The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION.

CONTINUATION OF THE DEFENCE.
Mr. Ballasting appealed to the bar, and was generally
Miefleveed in his stets:mt. It swotted that O'Coanor was
sesa on London-bridge at 5 o'clock, and was then vacillating
as to wbether he should go or nut It would not, however,
be contended that he did set go there. He was, however,
somewhat late, sad that wee quite eons/Meat with Mrs.
Meaning's 'tensest that she went to Salk him. With nib
poet to the Mimeo Armes, they had naturally se
very ideally Mlles towable Mrs. Biennial, and
therefore anything they said fa her favour should bath
its tali value. They distinctly deposed that she
suited at their boom at a quarter to els, and it appealed
boon measurement that the distaste was three mils' from
wet to spot. She weld not be expected to travel as quickly
as a pollee:me, for whom people would most likely make
way. The probability was that she would have got
She
quicker by walking than by any cerement*. She
mat have left her own house at 6 o'clock, or at most
• quarter past, and to that point he wished to call
the most serious attention of the jury. If the murder had
been committed between half-put 6 and 8 o'clock, she could
sothave been a party in its commisithe•
it wee true that
she seated on her arrest that she left at six o'clock, but that
tidy shooed how lightly the matter weighed upon her mind.
The stet quietism wes—mo the murder committed during
that interval ? He (untended that It was, and that the matter
admitted of not • shadow of doubt. All the probabilities were
that O'Connor got there about half-put 5, and that his mur-
der took place seen alter. Was It not between half-past 5
and the time when Manning was seen sitting on the wall at
7 o'clock. If O'Coanee was alive in his house daring
that time did it not man strange that Manning
should sit epos the wall smoking. That was •
circumstance to which the jury would direct their
mat serious attendee. WAS O'Connor suedtred then or
at • subsequent time ? All the probabilities led to the sup-
position that be west to his appointment and WWI shortly
dyer murdered. The next paint to consider was, was .be
an accuser. before the fact. She was so charged to the is-
diement, Manning being supposed to have committed the
act. It was for the jury to consider whether the crown was
sight in having so put it. It was of source so
pat on the probability that the shattering the body
had exhibited wee more likely to have been tom
slated by a man than a woman. When Manning
wail asked reap( sting those fractures, he was quite 'that as to
how they had come there. Ills story had been takes
m • grimed for inculpating Mrs. Manning, and
the jury would judge of 11 probability. The mat-
ron had proved that O'Connor was not killed by •
pistol shot, and the other violence WAS most milks ly to have
been committed by a woman. His learned friend had dis-
tinctly 'moed teat the murder bad been committed by one
person, and erertainly the man who was at hems when WC-mi-
nor arrived at the house, was more likely to have
been t. .c ctimical than the woman, who was
proved t, have beta absent Us now came to
the consideration of the 'memorial acts, and in this
put of the case he implored the jury to attond to nothing
but the strict cvi once before them. Having allude('
to the ditgeoltue which a poor woman had in getting
up • coos whim opposed to the resources ot the
news, tb, learned wound promeded to say that
the grown relied upon three points as prov.og Mrs Meaning
to ham been an s cersAry before the fact. The first won
the shovel, the second was the crowbar, and the third
was the lime. He considered that the shovel was
• *tram point in his client's favour. It was a
more teat-shovel, and meld not have been used for any pur-
poses of vitamin. Therefore he dismissed it with this
other/ et: , that If this woman was buying an
ordinary teal shovel, she could hardly have been contem-
plating a deed of darkness. sta fee the lime, it was
clear what it was bought tor; but it was clear
who he eght it, and what it was used tor. It was alleged to
have been bought to kill slugs, but there was not •
tittle of foie- nee that slugs were ever ailed( el to be the
Woman. She was not at home when it was brought to
the home, but ter husband was, and received it. TM
boy who brought it received some half pence neat I
day, but could nut tell from whew he received it. Mr.
Maaaey bad prey d that there won • teas walnut sometime
these. and it was not at all improbable but that she
might have given the worry. Then, as to the crowbar, It
was bought by the husband, and brought home by him
wrapped up in paper. If it was an ordinary ripping
chisel, why sadistic*: to conceal the shape from his
wife, She raw the bill, and complained that it was
too deer; but that might have aregen from its
coming to more than she had been told to expect.
Perhaps she had ben placed in the situation by her
husband ha order that sothicion might fall on her. lie
(Mr. Bellaltime) did net say so. It was must likely an after-
thcaglet wi 1-.lt night occur to any poltroon who was anxiou
to save ht: lie at the *spear of his wife's. He thought he
bad row seemetcl for the import at paints in the CSSA.
The seat was the blood found on Mrs. Manning's dress.
It was wry renriekable that the only masks depot: to
age athe MA of • cape ; and, therefore, if blood at all,
egad not tam bus communicated during the eom.
sham of the murder. Might they not AS well have
bora iron-mould. Toilet covers had also been introduced,
aid whisk elm sate probably bed received in entice. They
had be.o its the bedroom, and, as the murder was un-
doubtedly committed in the house, ft was quite pro-
bable that the meson who committed it had gone.
Thee, r to the blood on the dress, is would be maser end
that it ems hand on the inside, and on a part to which
ft might have found its way from natural causes. no
did sot wish to be mon explicit than won mosseary
on
a point like thi.; but in • case where the life of a
Mlimr-eseotare was at stake, he could not be expected to
have numb thadelevation for the feelings of persona
who was them from motives of mere idle curiosity.
The fact was that those stains had arisen from CSCOISS,
dunces that were oatagal to woman. and bad nothing what-
ever to do with seismal Medea/se. He next come to the evi-
dence ot Mr. Mussy, who it seemed had bad some
strange e nvenation with Manning as to the powers
of chi-Tokens and; laudanum, and the vital parts of
the human head. If Mr. ]cheesy had possessed com-
mon discretion he might hate takes such steps in constquenee
of thou enthenations as would hive prevented the dreadful
catastrophe. It appeared that the murder was planned on
the Bth, and let them consider what wee the conduct of
Mn.e Massing on that day. She wrote an invitation to
O'Connor; but it was hardly likely that Manning
would commit hinted( to far u to write him-
self. blight not Mrs. Manning have been mods
to write the letter as she had been made to pay for the Now-
liaz. It appeand that O'Connor OMBe aectsnpsaied by •
Vgiginamed Walsh, and hie evidence was important.
rs. Manning contemplated the murder, It mast have
been in her mind then. But she exhibited the greatest
openness, and everything that could indicate games of
nefarious intection. Then when O'Connor was faint from
seselriag had she not bathed his temples? Wes it likely that
the most depraved female could have behaved thus to the man
whose murder she was othitemplaUng. She had, it wu true,
written to him to come; but she was _benefiting by his
aequsiut ince, and was el course anxious that he should come
on often as ',Table. He had now gone asclorely as possible
through the case, and he would leave it confidently in the
heads of the jury. Then was eaa other point, and
that was MIS. Manning's conduct at the Armes's
O'Connor, it appear", was late In coming to her house,
sad she Koopman wont to seek him. No property WS! taken
that evening, nor did anything occur to lead to the supposi-
tion that arse west foe other than the most ovdiaary purpose.
If on that occasion Mrs. Manning had contionpleted murder,
would not her conduct have given some indication of her
dreadful intentions. All Miss Arms' had been able to say
was, that she was a little pale, aid she was not able to
notice even this until after the had heard that
• murder had been committed. On the following evening
Mrs. Manning was alleged to have trembled ; but was it not
probable that she had then some suspicion that
a dreadful crime had been committed. liming
now considered the points of principal and of seer-
son Were the fact, he came to the consideration of whether
his elect could he guilty, charged as an aeosseory after
the fat. That charge was not laid in the indictment
in consequence of her connexion with the male prisoner, but
be trusted it would not find its way into the minds of the
jury. He did not mean to deny that at some period this
woman bad become acquainted with the deed, and that
supposition would recount fir the whole of her subsequent
conduct. It was quite clear that the whole act might Asm
been committed during her abuses. She had no doubt learnt
the fact from her husband. It was dear that she had caroled
on a cdminal intercourse with the decreed, and, her crime
weighing her down, left bur completely fa the power of her
husband, who =mitt have committed the mime as • revenge
for his wrongs. Ile could give no other reasonable solution
for her conduct, end he trusted the jury would look at it in
that light ; and with regard to the posseesith of the railway
shares, the jury would not Meet that she had been in cos.
saltation with the deceased Meat the purchase of runway
shires, and that she stated he had two or three hundred
pomade to invest in that manner. He would also ask them
whether it was not losable that the deceased might not have
gives her some of the railway shares which were bead
In her possession when she was taken tato suatedy.
It was contended for the greseetokm that the
pommel= of this property woe quits alashwitell eft her Wean-
lion with the murder ; bat he thermal the jury net le view
it in that light, sad that they wool& Melt Wes older the
circumstance', she might have talus the psepartly, eked yet
be perfectly innocent of the murder, K el Mein had ay
thing to do with pleasing h. The WM& egemed. Mae
sone further onnarlis, and theakiag the Jeri Ise the ether
bon they hut paid to the we, laid lie Vaasa ba bad risk s&
them that, at all events, there was doubt end diflifeltg lathe
ease; sad he concluded by expriming a hip Miat 647
would give effect to that doubt, by unarming a vealistilmour-
able to the prisoner.
The Attorney-Gummi was shoat to reply, when
Mr. Parry iaterposed and said that although. peekaps,
strisaaas the Attothey-Ooneral WOW MVO Ilas AIM Of
reply, yet it was not customary to exudes the pewee In •
sees were sot a tittle of evideass bed beta Waged by the
rhumb
The Cklef Bans saki the Attoesspesasnl clearly had
the MOS.