Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950), Tuesday 20 August 1861, Page 4
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Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950), Tuesday 20 August 1861, page 4 is . this evidence. He interfering this . always in WEDNESDAY, August 14, 1861., . in case an extraordinary manner. haas ?? There In the absence of Mr. Martin to resume the plaintiff's district. Moss. been strong party feeling in the cross-examination of Mr. the Mackenzie and Moss were on separate sides counsel called always. I gave my evidence at Numba. - ' .^GEORGE ^UNDERWOOD . ' ??'?: ALLEY .Mackenzie was -not. there. Moss was then in said I Court, on the : but not Bench. was of . she By Mr. Darvall I aM a medical practitioner, removed .' unsound mind, and be residing, at -Nowra. I remember about six ought to from the it district, as abeut was dangerous to let her be at months Henry Goddard coming . tome ago large. her... I think Mr Elyard ou the Bench. his wife, -to endeavor to get protection for was In of not having the evideuce of two He said she was in the bush, and that he had consequence further magistraites, remanded could get pro- medical she was applied to the but not men, for evidence. of He No sanity was tection for her. said she was out of her other evidence her Brown's given except opinion. Ivan who mind, and might be lost and starved, but he did Dr y, first particularly he feared her violence.; The gave evidence the time at Nowra. deposed not unsound say she could complaint that '''generally, :also was not of mind, he people made that .she . and find .the firebrands, no evidence of insanity, allowance was in habit of going about with making for said her being a Afterwards, having and one man named Montgomery, he found savage. made further enquiry, he deposed that she- was her building a fire under his house. This letter of others after: usound mind. He had- not made sufficient was written by me and signed by she apprehended. were taken first proceedings enquiry in instance was No the to enable him to first give a correct opinion. I know the of Moss before that letter. I saw her in daughter not examine her by Nowra, Goddard. It is not generally known, in the the lock-up at but I did declined to interfere, and condition. first is I of neighborhood that she under Moss' special said police; the it was of protection. of the him but he I never heard a rumour referred to the Deuch. I to referred theiur kind. and him uas Martin: have pi Biddulph interfere, Cross-examined Mr. I Cj^wl on and told him to by a the woman who anything happend and that to midwifery diploma from the. College .of the if would hold him responsible. I was in the bush I Anglice Lying-in-Hospital. am not a member was written of the This letter was reuianded N.S.W. Medical. Board, and never applied after sheto Nowra. be. frain Number My own opinion was to I am- not a member of a College of was decidedly mind, and that Surgeons, but I served full period. that of unsound my I have been she large. I upwards years the Illawarra unsafe it was perfectly for her to be at of 20 in dis communicated especially trict, with the of reside my opinion to Moss, and exception two years. I to half a mile from Moss. I wrote this letter Moss, who was Mayor then, and had been for more than two mouths. I got the signatures to the petition in two days, certainly more to Biddulph. I remember Goddard, his brother, not than a [Petition and a neighbor, tailor,. week. produced on a half sheet of named Kerr— a and a res tell tradesman— evidence- paper. I cannot whether when pectable presented giving, before Moss the in the ' other half-leaf was attached. It was not case at Nowra. There was no clerk there, absent. torn in that I presented another petition as he was Their eviileuce was that they way. felt in to the late Mayor, but I do not think I procured danger, because she was in the bush,' and danger they fire. the names of I on this piece of were in of The husband inter- any persons see fered for paper. [This -was another half-sheet with a her more than for himself, and spoke it.] number of names on But I presented it something about her having a knife, and said he with the petition, and the were would not stop in the house with her. He stated names got by my instructions. iu I had no interview with Moss with she had been Purramutta GuoLus a dangerous lunatic. It reference getting this petition, nor conver was said she stood on her daughter's to up hair, sation with him about it. He did not advise aud drove a stick down her throat, and had me to a petition. I will not swear I burned tho beds and bedding. I looked for her get up had not in a conversation with Moss about the propriety of once myself the bush, and saw her last Sunday swear, I iu getting this but if I had week a 'about half a mile up paper, to gunyah from any would rather swear I had not. I had habitation. Her daughter supplied her with not many that' food, the conversations with Moss about it ; I swear and daughter and husband were trying positively. I do not think I had more to induce her to come to Sydney. I think the than one conversation. lives miles order was then made by Biddulph and Moss for Brown two from Nowra. There is no police protection, constables her to be taken up. They were on the Bench the being scattered here and there. I.wrote to the when evidence was given. There were two Colonial Secretary 'about, the when I examinations.' .Brown the constable said she had woman got ill no redress from the Bench. I was about gone from her husband from fear of present treatment, to'' but. ten months ago, when the husband, applied the there was no evidence but on the. contrary, Bench at. Nowra for protection for his wife. The that he treated her kindly. Brown volunteered he received this evidence. He is always in this answer was "I know nothing about National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136383521 Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950), Tuesday 20 August 1861, page 4 (2) do answer he received was "I know nothing about cause conversation Moss. Tho writing wife, any with your go about your business." I never said from is on the of,this Moss'. I did not see him to Brown' after seeing her there was nothing the back write it. instructions Mr. JIoss wrote to matter with her, but I said she was as mad as a (Tho the after the - I March hare. an bible in constable about looking woman.) She had English her , two went in together hand, turned upside down, and was gabbling. I am sure these papers is letter Moss showed me he from did not have conversation with Moss before This a got effect giving the clerk at Windsor. (Letter read to .my evidence. After giving my evidence that she was committed as a dangerous lunatic on Brown did not say "Doctor, you have soon altered till the 10th October, 1857, by the Bench at Windsor.) your opinion." From Nov. 1859 the publication publication of the of the libel I scarcely exchanged words with From November, 1859, to the letter written by to Berry, Moss Moss, but when the libel was published I said Mackenzie Mr. contrary friends - on the and were not to him I will step forward and assist you, as I myself enemies— but seeing endeavour to considered it was an atrocious a tempt to crush the oppress him, rendered assistance. him. I evidence about the woman at the I my gave got sheet con- the Judge: I this Numba Court. I was there on behalf of the By paper (half That taining signatures to petition) from Goddard or husband. Moss did hot ask 'me to go. was when Richards conducted the proceedings. I had no interview with Richards as to. the. evidence I getting ... would give, nor did I tell Mr. Moss.In considered the fact the petition to Bench, I up the daughter. cannot iii' positively of a woman being the bush for months a dis- his I say whether I it district, had in possession before. I this (one grace to the and a reproach to justice and my gave of tho half-sheets) humanity. Busfield is a miller, and lives in to tho daughter to get signed; there Park-street. He had the' steam mill at Nowra. was more paper with it. arson," the woman The words was convicted of By Mr. Martin: I have the letter from Dr. are in the petition from Brown having stated she Campbell. [Letter put in and read to the effect in the that was prison for arson. I wrote to Clerk of no person of the name of Goddard had been in it, it. the Bench at Windsor about- and found that the asylum for the 13 Dr. Campbell had superintendent.] years was Mr. .Moss did not tell me been not true.