Editing William Chester Minor (section)

==Move to England and the killing of Merrett==
[[File:Picture of the Lion Brewery.jpg|thumb|The "[[Lion Brewery Co|Lion Brewery]]" where Minor shot George Merrett]]
In 1871, Minor went to London for a change of pace to help his mental condition. In 1872, he was living in Tenison Street, [[Lambeth]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000443/18720224/018/0005|title=Frightful murder in Lambeth|work=South London Chronicle|access-date=30 January 2021}}</ref> where once again he took up a dissolute life. On February 17, 1872, haunted by his paranoia, he fatally shot George Merrett, whom Minor wrongly believed to have broken into his room. Merrett had been on his way to work to support his family: six children and his pregnant wife, Eliza.

After a pre-trial period spent in London's [[Horsemonger Lane Gaol]], Minor was found [[Insanity defense|not guilty by reason of insanity]] and incarcerated at the [[Broadmoor Hospital|asylum in Broadmoor]] in the village of [[Crowthorne]], Berkshire.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Blair|first=Jenny|title=A tortured soul finds redemption in words|url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/a-tortured-soul-finds-redemption-in-words/|access-date=2021-12-02|website=medicine.yale.edu|language=en}}</ref> As he had his [[Veteran's pension (United States)|US Army pension]] and was judged not dangerous, he was given rather comfortable quarters and was able to buy and read books.<ref>{{Citation | archive-date = April 17, 2010 | publisher = Institutions | url = http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/BRK/broadmoor_asylum.htm | title = Asylums | place = UK | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100417050639/http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/BRK/broadmoor_asylum.htm | contribution = Broadmoor Asylum}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091128021718/http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/documents/William_Chester_Minor.pdf | archive-date = November 28, 2009 | url = http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/documents/William_Chester_Minor.pdf | type = biography | contribution = William Chester Minor | publisher = Record office | place = Berkshire, UK | title = Documents}}.</ref>