The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-22 00:00:00

I immediately vomited, audits (Jgees) and Palmer @rambled
had not voraita tee pill,. He laid down and
what be had vomited, and ascertained that he
was quiet, said he fat bitter and stronger,
but he dreaded • fepetia on of the attack of the previous
nigh.. Jones wad, "Alter I bad been in bed about tea
innate.. the des-aid eudienly rand himself on his bed.
au I tailed nut, D ctor, pet up. I sat going to be , and
he added, Ring the hell and send for Palmer.' I rang the
bell, and the a sambermnd same, sad We wain called out to
mad hi Mr. Palmer. Tin desessed then asked me to give
litameething to relieve him, sad I told him Palmer would
be Itramodireetly. He then asked me to rub his seek, and I
Mil skirt I observed a greet misses about the meeeles of
toss mob. Palmer came into the room almost immediately,
oodles made the remark that be did not think he bad ever
drented so geicky to his life. He brought some ammonia pills
with his and Cook eleal owed them, sad directly afterwards
uttered violent soreeme, threw himself back In the bed, and
war dreadfully convulsed. Ammonia pills could not have
bees the ewe of the.. The deceased then said, 'Rase me
up, or I chill be muff uted.' The convulsions extended
over all the muscular Mores of the body—easy muscle was
convulsed, and there was • stiffening of the limb.. lea
elerareured 10 raise the eteeedeed with the assistance of Mr
Palmer, but it was quit* impossible to do so, from the rigi-
dity of the limbs. lie then asked me to turn him over, and
we did- so. At this time he was quite sensible. I then
listened to the Peden of the heart, and found it to gradually
weaken, and I salted the prisoner to fetch 1101110 spirits of
nons aeets as • stimulant, end he left for that purpose, end
returned to two or three minutes, and at this time the heart
was gradually shadow in its waits, and life was nearly a-
but. The deemed died almost immediately after Palmer
retuned with the ammonia. Not more than ten minutes
• or • quarter of an hour elapsed from the trae the deceased
first rolled out to me until his death. The immediate cause
of death was convulsions."
Mr. Berea Alderson—You are reading from the dep.-
' sante What he said in then was, that the death was
from tetanus, and that be died in a quarter of an hour.
Me. Seediest pees said be was entitled to read from the
depositiess, and be did so because they were entitled to
know what really took plate. The word tetanus was not in
toe doposittoes. It was viry remarkable, and showed how,
wimp's* got • creasy into their heady, they would fag
Illat Em my, and stretch at to the uttermost. they had it
ineeidamme that Dr. Tayl r, on the occasion of the inquest,
sat matte Mr. Dean, the attorney's clerk, and suggested
quoting. Fancy Dr. Taylor, who had had • letter telling
him there wee a 'aspirate e.f @erscheint, and who had all but
nude up his mind testate positively on his teals that in his
(minim the pills • laintratted on Monday and Tuesday
nights ontsined stryehaine
The Attorney- General—l am told that Dr. Taylor was
I not present when Mr. Joan was examined.
Mr. Serjeant ghee said, then the observation, was about
about
TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER. ,to make did not arise. However, Mr, Joan gave hie eel-
SEVENTH DAY. I deuce. He was a sompeteat professional au, and it was
quite oleo/resat soesetbing like tetanus mum bare tutored (Continued from yeeterday's ammo.) his Wad, because the sleek had put down " trainee" Pro-
On the renesembling of the wart Mr Stni•aot Shoe re- bably Mr, loses weed it, and the clerk, who had perhaps
aimed his *deluge. He said he proposed to read 'potion never used the word before, mis-spelt it, but he corrected hle
of the &weenies of Elisabeth Mills before the coroner, de- evidence, sad the weed was struck out. First the team used
seribiag the symp.oma of the Money and Tuesday night, wee "sting umpteen@ of c ompression." That was struck
gad be woad alw reed the deposition of Jones, thouge the out non this word whine" was Warted, and that
&typeface ot Joins was not so favourable to the prisoner as was also steak oat, and then tbe words it vie-
his evidence in the court, but suhrentially they were the lest seavelsiees" were substituted. What was the fair
elms. He proposed to ri ad the statement. of Mills and of inference from that ? Why that the man who saw Cook is
Joan before the coroner. of the symetosse which they oh- the paroxysm did not think himself justified in saying it
mud in Cook on Use Monday and es the Teensy night, was tetanus at all It might hove been very like it is some
and having done so, he would submit, on authority whin+ of its featuree,but it was not Masse. He had trosanzamined
sold not deceive them, whether those symp etas main not the several witnesses for the purpose of acitieg what be
men properly be snouted foe by tworailsions which were believed to be the tree theory of this eue, that the coeval-
s.< titanic, aed cercetely not tante is its distinctive Oa swan of nhiettCook died wen not tetanus, properly tusks
utter of atrichain• tetanus, but these general totinisions log, or Untie, propuly apeskieg, but that they were eon-
by which it rometemes pleased Providence to strike • man vaisioas ea that kind which were not classed ender the head
down. They would find that it frequently hsppeoed that of tetaak, either traumatic or caused by 'Urbane. Het
• sas is the prime of life was struck down by cavalsions, would reed to them the opinion of Dr. Copeland on the
the crape of which left not a trace in the becy. This was minuets
what was meant in secieet times by the phrase, "Died by The Ationtey.Goneral said Dr. Copelead was alive, sadthe visitation of God,"—died by a cause wissee it pleased he thallenged lierjeant Bse to sell him.
God man should not discover. It might alas please the gerjeset Shea said he should sot call him.
Almighty that the cause should be diseevered, and that sun After seems discussion as to whether the opinion should be
might be I need to tbeinduceetion of the deceased pence. He read,
hada submit th‘t the symptoms ditscribed by Elisabeth Mills &tent ghee said he would read it as a part of his red Joan were each as to render it entirely uneemseary to much, and be then reed from Dr. Copeland'."Dictionary
nom to tetanus of any kind. They would remember of Prettiest Medicine" • long definition of neutral centra-
lise austieraion of this young man, and the evidence of goer, aid the it elegiac..., in which he desselbed the pre-
furatiosery derangement. He should submit, on *litho, ty monitory symptoms as restlessness, unsound sleep, nausea,
In matters of this kind, that it was more probable that Conk hypochondria. They, to , followed no tenets course,
Mud of meta' convuleioes, not tetanus, then that he died end the modifileatinne were numerous. Death occurred
if Salamis convulsions, He hod said all that he had to 057 from the extessios of the meseles of the respiratory organs
about Coos's bodily ininaity, let them a' w c mailer what The MIMI of the disease were agitation and ail emotion of
was the state of his mind. He went to Shrewsbury near the mind which futon the ninon, power and determiun
In the Madame peril of cooties away a rained assn. He the bleed to tee head. Did they, the learned @solemn asked,
had been smug stagy at enormous interest, and be bad beaus that if Dr. Taylor had read that before the inquest, he
tee property except two rev/bones, Polestar and tibiae and would have said this man died of stryehnis poison ? There gm were mortgaged. s, bop' that Polestar would win, was not a angle quietus describet in the evidence of
as be would thereby obtain the stakes, worth shout 3601., gig ,heth Mills and Mr. emu which D,,, Copelend did net
cad would also els to the amount of 6001 or 7001. by the describe meteorite' In antral convulsions. He should
lett that he had made upon the rm. Fancy the totalities catl man of the highest amtunce In their preludes, net
In which that Tonga mu use from his bi don the Thorsday mere surgeons of hospitals, who never saw anything of that
mrsiag. He emit ban knewa that unites his horse won nature that was not of the traumatic kind; be did not wish
the race, he w s without • hope of resovierieg himself. He to speak disearseingle of them—and no one could mention
awaited the race with Womble,* anxiety; at length it the name of Sir B Brodie without rupest ; bat a hospital
aciaamoncied, and his bore won easily. Hs was the wiener surgeon had not the opp 'nutty of seeit g those convulsions
of 1,0001., and what effect had that soon him ? Joliet told which beads of families, and mothers and sisters, were
them teat he was unable t neat for three minute,. He soli". tomeeem from overran. elastic tbe veitieiteet mae,
was saved not merely in puree bat Is character; saved be beams lf they were known they would dest,ey • yowls
theit his (floods; he would not be • disprese to them yet. For men or • roan; woman's bop. of marriage. Pennine t r
three miasma he could sot speak, though he was with hie general prarainoners, and not hospital surpass, ware the
intimate friend, Mr. Joan. Alter he had to some extent pineal, who had imperious of these tint. Before he went
triesvered himself, he went back to the inn is a rate of into that point, h never, he would call their !aunties to the
.when. He entertained hi. friend., It did not appear that symptoms of traumatic tetanus. He belief was that the
ha drank to team, bat it erns champagne dinner, and at complaint Cook died of waa not botanic at all, and that as
Ithanteiglo• disarm it often happened that there wen other regarded many of the symptoms there wee no general die-
deists head's. At alleviate, they knew that what was manna between traumatic, idiopathic, or snubs& trainee,
gelled • champions dinner was a nutrias entertainment and many forms of coneuls.ole. Some of the wineues
at which then wail no taint. That leveeing he did not spend never saw • eau of lollop ethic tetanus ; but the,. was one
in the company of Palmer, and it was not clear in whose gentleman present, • men of large practice, whom he should
tompaey he did spend it after the dinner was over. Bet tall, and who had himself sun four nose. The loaned
they rased him the nest evening at the Canons with aerjeant then read an eati act from • work by Dr. Watson,
launders, the trainer, and • lady. The next moraine it to the effect that when tetanus arose from a
was sold and wet, sad be was obsetved by Herring standing bodily hurt, it was called traumatic tetanus; but
is the wet, sad ha remonstrated with him. He was takes ohm it won spostiumuly, and after sipc.in to the „la,
ill that night, be net for • doctor, and they relieved his it was held to be idiopathic tetanus; that it bad
stomach by administering warm water and pathos/ • tooth been known se arise from the sticking of • fish bone in the
beuek partially down his throat and thee canoe him to taupe, from • alight wound in the ear, from • minket abet,
wenn It was with a weakened body and an excited although the skis was met broken; from • bite of the finger
abed that he was attacked with 11.111e4 et Staiwebery, bye tame sparrow, from the assertion of • setts, from a
labia lett him with it any rest and prevented him from plow from • stick. Might sot, the learned sergeant pro-
=tau the system the ordinary healthful food, without ended to ask, might not the symptoms described by
the strongest man must give way! Ma seem being Elisabeth Mile sad Mr. Jones come under one of these
teas sashed be was Inedittioned to any adds' maelibiee forms cantata t Dr. Copeland said, la four tame out of
Mask. Deiced upon it the thoughts of that young man flee traumatic t' tense betas with a stilton of the lower
ideals retired to rest wt re ant of that tranquil the:aver jaw; bat there was the fifth sac., and might not this be it?
Mitathoewhomhewisddressing would probably have lining now esthete !urn to witty the jory that the unit-
mitre ttropentino. He ea. to didleulties, even his willing, teens might be sluiced under the head of g 1 oravadoes
asineowabers were noteeficieni to relieve him from all his rather than seder any form of tetanus, he now tams to
teelleereaseato, and be could act, on secosat of the state eh. gentles whether, if the symptoms were tante, they
enlielbeettler eves gratify he animal appetites. That was wets of that form that Ina produced by stryobnia. He
hr eartbre ; he desired no sons ty so much as the society of was net sera whAber Dr. Taylor said he had ever seen •
relowar. Ho reeidente at the Talbot Arms was la troth • eau of stryebeine tetanus, but in big work on @try. hales
yeradenee with Palmer. who lir., opp *it*. He had ao p 411111 Mead, lu from 6to 20 minutes atter it has been
sitting arm himself, and he did not input' to @wallowed the patient is suddenly seised with titanic symp-
to
frequented the coffee room. H. had only abed nom. tem, affeetine the whole of the annular syetem, the body
Ho was Wise violently ill on the Sunday night. They had ascogglig rim', the limbs stretched ant, and the jaw so
.sly tie own deseriptioa cf it, bet it appeared he bad been fiud that ton .iderable difßculty is experienced in intro.
Wang *us pills administered by Mr. Bamford. aid be duehug anything into the mouth." Bat la this me Conk
awoke at abut 12 oieleek at might in • state of greet excite- we. Satin the bee.il ,thea, sating for Palmeri and
moot. Ho did sot ring the bell, as be thought every one ready to .wallow whatever rasa gone to him;
le the helm wee is bed, sad they would cot hear him, bet sad the pasozysne, lastesd of being from five to twenty
be stated that all war mad for two minute., sad that this summoner the poison was said to have bees adednistored,
wee ace gained by his eaddes alarm at beteg awakened in did not begin for an hour and • half. Dr. Taylor went on
the middle of the sight by • row in the street. to nay that the body became welted, and after mend at-
The nest day (Monday) be Wee se far well that he tight lemming in severity the patient died of asphyxia, or
transacted besiege, with his trainer and his jockey, exhalant. Now those were not the symptoms of Cook.
but he use out of his bed, and It did not appear tnat he Dc.Chrleasen, describing the egrets of stryebaia, said " Tne
lock anything solid. Palmer was not there, bat we. in Lateral missend with • startling of the lan; respiration
Lvados. Then no Monday night be was sen-d with the henna checked by a Being of the jaw. The fit is then
panayssa which Elizabeth Mills described. Elisateth Mills seleseded by an Interval of ulna, during which the stares said, "lie was takes ill • hula tithes twelve on Monday are settle and unaterally acute ; but anther paroxysm
night. I was galled up and west to he rum, sad lend NOS sets in, sad thee another and another, till at length the
him Wine( up In bed. Be begged me to fetch Palmer St tam plus more violent than before, and the animal Boonw" mut for Wm- owocceed was elitist( up perishes." It wee only just covey that the deseripties theme f• bed butler it with his heads; he bad been ecressiog sootheeoe gave of the effect of stnehnis wee, is the maia,
twice before Iwe int° tee room H. lad It wasthe Odle- moos% Mime thenwas • gentians, present who would
HY arms we" throwing attest mesa mellowed to be Mae as sweetmeat whisk he (derjoent Sim) saw himself,
Maim. When Palmer same be said, • Doctor, I null die,' wad Ilia WIG made for the.purpoas of saving the prisoner's M Palmer said, ' Ng, m lad, you won't.' " That was the lac Dr. Leaman put thre grains of 'blasts lute the aseeset of Monday n'gbt. It must have ham a much ler month of a dog, end after tweet? or tweaty-five minutes,
lenses attack than that on Sunday night. The lair lab- the dog was perfectly
that
end was very attentive to the rem from the whole of that statement wee that during mottoes el two rabbits were the table, which wens
t Woe be was in the paroxysm he was In great pan, bet sheet ales be be 'object* to the operation of the poison.
Sat he arm boot his Genus, and that he could sot be tad. gseeinly the dog lea a eat aide, and his legs were En* nemester lo be is • fir. Mr. Janes said he had been ' stretaied oat in the same violent canine It recovered,
Mas dove by Mr. Palmer, who bad written to I get up, sad Inked at the rabbets again ; but if it was =OW ifiesmilay ; that he got there es the Tuesday about I teethed, it spiv .red and twitched, and seemed to be afraid
awe ofibealt, and that he saw Mr. Cook ales.. Tbat wag of any us going near it After *seater =taste it fell
le Melt hepertant fact is this CM. Imes was his intimate down again, and the same thing took plus thin it wee
Mead, he lima with him at Lutonworth ; he wee a moil. I op ages, cad down seats ; and at last, after • fearful
oil me, and Palmer wrote to him to am and stay in struggle, it died. That was what Dr. Christie.. =soot by
the bad-nom with his. Hs had Cook to himself Irom his daecriptioa. The symptoms would vary in latessity.
am to !sun o'clock. Part of the semitone of the prose- If the sleek was sot a strong one, and the intervals br-
eeder was that C. ok thought Praiser bed played false with ! came greater, they would Moms Ism violent, and the
bin at Shrewsbury, and that be had • design epos bite, but I animal weeld sac over ; but if the interval peewees the pe-
lt did not 21 p.ar that any'hie g was said by C. ok, wr that I rozysims was short, and the symptoms were violent, the
asythiag evened to raise &napkins tit the sled of lone,, animal would die, The limbs of this dog just before a
Vod
ssso mush was that so that at the useeltstien that t wit it died basest as 'topple in It was puibie to c rot
betwesa seven end eight oielick b. twee. Joins end I solve; bet when tee salad wia on
deed, after a Frame and Bamford as to what should be the medicine for' time the vizor minis cane on, and the limbs
that eigtv, it did not appear that the attack en Monday ! were quits stiff. This was does also to the two rabbits,
night wee even seentieeed. That was • remarkable fact in ' and their symptoms were substastially the sante. He
two ways. The proseetitiee might say it was remarkable in ! believed then was no cassia the books In which the patient,
this Imo, that Psis.? knew of it, and said not a weed while the paroxysm lasted, bad so much eommaod over the
about it, but if it were of so series. a the- , mantis ef &abut life and viluutsry motes se C cat bad on raster did they suppose that Cock would not have the Monday sad the Tees lay night. 81 far from being
insationed It. HIS inference was that is all probability the I
rubbed, afraid of say one touching lam, he asked to have his seek
Steastetemut of Illizetuth Mills was the cornet statement sod it wu rubbed. But this was not a sus of
of what attuned, and if they loud it eiusistent with whet @lngrains teesatr. The nun in the books showed that is
Janes said as to what occurred the next sight, they I *nab ems death took pleoe more rapidly than In this. Dr.
magla semeably biter that entitling in tense of that Walker (ratite reporter aedswood) insationed a esas
In
rib bed boon described afterwards had been the resets which • yeast" man. of the age of 17, Was attacked is about
tbsimairinsCon of what the eau fur the crows, or rather squirter of as hear after he took the roils; end there
dome of Mr. Stephens, was. Now, what did Mr brims wee • mos montiosed by Dr. Wilson, in which a girl of 13
viol Karat/4 that h• •laitee Cook 'very hall hour that w nuked I twenty minute. There another ease
reedes. Palatareatne and gave Cook two pill., sad Cook in which api nnontokaquarter of • grainwu of the sulphate
eying taking them, sa they made him ill of stryakeine, sad
Dr. dead In dam Mentes. Thom am
LlllNiungeeetens slat. Observe the;ignifisent feet that was • case whic Wilson mentioned I. Ms book. It woe
Pdasr.l the was of Joao, beosaht up two pilb,which a ease in *high strycluelse intended for a sn'ytte Palest
WOW selliteeld ee hove Palmed Cook, which menaced a was takes by another peens le Middlesex Hoiratal. In
IlliniMegle Ned assambeas be work la a quarter of an mica seven minutia and • half the paint
kare, aged Seleelemds ma new thee wers melted to ' was sododroulyssixed with v'oleat symptom, and- he
bdIrMINWS Oble. is the Penedo of Jima objected to thong, Med oat with the_ pain. Any attempt at movstaimts
Ind IBM poWasa motives 'nod them bye bia throat, at and *via !cochlea him, wowed to acing on the puin liebeieleeetroll of the sae/Meg down dead like the New this wee the sue with the dog, bet it was net
1111BBIEMtrphed bard of. the wastes raid Cook with Cook. Dr. Wagon west on to ay, " Thaes! tae aw
of
swal-
agjeeped *wiggly to taking this, bet he did take them, end lowteg, soy, ayes the issigiaatios of it, will be salleiest

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