The Mad-Doctors of Calne: Mayors and Murderer

The historical account of true crime by psychiatrist, and medical historian, Dr Peter Carpenter.

I heard the scuffle on the landing. I jumped out of bed, opened the door, and in she rushed, exclaiming Master he has murdered me! I shall die! I shall die! I closed the door and bolted it Its 1859 and the murderer was previously a kind gentle surgeon who was seen as one of the pillars of society one time Mayor of Calne, magistrate and operator of the Calne Lunatic Asylum.

All the details and analysis of the murderer and his family.