Excerpt from Inquest on Mary Boyd, Held at Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto, 5th and 6th May, 1868: Evidence and Correspondence in Full, With Comments of the Toronto Press It will probably be asked by many, why such delicate and painful matters should be placed before the public at all; this sin does not lie upon me, but upon those who have attacked me and whom I am answering. I should have been content with a much briefer defence had the vindication of my son and myself been my sole object. For the length to which I have been led, I must plead in justification my urgent desire to redeem. From foul slander the fair fame of a modest and virtuous young woman. She is now dead and beyond the reach of scurrilous newspapers, but her good name and memory are doubtless dear to those whom she has left behind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.