21 DECEMBER 1861, Page 1
In the second case the Master in Lunacy has been
endea- vouring for a week to ascertain what extent of cubbishness can be taken to indicate insanity. Mr. Windham, heir to Felbrigg Hall, and a great property of 15,000/. a year, is suspected of lunacy because he is dirty and uproarious, shouts without reason and laughs without meaning, assaults strangers, dresses like a railway guard, and makes love to every woman he meets, without reference to character. The defence is that he is simply an eccentric, spoiled lad, ex- tremely deficient in ability: and this as yet seems the sum of the evidence.
