Richard Wright - UPDATE

[Margaret in Burton]

1911

Charles Marshall Wright aged 29 Plasterer born Ilkley, Yorks
Margaret Ellen Wright aged 28 born Orton, Westmorland
Nora Ellen wright aged 1 born Harrogate, Yorks

married 4 years 1 child only, none dead.

living 3 Archie St, New Park, Harrogate

[Margaret in Burton]

I have Robert and Mabel in 1911.

58 Chatsworth Place, Harrogate

Robert Wright aged 32 a Barman in a Public House born in Saltburn, Yorks
Mabel Wright (wife) aged 25 born in Duffield, Derbyshire
Alfred Clifford Wright (son) aged 3 born in Harrogate
Evelyn Wright (daughter) age 1 born Harrogate
William Clifford (wife's brother) aged 12 born in Duffield

Robert and Mabel had been married 3 years, 2 children (no deaths)

Stella

If you don't have this I'll email the image to you.

[Margaret in Burton]

Here is dad William in 1911 with new wife Mary Hannah

21 Towers Street, Harrogate

William Wright aged 67 a tin plate worker born in Leeds, Yorks
Mary Hannah Wright aged 46 born in Thorner, Yorks

they had been married 14 years and no children

[Margaret in Burton]

Death of William

William Wright
Knaresborough
1918 aged 74
Jun qtr 9a 149

I'm struggling to find Hester in 1911. I can't find a marriage either. I wonder if she was in an asylum then and was only listed by initials.

[Mary from Italy]

Not necessarily - my great-aunt was in an asylum, and shown by initials only in 1901, but by her full name in 1911.

Thank you Marg - sorry, been sidetracked from the computer! I'm still not sure about this Charles Marshall. Yes Robert and Mabel at 58 Chatsworth Place is correct - I used to stay there with them as a child occasionally. So Richard's father William remarried then, and had died by the time Richard did the murders? Yes Marg, would like the images - thank you. I'll pm you my email address. It's a mystery about Hester though.

[Merry]

Article 4 - 9th Feb 1825

EXPERTS ON PATHOLOGICAL DRUNKENESS

The three doctors called from England did not appear with the resumption of the trial. Instead, their written statements were admitted as evidence and they testified to the presence of imbecility and insanity in the Wright family.

A German professor, Dr Von Müller-Hess, an eminent criminologist and specialist in criminal jurisprudence, had been examining Richard's mental condition. He said the eleven pints of beer consumed by Wright before the crime contained a very high level of alcohol; enough to cause a person of Wright's mental inferiority to become pathologically drunk. Pathalogical drunkenness differed from ordinary drunkeness in that following a period of heavy drinking and sleep, the individual would have little recolection of their actions. This would explain why Richard believed he only fired one shot, and was a mental aberration. He also admitted that pathalogical drunkeness can follow a period of ordinary drunkeness. A second specialist, Professor Aschaffenburg, gave similar evidence.

Counsel objected to the question whether the witness believed the accused had committed the crime whilst in a state of "transitory mental bewilderment". However, the court allowed the question if the reply related to actual observation of the prisioner, as which witness replied "Yes." Witness further expressed that it was his opinion that the accused did not know the nature of the act he had committed.

The court adjourned.

Reuter.

[Merry]

If Hester had been in an asylum for 15 years in 1925 then that takes us back to about 1910 and she would have been about 22 years of age, so probably not married. How come I don't easily see a death for her, presuming she stayed in the asylum indefinitely?

Oh cripes, is this her?

Name: Hester Wright
Birth Date: About 1889
Death Registration Month/Year: 1970 Q2
Registration district: Staincliffe
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 2d
Page: 956

and they didn't even know her date of birth. How very sad.

So would that have made her about 21 yrs old when she went into the Asylum then? Oh yes, just re-read your post Merry. She could possibly have been married then - just. Am wondering if they have spelt her name correctly, it could have been Esther.

[scuda]

Not necessarily - my great-aunt was in an asylum, and shown by initials only in 1901, but by her full name in 1911.

I'm not suggesting that Hester was in Surrey in 1911, but there are many patients of Cane Hill Lunatic Asylum, Coulsdon, Surrey, listed just by initials, so it was still being done that way, even in 1911. Check Reference RG14PN3281 RD39 SD1 ED10 SN9999 to see what I mean (or just search for H S living in Croydon)

scuda