The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1891-11-07 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SATURDAY. NOV. 7, I 897.  THE KENILWORTH TRAGEDY. If thel }i, on the body r,l but.. 11, then Rainier, Wappenbury that liamie,. ea+ nut a etre, - minded man. all 0, //1:10 .10711 AVM that 13,,te bad :1t 1,01,10! NOmeetful tal/(Mt Railli:OW. that thcy ..uarrelled and freatht about tle. I:llittPr, that ees afterwards beard s y tlmt he abuld t• fur- Ilreaer, and that after weeks of hraudiug pro...At:Wien lie carri.al out his dt. I :tin IHAV dexe ribt,l by hid brother a. sue. bit.. was nut Ur revengeful. and We. 1:• boat malice. Upon first thoughtr ...eclat° tentralicted by what bau trampired, but a little refleetioll upon the c‘id•,, that the contradiction is wore apparent than real. The Coroner. in his  atiuutting up of die testimony, panted out what constituted/ode dr re. and said that there were eases in which a verdict of seldrourder wan the proper ont, to return. however repugnant the might be. The Cowin,. desire WeR obviously to leave the jury the utmost freedom of decision, with the ftwte and the law before then, and the verdict whirl] tie y returned IVPA Nil. Rome people may rt gaol as a charitable verdict—it verdict not justified bv the stattruents to which tltcy 111.1 liateneti, hut suggcsted a wialt pwwnt die memory of the dew:awed front being atbwiateil with a doulde murder eon, mated by hint wlide in hie right 'tied. But was the vertlict really a charitable one  Blaia a.l iat.at_r,b.fluita t:17;;; temporarily ha me. on that fatal Thureday tight. A brief glance at the thi hh which ,recedeod, it will whoa- how leikely this was. r'vei'dea4'quurar'r%:,Tl.7fe'Lliril'lre':at:Z Of the quarrel W said to have been BOMB dierespectful remark made by Brewer about Rainbow, and the personal encounter did ; not settle the matter. Whatever it was . that Brewer said it seems to have rankled Rainbowie mind. Ile became moodv anti pelf-ab.orbed ; Ile grew careless aboiCt the : ordinary occupations of hit life, oue of the witnesses went sa far as to use the word reek. It,. to describe his attitude towards work. lie did not care whether lie did it or left it undone. This wait on for weeks. If Rainbow had tiot been ausually reserved man it Iyould e been, perhaps. more noticeable ; it was. it was reniarked that his reserve had developed into strangenese. All this tend. to &tow that the man's mind was beemnibg diseased upon the matter of the quarrel between Brewer and liini• soli. On Wedneeday he weat to Newmark., and an Thursday he lay in bed till intliday. By that time, evidently, the inanity which tbe bry describe at temporary had mastered him. He did no work on Thursday, but looked up all the bills and lettere and gave them to his eiater with the remark that that was the last time he should set; to them. Ile also told his mother that was "done with it now," and later in the day, vvhen be said he was going to see Brewer, elle attempted to dissusde hint. Ile would go. however i he said lie inust go. Tile awful result of his visit wits etartling in its soddenness and incomprehensible in its absence of motives—it is not quite so inexplicable now. The acts prreeding it were undoub.dly the acts of a madman. Of couree It is possible for such a state of (Maga LO exiat pa was au,. gusted by tile Coroner in hie summing Ile aeliwl the jury to decide, ° whether after committing a serious and fatal creue, driven by what he thought might be the con. sremenere of that crime into It frenzied and frantic state of mind. Rainbow determined to take his ow n life. and ['PIM, home to do It; or whether he had made up his mind before he to Kenilworth that he would take the life ,of that a on, man Ids own life too." The tark • t,,.• Jur, tlwrvfore was to decide wiwt,wr ww. sane when he shot Brewer and boa. when lie shot himself or whethre lie was mane all through. It waz admittedly a difficult teak. but the I justified the jure in reetiiiiy tla ~,Cll.lsiOn that the suicide waz obi:tribal N31.1.•r en insane inquire. whaler, mai bite n Om state of Mind in which he did an-iri. It is impossible to attempt to find , tie, lino between sanity and in• it Ira r. etc from the• statenten. now trade Oat Rainbow. may have been out of iii• mind before In. There'd,