JOHN PALING,

Aged about forty-five. This man was tried and convicted of the wilful

murder of a young woman who was his sweetheart, and a suspicion of her

inconstancy was said to have prompted him to the horrid act. But he was

found to be insane in his intellects, and was sent here upwards of five

years since. He is of a sullen and morose disposition, and it requires,

of course, much caution to avoid offending him; but in general he is

tolerably well-behaved, and evinces no obvious symptoms of insanity.

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