On Insanity, And the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane
On Insanity, And the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane
Thomas More Madden
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Between two and three o'clock in the morning he came down from the loft, only half dressed, saying, *' he could not sleep as there were lights or flashes of fire outside the house." Reilly got up to see what was the matter, and was inmiediately stabbed to death by Cangley, who also stabbed Reilly's wife when she came to her husband's assistance. He then fled, having only his shirt and trousers on, and at once gave himself up at a poHce barrack some miles distant, saying, "he had stabbed Reilly...." The greatest pains were taken by the convict authorities to ascertain if, during the period of his imprisonment, he had ever shown the slightest indication of insanity, but aU the medical officers of the convict dop6ts agreed he was perfectly sane, and the prison officials in Cavan are of the same opinion. It is, therefore, evident that either he had nursed his revenge for the injury diuing nearly four- teen years, or else on the night in question some sudden impulse had roused him to commit the crime, even at the sacrifice of his own life ; but this is negatived by the fact of his having the knife in his possession.
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