The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-18 00:00:00

THE ELTHAII MURDER.

A awe's:dock on Saturday night, amid the rapturous
• ins of • crowded mart, Edward Walter Pooh,
to any man accused of the Fabius murder, was
es
'tad. The prisoner lived with his father in Green'
and Jane Maria Clousen had been a servant in
• . use to the beginning of April. It seemed that
about two months before she had been seduced. She
went to live with Mrs. Hamilton in the same town.
On the 25th April she parted company with Mrs.
Hamilton at the corner of Luclas-strect.at 20 minutes
to seven, and next morning at • quarter-past four she
was found in Bisibrook•lisne by Constable Gunn, fear.
fully mutilated and dying. She was only able to artic-
ulate "Oh 1 my poor head," and "Let me die,"
Taken to Gay's hospital she lingered till the 30th.
The lane is only seven yards wide, and at quarter to
two the constable said he pissed through it, but neither
saw nor heard anything. On the morning of the 27th
a plasterer's hammer was found in grounds of Mordsn
College, with blood on the blunt part and the sharp
end blotchy with rest, Mr. Sparshatt, ironmonger,
ideutilled prisoner as the man who inquired for such an
instrument at his shop on the preceding evening, and
not having one he directed hiss to Thomas's shop. Ile
said he wore dark clothes, bat his son and a boy, who
were in the shop, averred he had light trouora It was
proved suits &hammer was sold that night at Thomas's,
bat the shopkeeper could not swear to whom. A comic
singer named Perrin came forward at the last minute,
and said be saw Pooh come out of Thomas's. but both
judge and Jury did not believe the folio w. Thu police
promesling on the assumption that Pools was the man
found witnesses' to swear they saw him in Kidbrooke
Luse with the girl on the 25th. William Norton,
amehman, and Louisa Pntm,9, his sweetheart, were
there at 8.30 A young man and woman passed them.
Soon after they heard • stream or two, more
like lover's play than a arll for help in mortal
peril. Then • man ran away in the direction
of Shooter's Hill, He lied dark clothes on,
was young and did not appear to have either whiskers
or moustache. He was unable to recognise prisoner.
William Chink at the same time saw a young man and
woman talking there. She addressed him as Charley,
and said "Let us go," or "Let go; let me go." The
man was about sft,„ 7in., the woman shout Mt. lb.
Did not see the man's facie, but picked out prisoner as
resembling him in stature and appearance.—Crow
examined: Did not hear any screams. Saw both the
man's hands, and was sure he had nothing in either.
Whoever the man was few will doubt the girl was
Clausen. About half-past Bor • quarter to 9on that
evening prisoner came into the shop of a Mrs. Plane,
aceilestooder on Royal-hill, said that he had run all the
way from Lewisham, and that, has :mg slipped his foot
and soiled his trousers, he wanted a olothes-brusb. A
whistle !similar to one prisoner had been accustomed
to use, was picked up within • few yards of the scene
of the murder, and when arrested on May lit spots of
blood were found upon his hat, trousers, end wrist'
bends. Dr. Letbeby found • hair 7i Inches long on pri-
soner's trousers, similar in colour and structure to de-
mised's bair,lout could not swear it was hers. The Judge:
I suppose these points of similarity might masa in the
heir of live thousand people? Witness—No doubt.—
The testimony of Lovell was completely destroyed by
the fast that, whereas he hod named ten minutes
to seven as the hem at which he had seen Pools and the
young woman walking together, Jane Maria Clausen
did not leave her friend in Greenwich until ten minutes
earlier, while the distance between the place from
which she started and the spot at which she was seen
was three miles and a half. Pools stated that he had
been at Lewisham on the evening of the murder. Such
was the story he also told to the woman from whom !
he asked the clothes brush: and several witeesses swore
they maw him on Lewisham Bridge about 8 o'clock. As
to the whistle, one exactly corresponding with it was
found in his drawer at home. All mention of a blood. I
stained Moth picked up • short distance from the scene
of the murder was suppressed by the police, and a
looks{ found upon the victim was said to have been •
resent from Pools, until the statement was disproved
by the actual donor, a man named Humphries. Thus
the police theory entirely broke down, sod the murderer
Is Mill at large. The jury were 20 minutes sonsidering the
horttlet,and when they declared Pooh "not guilty" there
same a quick burst se applause, and a general uprising,
during which the now no longer prisoner disappeared
to Join his delighted Meads. Throughout the trial his
demeanour bad done much to produce an impremion of
his Though IA observer' it was sad So see
slender, pale-faced lad, gentlemanly in manners and
intelligent of expression, arraigned on so terrible an
indictment, he betrayed no agitation. When called
upon to plead he was standing with arms folded, and
directly the ease opened he looked with unbroken calm-
ness round the court and into the gallery. During the
and hour he wrote a brief message and passed the
paper with • faint smile to his solicitor, bat did not
afterwards repeat such communications. Oooaslonally
sitting, occasionally leaning with Ms elbows on the front
of the box, but during the greater part of the day with
arms folded, he seemed keenly alive to what was pass-
ing, though not, as a Tale, markedly attentive. During
the speeches of Saturday the worn.looking youth looked
more than once at the Moak, yawned more than once,
and had the air of one who would, quite apart from
the question of the verdict, be very glad when the
whole affair was over. Although, however, his
demeanour betrayed no feeling, it was grave and defer-
ential throughout. The cheer within soon travelled
down the stairs and out of the windows, and its mean-
ing being at onoe apprehended, was taken up lustily
along the narrow street, by the two or three hundred
precise who had waited to give the acquitted youth
• greeting.
At Greenwich, a procession of men and boys, carrying
lags, had been arranged, the most convictions among
them Winsome wholly black, while others had on them
the word " Blood !" Each mooseding train, as it
arrived from London, was watched by crowds, in th
lope of seeing the arrival of Pooh, The men who
auras! the Lip were followed by • mob, who gave
%Merano* to frequent rano near and opposite the
reddens" of the parents of the accused and mobbed
She solicitor who had been instrumental in establishing
his butosencs to the satisfaction of the jury. The
Police did not interfere to stop the diagramfal scene.

The Prinos and Prioress of Wales have gone to
Germany.
HOLLOWAY'S OISTIOIT AND PILLS. —Hen Maio=
dianj&l. sad &okra are,
tazoMh the samlayesbaa. carrying off the young ea
liwriler's sold destsoys the aged. In the most souk
O, where internal median's outset be retained, the
=l4relief Will immediately reedb from rubbing
way's soothing ointment over the abdomen. The
Motion should be frequent and brisk, to Insure the
Pal••"• 110• 01 • kris podia' of the unguent. The
ointment same the ansitel peristeltis aotioo. and
eo3ths the pain. Both voisitiag and griping yield to
It, where fruits or vegetables have originated the
'Wady It is proper to remora all andigested matter
from time bowels by • modes% desert Holloway's pill'
Wore slag th•