The Express. — 1862-07-10 (London, England)

TRIAL OF NR.. VTS.E.  (Concluded from yesterday's Exprcsa.) fierjeant Bellantana said there bad been rumours oat of boors which were wholly unfounded. One witness, the female searcher, bad stated that the prisoner had mentioned the name of "Mary." There was no such person. He thought that a prison searcher was not exactly the person who should have been selected as a nurse in a care of this description. Alter some further observations the learned counsel called the following witnesses : Mr. Richard Vise—l man a retired chemist and druggist, and live at Bayswater. lam the uocle of the prisoner. the brother of her mother. I had a brother named Peter VI" who committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind. My mother was of • very melancholy disposition, and used to wander about the roads and lanes crying. A first COll6ll of mine and other reletives,both on my mother's and father's side, have been placed under restraint. Oraw-examined by Mr. Chambers—My brother was not married. He had been • chemist and druggist, but had retared. He lived in my house, and committed suicide there. He had met with no disappointment in life. He died from taking Funk amid, and had been before committing the act in a depressed and melancholy state. He bad always been rather weak in intellect..  Dr. Hood, phvaician at Bethlehem Hospital, proved that James Aynsheril, a lent oousin of the prisoner, ma the father's side, was admitted in 11546 to the hospital and discharged uncured. All forms of insanity were hereditary. The kind of insanity of James Anyaherd was what was termed paroxysmal, which was • species of madness that ohm resulted in suicide or homicide. •  -11;e:ElisaZt;FrZnion;;TIniTo;d to various sate of eccentricity on the part of the grandfather of Mn. Vyse on the mother's side. He was called "Mad Saunders."  Mn Prick aid that the maternal grandmother d Mrs. Vye once attempted suicide, and another relative was subjotted to confinement in her own house on the ported of insanit Mr. William Dense said that he had an mutt who was also • relative of the prisoner, who was subject to fits of insanity. Mr. Prick said that Mrs. Jane Taylor of Haviland, a first cousin of the prisoner, was a lunatic. Mr. W. Edney, of Ludgate-street, boot and shoemaker, said he bad known the prisoner for some time. He made two pairs of boots for the two children. The prisoner was very much interested in their dress and appearance. I always thought that her demeanour towards her children was that of • very affectionate parent. I remember the Monday before the murder. She came to my shop and brought back the two pains of boots, sod appeared very excited. She said they were not elegant boots, as she had ordered. She was in a dreadful passion, and when I told her I saw nothing the metier with the boots she stemd her foot on the floor and said I was not to answer. She complained about her own boots, and lifted up her dress in a very extraordinary manner, 'and told me • gentleman had found fault with the toes of ber boots. She stood in • very wild state and dashed &horst the shop. She also said that if she were me she would horsewhip my men. I expressed my opinion to my foreman and shopmea that she was out of her mind. She was generally very excitable. Mr. James lam a draper in St. Paul's Church. On the 72nd May I accompanied my wife to Mn. 3`2:40 , between one and two clock, to purchase • bonnet. Vyss was upstairs, and we sent for her. She 'teemed prenlier in her manner, and did not seem willing to Weed to business. She Iso tore a flower out of • bonnet very violently, and dashed it to the ground. There seemed to& a kind of smouldering fire of temper ready to burst set, and nay opinion was that she was not in • proper state of mind.  by Mr. Chambers—Mrs. Spence found fault with the bonnet before the prisoner tore the Sower from it.  ..-Elisabeth Burkitt—l wee a servant with Mrs. Vyr for some years. I remember the death of her child, at Surbi• ton, in 1860. Mrs. Vyse came dowa when I informed her that the child re ill, and stayed with it day and night. After the death of the child her conduct was very singular, and on one occasion she threw the tea-thing Into the fire. She afterwards forgot the occurrence. Cress-examined—Mrs. Vyes wan not intoxicated at the time. In foot she took nothing stronger than milk and water while she was nursing the baby. Dr. George Merritt, examining surgeon to the Indian troope—l am the medical attendant of the prisoner. After the death of the child Mrs. \Tyr became subject to morbid melancholy with occasional fits of paroxysm. Mrs. lire always dressed with taste, and was very ladylike in her demeanour, and appeared almost unduly anxious respecting the health of her husband and children. I recommended her not to leave town, lest the cessation of her usual occupation should increase the melancholy. She is now two or three months advanced in pregnancy. I behave she was in a state of mania at the time the murder was committed. . . .  —.— Croes-examined—l ground my opinion as to her mental condition upon several circumstances—namely, herbereditary taint, her irrational impulses, the deteriorstion of her health from time to time, and her conduct throughout the affair. I have noticed her rush away in the midst of conversation with me, without amounting for her conduct. Her manner of conversation was a!so excitable, and at times strange. This was before 1 ceased to amend bar In February last. Dr. Forbes Winslow—l am a physician, and have made lunacy my study for twenty years. I have been in court during the whole of this day. Serjeant Ballantine—Having beard the evidence, what is your opinion respecting her mental condition Mr. Chambers objected to this question, and the court ruled that it could not be put. Examination continued—Under certain circumstances, ' where I knew there was a hereditary taint, I should suspect that insanity would develop itself. Crom-exaniined--It is difficult in ordinary mom to dis tingniah between a paroxysm of insanity and of ordinary neamon. Re-examined--I should take into consideration the other features of the case in forming an opinion. Dr. Copland, the author of " Copland's Medical Dietionary,” expressed hie concurrence with the last witness. This was the case for the prisoner. Mr. Chamber, having rep ied, The learned judge summed up, and the jury found a verdict of " Not guilty, on the ground of insanity." The learned judge. therefore, ordered the prisoner to be oonfined during her Majesty's pleasure.