Miss Bagster's case was concluded on Saturday afternoon ; when
the Jury, after a consultation of three quarters of an hour, returned the fol- Miss Bagster's case was concluded on Saturday afternoon ; when the Jury, after a consultation of three quarters of an hour, returned the fol- lowing verdict— •
" We find that Rosa Matilda Maria Bagster, otherwise Rosa Matilda Maria Newton, is of unsound mind, so as not to have sufficient government over herself, her manors, messuages, lands, tenements, goods, and chattels; and that she has been so from the 1st of November 1830."
Twenty of the Jurors sinned the verdict. They seem to have been chiefly moved by the fact, that time witnesses who gave testimony to the lady's weak state of mind had known her for years, while those who spoke to her sanity had only seen her on one or two occasions. There was an alternative, also, strongly put by Mr. Pollock : by finding Miss Bagster sane, the Jury gave her up, fortune and all, to the discretion of Mr. Raymond Newton—by finding her insane, they gave her up to the discretion of the Lord Chancellor of England; a difference cer- tainly. [We gave this paragraph in our second edition last week. The verdict has given rise to a great deal of discussion.]
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