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London, England, 1844-09-23 00:00:00

leave the room. When witness was about to depart,
and wished to take leave of him, he, for no apparent
reason, ran to his bed-room, locked himself in, and
would not come out, although she went and knocked
at his bed-room door; indeed, he became exceedingly
excited, and, after some time, opened his door and re-
marked that witness was no lady for coming to a
gentleman's bed-room, and he then refused to come
out ; in fact, shut the door in her face. She then
thought, from his excited state and extraordinary
conduct, that he was labouring under delusions, and
that his mind was consequently impaired.
Dr. Allen bore out a considerable portion of the
learned counsel's statement, adding that Mr. Campbell
was formerly allowed only 6d. per day pocket
money, but it had been latterly increased to 1 s., as
although he had formerly drank he had only got in-
toxicated about three or four times during the whole
fourteen or fifteen years ; and of late he had discon-
tinued spirits, taking, as he said, oatmeal as a substitute,
and he, in consequence, got better in health generally.
His dislikes to the other inmates were rather singular;
he fancied they annoyed him, and one in particular he
had taken an objection to ; he said the very smell of
him would make any man mad. He also appeared
to dislike a lady who was an inmate, and also a lad
who was in his (Dr. Allen's) employ. Neither party
had given him any offence, and therefore his com-
plaint, that they annoyed him, was without founda-
tion. Mr. Campbell objected to wearing woollen
garments, preferring corduroy trousers as being lighter
and better to walk in ; for the same reason also he
wore generally a coat and waistcoat of cashmerette,
or some equally light material. He (Dr. Allen) had
been 25 years conducting High Beach Asylum, and
had had great experience in cases of lunacy, and it
was his opinion, that although Mr. Campbell was
perfectly harmless, and very shrewd, yet he laboured
under certain delusions, and was decidedly of un-
sound mind.
Mr. Johnstone, surgeon, of Dover-street, Picca-
dilly, husband of the first witness, was also of opinion
that Mr. Campbell was not of sound mind.
Henry Davis, the tailor to Dr. Allen's establish-
ment, proved Mr. Campbell's peculiar aversion to
woollen cloths, and also the dislike he appeared to en-
tertain for several of the inmates, as well as all con-
nected with Dr. Allen's house.
John Birkett stated that he was the slaughterman
or butcher at Dr. Allen's asylum. Mr. Campbell was
very fond of watching the operations of killing cattle,
sheep, &c. When witness was slaughtering an ox,
about three months since, Mr, Campbell was present,
and said he should like to eat some of the brains. Wit-
ness said of course he would have them cooked, but Mr.
Campbell said they were more pure and efficacious in
their natural state, and actually ate them warm as
they came from the head of the animal, without
either having them cooked or eating a morsel of bread
with them.
William Roe, one of the attendants at Dr. Allen's,
also gave evidence confirmatory of the previous testi-
mony ; and Mr. Carey, a surgeon, of Woodford, who
had been in the habit of frequently meeting and con-
versing with Mr. Campbell during his rambles, was
called on the part of the latter to testify as to his sa-
nity, but he agreed with the other two medical gen-
tlemen, that Mr. Thomas Telford Campbell was de-
cidedly of unsound mind.
Mr. Campbell put several questions to the witnesses,
and occasionally made some very pertinent remarks,
observing that the witnesses had given their evidence
very fairly, but were wrong in their conclusions; and
explained to the jury such parts of the evidence as he
seemed to think bore against him. He said—" I did
not eat the whole of the brains of the ox, but only a
small portion, and, therefore, the witness (Birkett)
must be mistaken. Mrs. Johnstone must also be mis-
taken. I did not behave in the way she described ;
the fact is I was unwell, and confined myself to my
room, and did not want to be disturbed. I suppose
I offended my father because I did not seem to think
enough of myself. He wanted me to go more into
society, which I did not feel disposed to do. I have
not been particularly well educated. I was sent to
school in France, but I ran away from it, and was
stopped at Boulogne because I had no passport, and
was detained there till proper inquiries were made."
By a juror—He ran away from school because he
was not comfortable.
Mr. Campbell continued—He had given the solici-
tors the names of certain witnesses, who could speak
as to his general conduct at Woodford, &c., but none
of them, excepting Mr. Carey, had attended. This
he regretted, as the result of the inquiry might, in
consequence, be unfavourable to him ; but he hoped
the jury would take that circumstance into their con-
sideration, as it had arisen from his ignorance of the
law, and he trusted his case would not thereby be
affected. He would suggest that the inquiry should
be adjourned, to procure the attendance of those wit-
nesses.—(lt was here explained to Mr. Campbell, that
such matter was not of sufficient importance to require
an.adjournment, upon which he appeared satisfied.)
Mr. Campbell then went on to say, that the fact of
a man being locked up in a read-house, for some years,
would lead people to suppose that he was mad. Of
the annoyances to which people were subjected in
such establishments, none could form any idea who
had never resided in them—none could imagine the
effect of constant association with insane persons.
Whatever decision the jury might arrive at, he was
himself satisfied that he was perfectly sane.
Mr. Campbell throughout conducted himself with
the greatest urbanity, coolness, and composure ; in-
deed no one could have supposed that he had been an
inmate of a lunatic asylum, or that his intellects had
been impaired.
Mr. Commissioner WI nLow summed up with
great clearness and impartiality—so much so, that
the Learned Counsel deemed it unnecessary to offer
any observations.
The jury, aftera brief consultation, retired, and after
an absence of nearly an hour, returned into court,
when their names were called over by Mr. Boniface.
of the Under Sheriff's office.

After some further investigation the MAGISTRATE
ordered that the prisoner should be remanded until
Tuesday.

GUILDHALL.
John Smith, a horse-dealer, lodging in Blackfriars-
road, was re-examined on suspicion of having stolen a
bay horse, which he had taken to Dixon's Repository.
The policeman stated that the horse answered the
description of one stolen in Cambridgeshire.
The prisoner said that he bought the horse at Ips-
wich fair; but it appeared that the description, in the
receipt he produced, did not tally with that of the mare.
Mr. Alderman HUGHES remanded the prisoner till
Tuesday, to give time for inquiries to be made, and
obeserved that when a case was complete against a
prisoner, and he was committed for trial, the news-
papers published it ; but where the publication of the
first examination of a prisoner, and of the property
found upon him, might lead to the discovery of the
owners, this useful information to the public was
rarely given.

B OW- S TR E E T.
James Carruthers, who was remanded on a charge
of sending threatening letters to Messrs. Coutts, the
bankers, with intent to obtain 2001., was brought up
for final examination. No fresh evidence was ad-
duced, and, as we gave the particulars of the case be-
fore, it is unnecessary to repeat them. The witnesses
were all bound over, and the prisoner was committed
for trial.

UNION-HALL.
THE LATE FRACAS IN THE VICTORIA THEATRE.—
. In the course of the day an application was made by a
solicitor, on the part of Mr. J. H. Kirby, the actor, for
a summons against Mr. Osbaldiston, the lessee of the
Victoria Theatre, for refusing to allow him to enter
the boxes on his tendering payment for the same.
The solicitor, who was accompanied by Mr. Kirby,
stated that on Thursday evening, at the termination
of the fourth act of Othello, Mr. Osbaldiston told Miss
Vincent not to speak the speeches, but to come to
cues, and not to be humbugged by the "damned Yan-
kee." That Mr. Kirby was drunk, and had insulted
the whole company." But when Mr. Kirby sent to
him for an explanation, he returned as his answer
that he desired "no more words from Mr. Kirby."
The latter gentleman having been apprised of the un-
founded accusation that had been brought against him
by Mr. Osbaldiston, before the audience of the Vic-
toria, went there on the night in question, for the pur-
pose of contradicting the unjust aspersions on his cha-
racter. Mr. Kirby first assayed to get into the house
by the stage door, but failing in the attempt, he then
went round to the box entrance, and although he
tendered the price of admission he was refused, the
servants of the theatre, having, it appeared, received
instructions not to admit him into any part of the
house, so that he was precluded from appearing before
the audience and neutralising the injurious report
which had been propagated to his disadvantage. Had
he been admitted into the house on Thursday night,
his presence would have contradicted them, and exhi-
bited the utter groundlessness of the charge made
against him but he had no opportunity of carrying
into effect his intentions, and the object of the present
application was to have a summons issued against the
lessee of the above theatre, to show the cause why he
refused to admit into the house a gentleman who had
tendered money for admission. The solicitor said he
was prepared to prove that Mr. Kirby was perfectly
sober at the time.

Mr. COTTINGEIA I%E, in reply to the application, said
he had great doubts whether the lessee could be com-
pelled' to admit any person into the theatre whose pre-
sence he was averse to, but before he (the Magistrate)
gave any advice on the subject, he should wish to see
a copy of the license, which would enable him to de-
cide the question. It certainly seemed hard that the
lessee of a theatre should exclude a person who was
respectable in his appearance and sober from the
house, setting aside the matter in dispute between the
parties. Without the production of the license, how-
ever, as he said before, he would not undertake to give
a decided opinion on the subject, but he had no objea-
tion to issue a summons requiring Mr. Osbaldiston's
attendance on Wednesday next.
The parties having thanked the magistrate, then
withdrew.

CLERKEIV WELL,
Mr. Drake, an architect, residing at 41, Kenton-
street, Brunswick-square, was again placed at the bar
to answer the charge of obtaining money by means of
threats from Mr. Wm. Mit, a cowkeeper.
The clerk having read the evidence given on the
previous examination,
Mr. Robinson said, that from the very conflicting
statements made by the complainant, and his evident
inability to remember distinctly the different occur-
rences which had taken place, he was afraid he should
not be able to obtain a conviction, and he therefore
should not press the charge.
The prisoner was then discharged, declaring, through
his attorney, that the money was only borrowed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Police-sergeant James Flynn, No. 37, attended be-
fore Mr. Broughton, by the direction of Superinten-
dent Johnson, to show cause why he had immured
his wife, Ellen Flynn, in a lunatic asylum, she being
at the time in a state of perfect sanity.
The case was first brought under the notice of the
magistrate about a week ago, when the sister of the
alleged lunatic appeared before him, and stated that
her sister was married to the sergeant in Ireland
about eighteen years ago, and that they had contrived
by their mutual industry to accumulate a sum amount-
ing to nearly 2001., which had been deposited in the
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. husband's name in a savings' bank ; that they had
(SATURDAY lived very happily together until about twelve months
.)
MANSION-HOUSE, ago, when repeated ruptures took place between them,
ALLEGED FORGERY.—A case which excited a vast and the sergeant taking advantage of some trivial acts
deal of interest from the character of the prosecution,
of violence on her part, which his ill-usage had pro-
andkyoked, had by fraudulent means induced two medical
the disclosures that subsequently followed, too
place before Mr. Alderman Wood, who sat for the practitioners to certify that his wife was insane, and
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Lord Mayor. It was that of a young man respectably had thereby procured her incarceration in Dr. War-
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was Moore,chariving in Cambridge-street, burton's Lunatic Asylum at Bethnal-green, where
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with having forged the she was then confined
felt so completely sat indorsement of two wine warrants, valued at 90/.
The prosecutor, Edgar White, of Mincing-lane, it
her sister, that she had
man of high eminence, whose had caused her to be carefully exa-
mined
appeared had got the prisoner to procure an advance by a medical for him on the two notes for 30/., and when he after- voucher she had obtained to that effect. The appli-
cant then handed to the magistrate a certificate signed
wards applied for their restoration, he found that
Riding, they had been disposed of with his name forged on the by Dr.ding, of Euston-square, stating "that he
back as the indorsement.
had seen,Mrs. I, lynn, and after a careful examination
The prisoner asked the prosecutor if he would swear of her case, he was unable to detect any signs of in-
handed and considered her, therefore, not a fit subject
that the notes were not indorsed when they were
for coynfinement."
handed to him. Prosecutor —No ; certainly not.
Upon hearing the above statement, and perusing
Prisoner—Did you not state, after the Chelmsford
t
Assizes, that a person named Sparks, your man, had the certificate, Mr. BROUGHTON directed Henley, the
broken open your desk and extracted the two notes chief usher, to proceed to make inquiries at the mad-
in question, which were legally indorsed, and had at- house, and, if the woman's statement was well
tempted to raise money upon them? Prosecutor—l founded, to request the attendance of the medical
said that my desk had been broken open. officer of the establishment, in order that the case
Prisoner—By Sparks ? Prosecutor—Yes. might be thoroughly investigated,
Mr. Phillips, the medical officer of the asylum,
The prisoner protested his innocence. He said it
subsequently attended before Mr. Broughton, and
was a cruel persecution,
stated that Mrs. Flynn had been received into the
man handed it to the prosecutor, and inquired if it was
One of the notes being here produced, the Alder-house on the authority of a certificate, signed by two
sin his handwriting ? He replied it was not, nor did surgeons, that she was of unsound mind, but he (Mr,
he know in whose it was. Phillips) felt hound to express, as his own decided
Prisoner (with emphasis)—ls it not in Sparks's opinion, that she was perfectly sane, and was not a fit
handwriting ? Prosecutor—l don't know. object for admission into the asylum. Having the
Prisoner (addressing the Alderman in an impressive
attestation, however, of two medical men to the con-
man ner)—So help me God, the notes were signed
trary effect, they were compelled to detain her, but
before I got them. It is through the malevolence of
were ready to deliver her up to her friends on being
that man and Sparks that I am now in my present legally authorised to adopt that course.
position. He then called a Mr. Well's, a judge's Mr. BROUGHTON made some strong remarks upon
clerk, to prove that the notes were indorsed when the monstrous state of the law, wich enabled a
they were handed over to the prisoner by the pro- person, at his own wanton caprice, to consign another
secutor. to such a dreadful species of confinement, and gave
Sparks (who up to this time was in court, and at- orders for the attendance of all the parties before him.
tentively taking notes as a reporter) was called by The wife, whose address and demeanour were per-
the prosecutor to rebut that evidence. In a rather fectly quiet and collected, was examined at some
l
pompous style he stated himself to be Washingtonength by the magistrate, and stated that, in con-
Angelo (and something else) Sparks. He swore po- sequence of a disagreement that took place between
sitively that they were not indorsed, nor was he in- them, her husband, about four months ago, placed her
in the same asylum, hut, after remaining there a
dorsement in his handwriting
Alderman WooD said, from the evidence, it would week, he consented to her liberation, and agreed to
be his duty to commit him, but he would remand him allow her ten shillings a week, on condition that she
until Tuesday, to allow time for the other note to be went over to her friends in Ireland. She accordingly
produced. proceeded to that country, but returned, after a short
Prisoner—May I ask if you will accept bail for my stay, and besought the defendant to receive hsr into
?
his house, and it was in consequence of those impor-
appearanceAlderman WOOD-4 can't; there is not a second tunities that she was again incarcerated in the mad-
magistrate present. house.
Sparks was here taken into custody, and placed at In answer to the complaint, the defendant said that
the bar, charged by the prisoner in the last case for I his wife had been guilty of the most outrageous acts
detaining a bill of exchange for 501. of violence, having more than once attempted to stab
Mr. Moore stated that a few weeks ago he intrusted : him; and her whole conduct justified his conviction
Sparks with a bill of exchange for 501. to get dis- ' that her intellects were impaired. She was examined
counted for him. He had frequently applied to him ;by two respectable medical men, one of whom had
since for the money, or the bill, but could not succeed attended her for nine months; and, as they both testi-
in recovering either. i fled to that fact, he considered himself justified in the
Alderman WOOD declined to entertain the charge. , course which he had pursued.
As Sparks was about to retire from the Court a , Mr. BROUGHTON, the magistrate, expressed it as his
gentleman stepped forward, and said he wished the l' opinion that the woman was in as sane and rational a
prisoner to be detained. Istate as any one in court, and he considered that the
Sparks was again placed at the bar. defendant had been guilty of extreme cruelty and
The gentleman stated that his name was Garratt, injustice towards her. Fortunately, however, through
and that he was a tailor in Cheapside. About the her sister's interposition, she was now restored to her
middle of August last Sparks called at his shop, and friends, and he wished to know what arrangement

The foreman then announced that although he and
another juror objected to give a verdict at variance
with the medical testimony, yet that fourteen jurors
out of the sixteen were of opinion that Mr. Campbell
was of sound mind.

A verdict was accordingly recorded " That Mr.
Thomas Telford Campbell was of sound mind." The
verdict caused extraordinary sensation in the room.
Mr. Campbell immediately after removed his lug-
gage from Dr. Allen's, and took elegant apartments
at the house of the late Captain Sutherhy, near
Woodford.

'gave orders for a coat. Witness asked prisoner for
his name and addres3, when Sparks presented the
card of Mr. Edgar White, the prosecutor in the pre-
vious case. After the coat had been delivered fre-
quent applications were rnAcle for payment, but the
party applying was informed that if he called again he
would he kicked out of the ctlice.

Another tradesman, a bootmaker in London-wall,
also preferred a charge against the prisoner of a
similar nature.

Mr. Alderman WOOD inquired if there were any
other charges ?—A gentleman stepped forward, and
said that many might be preferred provided time was
allowed. Unfortunately, Sparks had victimised him,
but it could not be said to be a felony, Sparks having
repeatedly come to his shop, and ordered small arti-
cles, taking out a purse apparently containing sove-
reigns, by way of illusion, and with the view of
instilling confidence in his credit. He so far suc-
ceeded in this ruse that one of the young men on the
establishment was induced to trust him to the extent
of several pounds.