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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

There was no picture there. Ho
was working his fingers without
any apparent object, and soon
eommenced pulling the hair out
of his head. His eyes were wan-
dering, and he seemed to me evi-
dently to be out of his right
mind. He had only been sick
two or three days. Then, on the
only two occasions on which I
saw him in this condition I was
a member of the same company.
‘He often showed me his private
correspondence; frequently show-
ed me letters from bis relatives
and from a young lady, a Miss
B. He told me that some young
mau had forged a letter purport-
ing to be from the young lady’s
father, saying in the letter that
he wished him (Worrell) to have
nothing more to do with bim-
self or family; and he said, when
he received the letter, it excited
him so much that it threw him
into fits; and he occasionally had
fits from that cause. His mind
to be absorbed in the sub-
of his love affair; he often
ialked about it, and frequently,
when talking on that enbject, he
became unusually excited. “My
opinion is that his decasional de-
rangement was from the cause
of his love affeir, and not from
sickness,

Dr, William H. Curran, Live
in Kentneky; became acquainted
with Worrell in the spring of
1851. His character for peace
and order was very good, so far
as I observed myself or heard
others speak. Could not under-
take to say that he was insane,
He was sometimes eccentric in
his conduct, and I have heard
his eccentricities made the eanse
of remark. On one occasion I
was called to see him profession-
ally, when I found him in a vio-

lent epileptic convulsion. Was
at that time and am now a prac-
ticing physician. Can recollect
no occasion where euch manifes-
tations were made, except the epi-
Jeptic convulsion before men-
tioned, when he was (as is gen-
erally the ease) for the time
being affected in mind. The con-
vulsion was a very severe one,
and I was then informed by his
parents that he had been afiliet-
ed in a similar way before, more
than once. He was generally po-~
lite, kind and liberal; he ‘was re-
markably fond of ladies’ society.
Am a graduate of the Ohio Med-
ical College at Cincinnati.
Robert W. Raisin, Have known
Worrell for 25 or 26 years. Hia
general character was good; was
very fond of the tociety of la-
dies and was a general favorite;
a remarkably polita man and
very respeetfal in his deport-
ment; very Hberal and kind to
his associates; neat in his dress
and sometimes over nice, Having
known him since he waa a child,
always considered him a wild and
eceentrie youth up to manhood;
at one time about, 10 years since,
I was going over Chestertown
Bridge, Md.; he saw me coming
in my carriage and drew up the
draw, which placed me in great
danger, and at the same time I
knew that he loved me as the
warmest friend, and had not the
slightest design to injure me.
This is one of his common freaks
of mind most mysterious. He
has manifested at times unex-
pected and uncalled-for turbn-
lence in movement. I have seen
him ’on frequent occasions where
it has apparently appeared to me
there has been unsoundness of
mind. I don’t know to my knowl-
ledge whether he has been afflict-

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