The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

tHE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

—lcrekitreff, a—larroi-to attempt to write to her chstter ; aad
she antiesd, to him if, under those circumstances, It would
not be best that he should not return to 4pa. where they
were stayirg She will gladly arras ge anything for him,
end will always he happy to hear of hot w ei, Fete 5, Itc.
Meetly. however, In spite of the request contained in title
letter, wrote to the bong lady, but his letter was re'unted
unopened by her mother upon which limdly wrote to the
latter, saying that he had expected. at 1.4, that she whom
he AM One day hoped to call his wife would have been per-
mitted to see his htter Fie PIDPCt. It, till,, to to be it, a posl-
tom to settle 4001 on his wife but a• the mother has do-
t' 'red tee marriage impossible, he sees nothing for it bat to
give her back her word. "God forgive you, Mrs. —," he
exclaims "hut I think I shall soon be amongst those that
are no more There are now many means of finding an
honourable and quick death" Mrs. —, in reply to this
letter, says that the hope. God will forgive her all her tres-
passes, but she does not think she has done any wrong
against him il.eadly She then goes on to describe how she
learned from his tutor the actual state of his health and In-
come, and say. that he has brought hie present unhappiness
on himself. hy proposing to her daughter the second time he
met her, whilst it was his duty lint to have spoken to her
mother and his tutor. The matter could then have been
settled without giving unnecessary pain to him or to
the poor girl. Site repeats that the state of his health would
be in insurmountable terrier, even if he had thousands of
rounds of annual income and says she has told her daughter
all, and shown her all the correspondence. Finally, there
is the farewell letter from the young lady herself to 'testily,
which breathes so much tendernem. grime, and candour,
that It will readily he understood deeply the unfortu- i
nate young man must have felt his lot., and what • sting i
Must have been left in the tender heart of the poor girl. She
will always keep his dear letters, to he looked upon by no
other eyes than her own, and trust, he will do the same She
exhorts him to do nothing rash, and to live on in hope with-
out her, as she will die miserable if ahything sheu:d happen
to him, whom she can never cease to love, though she cannot
marry him. She pray. him to let all that has occurred between
them remain, an far as possible, • profound secret between
themselves, and under all circumstances to remember that it
is not her fault In the letter she encloses a lock of her
hair. and requests him to send her me of his.
The examination of wile., then proceeded, • new scenic
accessory having been Introonced, to aid them in the demon-
stration of appearanms which they were called on to describe.
This is the very bed, with all its appurtenances, whereon I
the body ef Readly we. found. A garcon from the Hotel du
Rhin, at Antwerp, arranged the bed exactly as it then aty
peered and gave an account of the position of the corpse,
with the heart turned to the right, which was in the direction
of the wall. M. Chemin, after • slight protest, and the
avowal of an apprehension that he might he incurring the
risk of a reprimand from the Minister of War, by a com-
promise of his Motility as an officer, commuted to place him-
self at full length upon the bed, In the attitude indicated
by Dr. Schoppens. Having remarked that Readly had not
improbably had a motive to Meantime himself of his thin,
which might have caught fire from the discharge of the gun,
and erposed blot to needle. tortures, hI Chemin t,ok thn
gun which wae Minded to him for this demonstration, placed
the stock upon the back of a chair, hitching the trigger upon
• pre jaction, and bre ught the muzzle near his head. pointhig It
Jost below the left jaw. After thus showing how the piece
might have been discharged in such a manner as to came in-
stant eath, the witness jerked back the gun, and thereby over-
turned the chair, which fell in the exact position described
by other witnesses. The experiment of M tharrin, excited,
as may well he supposed, much Interest in the crowded
court. The difficulty was then to account for the position
of the arms, which were ttretched downward In the com-
posed attitude of slumber, notwithstanding the fact proved
by surgeons that instant paralysi. must have been caused by
the shattering of the spinal column. M. D .visme combated
the theory, and cited the example of • soldier who had made
five or six steps, holding his musket In his hand, after
haring received such a wound. Dr. Schoppens persisted,
however, in declaring that a movement errantry to bring
Readly's arm. into the position in which they were found
could not have occurred after that instantaneous death he
must have died. Moreover, the way In which the coverlet
was disposed over the upper part of the body and the arms,
could not possibly he reconciled with the hypothesis of
imicide. Thom, gunsmiths who had with much hesitation
subscribed to the theory of Readly's having possibly shot
himself now asked pair Motion to withdraw their testimony,
saying that their conclusions must in • measure be formed
on the surgical evidence •' It," said 11. Montigny, "Dr
Schoppem oedema that the movements were impossible, I
retract the opinion which I gave in support of the suicide
theory." And M Jansen mid the same thing, perhaps •
little more strongly. In the midst of this cot ilictieg evidence
of experts, each of them in turn got upon the bed and tested
tne practioublity ef pointing the gun in such a manner as to
commit suicide, NI 'testily Is supposed, by the defenders,!
RIM Allah, to have committed . _
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All the witnesses havirg txen examined to-day, the Pro-
cureur-Geueral began to speak In support of the accusation.
He said that the bleeds of Risk Allah had come there as by
appointment—w cant &now rtruler roux—Co otter evidence
not merely in favour but in honour of the accused fie should
be happy to associate himself in this chorus of eu'ogy, if there
bail not been in the man's life one little fact which sufficed
to paint hie character Risk Allah had pretended to honours
which did not belong to him. He was neither a Bey nor •
Colonel. but simply Risk Allah liffendl. as was proved by •
letter addressed to him from Stoops on the 19th of A poll, 1856,
at the end of the Crimean war, Is that one campaign was it
to be accepted., troth that he hat, received seven e e.ratlons
"1 am the more surprised," said M de liavay. "at Risk
Allah's appearing here with those seven •' corations, since
I can only find three of them mention,, in that book or
pamphlet he distrinutes everywhere about himself." The
Procureur-General WY here, dout.tless, referring to &volume
published in England by Risk Allah, and called, ill remem-
ber rightly, "Syria, Paleatine, and thi ir Inhabitants Of
the Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon " M de Bsvay pro.
needed to say, I will not contest Lis right to three of these
decorations but the other lour are decioe db. spurious
The Procureur General. having motel but ler a short time
to-day, suspended his address at half-pant three o'clock, when
the Court rose until Monday morning

aereant, that they geld no attention to him tenor about
artteheratt, and be wee right enough. The Bench told Mn.
Ellis that they dia not think his pronertv, or the tioy's life,
sate with such a man. and they sung.. ed that the com-
plainant had natter leay. whin) Ur kris ulti-
mately agreed to. awl to poy hit wamss. After consulting
together for sorne time the Bench ordered defendant to pay
21 fine and costa. On benne told the dietitian. defendant
said, "There'. witchirg the same now as ever there au,
only they durst not show it, and there's the tame
aa there shear, was" After he had paid the above
aMost:,t, another copy of the 20-called ch4rms was
found in dofendant's watch-case, and so elite-re wn
belief in their virtue that on finding they were in the court
he stated to Police-officer Cooper "be would sooner give 21
more than lose them " They were given to him, and tie then
left the court. Complainant wan also paid his wages, and he
left his situation.

ItigliehTholiffity lei—the purities of selling them on
proper terms to the ~CCIIIAOT, of the farms, and to thy
t.natitry of Ireland. (Cheers. ) Now let me he fairly under
stood. lam not proposing to take any of their propert)
from thorn, nut I pr.p.se tbls, that • narliainer try cm,
minion should he empowered to treat for the purclifue of
these large estates, with a view of Ming them out to the
tenantry of Ireland. Here are some of them. The present
Prime Munster Lord Perby,, the Margins of Lansdowne.
Lord Ft swilllam. the Meru de of H. rtford the Marquis of
both, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of D,vonshire and
many others. has large estates in Ireland. Many of them,
flare s ,s, are just aa well managed aa any estates lo the
country but what you want info restore to Ireland a middle
proprietary of the 8011, and I venture to say that it these
estates could he purchased, and could be sold out farm by
farm to the tenant occupier in Ireland, It would be infinitely
better in • conservative sense than they should belong to
great proprietors living out of the country.