Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-02
lTha Lunntic CriIninsI.

ltIa The Lunatic Criminal.
( Notices have already appeared in the
papers of this city of a patient having been
taken from the Lunatic Asylum in this
CITY, on a requisition from the Governor
of Missouri, charged with having commit
ted murder in Lewis county, in that
State, something more than year since.
| The facts in the case are briefly as fol-
lows The young mans name is Hull,
resident of Delaware county, and at one
time student in the University OF that
place. In the fall of 1854, he was arrested
by the Sheriff of Morrow county on
charge of stealing three horses. The tact
of his taking the horses was not denied,
but his friends set up in his defence she
plea of insanity His insanity was made
SO apparent that, instead of being semitic
n the Jail of Morrow county. he was sent to
the Lunatic Asylum of this city, where
he was confined from September, 1854, to
sometime in January, 1855, when he wab
discharged. slm
Soon after this, he left home, and spent
his time roaming Gbout in the Western
States, apparently without any settled pur-
pose of life Early in the spring, year
ago, he returned to his home in Delaware,
, and was soon arrested, on a requisition
, from the Governor of Missouri, charged
with having committed murder in that
, State. The plea of insanity was again set
up in his defence After full investiga-
ton of the case, upon the testimony of sew
eral eminent physicians, instead of being
! given up to the authorities of Missouri, he
> was again sent to the Lupatic Asylum,
where he continued from March, 1856,
, till his discharge on Tuesday week.
: Having been for sometime apparently
. well, notice was given by the Superintend-
. ent of the Asylum to the Governor, that
( at given time, he would be discharged as
i, cured. Immediately upon his discharge
: he was arrested, and taken, upon requi
/ sition from the Governor of Missouri, by
the Sheriff of Lewis county, In that State
t to stand trial for the crime alleged again
e him.
: The murdered man was peddler, Will
S whom Hull had travelled for several days
J, They were stopping at a hotel together
# went into the woods on a hunting excur
d sion. Hull returned alone, and soon lef
# the place, taking some of the effects of tn
J. peddlel with him. The missing man wa
J. found few days after in the woods. having
apparently uoen aihiooo Ahose'"J N -
IS q rifle shot.
e The fact of killing the man, the accuse
If has at no time denied, but freely reveals al
d that he says he knows in relation to It,
,t He iustifes himself from the charge {
10 criminality in the case upon the groun
/: that he was laboring under halucinatio
r of the mind that not only induced him
Is commit the revolving deed, but tlestroye
ne all moral accountability in the case.
s, The young man is about 25 years of ag'
I'd respectfully connected, and has had goo
n opportunities of mental and moral culture
8, The case is certainly most melanchol
" " one. deeply affective to heart-stricke
Is family. There are many circumstance
o5 connected with the case suggestive OF s.
81 rious and instructive lessons, but whic
~ we have not now time to present.
- We would not pain friends and relation
cv by giving publicity to these details b.
- the main facts in the case have already ol
90 80 tanned notoriety, and rumor will be like
to magnify them thousand fold. Mo
~ sincerely do we hope, for the sake OF &
~ Young man, for the consolation of h
~ friends, for the honor of humanity, tha
IS upon full investigation, before a legal t.
- bunal, the plea set up for the accused M
cv be fully substantiated.- Columbus GdS.
lts The unfortunate criminal mention
IN above was born and raised, we believe,
III Meigs county and, soon after the murd
E of the ieweller, returned to the neighbC
of hood of his former home, and commenc
led the sale of his ill-gotten articles. VIII
nb- suspicion was aroused, he started ava
70 and travelled in our company from Albar
md Athens county, to Loveland, sleeping
of the same room with us at Chillicothe.
and that time, we had not heard a whisper
on suspicion against him. He appeared P
'I 'd;. fectly easy, remarkably communicate
ara and evinced no fear of anything or al
body. We regarded him as perfectly sa
old and were perfectly astounded when
up learned, few days afterward, that at
any time we were with him, the officers of j
l;ns linz tice were in pursuit. We regard hi
now, considering all things, the coolest {
nit most hardened villain we have ever n
the %O.S-
ing "A ISu6scri6er,'' (whom we suspect
init L. .ov..o ,,o,ro,,, ~ ;ndad 1each1 asks