket when on Important
duty, and walk quietly away. I would not have trusted the
prisoner with a valuable horse of mine I think the effect of
his taking ardent spirits would be to cause him to "run a
muck." A person having received concussion of the brain
would, in taking alcoholic liquors, exhibit great excitement.
Re- examined—l have seen such, after taking liquor, sullen
and morose.

Mrs. Sarah Smith was then called and examined—l have
been for eighteen years one of the nurses of the. Devon and
Exeter Hospital. I recollect the prisoner being brought into
that hospital. His head was shaved, and he remained in-
sensible for a week or ten days. When he recovered his
senses he walked as though he had been a drunken man, and
was always very low in his mind.
Henry Sibley was called, and said that he was in the ser-
vice of Sir Lawrence Palk. He took the prisoner to Kenton.
The evidence of this witness went to show that the prisoner
was entirely an altered man after the accident.
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Mr. William Collins, cross-examined—TLi a surgeon,
living in Kenton, in Devonshire. I have been in the pro-
fespion for 45 years. I knoW Sir Lawrence Palk and remem-
ber the prisoner being in Sir L. Palk's service. I remember
him to have been a good servant. I also remember him
receiving an accident. In consequence of that cident
he was placed under my care after leaviffg the
Devon and Exeter Hospital. His case was clearly a case of
concussion of the brain. When I saw him he exhibited great
weakness of mind, almost amounting to vacuity. He re-
mained at Kenton about five weeks. T saw him during that
time daily. My opinion at that time was, that his mind
would be affected for a considerable period, possibly for
life. I have known concussions of this description to
result in insanity, both violent and quiet. I should not
be surprised if I heard of a man, under such circumstances,
committing a sudden and violent act. I knew a case of a
farm-servant who had concussion of the brain, who, after
drinking a quantity of cider, went out and taking a plough-
shaft, attempted to murder his master. Ido not know whe-
ther these was any provocation by the master. Such a per-
son would be more likely to be affected by liquor than by any
other cause.

Cross- examined by Mr. PARRY—When the prisoner left
me I considered him to be quite unfit to go into service. I
should think that ardent spirits would make him low and
depressed, and not violent.
Mrs. Susan Ford was called and examined. She stated
that she resided at Kenton, and knew the prisoner. Before
he sustained the accident he was a very cheerful man. After
the accident he appeared to be sullen, and to avoid all society.
He became very dejected and low.
Mrs. Serle, examined, said—The prisoner resided in my
house at Kenton. I did not know him before the accident.
While in my house he was in a very low dejected state. If
any gentleman or lady came to my house, he would sit with
his hand to his head, and take no notice of them.
John Marsham said—l am a servant, in the employ of the
Earl of Falmouth. The prisoner was also in his Lordship's
service. He was in that service until January, 1840. He was
discharged for having disobeyed the orders of coachman.
He was a very dull person. I never heard him converse
with any of the servants. He was asleep half his time, aria
he was called in the house the half-cracked man. I always
thought he was half-cracked. I have seen him so drowsy as
to render it necessary for us to put burning paper to his
feet to wake him. He came into the service of Lord Falmouth
after he left Sir Lawrence Palk.

Cross-examined--The prisoner was second coachman to
Lord Falmouth. He had very little driving.
William Brookman deposed that in 1840 the prisoner was
in the service of Lord Cadogan, and he heard of his receiving
an injury by a fall from a ladder. He was hurt on the head,
and was attended by Dr. Lincoln. The prisoner could not
perform his duty after the accident, and was discharged in a
few days.

By Mr. PARRY.—The prisoner was not employed as cab-
boy. His head was cut open by the fall.
Mr. Wm. Fisher, the landlord of the Crown and Thistle in
Thomas-street, Oxford-street, deposed that in January last
the prisoner entered his service as waiter and pot-boy, but he
found that he was quite incapable of doing what was required
of him. He appeared drowsy and stupid, and he could not
make him understand anything. lie kept him for seven
weeks, and was at length obliged to discharge him. On the
day this occurrence happened, the prisoner came to his house
and he was informed that he had been playing at skittles.
He had some drink, but witness could not say to what ex-
tent. While the prisoner was in his house, he heard him
speak affectionately and kindly of his wife and child, and
shortly afterwards he observed a degree of wildness in his
manner and appearance.
. By Mr. PARRY—The deceased used occasionally to come
to his house to see the prisoner, but he had no opportunity of
observing his demeanour towards her at his own house.
Mr. G. White, the landlord of the Horse and Groom,
George-yard, Grosvenor-square, stated that the prisoner came
to his house -as pot-boy after he had left Mr. Fisher's service.
He only kept him a week, and c• nsidered his mind was
affected, and that he was not capable of doing what he
required. He considered his mind was not so sharp as it
should be, and he therefore discharged him.
By Mr. Panui—He knew nothing of the prisoner except
what he observed during the week he was in his service.'
Mr. CLARKSON said that this was all the evidence he had
to adduce on behalf of the prisoner.
Mr. Panay briefly replied.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and left the case in
the hands of the jury, who retired at four o'clock. They re-
mained in their room for five hours, and at nine o'clock, the
usual hour for the adjournment of the Court, the Common
Sergeant, who was then presiding, directed that they should
be sent for, and he inquired whether there was any probabi-
lity of their agreeing to a verdict in a reasonable time?
The Foreman said he did not think there was.
The COMMON SERGEANT said the Court would be ready to
wait an hour or two, but if there was no chance of their
agreeing it was of no use for them to wait all night.
The jury, after a short consultation, said it was not pro-
bable they should agree.
The Court was then adjourned, and the jury were locked
up for the night.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

An unfortunate wretched woman, who was ascertained,
after much inquiry, to be the wife of a respectable in-
du,trious man (foreman to an extensive engineer), was
brought before the Lord Mayor upon suspicion of hav-
ing intended self-destruction.
A policeman stated that a few nights ago he found the
prisoner in one of the recesses of London-bridge, appa-
rently in very great distress of mind. Believing: that
she contemplated a leap into the water, he took her into
custt dy, and she subsequently admitted to him that if he
had not arrived at the moment, she should have certainly
destroyed herself. As she gave a wrong name, and
could not be prevailed upon to let the witness know any-
thing about her family, great difficulty was'encountered
in arriving at any knowledge about her. At length her
husband learned where she was, and appeared before the
Lord Mayor.
Tke poor man drew a melancholy picture of the suf-
ferings to which his wife's profligate habits had for a
lung time exposed him. They had been married eleven
years, and frequently had she, during that period, sold
all the furniture, including the very beds and the clothes
which covered the beds. Despairing, after a great va-
riety of experirnents,'of producing any improvement in
her habits in this Country, .he determined to resign his
situation, and to take her and their children to America.
Thither they repaired, but the change of climate pro-
duced no alterationiin those depraved habits which had
inflicted so much dornestic.unhappiness' and he found his
condition worse in the place to which he had fled as a
refuge, than it had been amongst those to whom he was
known. He accordingly brought her back, and was re-
instated by his former employer, but the conduct of the
wretched woman became worse and worse, and, alarmed
at the example she held out to the children, he deter-
mined to let her have nothing except through the me-
dium of the workhouse, to the authorities of which he
had made- such allowance fur her as they considered
right to demand.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—What have you
to say to this dreadful account of you ? The prisoner
—Nothing.
The LORD MAYOR—I Paver heard of any thing more
disgraceful than your conduct as a wife and a mother.
The husband—l have done all I could to make her
and my children comfortable and happy; but the more
exertion I made, the worse she became in every respect.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall now send her to Bride-
well for a month to undergo hard labour, and if she offend
again in the some way, I shall send her for trial to the
Central Criminal Court. The prisoner was then re-
moved from the bar. The unhappy man frequently sobbed
aloud during the examination.
The Lord Mayor was occupied till past 5 o'clock, in
hearing summonses against omnibus drivers and con-
ductors, and cab drivers, for having loitered in different
parts of the city. Very few of the defendants escaped,
the police having become exceedingly vigilant and
evinced a disposition to let no offender of the descrip-
tion pass unpunished.
CLERKENTVELL.

Peter Yone, late'a private in the 95th Regt. of feot, was
charged with an assault of an unusually violent and un-
provoked nature, on police constable 175 N.
The officer. who appeared to be suffering from the in-
juries he had received, deposed that at five o'clock on
the previous evening, he was on duty in the New-road,
I.entonville. The prisoner, who was under the influ-
ence of liquor, had, by his violent language and ges-
tures, attracted a crowd round him. The officer re-
quested him to go away, but the prisoner became more
violent than before ; the complainant repeated his re-
quest, when the prisoner knocked him down three
times, twice so violently that his body descended with
somersaults on the Hags. Assistance, however, arrived,
and the prisoner was, with difficulty, removed to the
station-house. Witness felt much pain from the injuries
he had sustained.

The superior officers of the division to which the com-
plainant belongs gave him a most excellent character ;
and Mr. Couibe said, as far as his knowledge extended,
he was one of the must quiet and inoffensive men in the
force.

The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoner what he had to
say to the charge.
Prisoner—l was drunk at the time, and lam mad
when lam drunk. I am very sorry for what I have
done, and hope on account of my aged mother who is
present, you will forgive me.
Anne Yone, the mother came forward, and entreated
of the magistrate to discharge her son, who was indus-
trious and affectiOnate towards her. He had been dis-
charged from the army on account of a physical defect
in his constitution. Wheu he took strong drink he be-
came quite insane.
Mr. COMBE said assaults on the police were becoming
of such frequent occurrence, and of so aggravated a cha-