A very ghastly double murder and suicide took place in
Bermondsey on Tuesday, which appears to have been due to delirium tremens. A man of the name of Taylor, whose violence had forced his wife to leave him, and whti was living with her sister (the widow of a man named liebden), by whom he had had a daughter, murdered his mistress and daughter and cut his own throat, besides nearly killing one of the boys. When taken to Guy's hospital, where they did n.it know of the crime he had committed, and where he appeared perfectly sane, he was very nor committing a fresh homicide, having leaped up from his bed in a frenzy and attacked some of the attendants with the iron weights of a clock. The inquest is not yet ended on the woman and her daughter, nor is it yet known whether the boy can recover ; bat Taylor himself, if not already dead, is certain to die. There is-no peculiarity in the case except its excessive ghastliness of result,— and the fact that it is rare, we believe, for people in delirium tremens to attack others. They often attempt suicide, and always think the whole world are conspiring against them; but usually they are too much unmanned by their terrors to take the aggressive.
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