Ernest Forward, alias Southey, the baker who in his mad
vanity thought all men in high position criminals for not recog- nizing his greatness, and at last murdered three illegitimate chil- dren, his wife, and his legitimate child to make a sensation, has been condemned to death. The defence of course was moral insanity, the witnesses local doctors, one of whom thought Southey insane because he had no idea of right and wrong and had ideas like Mr. Mill. What those ideas were, however, he could not state. Surely that gentleman must have been a contri- butor to the Record. It is stated that Southey wrote to his mis- tress, Mrs. White, telling her how he meant to put her children to death as a punishment for leaving him. Southey was quiet and Collected under his sentence, " spellbound " according to one re- porter, " stolid " as it seemed to another. •
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