The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-28 00:00:00

POISONIIO CAST IN SWITZERLAND.

The Court of Anises of Berne commeooed on
Moods/ the trial of Dr. Bertusao Demme, • profemarof
the Uuinnity of Barite, aged 30, oa a charge of hariog oa
the 15th F•bratz7 last caused the &alb of M. Trampy, •
hanker sod oommistioe meet, by administeriag a strati
dose of strychiee wild* attending him as • physician. The
widow of the demand was also charged se aa sccomplios is
the crime.

Thecirotimetesces of the cans, as stated in the indiettneot,
are briefly as follows :—Oo the night of the 15th February
last, M. Trumpy died at his country seat at Webeni, near
Berne. Two days later rumour. reached the Prefect of
Berne that the demoted had committed suicide. He
therefore at mei applied to the premier, Dr. Demme,
who bad attended the deceased io has last illness, to preset
a report am to the cause of death. The prisoner at ooce
acceded to the demand, and presented • repcet is which he
attributed the death to apoplexy. As this statement WaS
sot is accordance with 'mown facts, the Public Prosecutor,
Os has part, called oaths prissier to draw up a second report,
which be did, sad in it attributed the death of M. Trumpy
to poisoning by stryobsioe. Two emioest physicians of
Betas, Dr.. lCupper and Kninserd, were then empowered by
the aathonties to make a poet-roortem examisatios of the
body, sod the costente of the intestines having been ana-
vied, more than tee grains of str) choine were found. The
investigation which followed lasted till the beginning of
May, and lad to the conclusion that the hypothesis of •
suicide was scarcely admissible. But that there ware
grave ressoos to suspect that the poison bad bees sandals-
tered b Dr. Demme, who was alone in &Seedier"' on the
din during the night of his death. and that immediately
preceding ; this suspicion wao sti °esti:toned by the disco-
very of facts indicating, it is alleged, the existents of an
illicit connexion between the doctor and Madame Trumpy,
taboos betrothal had in the interval been publicly eel*.
bested is aocontaime with the custom of the country. The
result of the inquiry having been communicated to the public
prosecutor, oe the 9th May last be ordered the arrest of
Dr. DOOM, and Madame Trumpy, and they were commit-
ted for trial, after examination which rather aggravated
thee mitigated the evidence against them. The iodiet.
meat, which was drawn up by the Procureur-Giniral,
oseelades with stating that Trumpy lived unhappily
with his wife, that he was a man of irregular habits and
violent temper, and bad caused his wife to keg ono eye by
throwing • lamp at her ; it also admits that there are cir-
ounistasces which favour the hypothesis of • suicide, =Gag
which are the pectudary embarrassments of the dammed,
who had wall nigh raised himself by • series of unfortunate
speculations, and bad even more than opos threatand to
kill himself. After the readies of the indictment the court
adjourned to the following day.
The prisoner Denim* is delerfhed as being about 30 Tears
of ape, tall, with a fair completing tad of prepormosiai
appearance_ The widow Trumpy is rather short than other-
wise ; her feature, an delicate, and bar cognisance pleasing.
without Wag pretty. Elbe has los the eight of one eye,
osier, it ti said, to an act of brutality OR the part of Ur
husbaod.

ALDININAN SALOMON% M. P., AND E COMM-
TIARTS.—LimA sight • crowded public meeting of the
electors of the harongb of Gresowieh, residiag at DmAford
and Hateimm, wee bead at the Dhow, Instftutiou,
Week Deptford, to hem se address from AWerman Wo-
man, ll.P.,oapimatery of Ms views on venous import at
public questions ; at the conclusion of which • vote of cow
Mance in the hoe. gentlemen woo armeimeosly pnmsL