The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-06 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF RISK-ALLAH.

The long-pending and 'sighly-lnt.teetin trial of Risk
Allah for the murder of Mr. Readly hal At length
concluded. As was, indeed, almost inevitable after the
evidence for the accused, the verdict is one of aoquiial,
and the trey in whioh the young Englishmen met his
death must henceforth remain smug unsolved mysteries
or undiscovered crimes. We say this, because though
tho posaihility of suicide was established, nothing like
'actual occurrence or even its strong probability was at
all conelusively shown ; so that while the evidence was
abundantly sufficient to secure the escape of the primate
it was by no mean adequate to the solution of the enigma..
Thu trial is, however, one of the most noteworthy that
has occurred on the continent since the days of the
Due de Praslin, or of Madame Lamle. The young
man whose unties- ly end gave rise to this pretreated
Inquiry was known as Charles Readly, but at his birth
lILS registered at Greenwich as James William Mukha.
roasessed of considerable property, he bad been travel ing
In company with the accused, a colonel in the Turkish
army, honorary physician to its embassy, and the
possessor of several valuablo deoorations. The
two were at the Hotel du Rhin, Antiverp, on the 30th
of March, 1885, both occupying beds on the same door.
Shortly before his death it appeared that Readly had
placed in Risk Allah's hands a sum of n,000f., and it
was suggested that the murder had been committed in
order to obtain uncontrolled possession of this money.
The antecedents of the Turkish physician were tuif -
able, for be was found to have consorted with a thrice-
convicted forger, in one of whores illegal sets it was
Imputed that he bid been an accompliee. These (dream-
stances were deemed sufficient to justify his arrest soon
after Readly's decease; but his explanations were so
plumb's that he was speedily released, only tote subse-
quently arrested and tried on a charge of having
murdered Readly, who was not only his companion but
his stepson, he having married the young man's mother
In 1857. This lady died in 1860, leaving to her husband
be bulk of her fortune, amounting to R 215,000; bat she
had settled 0000 on her son, which was to revert to
herself or her representatives if he died before sttaining
his majority. Had Redly lived th-ee or four mouths
longer than he did this money would have become abso-
lutely his, but by his violent death the whole became
vested in his step-father, as representative of his wife,
the settler of th •s roperty. There was alto a policy of
insurance to the amount if mono to which Risk-Allah
became entitled, so that it was considerably to Isis
pecuniary advantage that the young man, for whom, it
.is said, be had never shown much affection, should die
about the time he did. Motive being thus supplied, it
was shown that Readly had for eight or ten days been
suffering from indisposition of such a character that his
stepfather said he should not be surprised if he were to
bang himself or throw himself out of the window, but,
rather inconsistently, he took with his own hands a
fowling-piece into the sick man's room. At three o'clock
on the morning of his death Baldly was alive, for he
rang his bell, and was seer, by the waiter, who answered
it, leaning against his bed. Five or sic hours after Risk.
Allah knocked at his door, but receiving no reply, he
sailed for help, and, entering through an adjoining
room, they found poor Rewily lying on the mattress,
quite dead, but still warm. A chest of drawers
usually put against the door by which the two
rooms communicated, had been moved away, and
Risk-Allah was the lirst to enter the appartment,
and to pounce upon a paper near the window bearing
the word., "I have done it," and to suggest that, "the
wretched gun had done it aIL" Poor Readly's hands
were under the bed-clothes, and the doctors affirmed
that from the nature of the wounds, death must have
been instantaneous, and voluntary movement impossible,
while a number of experts in eremrins deposed that the
deceased could only have bred the gun himself by resting
it upon the pillow, which, consisting of feathers, must
have been fired by the charge. Therefore, said the pro-
secution, some other hiusd bred the gun, and against
none was the presumption arising from motive and con-
duct so strong as against the prisoner. It must be ad-
mitted, however, that the case was one of presumption,
and though possibly of strong presumption, it fell rely
far short of proof against the prisoner. Interrog.ted by
the President of the Court in a way savouring rather of •
counsel's smartness in cross-examination than of &judge's
calmness in • momentous inquiry. Risk-Allah srldoiss
tripped and faltered. Andtbere see. estdoubte tly
sonic circumstances in the history of the deceased not in-
compatible with the suicide theory. Though a man
generally of moral habits, and evened religious feelings. lie
was sad to have seduced &young woman some time before
his death, and he had subsequently been rejected be •
lady to whom he had made honourable advances, 1.0 that
he had suffered alike from remorse of conscience and
wounded pride on • matter upon which young fellows
of orie-and.twenty are always abnormally sensitive. To
a degree which would shook the proprieties of an English
lawyer, all manner of gossip and hearsay detrimental to
the prisoner was admitted as evidences for the prosecu-
tier., so that had he been convicted it would have been
bard to say whether seldom* or prejudice chiefly om-
tributed to that result. How greatly the pruceduro
differed from our own we may judge from such episodes'
as Risk-Allah's rising to protest against the assertion
that he had no right to wear his decorations, the specu-
lations of the chief of poll e at Antwerp on the hotel.
keepers "accent of conviction,' the repetition of con-
versations with divers persons apropos dos hews, thn
story of the " one unanimous cry among the waiters, it
in Risk-Allah who has done it." But against all this
there was the positive and eirennistantial testimony
giro with special and peculiar emphasis by disinterested
witnesses that the death was the result, not of murder,
but of suicide. Equally decided, though more open to re-
mark sod exception, was the solemn asseveration of •
barristerial expert that the paper found in the room was
In Readly's writing, and that it was written with the
Pen found in his inkstand. A witness was called shoo
'leerily's medical attendant had appoioted to catch too
patient, and a number of collateral feats were proved
which seemed to render the piimner'sps2 or inn,
ee nce a mere balancing of very nicely probabili-
ties. But the great sensation scene was the brinetig in of
Readley'A bed, and proving by ocular demonstration that
his suicide was not so impossible as had been represented.
When this became apparent an **quite' sr.s amertreb'e,
and the subsequent proceedings were little more than
needless demonstrations of %a already foregone *mein-
don, or of unavailieg endeavours to controvert it when
established. Under these circumstances the Belgian
jury did exactly what an English jury would hau done.
They acqiitted the prisoner of the charge against him,
thus relegating the death of the unfortunate Charles
Busily to the eategory of Insoluble problems and unex•
plained pussies.

LONDON MARKETS.

BY IIPREBB di BLIKT— IIIC TELINIRAPB.

(PROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

11.0114.412. TE, MONDAY. Nov. 6.
Tbo 'apply of boili Inglisb sod Fordo whirl mod.-
rate, sad tb• trade dull, at a fall ot pca quarter in
mad I tot forties ox-ship.
Ina, at tall onotaliona.
Malt aarm as Last Monday.
Oda t placably Arm.
Flora a slow mak ; pwastioas miller drooping.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, NOV. d.
Lam supply of foreign stork, trade heavy on lower
Mode ne arrivals from oar own grazing
diet/WU; .41 lneds roved oj. henelly_. it a

ii;al- in* On bud Iliondny's &es of quits -2d. per
616.; top prim, fon 2d. per 81b. Sinop in moderate
supply and prices declined fully 9d. per Nix Oslyes
fri.k, at from 4s. 6cli to 5.. 64. per SM. Pip in-
re on easier terms ; highest 'gum Est, per 811.

MONEY ICU:MET. Nov. 5.
Consols for stow ors 89i to 814, sad for the DeMM.
bet account, 89i to 8011.

Lattfg.

" &craw^ Onto,, Monday Mehl.
'lli 17nIiled %item will. It is repoeted, shortly imams
Ih• prolostoratalb of Nexise.

Tag Prison ot Walls hos pasha Pstorsbargh In
tinier to be pressot at tin minims of his sister-414w,
lio Pristine Doom, to klis Csiarewitah.

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reported that Lord Chief Justin Kris has
tendered kis resignation, and that he will probally be
saasordied by the Bolionor General, Sir W. Song. -
Twit ktimatie Selegrath briars as a issesage dated
Oct. 30, to the effect that Yr. Seward has inletao is
Sir Frederick Brace. luting In attneft7 Sit the Fenian
prisonen in Canada.

Tel United Service Garotte says :—" The Secretary of
State for Wee hes decided tpon grantinge sobstantisl
',ward to the family of the unfortunate dammed, Yr.
&ides, Um inventor of the new breech-loader."
IT is not improbable Um& Vice- Chancellor Sir EUehard
Torte ffindemley will resign his office before the mid
of the present term ; in that event be will be suesseded
Mr. Matins, the late m.r. for Wallingford.
A REJOIN scheme of mum wort or other will, it is
said, be shaped out and laid upoo the table, the Govern-
ment generously offering the House& full opportunity of
considering it by undertaking not to proceed with it
until the (Maiming 8404011.—aer of Monday.

TUB FIFTH OF NOVIIIBER AT CHSLINFORD.

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A mob this 11110 Min broke the windows of gentleman
active in patting down the Guy Fawkes domonstratioes,
and tbr..t.d to are booms. Additional policemen,
300 spacial constables, and • dotsohment of &moon
guards, have been obtained to quell any outbreak that
that saw oeonr.

ISELscnows FROM SATURDAYS ILLRIEET&
MAD&

COSI

RAM—Then was a Large ;apply of wheat it oar mar-
ket. Red sold at 62e. to 645. per. qr. ; while, 565. to 63a.
Is barley sad other Armin no alteretloo.
Wmasatan.-41 Wansiaster market the supply of
wheat watt smaller than it boa been for some lane. The
best qualities 60e. to 61e. the qr. • and seooadary sorts
Ma to 58s. There wee an inermised supply of barley.
Malting qualities were in great demand, and prices
again went up 21. the qr., the best qualities making Mb.
to 56.; and nothing good toad be bad under 47a. to
48a. Ode, 245. to 30..; beans, 46a. to 54a.; peas, 41a
So 424.

Sostitamptoti aorn-market was tally
attended. Wheat. good new and old„ Ma to Mi.;
inferior, 4k to 5w.; barley, malting, 44a. to 5.;
grinding. 34a, to Ws. : oats, heavy old white and Idea,
29a. to 32..; new white and black, 25a. to 26..; beans,
old, 54A. to 56e. ; new, 4, to 48.1. : peso., 40a. to 42..;
and malt, 141. to 78s. par qr.; door, 444. to 45a. per
mak.

--iiivossinia—Best whits wheat, 71. 9d to fla ; red
ditto,?.. 3d. to 7a. 6d. per 621 b. Malting barley, ;
griadiag, 4t. 3d. to 4s. Id.; oata, bait new, 3a. 6d. to
4a.; ootninon, 3a. 3d. to 3a. 64. par biaabeL Floor, imper-
ils*, 49a. to 50a; las, 46a. to Ala ; and almonds, 44m. to
45a. par lack.

THI CATTLI TZADL

BATH.— Beef sold at 4s. 4d. to 41. 111 d. per atone or
; mutton 4.. 4d. to Is ; lamb. Is. 4d. to Bu. ;
4s. 84. torn. 104. ,Ipork, 4.. Bd. to Is.

ELMO'. —There was fair supply with %sluggish
dessitod at the subjoined prior: -Bog, 4s. to 4s. 4d.
per stone of Eib.: mutton, 4s. to 4s. Id.; pork, 4s. to
841.

Diemen Pat hillock' sell »tidily at from lfs.
to 12e. 6d. per score; barreners, is. to Ba. fat calve".
7& per lb. The Exeter cattle-market was well supplied
with sheep and pigs, but tide was dull. Th. following
were the qaotatioos 'retitle!. 70. to Gd.;
ewea, 7d. per Bs. Pip 1. to Ha per. some.
Wtbrsittac —At Dewier monthly market there was
• large supply of "beep. There we. a fair male for good
animals, it about late rates, mutton making Bg4. to figd.
the snore. Beef has a steady sale, at 12e. 64. to 13s. 6d.
the more for beet. Bacon pip are iseteiSerably cheaper,
the present mediation not exceeding 114. 6d. the more.
Cheese wee fn average supply and of rather inferior
uatty edam 9a to Sa. lower than at last market_
nes. 4. 764. being the quotation for good to best.

A Rim AAAAA DgeAm.—A etnege story is told of •
farmer in Penoysyloania who—eo the story runs—had •
dream during the recent genre and protracted stone,
that the fill screen • chasm Nome hundred feet deep, on
the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, near Mans-
field, Ohio, had glen way under. peesenger train, and
Isl it down into the abyss. The nest morning he visited
the plane and found the road all right, but the dream
made such an impreraion upon his mind that he could
Out sleep that night. Getting up be produced a lantern
and went to the chasm, found that the fill had been
wombed out since the morning, leaving nothing but the
unsupported ties and truck over the chasm. Hearing
the train appioaching be clambered acme. the break,
and running down the road succeeded In stopping it
jab at tb• edge ef the chem. The train was • very
large eine, and wita filled with persons who had been
to the groat Union meeting at Mansfield.

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Zara Kind ni fleatn.—The singular formality with
Which executions In Spain are accompanied Ilse )ast
been illustrated at Madrid. In this insture the criminal
was • young man, an engraver, named ding, who had
been muted for participation I. the events of June
tut. The gendarme who fulfilled ti, mia•ioa appears
to have acted with • codatn brutality, and Sans, on
being acquitted, resolved to take revenge, and, :ying in
wait for the other, stabbed him to the heart. Being
arrested and tried, he was condemned to die by the
garotte, and the wistence was carried out a few days
back. After the executioner has performed his office
In Sp-in, be is surrounded by gendarme*, loaded with
chain& and taken to piteous, and thence before an ex.
&mining magistrate, when the following dialogue takes
place : "You are amused of haying taken the life of •
man." "Ye.," answers the executioner, "it is true."
" What was yaw motive for the crime r "To obey the
law and hale the mission wadded to me by justice."
An indictment is then drawn up, and on the following
day the man la taken bdore the tribunal, which im-
mediately pronounoes an acquittal, and the prisoner is
blunted, after his confinement of twonty-four hours,
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Tan POPE'S ALLOCOTION.—rde Pope has delivered
an allocution, in which he dep!orea the persecutions of
the Chutela by the Italian Government, the suppression
of religious orders, tlas woularieation of eochscaatioal
property, and the law of civil marriage. These acts he
declares to be null and void. and anions their authors;
but, nevertheless, he declares that be accords his
benediction to Italy. The Pope further protested
against the invasion and usurpation of the PontiGoal
provinces, and against the proieot of making Home the
capital of the new kingdom. He states that the
Itanuroral power is indispensable to the independence of
the spiritual power, and declares that he is ready even
hi suffer death for the maintenance of the stared rights
of the lily See, and, if necessary, to seek in another
country the requisite security for the better exercise of
his apostolic ministry. Finally, Mn Holiness prays that
Italy may repent of the evils whiil she bat brought
ita the chureh.—The seined allocution refers to the
relations of the Holy See with Russia. His Holiness
states that the Rosaian Government he. violated
he Concordat of IB4g, and readle the perasentioes
exercised against the Archbishop of Warsaw. the tap
pression in the dioceses of bishops of their legitimate
jurisdiction, the abolition of religious orders in Poland.
and the oonflwation of ecricetastical property—all acts
lauding to the destruction of Catholicism in Ramie.
His Holiness concludea by offering op a prayer that the
Csar way put an end to the persecutions of Catholicism
within ilia Remiss dominions.

METH&

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°Kober 21, ot Thornhill fiery, &outwit'', Itio wife of
Yr. T. G. Syreemic, of o woo
At BootbeizesA Dortirotor, the Eft of MA n.. G.
Wollmao, of • &lights,.

Ootober. 28, at Trinity March Weymouth, Mr. P.
N. Onward, of Weymouth, to Fanny, &tighter of Mr.
Bpreaklin, of Winterborne.
October 30, st the pa+ i.h obarek, Netberbury, by the
Rev. R. A. Riddle, brother of the bride, assisted by
the Ron. and Rev. Aubrey Spring Rioe, vicar, end the
Rev. John Wynne, rector of Warnford, Heats. the Rev.
Robert Francis Willis, Ls., eldest son of the Rev. Pro.
fo. Willis, to Clhristisna Charlotte, third daughter of
the late Shering Redd* Fag., of Hateh/arnir, Nether.
bury, Dorset
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October 31, at St. Peter's Cbruh, Dorchester, by the
Rev. R. W. Pears, Yr. William Youngman, of Stanton,
Suffolk, to Elko Ashroo, mooed daushter of the lat.
Yr. William Inotle,of Dorehester, super:lulu Med °Meer
of Inked Anomie.
November 1, at the Registrar's office, Brideort. Mr.
William Hoare, of Bourtoo, near Gillingham, to Jane
Emma, sixth daaghter of the late kin John Strain,
Downs's-street, Bridport.
November 1, at Drente Waster, by the Rev. John
lake, vicar, Make lmoblan Forbes, 31st Itsgimselti
amood son of the lase John Forbes, Req.. of New.
84Fto Julia, third daughter of Alexander W.
leln. Natk. of West Lodge, Blandford.
SC James s Minh, Poole, y . Vcflikt,
eon, Arthur Gerrard, eldest soo
of Stunninster Newton, to Sarah Notting, youngest
daughter of Mx. Walter Rollinp, of Poole.