Probably the newspaper clamour would not have arisen if there
-had not -been a striking contrast between the -reprieve of True -and the execution of the boy Jacoby—he was little more than a boy—who murdered Lady White. We cannot help feeling ourselves that there was nearly as much doubt about Jacoby's sanity as there was about True's. According to the evidence, Jacoby was alarmed by sounds of knocking in the night and armed himself with a heavy instrument. He then wandered about the hotel where he was employed, and went for some reason or other into Lady White's room. Seeing a person in the room he struck at her, as it were, blindly and in a kind of hysteria or panic. The bare facts,suggest insanity, and it is not to be wondered at that the public was agitated at the spectacle of the one man going to his death and the other to the comparative comfort of Broadmoor.
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