The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-01-22 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WAS. He •I'Peltre'l deed. We rolled 111, twolv shout shit. end got shoot half • pint if watee suit of it. We AiA pot eland him on his le ad. 'We then caned the ho I. home. The river WAS frill of wets,. Tbe hod" bed poised through the ten hatches, and also through the pool at the foot of Hie weir. A. Emnnon, Emi., surgeons said : The dereaned previous to his going to the aeyluin. I have been acquainted with loin for several years. It was on my representation that he was removed to Pe County Lunatic Asylum. 1 bad not been him since us return home till after the body was taken out of the water. Tieday I saw several people running in Higii• street. They said • man wan in the water, and I went to the SiAlt. I found the liody lyiug on the bank, sp• parently quite dead. The ;kin was saturated with water, and I should think tlie body load been in the water twenty minutes. 1 reeorted to artificiel respireHon, and sent for • blanket. This is considered the beet and most efficient means to be resorted to. I continued this about 10 or 15 minutes, and then wrapped the body in • blanket and caused it to it., curried Moue. The same meson were again resorted to, and afterwards was placed in • beithe, and subsequently placed on the boil. Sly oven minion is that lite was extinct when the body was takeu out of the water. The deceased, before he was sent to the Asylum, was very excitable and desponding, and seemed to have • etrong suicidel tendency, although he was tiiinnelf iumit anxioua not to commit erlf•deetruction. He complained of set ere pains in his body, but 1 believed it to he wholly mental and not bodily The exeiteuient connected with the Exhibiti ~,, med. him • great deal worm.. He went to the Fronton Lunatic Asylum on the advice of some of his friend., but lie could not be received without an order, lie was conscious that he was insane, and was noire rational upon that stablet than on many other things. He was stouter in body when be returned but week then when lie went there. lie never mem tioned to WO the fact that his father committed suicide. If lie were well and quiet toolay,Tie might be suicidal to-morrow—to act upon the numite of the isummisent is a dietiuguishing feature of his kind of insanity. Mr. George Cracker raid : I have known the deceased 7 or 8 years, and being in Sir. Galpin's service I have constantly Ken him. 1 know lie has been to the Asylum. I saw 111111 011 his return on Weili.eselay evening at hie own home. I hail wime convenatimi with him. He cemplaisied of • contraction of his munches from heal to feet, and said lie could not move his arms nor tie his shoes. I told him that his illness, I believed, was in the imagination, and tiled to get I,im to shake it off, lie came to work this morning. in the foundry, and he wan to go on if he wished to do a* during the day. I saw him about 10 o'clock. He complained of pain end contraction of the tumicles. He took me on mac vide and raid he could not look at the bright side of anything. 1 tried to cheer him up. I saw him again about hell an hour after that. at Mr. Frond's, being electrified. I took • shock with him. I left hint at Mr. From'''. I asked him to walk with ins in the evening, and his then complained that he had hardly any strength to stand. He would have taken hie fowler situation at Mr. Cialpin's if he were able, My opinion is that lie hails diseased imagination, and that all hie troubles and pains were imaginary. I bad no idea that he had • suicidal tenoency. Since the occurrence took place, .iave wished I had tried to gather from him why he could Ott look at the bright side of the queetion. I understand lie gained 40 lbs, weight in the Lunatie Aeyluin. I have no doubt he WAS very ill when he went away he was very much emacieted. This being the whole of the evidence the Coroner summed up, and the jury rettirned a verdict of ',..eauporary insanity."