The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-10 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, IQBO.

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•ere not trying Kra C.ltner because an instrument
which without proper koowledgo aloe had Poselowed h-reelf I
became
be:nthfloynhadd Inultemur teagahOULUlTbli :fly
that. Thom parsons were teem In the fame positionif
that
they were ordinary qualified medical men, and
Lodnyarthwetant
artitittpaataidntloe
ztaath.istaoapay maetirotn.guaniurly, icitf was
crime the
of murder. lie now left the matter in their hand,.
I 'so tripwire had had the great rams:atm of being I
defended by his learned friene Kr. Club. and he would
aides, them in their behalf. Bet •hen he did io he
Poland) woula ask them to hear in mind, that it warn
urn tie sworn teetlneony their verdict must be given,
and thoeth no doubt he would moist them by commenting
upon the evidence, yet they must return their verdict
Mon the sworn Waimea, and that alone. And he said
that by that evidence they bad proved almost to demon
elation. and if not, bryond all mall Debbi doubt, that
thou rreons did commit the crime with which they
stood charged. It was necessary in the interests of soneiy
that such &Teem should be punished and (hare Mr. Poland
dropped his voice girl his last few words were Mandible.)
Me Clark, QC., then rose.nd ad tressed the jury for the
tdethyleniee.or
thly dlaisiarahoze he irraaseitt.thalt wtioald aayahaavethatemt
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the evidence atom you had to dec.de. I would not wear
this gown if it Itarceisi upon me the duty of asking • jury
to disregard the evidence which hod been produced, or if
it imposed upon me the ta.k of endeavouring before those
upon whom so great a reponsibillty is cast as tall, uPon
you. to (Jakob their minds and divert them from the one.
eideration of team matters to which they ought to Elm
It
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the
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in
which I might address you, or the obeavatimuo which
epee from the evidence I might mike. [Join in the
exhortation. But I join in it with one important quell&
ration, which it seems to me rat learned friend forgot,
when twice In his speech be stated that it was your duty
to find • verdict upon the sworn evidence before you.
Your duty is to lied a verdict upon the sews evidence as
far at yes k it to be trustwortl.t. And that is aa
Important qua! ligation, for tbounli 1. o not call witnesses
to ci•ntradirt • istments with noised to which witnesses
might have beat alert, it into's.. I too. an admission
on my Pert we h regard to thaw statement*. I cannot
contradict the 'tidal of th. man. Beset, for instance,
who tells you that on the Friday, be was hailed from the
side of the street by a lily who get into his 'bus, and
m who he drove to the station. I loot contradict that
evidence', and I did not crosaexamine him upon it and
by not cromexemining him I aloft so far as adraleelon
can go In a criminal casitt hat the statement must be taken
m one of the face with which you have to deal. And if
I I refreined fro-a crogreettninhate I am not entitled to
challenge that statement in my addrees. or to um ohmic-
rations to discredit a piece of athletic which I have not
challenged when there was an importunity for It to be
reinforced. But do pool think that any one in reason or
in law is therefore bound to act ipt, as a fact, the evidence
of that young Foster. with regard tea letter the contents
of which be had never written down until the cam was
actually begun in this mart I am quit* agreed that if
you see prepared to Foster's midmost as a whole
and im itty rely upon it, then my friend is entitled to
make e observademe he has upon the owe name of that
document But them are two things to be considered
with regard to every Pees of evidence that comet before
you. It will be your duty, and lam quite sure that duty
will be steadily—l wee going to WO severely discharged to
test ewe' Mace of widow* that la put before you with
respect to two matters—is it true and is It relevant I Lot
me ref'r to one or two matters which I think
you ought particularly to dismiss from the °on-
sideratlon of this cam mr teamed friend bee
certainly not dealt with the owe as one of Prone.
citerent, and conclusive evkleace He has gone to the very
Ve;;.e and limit of regularity in his allu dos to dimmest@
b wbrets hod been excluded from coosideration, sad on
which he Me no more right to mak* • statement on the
I 0110 side than I have on the other. For instanco, with
tweed to • document of the 13th of March. Although no
I giddier, whatever could be given helots tool 1ame5...223
• it, he has asked you ertt to infer to whom it wee
• Ifele to form an minion as to what its matenin were,
thirdly to presume that it had resoled the diedbiation to
• which It was addressed. I confess it i.estomis strange
I thing that • leaned °ousted, with the responsibility of my
learned friend, should have tam that mune for !tattier
you nor I can forget what Is depending epee the verdict
and whet is the Mtn to be tried, Wow, gentlemen, I
• could have underotood, some:CW.Bl)d sympathised with
I what my learned friend said with retard to the unhappy
lady who came to her death upon the 110th of March, and
" even with regard to that young man who was gulled into
• the witness-box, tf it had been ea ordinary civil cam, a
cairn involving no very important issues, Or 0011 entity 01
historical Interest,-1 could have sympathised wi the
I pathos be threw Into his word.; but I have no room in my
I mind for thoughts of winoatht In this bum, except for the
I two persons whom lives depend upon your judgment. And
• while I hope I shall take cure to •x tide from the
obeervatioas I shall address to y•ou, mythiag tended to
load you away brain the troth. I oak that you, in your
police respoadbility, will take care to stela& from your
minds any bies of sympathy with the Poor woman who is
I dead, or of °estimation for the youth who was examined
In the witness box. Now matters have been introduced
into this cause .5 elements of amptc`oa which have
• I actually disappeared from any reasonable nan's make-
Mon. Take the instrumeat My friend in opening the
owe to you, stated that in a drawer belonging to the
female prisoner was Mond an Instrument, and no doubt
Mos Idea came into your mind that UM Instrument would
be found to he oose by which an operatic' of the kind
alleged had been performed. But it hes been proved that
thia instrument bad no more necessarily to do with such
an operation than any other article of household furniture
or medical equipment in the home. The doctors have told
you it would impossible to use it without so rupturing the
puts that d•ath rou.t ensue. II it It c n be used for
ordinary, and no doubt c minus purpose., and probably
there is no doctor in existence who does not know,
although he Melt not like to admit it, that women de soli
like to go and consult thea about certain little Meow.
valiance& It is a matter of common knowledge that
there it • treat deal of bmitotioa and reluctance on the
' part of semen to speak to men about matters of that
I kind, an-1 it Li altniited th st an instrument of that
kind roold he used In those cum, while It wooli not too
actually necessary to use it at all In the performance
of Buck an operation a, is Allege Ito ham aimed the death
of Mrs Bilge. Si bora yoo have • solemn opening of the
cum which states that the instrument is found, and It is
proved to be an inerrouent In nommen use for perfectly
raitennabbe and natural purer...ea. Now that has dire
appeared from the mak for I don't suppose that any of
j You wean attach any Importance to it. You would attach
more impwtence to it If an instrument of any kind had
been (mini either at ilm. (Nine's, at Yeovil, or at Kr.
! Colnier's at Maria which might have been used and
could he used to perform this operation. My lord. who
I has bee painful ex perienee in them cum, asked the nature
and the class of iostrutuent that would be required for
such • purpose, and he was told in reply they must be
cepable of cutting. No such instrument as that was ever
found in the house of either prisoner. Now, let us con-
sider another matter that was brought into the cam, for It
Is • very or mar rule of law that nothing should be passed
over, for no counsel or judge can take moo himself the
remensibility to sat that any Piers of "Idea" would not
,he material for the judgment of the jury in such • cam as
Ude There has been • great deal of evidence of the
contests of the stomach, and a young witness has come
forward enil acid—"! discovered a little so-and-en. but I
can't say what it was, it woe ten small a qoantity." Sorely
such evidence as that should ho rigorously excluded in •
molter of life and death. There should be no matter of
mere suspicion or 11441.1 allowed to he gime in evidenoe,
and which might have the effect neon your minds to
to there being some mystery in it. Now I torn
In a pert of the case whieh seem, to nore most
remarkehle My learned friend took. in a way
of which I have complained. ant of which I have a
right to c midsize. of a document of the 13th of March,
an I be then rake of certain telegram, that IVir•
received from (Jo mere on the Wednesday, the 17th, and
, my leaner I friend's roods nf dealing with them is to
a.s Imo that Ile. ('olmer ha I been sutunooned to Yeovil on
, Wednesday, the 17th, to perform an °email in, which he
would have you believe wag edit shy effected on 030 19th
—that he could not get away on the morning of the 17th
—that he telegraphed—" Import ant Mosinee' detains me'
I will come with first trate in the morning, arriving at
Yeovil at nine." And now my learned friend suggests
that on that day Mrs. Budge was waiting at Yeovil for the
pop Ise of having this operation performed, and Out as
he could not come on that day It was necowery for her to
come again o* Friday. You will recollect in Ms obese».
Wins my learned fribme told Lobel that on the Friday Faster
did not aresure to drive ler k, bec suse to do so after
the operation would endanger her life. But on the
Wednesday we found she was driven book by Foster.
What was the meaning of that then If such • serious
operation was to have been performed ? But there Is
something more. There is no Otll.lllr produced to these
telegrams. The post-Mhos has been ransacked for them,
but none can be found. Thus then there is the telegram
from C Amer of Wednesday. saying—" 1 will come find
WEI next morning." and Mrs. Bodge is at Mrs. Colmar's
oeetae Wednesday arranging to 00010 With on Friday.
Now would thve not have been a telegram to seep him
WEIR* on she Thursday, or should we not have had some
miasmas to show where he was on the Thursday? Again
I think if you look at these telegrams you will that the
one from C Amer. saying he would be there on the
Int comm, must have reached Mrs. CArner's while Mrs.
Bodge was them. 11 50, why did atm not to ever to Yeovil
on the following morning to meet him' I submit that
these telegrams not only do not bear out my friend's
suggestion, hat they negative It, for they show Colmar was
summoned for • day when it was not contemplated to
have any such operation performed, when the money had
not been obtained, and no arrangements had bean made.
I do ask you to deal with this portion of the wee as you
will rial I hope with Mee evidence as to the instrument
and the contents of the tumbrel. The ems i to serious In
Ito character, so enormously important in It:results, that
It is not one for Inventing theories And now I moat say
• word or two with regard to Foster. about whom my
friend has said some very compassionate things. One
doss not desire to be herd upon a young fellow lite that,
who bas been mere probably the one led than the leader
In the connection which existed between him and the
dammed woman; but It Is insposeible to disguise the fact
that it was of enormous importmos to him that the
&mewed woman should get rid of the evidences of her
Crnor. He had been for live or six remain use of the
bsaks In the West of ingland, a back in which •
situation is an object of considerable anxiety to young
fellows who are anxlone for that sort of occupation. lie
had Assn from CEO to tge, and if he was steady and °on-
tinned at the bank. It was practically a provision for him
for life. You knew be has been obliged to leave. He a•
practically disclasied. That certainly most have been
bef or. him, and in the week when Foster and Kra Bodge
did rote C user's It was or the hi rhea% possible importanoe
to Foster that the evidence of her pregnancy should he
got rid of. By his own account be was an accomplice. By I
is own account he was morally guilty, and he was ',telly
guilty, for he was an accomplice before the fact of the
mime with which them pemle are charged. Ai:cording to
his own account he and the deceased woman were errant-
hog • plan by which this operation was to be performed.
and he is as criminal In the same sense and almost in the
mate degree as the people at ladies in the dirk. But when
trizabtave • man in that position you will look at his mi.
with very great care Though the law allows the
evidence of an sooomptioe to be gismo, it is never allowed
to stand alone on any material point without the Judge
warning the jury that it must he betel at with some
suspicion. And It is of wowing importance to us to see
whether there are any material points upon which Foster
gives evidence and Foster alone. The whole strength and
secret of the cam, according to the theory of the Imosecu
tics, rests upon Foster's eAdence, and that letter, said to been written on the 18th of March, and with regard
to which Foster says" I never wrote down the contents
until this morning," now some five months after the
occurrence. That letter is the key-stone of the prosecution
in this caw and the only 060 60 11,011 k of It 111 Foster.
That important portion of this owe mete abreolutely and
entirely upon the miasma of Fatter. There Is no separate
explanation of it In NW War If Foxier found the money
he could have his seldom* by slatiag where be
got it from. IT%—a
not Mrs Badge mual ham rmne
somewhere end got it Do you believe Niter would not
have known where she got it from I On this point not
only have we Use uncorroborated *videos of • person
who is closely interested in the tasgter. and en accomplice
Lu the crime, but evidence where it could %Trees
corroborated totally without cerrobwation. With regard
to Foster, I don't want to be too hard I wont to make
all and reasonable allowance for his position at the
timPereJstrbe lambast. but I dare not make allowances and
ewer compassion for his offence to the injury perhaps
of my chants. My duly is there—(pointing to the deck).
I am bound to point out that whatever terawseetew
you may feel for Ida. he was an accomplice in the murder
with whisk them permit ate a per-
juror when be gave Ida erldeitoectro and be wasd.re tho °Proper. It is
all very well for him to say he endeavoured to shield the
reputation of the woman. lie knew that she had owe
under cimemokusoes that would bring medical daises
with nostrils( 'satinet to bear nyam het death and reveal
the omen of la open mart and to the wale. He 0
you taw
"I did sot think what • serious matter it MIL -
believe that? That was what he said when he was sworn
before yea yeeterdw. and, if you do het believe ito he has
been tepee eaegfri me ea he Mimi to deceive Om Jury

at Yeovil. Amodio& to his own amount be lasi been
helping to get the mousy by which this offence was to
be parehned—tbe operatien which by its MOE %gal
sccomplishment was to have saved this disgrace to his
According to his own accouet he took this
women to the place where it was lobe perpetrated, and yet
he tells you he die not think it so serious, and carelessly
swore what be did. Thus you have the mein testimony
In this cam resting upon the ancorrob waled evidence of a
: man who admits he committed perjury tel es the Coroner,
' and oho yeaterdey gore evidence which, I ramie TOO
mit believe to he the honest evidence of truth. Anin,
the servant girl admits that she did not at the first
enquiry g.ve a full and true account. That is • very
senate matter. You carat believe that the daughter.
who is not before you, was in conspirace to O•HQUIIt "I.
crime; noels the mother reipunsitli for any teolish th ne
that her daiighter might Ii Iftl I 4iti to the wits:eon. it le
contheent thst she meg have vile something. end PM
that neither Ile nor Km Colmer had any de-in to con-
ceal anything, or to get the girl to do ere or, in fact, that
then was nothing to conceal. But • most remarkable
thing is this, that the whole truth which she tells before
you yesterday is, in many respects, more reeounide to the
ricketier' th .n the statement see made bolo a the Cormier'.
fury. I don't de.ire to delay you, and I was going trial
to harass his lordship, by too many refereacea to the dire .
eltious. Bet, before the Coroner, she said the ?unity
nec oaten:lly dined in the kitchen. Here she says it was
Friday and • market day, the day when patients came,
and then the dtaingi;room was used. Tele wee put se an
entZto. In the alAtrt.heant itiat fletoiya.imeßri:t it tulLisreason
out that
it was the market day, and the kitchen wet where the
family usually dined on those days. Then es to the
evidence about the towels, all that now appears is that
they were taken out ef the kitchen by gra Colmar, and
returned by her untried. She knows nothine
about that one that WU found afterwards dean,
and in • pail of clean water. There is one
other matter in her evidence of importance. TIFJ
statements that she gives are the runt looperterot of these
all. Fine that stone o'clock she saw Mre Bulge sitting
On the sofa, and at seven in the evening, when doe was
sent free the has, she sow Mr. &lag.) -tiling on the roes,
supported by Mrs. Gamer. That lea fact that must dee
you very serious censideristlon. Hew tong was Mrs. Bede*
then on either OCCM;00 Whore dish. go in the after-
noun, and who wee with her? Was ever own any-
whir else? Tbose are all matters that are bet to infer-
ence or gusto. There is no ell lean before yeti of Mr.
Colmar ever hiving been in the eentoloy of ilgr,. Budge,
escept so far set, the time who tt was leferr, -I he went
Into the house. roe envied e ounsel then centen led
that it was impossible for the girl to have seen anyone
sitting on the sofa) Beet if she di 1, whet import.. cc
could be attached to • person who had no reason ter bolt-
lag into broom, but who ventures to say it was the person
she had seen once before, but could not tell whether
she was dressed In mourning or how she was dressed. Mrs
Calmer at half-put one, half-an-hour after Jim Bodge is
supposed to be there, dem into the kitchen and has her
. dinner. No sort of refreshment is offered Kn. Budge the
whole dm she wee staying there. And yet that unques-
tionably is the story of the prosecution—that she stayed
there from one WI eight, underwent this tetra's saffuleg
in mind and body, and a° sort of refreshment was dna
her from the beirinnieg to the end. All these matters are
important She goes there at me, and Mr. Calmer
is not sent for for aa hoar, and he does
not go to the person till two. Surely that
could not have been the parson who had come by
appointment, anxious to have an operation performed at
mon If the story of the prosecution is trues It would be
essential that the moment she arrived at the house Kr.
Coked should be sent for, and the preparations should
beetle and yet the prim, whoever it was, is allowed to
• stop echoer without the smallest explanation being given
of what was pitman_ I_ in not going to address myself
to the details of the blind being up or down. It I, perfectly
obvious that when people come to see Mrs. Calmer it
, would he so from time to time. But the extraordinary
thing you have to deal with is this. Those people are
, carefully arranging to commit this most melons offenses,
, magmas to be 'committed under circumstaaoes in which
early y of the woman would render it more
dace t matter to produce the effect Maine they are
intending to commit it in • horrible and barbarous way.
, All this to to be dons, and yet we have the extraordinary
fact that they chose forth. purpose merketday, on which,
t in all probabilities, the shop will be filled with customers,
people who are most likely when they come to went to go
Into the dining-room. They chose • day upon which the
closing of the drawing-room would inevitably attract
, attention There wee this dining-room, well lighted m
• any to Yeovil, with the window look Into the back-
, yard. the blind up, and this girl backward, and forwards
! about the place You are to suppose that them people
I had arranged all this horrible risk should be run, that
, it should be demon market day, when 'Creams or coeval-
' elan woull Insure to attract attention. Have you any Idea
I boo teet, jet° be explained I Why didn't that woman go up
stairs! There were people living in the house and the
, bedrooms must have been furnished for occupation. If
their story is true how is it they should court the pualsh-
• meet which meat follow detection and keep her in a
room where there would be • oontioued source of danger
from people coming in I No doubt there was mule one in
the room and there has probably been some one every
s market day- but that this parson was the woman whom
. the girl is mid to have men there is sot the slightest
, particle of evidence to show. But, on the other
, hand,
there ts strong evidence stalest it My friend said, and
I I thought it rather • remarkable thing for him to gay,
I but be said with an adroit but useful flattery, that if no
I medical evidence ha I been called their strong 00•130100
smut would have enabled them to deal with it, I agree
, with that, but In quite • different way. What I say is
, that the medical evidence—l wotet say destroys—bet so
i weakens the case as to render it one upon which no jury
could convict. If upon this Friday this lady went to the
, hoe.' id the prisoners, and in the c num of the aft-raeon
, ibis operation was performed, and in the runt barbarous
manner, and if that woman wh-o she • ent buck by treks
was in the state of terrible weeklies, described, bow is It
, pointed to explein that no stains of bleed wen ever
dii-
covered in the house I Is it possible that • man knowing
the consequences of tbis terrible operation should leave
matters so that he would lie obliged to cell Mee
Calmer to hring • cloth I It was idle to think
• man w0u1..1 IN neglect nr4inary preparations.
My kernel friend tries, I think I may use the term, to
, eke out this part of the case by setting Gut that at six
I o'clock in the mania; Mr. Colonr was seen going down
j the yard, and there le a wat-r closet in the yard. N ow, I
been, if the question were put to any householder in
Yeovil eh- thee on the ems's, of the day h hal been dowa
to the water cli set attached to hi. premises., the same
, answer would have been gime. The girl dose net say she
, saw him carting anything. There is only the wild
, suggestion that because Mr. C 'beer goes out to the water
I closet in the evening, that thoefore the Mikis was taken
, and thrown away. When these sort of inferences are
, out of the way, what have you kit! These two persons
are chariot with murder: you have to ask yourselves.,
, with regard to each—Am I satiefied In my cemented that
the evidence is such that I can trust and believe it, and
act upon it sufety, end without doubt, add that fin satis-
fied he or she is guilty of murder? How can you answer
that question in the affirouitiv• with reward to Mr.
Colmar I He was
There is no evidence of any oommanicaUen having been
made by Mrs. Budge to Mr. Calmer for • meeting on
Friday. There is no evidence they ever came (1134 to face
on that day. If that le so, then how can you answer the
question in the affirmative. If these two persons were
Practically engaged in the operation how could the jury
account for the fact that only one was seen in the room
It was • necessity to arriving at • just verdict, that they
should salt themselves these question/ about each. I hops
not for my own sake, but any address of mine Is •
small matter, but for the sake of justice and of those
who are befog tried, that I have redeemed my promise, and
dealt with the evidence in • straightforward awl candid
manner, and that I have not attempted to pass over any
dangerous portion by re.ort to the Oct wical art, th.t I
have not resorted to any attempts at eloquence to attempt
to Mee your minds in the discharge of yeur duty under
that oath by which you are hound to apply yourselves to
the eodiog of • righteous and just verdict-el verdict
upon which the lives of them two persons probably depend.
D 'n't be alarmed or treatment by the result of your ver-
dict, but remember that Four decision—because it is your
duty to remember it—will be Irrevocable; that it is one
which if adverse will impose upon my lore the dreadful
duty of leutencing tee persons to death. But at all
event, remember that that duty implies • diligent giving
of your minds and thought, to the consideration of fade
that are proved, and • Mediae refusal to allow yourselves
to be led by any suspicions or inference, and so to return a
verdict that you may hereafter think • mistaken one, but
that you may be no satisfied that in the future no doubt
dull mar the commie tine's the% you have done your
duty. (The learned gentleman spoke in • very low and
solemn manner at the close, and his address evidently
produced • profound Impression in Court)
The Court then adjourned for luncheon. On returning
into Court,

Mr. Justice Hawkins summed up in a lengthy and
exhaustive address. In the course of it he said the
law upon the subject °I endeavouring to procure
abortion may be found in a very few simple words in
a statute paired some years ago, which enacts thus—
" Whosoever with intent to procure the miscarriage of
six woman, whether she may be quick with child or
n shall unlawfully administer to her, or cause to be
taken any poison or poisonous thing, or use any
Instrument or with any other means whatever, with
like intent, shall be guilty of felony and liable to the
penalties the act provides." So that they saw the
only question they had to determine WAS whether
these two pinions or either of them had been shown
to be pithy of the offence contemplated by the statute.
There, no mistaking the law. The law le very clear.
If • person does attempt to peocure abortion, and death
Is occasioned, that is murder and nothing short of
murder in the eye of the law. They 111101 been
midressed by Mr. Clark very ably upon that occasion,
and he had told them the duty an adverse verdict
would Impose upon him (the learned judge). He
would join with him and earnestly in saying—Don't be
deterred by the consequence of your verdict,—lf they
I:were satisfied the crime had been committed. Many
ad many a jury had discharged the same anxious
duty, and he was quite sure whatever the consequences
might be, no honest juryman would regret the
consequences of his verdict, that was to say would
regret his verdict, though the consequences may have
been serious If be had given it conscientiously and in
the honest discharge of his duty. Let them keep
their minds steadily axed on the facts, let them tie
their minds to them, and regardless of the con.
sequences determine to arrive at an honest and
conscientious conviction of the truth. His lordship
then proceeded to review the evidence. The unhappy
woman whom death they were enquiring into was the
widow of • gentleman of considerable respectability.
Up to now her health was good, she had been effected
by no disease or disorder and was living comfortably
with her mother and children in Market-street,
Crewkerne. In 1878, • young man, named Foster,
went to lodge with her, and in the early part of this
year shit found herself in the family•way. The two
Colours resided, the husband at Bristol, where he was
described as an Anglo-American doctxr and gave
advice for a great many maladies and afflictions, and
carried on his business in the Old Market-street, said
his wife who called herself Dr. Jame Cohner, carried
on her guanine at Yeovil. It did not appear that the
deceased was at all known to her until she made
herself known on the 16th of March, but young Foster
seemed to have known her by nacos. On the 17th,
Foster having been told by Mcs. Budge of her slate
drove her, he had told them, in a pony and trap to
Yeovil, a distance of nine miles from Crewkerne.
There had hue previous aPPoiatments for her to ea,
and there was a latter, the contents of which they
could net ham, and his advice to them was to
lo3k upon It i 5 U it had nave, existed. They
wen to look carefully into F3ster'e testimony.
they had beard him, and it was for them to give their
' ja&meat upon it. She had told them that he had
'man. different stmesceate, both white they had heard,
and the rowan he gave was that he did it for the pur-
pose of screening the unfortunate WOMAII and it was
for them to say wheehee they could yrel 'on his testi-
many. He seen that on the 17th of Kasai she deceased
went to Yeovil in a pony and trap, and he knew at
the time that she was in the (^milli-way. He drove
her to Yeovil, and they then went through South-
street into Union-street, where he left her' but he
saw bee go into Oolater's, and lost sight of bee for
about ten minutes. Bba returned 1 about ten
minutes, and thaltrea went to the claacha. she
main went to s at six o'clock, and Foster
'Amway& met her in Unlonetreet by appointment
and drove her home. It was Tate clear and there
,
was no evidence to the contrary,. that Amu
ng was
dons on that Wednesday • but, hossecm. about sae
o'clock the male peinealle. whosecustom It to visit

Yeovil on market days, forwarded a telegram from the
Bristol °Moe, saying—" have loat the train ; will Dome
this alto noon II that will do, if it will not, do please
telrgraph." There was no proof as to whom the
deceased saw on the first occasion, but it was certain
Colmar was rot there. 1 have lest my grain and
will c nue this afternoon." There was no proof for
what he intended logo to Yeovil, but detain it was
that he had intended to have gone there. lie did not
arrive by the next train, but • telegram was sent to
say he had been detained and would come by tbe first
train the next morninc. There was no proof that any-
thing was done that efternoon, bet if they believed the
evidence the deceased's business was such that it made
her go twioe to the prisoner's house. They knew that
she was there that Afternoon, and it seemed to adm•
of no shadow of • doubt, for it was shown that she was
seen by Poster, by the servant girl, and by two young
ladies, two sisters, who had stated that th tg' cm he'
come ont of the shop doer. Both Miss Brook and
(3UStird he I Asted that they saw her come out
of C tp dor, and Foster, who accompanied
her home swore that she was in as good state othealth
ars she had ever been. 011 the following day Foster
saw a latter written by the deceased herself, he saw
and read it, and knew the contents, and also saw it
directed to Mee. Colour, and posted it by his owe
hands. Foster had stated that he did not keep
I a copy of it, and was it likely that be would!
He wrote the contents out yesterday morning, for
he was asked to do so—it I have mode *zoom to be
! at your house. but I shall be glad to get back by the
nest train. I have secured the £lB., This was the
letter' and on Thursday, the 18th, and the next morn-
ing. Mr,. Budge was seen by Foster and appeared
perfectly well. lie knew that she was going to
YO9Vil, and thtt she was going by train- He could
not go with her, and it was arranged that he should
Imeet her on her return. lie was unable to meet her
In the sfterwein, but as she had not returned be met
her in the evening, and be then noticed the change in
her appearance, whica was something shocking. The
poor woman was noticed by all, and 80 bad was she
that the ticket collect ir did not ask her for her ticket,
but she went home in the 'bus, went to bed, was in
great pain all the night, sod the next day she died.
It was priced by two or three witnesses who saw her
start that she left in health. First of all there was
Faulkner, who saw her take her ticket, but on her
return be allowed her t pow out of the station with.
out giving up her ticket because she looked so ill.
Thus Foster via c nroborated. Then she was men
tti:bise station-master at Y• 0161 On her arrival, and
was nothing then Lb. matter with her appear-
ance; but he did nib see her on her return. They had
the evidence of Foster, who saw her leave, they
had the stationmaster IA eaw her on her areival at
Yeovil, and they had the evidence of Richard Sweet,
the 'bus driver, who said he put her down at Colmar's
door. Unless she was at the Colman' during the Fri-
day, they had not any account of her. The servant
girl bad told them that she was seat to order the 'bus
to meet the last train, airi certain it was that it did go
there if they believed the 'bus-mas who staid that
he picked up • lady in black at the p'ace he put her
down in the morning. The deceased went into
Oolmer's, if the witnesses were to be believed, and she
left it In such • state that she was unable to make her
way to the 'bus without assistance, and never toga
out of her house again. Foster had stated that the
deceased never told him whet was the matter with
her • but that was, he now said, antral, and other
mia:staterneuts he said he made for the purpose of
sissening the deceased. With regard to the girl
Chesney, she said she heard Colmar in the afternoon
call two or three timer "Mrs. Colossi., Mrs. Colmar,
come hem, she has fainted" There was no suggestion
that the cry C4lllll Iron the parlour or from the
kitchen; the girl was well acquainted with the p'ace,
and said it came from the ng-room. Who was it
calling Mrs Colmer ? and who was it fainting? It
could not be Mrs. Colmer calling herself; it was a
man's voles, and the rfirl said It WU Cohner's voice.
Who was fainting! t was not Mrs. Collate, but it
was suggested that it,was Mrs. Bodge, and the
girl had stated that she saw a lady, the same one as
she saw in the morning, in the evening on the sofa.
She was going to order the 'bus, and on her going
through the piano saw Mrs. Budge sitting on the
sofa, and Mrs.Cohner ley her side with her arm round her
waist. One naturally asked oneself a very serious ques-
tion that must occur to every person. Uthey believed as
they could not fail to believe and Mr. Clark had very
candidly said that all that is'iscl been said ooneerning
him by Mr. Poland was deserved, Utley believed Mr.
Wills 's account of the post mortar, very serious injuries
were inflicted by some instrument for the purpose of
procuring abortion and the poor woman sank under
those injuries. Now when and where were they
Inflicted upon her She had never been loft sight of
from the te she started for Yeovil, in her ordinary
good health till the time of her death. Having gone
through the evidence, tracing the deoeasei to the
wieoner's shop, his lordship oontinuei—aye or nay,
did they believe the poor woman came with her death
In consequence of some operation performed upon her
for the purpose of procuring abordon, and if they did,
did they find the two Ind-to-one or either of them
committed the ac 7 He need hardly say to them that,
It was nut at all probable both could actually perform
the operation but he must tell them that if two per-
sons are actually engaged in an illegal act, each taking
his or her share, each was equally guilty. The que.-
lion was one entirely for the jury. He was very glad
It was so. They had heard the evi fence, and listened
to it vary patiently. It was for them, haring heard
that evidence, bearing in mind the great imism-tance
of the case, and the reap nubility cast upon them, to
answer that question. lie was quite satisfied they
would determine it without reference to any conse-
quences that might atttch to their verdie., and with-
out prejudice or feeling one site or the other, and they
would approach the consideration of their verdict with
the firm determination strictily to fu'fil the duty cot
upon them, and to ascertain to the best of their
ability, from the evidence before them, whether the
prisoners, or either of them, were guilty of the crime
which had been laid to their charge.

The Jury then left the bnx, and the priaoners were
removed from the dock. After an absence of three
quarters of an honr they returned into court, and the
prieonere, who trembled greatly and laboured under
great emotion, were again put forward.

The Clerk of Arraign,; Addressing the foreman,
asked : Have you decided upon your verdict.
The Foreman: We have.
The Clerk of Arraigns, and do you find Robert
Slade Oolmer guilty or not guilty
The Foreman: We have written our verdict (a
paper waa then banded to the Jo ige).
His Lordship : You must deliver your verdict.
The question was then ropested and amid • painful
silenae the Foreman replied "GUILTY."

The Clerk of Arraigns : And Jane o•ilmer, do you
and her guilty or not gully
The Foremen: GUILTY.
TIN Clerk of Arraigns: And that is the verdict of
you all.
The Foreman: It is.

His Lordship then &loam.) 1 the black cap. The
usual prochimati•in c ,uunanding all perm Ins to keep
silence while sentence of desth was paired arsme the
prisoners was than Wide, and they were severally
milked If they had anything to say why the Court
should not pass judgment.
The male prisoner in a pitiful voice said "I can
assure you. my lard, lam innocent of this crime." At
this point he broke down and could nt proceed.
After a brief pause be was asked if he had anything
more to say. By an effort. nesater_irg his emotion, be
replied—" I don't believe Mrs. CoLmier is guilty of
aims and I am sure I am not."
The same question was then put to the female. She
was seated with her head bowed, and wore the hope.
less expression which she had borne throughout. She,
however, answered in a voice that was tolerably firm—
" I never had an instrument like that in my hands
In my life. I never attempted such a thing, and I
don't know what an instrument of that kind is used
for.

His Lordship then addressed the prisoners by name,
and said: The Jury, after a very careful consideration
of the evidence offered ag.tios'. you, find each of you
guilt y of the crime of wilful murder, and In that Ter-
dia most entirely concur. You were engaged for
the afternoon of the 19th of March in • most barbru,
ens prooess upon this po woman, who has now gone
to her rest. The law or this country charges that for the
procurement of abortion by any means, when death is
occasioned, tivsie so concerned are guilty of the crime
of wilful murder. That is th laws. it now ia, sod as in
all probability it will exist for some time to come.
You say you are not g

The female : I am-not.

Ills Lordship: I wish I oould give credit to what
you t•ay, but I can't. That poor woman went in sound
health In naidday int your house on the 19th of
March, sad nobody who boo hoard the "widow). own
doubt that she left it but to go home to die. It!.
clearly beyond all shadcw of doubt tbat the micelle(
that was done by you resulted in her death, and that
the object we+ to procure abortion.

The mtle prisoner (imploringly) : I never did, my
lord, anything of the kind.
The Judge: The law of this country knows but one
sentence for the crime of murder, mut that sentence is
DEATH. I won't harrow your feelings by oommendm
more upon the crime you have been found guilty of,
but proceed at once to pan that sentence whkis the law
Imperatively compels me to pass. It is that you be
taken bones to New-gate, and then removed to the gaol
In the county of Somerset, that being the county in
which the offence of which you have been found guilty
WM committed, and that from there you be taken to a
piece of lawful execution, and there be hanged by your
necks until you both be dead, and that when you be
severally dead that your bodies be buried within the
pro:dads of the prison, and may God bare mercy on
your souls.

The Lord Mayor', Chaplain, who had apparently
been mot for, uttered • loud and fervent "Amen,"
The female prisoner wee then asked the usual queetione
put to condemned females, if there was anything why
the carrying out of the sentence should be stayed,
which is whether or not they are pregnant, and the
answer "No" was returned.

The prisoners gazed with despairing gleans around
the nowt, and were then hurried from the dock.
• • -

A .on the eldest of the prisoners', and a married
daughter, were In the court during the peeing of the
awful sentence and were, of course, rots* affected, the
latter going of in a swoon, is which she was carried
out.

Erre's COCOA.—Gurirot AND Coarroamia.—"
a thorough kno cledv of the natural laws which Rove=
the operations of WgeiWon and nutrition, and by a
careful applisation of the in* peurertfui of well-
selected 0000 e Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast
tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may
sevens many heavy doctors' bills, Ills by the judicious
nee 01 such articles of diet that a constitution may no
Warbufft up !luta strong enough to malt *Teary
to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies
are around us ready to attack wherever there
is a week point. We may escape many • fatal shaft
by limping ourselves well fortified with pure blood aad
a prwerly nourished fesine."—Oisii &Dyke Gasette.—
sou °sly in Packets labelled—" JAMB Zits it Oa
liaoceopethis Obsoolsis, Landolo

afaat. bas+l over sight. whiled the
LONDON CO Altkni,
rid• Wheat Galls F a
quietly
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TEA
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bdun:...owp?bii..t....h:e.t.:rilkDAVeeitirsth:lll"ea...?(llllll:l7,tioutbot;O:iproWtha.:ptillndbi.l4:
hilr..h...ostralith:argadin.btefbbtaar.4::eytak. Ott]:
very well to the purPue• and mall* hardly reri atr.,nn, B.P brink
Dial, 'amount**. sad rent*s, peas. steady; dour dull. Arrivals beak Al
• Slam the door en the dector's nos*. 1,358 Ts. flour, 10,116 sack. y • 414
„ • °reign
witzt
adox.....b.toukeetz oats, 60,441 qrs. ; ii,768 barrel. ..
",330
---------- '
"maniere°.
sick per'O"
toot, entice
could nec
wt::„..:ma.at:nr7bf :I.orifinir',.:i:e....ll"totus,al4"cituhdhtwt"tia'hrgoe
dOobu'adniten:oaff hi:Madnmuhe °et
bao dotozatoi sickto
S litt.s beer. and
ips.am"t donors
told blur that il Le sent it to him ha would chugs hien
(bewbatirs.jogivnloviirehisiroacduviiis,:traf.oates7.n...".frorpri:::eatresl,..lwinnagalbeerthiste
liwws:ii.othroatkuuttiolgicestishuitaraa:ll:
the "persona- were setting wiser with regard to this
m .vumint They were awfully pr.:jadinenl me., sad bad
a areatdeal to pot up with. He could speak from experi-
othocoev,wbel.ogid
bee clieirkirirbmv,in
Ii coot.hinslf.drullnet.sagtififtahreyyadrwsierek
test .talere they would he always soh.r sad in their riot
intone He urged his hearers, and thee' who were not
interested in that select to be more *arrest, and to labour
with mote good sill to bring it to that point to which it
must ultimately succeed. He commended the eau.* to
them, and ssk,l them to seek God's asibitance to ho'll
them. and then the thing taken In hand would be sire to
proaper.
The Roy. ARM. PUILLIPIa vicar of Headier& Yeovil,
al.* addressed t nierting. Re said he had souse years
belonged to ti e ranke to temperance, but what some
people called lanai corn. He bad visited the West Gast
of Africa and a'. the West Indies, and tiers be bad seen
the !terrible practice and vice of drunkenness carried on
amens E3glishereo. The Hinder.e made all isn't of
grimace. at them. and be thought that was grisly to
nor discredit as a Clisiatien nation. He thought the
lietablished Calmer oile.t to utter their protestations
•ea'n•t tOt. a• co, end he asked everyone in urge OPOO
others to give up drinking met join one or smother of
their Wien al in.
Mr. H. BeLL4III, a smiting unit,, of LT1412101. also Mire
Neale Of gperionc,s in the temperance raueement.
which had h at. f‘r the I st 00 remit He letetr.Pireed hie
adieu's with ass.. al anotaing anecdotes, which were given
in a truly Dorset ma It, and provoked much laughter
amongst the ald:ehoe.
The pot? then
M me
adtirsed to the opal, where the concert
by about 600 voices oh pleat, e progrem being the
same as that at the ',eta! Palace, on July 13th, by 15,000
yokes. A tempt toy orchestra was erected between the
ruina, in front of which seats were arranged. The stag-
ing, during the progress of which there were some very
heavy storms, was gone through in • most creditable
manner. it b •ing of an unusual character. and the Perle
were squally balanced.
During the day heating on the lake was isdulged
and the Hherhorno Military Band, under the conductor-
ship of Mr. S. BLOM, played a choice programme of
music, which was listened to will rant attention by the
large number of people assembled lathe Park. The Mil-
borne Port Drum and rife Bated also added to the enjoy-
ment of the den. In the evening two large ballasts/ were
let up by Mr. Vaughan, but the mood one had not gone
far whet it caught fire. and was mos demolished by the
demos. At nine o'clock the wig played the Natichal
Anthem, sad the park was then cleared.

LATE s

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLos,
I:v4
l dVahyeat
Maltingclosedquietly and wiccte,
asbact;ly
Frinsedingfirni4,,r4
Oats dull, Maize firm, 235. 9d. refuse,' for AiiL4lt.
mixed. Beans and l'eas steady. Flour (itiie,74t

KIITILOPOLITAN CATTLE.—mospo.
(Tins DAY.)
About 2,600 boom.. 600 'omits), bushels • ._.
from to. Id. to be. 8.1.; 9,500 atom tad Liori7.
firmer, at 4.. 8,1, to 6.. 10,1 : lambs, la u, 7."111
calves. 64. to be. 84.
Deptford there were 4. beset. sod 8,000 4

DORCHRSIER
SATURDAY'S CORN MARKET
In eonaequenco of the fair being held op tilt we
day, the market was quite of a holidoy
about six persona attended, and little or noth,„,:l'it
opened.

rllO BE SOLD, pursuant to a Judgment of the
1 High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, msds
in an action. "In the matter of the Rotate of
MWHART, MILLER, deoeased, COCIELEAM Y.
MILLIM, 1879, M.—No. 362," with the appr AIM ion of
the Mister of the Rolls, by MI. JOHN THOMAS
ENeoR, the person splinted by the said Judge, at the
New INN, CERES ABBAR, in the County of Dorset, on
WEDNESDAY, the 25th day of AOGOST, 1880, at Three
o'clock in the afternoon, in six Lots, —A FREEHOLD
MESSUAGE or DWELLING-HOUSE and GAR-
DEN, and certain MEADOW and PASTURE
LAND7I, in the parishes of Buokland Newton and
Mappowdsr, in the County f Dorset, containing about
86a. 2a. 2p., late the property of the Testator, Michael
Miller deco soot).

Particulars and Conditions of Bsle tnay be had gratis
oft he following fiolloitora, Messrs. Airnsswe, Porn,
and AIIIKLWR, and Messrs. &noun. and Box, Dot.
cheater; aho in London, of Items. Reopen and Son,
of 63, Chanoerplene ; of Douses and CaArz, 14, Queen
Viutoeis-eteeet ; ala,, of the Aucrunizza se Dorchester,
and at the place of Sale.
Dated thls 6th day of August, 1880.

To FRBDERIC °BABB, one of the Orereeere of
tbe Poor of the Pariah of lieloombe Rash, in Use
Borough and Town of Weymouth and Ilelambs
Regis, In the County of Dorset, and to the Superin-
tendent of Police of the said Borough and Town, in
which District the Premises hereinafter mentioned
are eituate, and to all whom it may concern.

_- -
WE, the undersigned, JOHN GIIOVEB, of
Weymouth.ln doe County of Dorset, Common
Brewer and Maltster and Spirit Merchant, and
ARTHUR TOM MEAD Brewer's Clerk, now
residing at No. 10, Spring Gardena, in the Pariah of
Wyk. Roils, in the County of Dorset, the peewee
: interested in the Premises hereinafter mentioned, Do
RUTH GIVI TOO NOTIOE,—That it I. our intention
to APPLY at the next till•nirral Annual Lioenidng
Meeting for the Borough of Weymouth and Melo:mob,
P=to be Holden at the Guildhall, in the said
I and Borough in the said County of Dorset,
on the 26th day of August now next ensuing, for
the provisional GRANT of • LICENSE to us,
or to one of us. to SELL by retail Spirits, Wine,
Beer, Porter, Cider, Perry, and all other Intoxicating
Liquors to be drunk or oonsumerd in and on a certain
House and Premises, about to be constructed on • piece
or parcel of land, now belonging to the said John
Groves, sande in the Parish of Meloombe Regis, in
the County aforesekl, being • piece of land, part of an
estate called the Park Estate, 'slumbered 97 and 08, on
the Plan of the marl Estate, and. having frontage to a
street called Browalow-asewit, and • terms celled
Banalagh-tarrace, which piece of land is hounded nit
the North-east by • 6 feet ay on the
South-west by Ftranalagh-terraos,PusranceSowuth-east6B
Brownlow-street, and on the North-west by void
Numbered 96 on the said Plan, and which Howe
Premises, when constructed, will be called or known as
the Brownlow Tavern, and which we,or reed us, Intend
to keep as an Inn, Alehouse, or Victualling Home.
And we further Give Notice that at the time of mak-
ing our said application, Plans at Use said House and
Premises so to be oonstrooted as aforesaid, will be
submitted to the Justices, who shall be present at the
said General Annual Licensing Meeting.
Given under our hands this 110th day of July, Mk
JOHN GROVES
ARTHUR TOM ,
MEAD.

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BURETIF.B sr unnemestry expenses roquired, and all
conmunioatiens are strictly private. APPIY ParetemllY,
Or slats amount required.
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blued) rd thEioltjaa.4,4vsace Olassappa=4 lOa
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refused. ISC.

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