The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-22 00:00:00

MS BURDON POISONING CARL

The following oorreepondence hog pseud between
Dr. Jake», of Darliagtim, sad ILL Berea llestia, is
reheats. to this mysterious ewe:
Y
Meant», Dee. 17.
"My Lord,—lt is with imbues pale sad &nasty that I
fel irompalled to approach you Lordship ea the blesta
the Barites pastas; case, tried by yea at the late Durham
&seism
" Ls the pried* medical ass ozonised es the case,
I ups whose emdeet your Lordship straggly sabnadeested,
1 psi hew with »essential subsaissloa to all the remarks
wWi yea thought it to sake I. year sharp te the jury 1
um to. eadatee ; bat upon you elealag saprotaisa, via.,
Mot there was another person wheal , you waned be
partybared to Sopartysalter that ski almoner, I
sate* that I am entitled to wise eirplisatisalluan
aok Sts this exasuation besanes,Ds. Teller end ether
Weiss= hawing »seed that Yrs. Wool» was esisatilleally
desteeyed, the medical sea some ant sada the Watt-
istion—an imputatioa derive' ory to the prefabs, end
whirl might be meet dermal» to nay owe character sad
lateseas. You Lordshiesorords may mesa either that I
gave the diseased plum wilfully or thresgh culpable
willies's.
" If the kmasr, as I us suss sr Ileglish My would not
rashly make souk a charge, I Waif sergasttelly that
be I abseil gat la pomades 11 the oFsftwar opiates,
zigtel
art I meg be aliessed aa of kehaelagy
losnialgN mind of seek • milealre, nod ii
nes be »Suoured
to be mashed by a pablio oasis. Needed es year Lord.
ides weeds alone. If your Lordship alluded to mistake or
onipahle aegligeate, I wish to bring before your nodes the
histrt=allll6ll of maim! poisoning in a miser
&owl Ives ia the demand Were say se=
wise dlipmee from ay awry, and Asa Taylor in her
Minna before the wooer discoed that those symptoms
molbstelerithiett istentialos sip to the time of the death
ill be IMIPIAMO. No mistake of mine, then. meld have
ollised fa INS meeptina.
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01. Thu. lewler's sehtits of aresula and badman
ere sonsialmeemet unlike is silica, had Image soy Weak*
and substituted the au fee the other, the quality used is
the ideate» must hake mused the death of the patient,
iris{ biameral Weeks, but la ferty-right haus at the latest.
• indelabs, thee, in Ma awe was laspeseible.
f'3 Met such a mistake is with ma at all times lava
Alio. TM arrasmosses of my surgery do sot, se ie erre.
=Ws:it PI, meor is p=altuya: te:edy Fara: as it ewer
e
always be» dieted by the whole length
.of a fair sized
room (the bottles ars totally dissimilar issae sad shape),
end es sober mss, with pailful maybes of poison is Der
Wads, is is possible that either my assistant or myself meld
have carelessly taken an bads for the other? If I die
passed scieeic from say surgery to Mrs. Wools: I sum
Mrs Mrs doss it knowingly cad wilfully.
"My Lord, weigh these thiep well. I ark a question
Wallas my eharaster, my welfare, sad ay happlawa, sad I
pray humbly for as moms which may enable me to Few i
cue myself NMI my prolasion from aanserised =spiels' and
einitempt.
"To samba the mins, sadeflaed charge, whisk has'
Ms. pebbly made, I seek your Lordship's permission to
palmist+ year lordship's mower, together wi..n this letter,
is the aepapapers.
" I us, ay Lord,
"Your Ladshie's *beanie senora,
a 'DMAS Hasse Jacasow.
" Sir Samuel Maeda."

"76, Matimequare, Dee. 19.
hams to imhsowledgo year letter of the 17th
inot.„ aid I think that, seder the torsumstaaess, I ought to
fns the mu 1 sad almost intiverael rale among
teat to amiss such a somiausicatioa. Tour wien-
jp7uale amMeed to the bzioneesion welch you, describe at
the *dog espneeisa of my summing ,'that there
row masher puma wheat I would be *lined te dad guilty
rather than the primer: lam eertaia I sorer made us
of such aa ezpration, or asythiag teaterantat to it.
"It is ineporible for me to state with verbal Mousey
what l thou esid; I sea be eartaia of my amain; may.
salistasee of what I istaat to may, sad believe did
soy, wse thin—that la a ems of presumptive evident, its-
paned the guilt of murder, the law required the pre-
sumptions to be the plain, sad natural consequences follow.
lag from the fasts proved, sad that it was est to be made
out by teary or maim or saspieitsa. but W facts that
sueseatoi to proof; that Iliad eadeameured la my own
Wad, to alive at sort seasiusion se tho anhjost, sad that
it appeased to me time was uo pm( emaimaNsag ono; but
that if I were to iretinlar 881.11.411 0047. Oct
the ptiontor, but tome *or pet* motile MOW te ..y
salad. If the satin of what I sidil apes this subject had
*a repined, I eameet bat *Mak it *old have*. obvi,
sae to say as that I did uprose what I Mundell to ex.
prate, viz., ao imputation of guilt spas say se, bat a
etyma Illuenstion et the extreme damn of sonvistiog Mr.
Weskit urea asi Sissy or suite* from * fasts mad elms
o eanimaeas proved, by inggsedag thin it fain or gumbo
more Saud* than *id he estettaked ageism Mr.
r Wader, though equally iseuMeieut to Whig her daft or
the simpieloa of it, might be *mod spialt awatbsr.
"Tear obeli* tenant,
" Samna Kamm.
"T. Zeiss Imbies. ark, M.D.• Dadingina."

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