A clear poem written by the James Headfield, which is imprisoned at Jerusalem Psychological Hospital after trying to assassinate King George III, is for the first time in a public exhibition. For his squirrel friend Jack, Headfield’s Epitaf is shown with the unseen works of the Badlum Archives in the Baitum Museum of Museum of the Baitlam Archives.
My poor jack’s epitropic. Squirrel.
The remains of my poor little jacks are these
Who, with a slight fall, broke his waist
And i myself had the opportunity
By a cat, by giving it, Freegthon ‘
Then I picked it up from the floor.
But he, sorry, “never danced any Harnepipe.
And many times I laughed at, to see him so much
I gave it so funny to sit and break the nuts.
Now in the memory of her beautiful tricks
I have prepared it, so that I do not forget it.
And that’s how he is gone. And I should go like that.
And pray to God, send it, but with a small sin.
So here is an end, of my little dancing jack
It will never be scared by a cat.
He died on Sunday morning, July 23, 1826.
James Headfield Frederick was a dragon who served at the Infantry Guards under the second son of King George III, when he was seriously injured in the fight against the Revolutionary French in the Flanders fighting in the Flanders in 1793. They were eight flew and was soon removed from the Army, but it was flawed to fly. He managed to stop the job at a Slurasmath shop, but he lost his grip on reality and until 1800 he became convinced that the end of the world was near and that God had chosen to die for the salvation of mankind.
Unable to kill himself, he decided to make sure to kill him: Kill the king of Britain. On May 15, 1800, he fired his pistol on the King in the Royal Box of the Drary Lane Theater. He missed. It immediately. He was dealt with and disarmed. When he saw the Dok of York, before dragging his former boss, he told him: “May God bless your royal greatness. I like you very well. You are a good companion.”
He was prosecuted for treason, and while he did not really question him that he had committed a crime, his barrister Thomas Erskine successfully argued that the headfield had faced religious foolishness and apathy madness. Although he was generally worthy of good behavior and clear thinking, a doctor testified to his permanent deception, possibly due to his wounds. So the headfield was acquitted on the basis of insanity. This forced Parliament to quickly intimidate the criminal crazy act on July 23, 1800. The new law, especially in retreat, so that the headfield could not just shoot the king, it seems that no one seems to be “treacherous, murder, crime” because of “such a crime” because of “such a crime”, such as “such a crime”, is not as bad as such. Fit, unless the happiness of his greatness is known.
The court saw it appropriate to imprison the headfield at Baitlam Royal Hospital. He spent 14 years in New Gate Jail after a brief escape in 1802, but then returned to Badmal until his death in 1841. With all the accounts, they were living a very stable life there. He was allowed to have a pet (cats, dogs and birds, not only squirrels) and he became a asylum seeker. He dealt with many of his visitors and drawings in exchange for sniffs and tobacco. The doctors notes that survived have declared it personally calm and stable, instead of his old deception revealed himself in his writing.
The headfield’s attempt to assassinate, whose insanity was legally described will have a long impact. Before the approval of the criminal crazy act, people who had requested not to be guilty of madness, had to conclude that they could not say good to evil, that they were empty of all kinds of understanding about their crime. It was very difficult to prove and there were only 100 madness requests between 1740 and 1800, half of which concluded the victory. Being evil was handled in different ways – sometimes the family was released, sometimes locked in mental hospitals – but by strict point of law, no one can be detained for an undeniable time or indefinite period, whether it is at risk for himself or even to others.
Headfield’s sentence led to the first state funding of “criminal crazy” facility in Badmal, and when Baitlam opened a new facility in South Warik in 1814, he increased state -of -the -art criminal crazy wards to dedicated men and women criminals. Other hospitals and shelters also received financial support for the madness of the residence.
James Headfield created several copies of his bridegroom for Jack that are preserved in the Badem Archives. One copy is on a regular display in the museum, but this second version, which he had beautifully exemplified with a palace cage filled with cannabis as well as a nut food portrait of Jack, was never shown before. Now it can be seen Between gold and wake up: Hospital dreams and viewsWhich features the work of former hospital archives.
