The Carcoar Murder

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 105, 31 October 1893, Page 2

The Carcoar Murder

DETAILS OF GLASSON'S DEFENCE. {.Per Press Association] Sydney, October 21. At the Garcoar trial, for the defence, Annie Mary Glasson, wife of accused, described her husband as most kind and attentive to men, women, and children. About March last a great change occurred in his manner. He then told her that a man owed him £200, and whenever he referred to the matter after-wards would borst out crying. His manner was altogether strange. Mrs Glasson described how, on the 17th September, when coming from church, they sat in the gardens. It was very hot, and he said, "I believe I have been suns truck." He was very ill, and complained for some time of pains in the head, frequently saying, " I am going .Bad." He would place his hands to his forehead, fall on his knees, and burst out crying, from the pain in his head. Giblin Everott, in charge of the gaol at Hay, deposed that he had known the parents of accused for years. Glasson's father left Cornwall because Mrs Glasson, senr., was out of her mind. Several of accused's mother'** people were insane, and his cousin had to be confined to an asylum for several years. Dr William Kelly, of Orange, testified that after August, 1889, accused's mother developed signs of insanity, and was in sane for months. Her son, who would suddenly burst into tears and complain of pains in his head, suffered from sleeplessness and wandered in his conversation. Probably he was suffering from mental aberration. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and on accused being sentenced to death he lay back in the dock and buried his face in his hands.