Litchfield enquirer., 1849-06-14
Waod6ury, June II, lS49.
From tue Marlboro' (Nd) Gazette, 9
 June, 8M.
Charles H. Parmalee.

On Wednesday, his Honor Judge Key,
 held special session of the County
 Court to try c. H. Parmalee, under a
 commission de iunatico inq"ire''do. A
 jury of twelve citizens was sworn and Tn
 order to arrive at the sanity of this un,
 fortunate man, in the absence of medical! 1t;fil a
 variety of questions, on almost every
 subject-most of these questions were
 put by H. c. Mclaughlin, Esq, Prin-
 cipal of the Marlboro Academy, and
 were of a metaphysical character. Parns-
 ales answered all with precision, caution,
 and perspicuity-and at times with a
 fiuency, appropriateness and beauty of
 language that astonished every one pres
 ent He evinced considerable talent in
 the higher branches of education; and
 the jury unanimously agreed that al-
 though circumstances tended to show occasional alteration of mind, yet from the evidence before them, they could not decide that he was lunatic.
 There is a degree of mystery about thls unfortunate man that is painful to all who have heard his history. He ad mlts that his nervous machinery" as'he called it, is sometimes out of order, but scouts the idea of being insane. He says his fathers name was formerly Jehial Browuslow, but that it was changed to Parmalee--that he was born at Corn wall town, Litchfeld County, (Conn.) where his father resided when he last heard from him, which has been some ten years ago. He is about 34 years of age, and says he received his first school ] ing at Amenia Seminary, Duchess Go. N. r., from which place he went to Oxford College, manual labor school, in Georgia. There he was both student and teacher; and there he says he inn {, paired his health by labor and study, and | too free living, and was for time under the care of eminent physicians. He went ] to this College with a recommendation from Dr. Wilbur Fisk, of Middletown College, (Conn.) We give these details with the hope that they may reach his citations or friends, and induce them to 'elieve him from his present unpleasant He is now held to bail for hreats made against the person and of gentleman in whose family le kept school for few days, previous y to his arrest and conviction for forgery n 1S46. In default of bail, he will be ,ept confined until November Court.
 P. S.-Since writing the above, we ind in the Baltimore Patriot the follow ng correction in relation to our state nent of last '. eek that Parmalee had 'een released from the Penitentiary:
 This statement is wrong i'll saying that was released from the Peni- entiary because of his insanity" His erm had expired, and there was nothing or the Warden to do, but to discharge i'm. We understand that during a ,reater portion of his term. Parmalee ad to be treated as insane; and that ndeed, there is reason to believe that he vas insane at the time he committed the fence, for which he was tried, convicted, nd sentenced to the Penitentiary.
 There is defect in the law, in not roviding for the removal from the peni- cntiary of convicts who there become insane, or, at all events, for ending them to the Hospital when their erm of sentence has expired.