The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-07-29 00:00:00

with Mrs. Cox was that the intimacy wasan innocent one. I
did not see Mr. Bravo between the 6th of January and the
20th of April this year. I had been in Italy. Mr. Bravo was
an abstemious man. I heard from my daughter while I was
abroad, and after the receipt of those letters. I ttil
remained uuder the impeesston that she and her husbaad —l6
were both thoroughly happy. When Mrs. Cox met ins -
at the station I askod her what was the matter.
When we got into the cerriage she sald, "Charlie
asset to his room as usual, and the housemaid came sod told a
me he was calling for hot water. I went to him and he raid,
'I have taken poison: don't tell Flereuce.' She told me
that ehe had given him hot water and mustard and water, -'lll
and had sent for medical men, and farther, that F.orence
did not know what he had said to her. Whea I arrived
at the Priory ley impression was, from Mrs. Cox's state-
-tents, that my son-in-law had attempted t 3 take Ins own
life, and that was my impression when I went to his
bedside. He was then within a few hours of his
death, and was suffering greet pain. 1 said, "Charlie
what did you take?' That was after Sir W. Gull •
had asked, the same qnestion. I put my hand on his
arm, and asked hint the qutstion. He turned away ine-
patiently, and iatd, " I don't know." I was in the room at
the latter pert of the second interview with Sir W Gill. when
Sir W. Gull suit "What have you takei ? ' Mr. Bravo said,
"Laudanum," and take repeated, "I took it myself" Sir W. • •
Gull said, " I know you have taken laudanum, hut that
will not account for your symptoms You have taken
something else." Mr. Bravo said, "No ; landenum " I
first heard of his having taken laudanum to soothe
pain from Mrs. Cox, when I was in the carriage.
understood that she referred to his ralebirg his gams;
He asked me to kiss him in his dying momenta.
When I went out of the room I said to my son, "I think
he has something en his mind" The prayer was said .
after his dente' thee he had taken anythine but leudanum.
I think he knew that he was eying because he prayed so fer-
vently. I saw no trace of any had feeling or jealous y
in no
' towards his wife. I have no personal knowledge as to how
ivt
ay ele poisoneid
aleas i administered
t. Frem mke
olwwish I l
e should not. dlc athinku
was a likely man to commit suicide He was looking for Card .
toe viait from Mr. Campbell andmyselt. The impression I had.
•
after my drive with Mrs. Cox was that he had taken chloro-
form as well as laudanum She told me she thought it was
chloroform and laudanum he had taken. lam living at the
Priory now.
Tee court then adjourned for luncheon, after which—
Mrs e Campbell, examined by Mr. Murphy, said: I have
heard Mr. Bravo say he wialfed he ceuld annihilate Dr.
Gully. When Sir W. Gull questioned Mr. Bravo about the
lagelanum, he seemed ti have something on his mind When
be turned away impatiently from my question, I thought it
was because he did sot wish to say anything more *trout
it. I heard Mrs. Cox was to go out to Jamaica because her -
aunt was leaving her some property teem I beard that
before Mr. Bravo's !line's It was not in copses
quence of any wish of my soe-in lew to get rid of
her that she was going is Jemeioa He always spoke of
her to me in very nice terms. I think he did nii wish to
have her back after she came from Jemeica. as he a ished
to save the expense. Me Beeves on more than one
occasion expressed his dislike to Dr. Gully. Be knew that
my daughter had proposed that Dr. Gully should have the
neighbourhood. he did not tell eue where the anonymous
letter reached him. He did no•-, tell me the contents, but he
said they were very disegreeable. I alvised him to pay no
attention to it. Mr. &lave was a passionate man on certain
occesions, and I have seen him livid with rage on slight emcee-eel
Bien,. Mu. Cex first oegatt the conversation about the laurel
water: I was bitting in Mrs. Cox's room, where my daughter
was in bed. Sirs. Cox went to her cupboard and said,
" Here in the laurel water, " and Mrs. Bravo said, "1 shan't 3.
want it nose; yoa need not keep it." lit
By the Attorney-General: My sitter Mrs Thomas Camp---d
bet: may have been in the room at the time it the couverta!lon
about the laurel water, because people were passing in and •
out. I think Mrs. C x was preparing her things to go away e
when she noticed tha laurel bottle. My daughter told me
that Mrs. Cex had brought the laurel water to her to make
her sleep, that it came from Dr. Gully, and that it had come *
from Mrs. Cox's house in London. The tenant in Mrs. Co*
house haa left, and she went to London nearly every day. -I
haver knew before the conversation what were the virtues of
laurel water. I did net hear that Mr. Bravo p iieed sleepless
nigh-s. The estrangement with my daughter was caused
solely by her intimacy with Dr. Gully. It was in conse•
quence of her earnest assurance that she would have no
farther communication with Dr. Gully that I was reconciled
to her. Mrs. Cox knew of that iissuranee I thought it strange
that either my danehter or Met Cox should have been in coin-
mnnication with Dr. Gaily slier the assurance she had con-
veyed to me. I forgot snout the laurel water when I spoke to
the solicitor to the Treasury. My daughter recently told me
that Mrs Cox had thrown away the laurel water, ant that it
was of no tne to her. Mrs. U. Bravo told me a week ago, I
think, that some one had been Bey ing that Mrs. Cox had ob-
tained some laurel water. Mr. Brooks told me that I should
be examined about the Ismael water. I did not hear that
several other bottles had been emptiest T did not look into
the cupboard to see what other bottles was there. I heard
my daughter say thet he came into her room and asked what
was good for the neuralgia. See said, try the laudanum.
He took a bottle wilt of her cupboard and rubbed his
gums. That occurred several days before his illness.
C don't know whet became of the water bottle. I
heard Mrs. Cox say that she met -Dr. Gully going to the
station several times. I did not 'hetet her say whether she
had seen him at her house 16. Lancaster-road. I heard
that she had applied to him to know what was a
remedy for the Jamaica fever. I told Mrs. Cox I was
vary sorry she went to Dr. Gully on the Thursday to
inquire fur 'my remedies for Mr. Bravo. I think my son-
iu-saw was as xams that Mrs -Cox should LOG live with
him on account of the expense, but for no other reason.
Mrs. Cox went with my daughter in August, 1672. It did
net occur to me to remonstrate with etra Cox about her
cot ivers ation with Dr Gully. 1 believed my daughter and Mr.
Bravo were living very happily together, aud that each
was very fond of the eteer. 1 think it was a marriage
for love; she gainea nothing by it. At the time of the
marriage his father gave him £lOO. She told me he cum-
pleknea at times about Dr. Gully; he was violent at
times. She never tele me she had ceased to like him;
she thought him very penurious and saving. She
told me that when the gardener asked fer a load of
peat or anything fur the garden he would get into a
great rage and threaten to throw up the garden. I never
heard her say she was disgusted. She told me that she and
her husband had had some disputes because his mother did
not wish her to have a lady's maid or the cobs, but she said
She had always been accustomed to them. She thought it
unreasonable that Mrs. Bravo should interfere with matters
affecting her household. See blamed her husha.ne for
listening to his mother's complaints. At Brighton my
daughter was attended by Dr. Dal and another medical
mat, who sat up with her. Captain Becardo and my
daughter lived pretty happlly together up to 1;2.69, when he
was sober. Sirs Ricardo went down to Malvern in March
or April, 1870, and Dr Gully was then sabre ea. In August of
the saute year Caetalu and Mrs Rlcardo a cut down to Mai-
vern again, arid they lived in a furnished house. 1 went
down to fete' her away, aed I found her, with an unmarried
daughter of mine, at Dr. Gully's, the Priory, where they
hail gone for the night for shelter tams Ceotain 11icerdo's
violence. I took my daughter to Buscot Ido not know
that Captain B.icardo at the time compeaued of my
(laugh-tees, intimacy with Dr. Gully. Captain Ricardo
was ill thee. Dr. Coates said he was sufferiug from
an excess of stimulants' I never beatd from Dr. Ceates
or anybody else that Captain Ricardo was in almost a
complete comatose &tete, and apparently suffertug from an
overdose of some narcotic. Dr. Coates to.d me that Captain
Ricardo had a great debility of the stomach, and frequently
vomited. Reused to drink wine and brandy. My daughter
heard he was so ili in November, 1870, that she sent
a doctor to him from Worcestersuire. I did not tee
that Worcester doctor at all. When Captain Ricardo
got into difficulties be stayed at Buscot for
five months, awl he told me he had vomited as
frequently as six y times a day. He admitted it was
caused by drinking, and le tr )mised me to give it
up, which I think he kept for nearly four mouths. He did
nut vomit during the four months; tie was a different per-
son. I think that was in 1867 or lee& I n. ver heard that
Mrs. Ricardo was taken ill on one occasion in the train and
was attended by a doctor. My impression was that when I
saw my daughter on the 20th of April she was not aware that
Mr. Bravo fled said he hat taken poison. Neither Mrs C.
Bravo nor Mrs. J. Bravo knew it until Sir W. Gull arrived.
Mrs. C. Bravo learnt from Mr. J. Bravo on the Tuesday after
her husbanu'a death that antimony was the ceute of
death. My daugeter said she had never heard of antimony
before. •

By the Jury: I was almost the last to get into the room at
Sir W. Gull's interview, and did not hear the whole of the
questions. Mr. Bravo made no obj,ction to Mrs. C,,x before
the marriage. I understood that Mrs. C.,x was a friend of
the Bravo family. Mr. C. Bravo had a manta for money-
making. My daughter could not soon after her marriage
receive her income on account of the change of name, and a.
stun of £lOO was borrowed from Mr. Bravo, sea, and after-
wards repaid to that gentleman's bankers. I saw Mr. C.
Bravo liv id with raga two or three times ; about some
furniture, and the wine before dressing for dinner
ta:ren by my daughter. f had no communication with Cap-
tain Ricardo after he left London for Malvern in the autumn
of IS7e. I did not see him after that. Jdo not known if Mr.
Bravo's life was insured. The final interview between Dr.
Gully and Mrs. Bravo took place about ten days before the
marriage, and after she wrote the letter saying she would
never see him again. I think Mrs. Cox lot the house in
Lancaster-road as a furnished house. Captain Ricardo even
in his drinking bouts taxed Mrs. Ricardo with being friendly
with Dr. Gully.'
_ .

By Mr. L3svls : When I went to the Treasury and made a
statement, I did not say that Mr. C. Bi•avo ever meutioued
the name of Dr. Gully to hii wile. it is since his death that
I heard from Mrs. Bravo and Mrs. Cox that be had mentioned
the name of Dr. Gully to her. They said it made Mr. Bi avo
unhappy whenever he passed Dr. Gully's house. I remained
at the Priory from the death to the Wednesday week. I
discussed the theory of suicide with my daughter and Mrs.
Cox, but Ha the probability of murder, because I never
supposed such a thing. Neither of them suggested
murder. About a fortnight after his death a re-
ward was lf,red, of £5OO to find out where Mr. Bravo
had bought antimony. My daughter did net take any steps
to titeover whether Mr. Bravo was murdered She heard
that Mr. Bravo, Ben., had put on a detective. Nothing was
dohe on our side. I thought the £.500 ould be a sufficiently
large sum to induce the person selling the antimony to con-
fneasn.swint.terl
refused
ttboaotvatetearptaCins
dents which were mutusliy incurred.
suggested that the reward should be fr
pltrcardt'esadrdecAlls adnerth'onsey
might ba‘o got suggested that Mr. Bravo
have helped himself to it,
By Mr. Gorat: Mr. Walter', a mad
i_iFyarldrroainumggdnehtn.ra
father's stables; that be might,
Mr. Bravo, sea,
his stables for his horses. 1
told my husband
,shwtashatuihde kaefritetrani,,iwmaosnydia.in
was tie cause of etr. C. Bravo's
t hare got .abuht,arlim°snaYid he migh g u!8 father's
'ghtbtirnric:
covered
idthyadt
tfoounDrd. Giatlinyotoe,l.seyavme
atthieeruttoi
eebrfneintreasdhtenhe marriage I wished my dauenter
stables.othol,:rhiyhae.
adorn. offer
t°ll°lll!:STwierasi:f . James: I saw Captain Ricardo in a state of great
asin
debility on many °cors lie
. own words to mw
,were that
he was vomiting silty times a day. This habiMmmeuced
soon after he lett the Guards, which was kbaut eighteen
w
months att,e. his marriage When Mr. W. Campbell sa Dr.
Coates at Malvern the latter told him that Captain Ricardo
ciu:d not survive another attack, as the coats of his stom.aala
were worn out.
Sir It James: I should not have asked this question if it
had not been for this examination of Mr. LW* but at the
time you heard of the refusal to pay Captain Ricardo's debts,
did you also hear that at the time of his death at Cologne he
was accompanied by a lady there, and did his wife know
that ?—Yee.
Be died in the presence of this lady and of his servant
Fietd ? —I believe to.
Atm it was then she refused to pay the debts ?—Yes.
Sir 11. James then read the statement made by Mrs. Camp.
hell at the Treasury, which was sta,iiar to Lb e sviderc a she
has given at this luquest.
By Sir H. James: Dr. Gully had a homoeopathic establish-
ment, and also a water establishment at Ma vele). Mrs. C.
Bravo tigges tad her remedies for Mr. Bravo on the Thursdlsy
altar eice medical attendants had given up all hope. From
what I knew of the connection between my daughter and
Dr. Gully, it would not he likely that Dr. Gully's name could
be mentioned as having suggested remedies. lam not aw oe
what my daughter told Mr. Bravo whims 'minced him to say
that she had told Lim all and had acted nobly.
Bythe Jury: It
glto was o
Jamaica.
By before the wedding that
hirr e..x should
I never
arranged fur Mrs. Cox to go.ln the
summer.
leave Mr.
heard that it had been proposed to Mrs. Cos to
By Me Murphy: I heard after the wedding that It was
Bravo and that she had refused to do so.
The cost then adf

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