How mad can an entire family be?

[Cap'n Jack]

Known as 'Mad Jack', or 'Jack the Devil', this chap chopped his woman to pieces with an axe. His entire family appear to have spent their time locked up in lunatic asylums.

'JOHN DEVLIN, Killing > murder, 25th June 1906.


Reference Number: t19060625-16
Offence: Killing > murder
Verdict: Guilty > insane
Punishment: Imprisonment > insanity
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DEVLIN, John (57, hawker) , murder of Agnes Hankers. '

[Mike Covell]

A measure of madness?

You really have not seen madness until you have come to Hull!