DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A MADMAN<\/b><\/p>\n
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUSTRALIA, 6 Sept 1884<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Great alarm was caused recently among the inhabitants of Berkeley Street, Lambeth Walk, by loud cries for help. It appears that a man named Edward Parrott , with his wife and three children, had lived for some time at no. 13 in the street. Parrott was a coachsmith but for the past seven months had been out of employment and he had in consequence become greatly depressed and had acted very strangely.<\/span><\/p>\n One morning, shortly after 10 o\u2019clock his wife left the house to go to St. Thomas\u2019s Hospital to try to get an order for his admission into that institution, leaving her husband in bed and having requested Mrs. McCausland, a widow, residing in the same house, to look after him. Mrs McCausland, who is nearly 50 years of age went upstairs to her room to bring down some needlework in which she was engaged. On returning she was met by Parrott who dealt her a heavy blow on the right hand with a knife. He then proceeded to attack her in a most ferocious manner and left her in an almost insensible condition.<\/span><\/p>\n