Catmore

“Dr Allen had first treated Carkesse at his private establishment, Finsbury Madhouse, even sending in his cat, Catmore, to eliminate the rats and mice that swarmed in his cell.33 As the authorities refused to declare Carkesse sane until he had stopped writing the poetry in which he lampooned his doctor for running Bethlem and a private madhouse both Bedlams does haunt, like the Louse34, Carkesse seems to have reached something of an impasse.”

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“Mr Hudson then drove to a remote spot in Catmore near Chievely where he died after severing an artery in his left arm.”

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“But his body was found this morning, parked up not far away on the ancient Ridgeway trackway at Catmore in West Berkshire.”

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