The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-13

eIeI % Try the state Of his mind II they
ind that the prisoner Is insane All fur-h eT
legal proceedings are stopped and pc IS
. taken straight Oh 20 BTualm0or 10 be de-
taluei Glr-ne her Wa1esty's pleasure
Iu This way many great and Ilustrl0us
names " The English arIstocracy and gov
erniuE classes have been saved from dis
grace. There i- scarcely any family that
does not have Its fair quota Of black
sheep. many of them criminals Of the
Geeuesr eve. murierers. forgers, and
thieves being among them, and large
proportion OF them are now confined al
Broaimoor. as completely dead ~ the
world as if they had been eauitally con-
vict-d and executed. Yet all their rela-
T tives have done has been TO get them de-
+ clared insane, and on this plea they have
ESCAPED not only the penal servitude or
I the eall0ws. which their crimes -merited,
but have even succeeded IN soldlng the
+ disgrace VI "A public trial
{ The present governor Of Broadmoor IS DIT
Nicholson, bury, l5ug-heude1 Scotch
man. who has been repeatedly attacked
by the patierts-0r COuT-cts-whlcheNer
one might call them lie was stabbed
once WIKI kitchen knife, While al an
{ other time ha had his head cut open by
ulJW from "a sfo~e. IS b Oh confined MIN
10 his bed for SIX months. HIS predeces-
sor Dr. Meyers. was killed by one or the
inmates Of the ASYLUM, who, One sunday
during service. rose from the place where
ne was k1ealiug and hurled large stone
al The head of the kneeling doctor, trac-
turing his skull Previous 70 thar Or.
Myers ha1 had his nose broken ana his
head laii open. having been assaulted
with "a p--chfork and his lie attempted
Tn every conceivable manner
Strict secrecy is observed with regard
to the names and identity Of the inmates.
but on my trips around the establishment
with the late DIT Meyers / remember
his showing me the man Oxford, who,
dur!ls the second or third year of Queen
\.ctor-a's reign had attempted to assas-
sina,e her by nr.us mt her with q double
barrelled pistol as she drove from Buck
ingham palace UP Constitution h.u. OK
ford was then quite an Old man. but APP
parrutly iu good health and showing no
more signs OF insanity than the doctor
or myself There too. was confined
John Francis, Lieut. Dean, William Ham
ltcn, and Mclean, who each at various
times had made unsuccessful attempts to
take the queens life, Lieut.. Bean mani
Testing So much brutality ami ferocity
that he actually managed TO inti.ct two
terrific blows with MS riding whip upon
her uaj5=ty's face before the police were
able to reduce him to subsection.
Then, too, there was that extraordinary
boy Jones' now an elderly and respect
able looking man, who one night, just
as the queen was getting into bed was
found concealed under = lounge in her
bedroom mt buckingham palace, one of
his feet peep-ng out ana attracting the at
rention az Inc queens 5ressers 10 rb,S
dav noto5y knows how mar hoy yor
there or what his object was II, mus CON
. ceaI.nr- btrrse,f in her ms iestv,s bedroom,
Such elaborate nrecautf,,ns have siv,a,ys
been adopted ever since she came TO ths
throne to prevent the intrusion Of any
STRANGER ana so s+rto.l,- ,re tbs ns1srss
guarded nv tbe notice and Inc MILITARY
tbat II seems .ncdn,a.v, he maj he sb,oi,ia
have rer ANS T., ,,,i- - NO. ,,,,,,,,+I,.,1
{ 70 me queen. bed chamber where TO her
Intense Hofro.' ne hal been a secret