The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1856.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.
EIGHTH DAY.

[The chief portion of the fullowiag appeared he our 8110001
Biiltiolll_ piptorclay
lie. W. He repath, ezamined by Mr. Grove, Q.C.—lsm
profewor of nisei**, and toxicology at the Bristol Medleal
*School. I have esperimested upon the pekoe of step*.
atm, hut I have sever ens a being sem is the hums.
satj, et, but I have examined • can after death from
strycnaine, and I f the pains V the *latent' of
the stomach. I made the examination three days after
death. I made ono( sulphuric said and hi-chromate of potato.
The witness msatiosed some other tests he employed, end
which he sel4 cowl rited what were called the colour
tests for the shaeovery of step:inane. Be said that • differ.
tut result would be obtained in the case of pare and ins
pare sttycknine. The whets. then said—l succeeded in
oiseoverieg tee preresce of the poison in the stomach. I
have made about 9 or 10 ezpgrinneu with strychnine epos
animals, and in some of the cases Invented the bodies
after death. I destroyed two ens by strychnia. To one I
gem a groin of stryeboia in • solid form on 10108 meat, and
tie sent morning I found the animal dead. Tee body was
very much contra. ted, sensately rigid, and the limb.
stretched out, and the head turned ruled to the aide. The
eyes were protruded and stories, aid the iris expanded and
%limpet invisible. A mucous frothy matter sanded from
the *oath. la the odes of this animal which had been
ejected I found welch's'', and also in the stomach. Upon
another occation I administered the same quantity to •
second eat The est remained quilt 16 rr 16 minute*,
with bat few muttons until 36 minutes. It merely
seemed • little milieu with its ryes at Aro,
but in thirty-eve siesta it bad a terrible spasm, the
tour extremities and the head being stretched oat, and
drawn tope,' isr. After this it had a second spssm, and Mon
breibly .jested its urine. I thought ft would die, bat it
nos recovered itself, and remained still, with the exespUom
of • trembling all overt and it continued in this state for
three hours. It was • very peculiar state all this time,
—touching it appeared to electrify it all through, and blow-
ing upon it appeared to have exactly the same effect. At the
sad of three hours I left it, thinking the animal would re-
rover, bet to the morning I found it dead, is the same
Wanted aad contorted sonditioa the former seismal was
found in. I made the p ot-mortena esaminatioa in this one
36 hears alter death, and foetid strychnine is the arise,
the etomseb, the liver, and the blood of the bent.
I made • post-mortem inamination in several
other cuss, and in every tannin I discovered
tee presence of stryehoia. I also dleetteered the
release of nun *mica where that potion was eke come of
death. la enemas the animal bad been buried two months.
I have experimented epos iambs** purposely mixed with
organic matter, and I detected It in every ease. In my
*Melon as a chemist, where strycheia has bee. the mesas
ricienteleg an iadiridual, it mast be rotted in the stomach,
ft is completely decomposed or reduced to a dry
powder. Ide note:under, in this ease, that the *audition
in which the stomach and its metes* inn seat la the jam
presented any difflealty la analysing them, or is the die•
coney of strychnine it any bed bine (*Maisel within.
By the Attonsey-Geneni-1 have never been is media.'
practise. My profession is that of • chemist. I made an
experiment on the Bth of May. It was not particularly in
referent), to this can, bat for the purpose generally of ao-
quiring information. I found stryobeine in the liver, blood,
and urine. la one of the cases where I discovered
the strychains in these tisanes, • gun of strychnine bad
been administered. That so • large dose. I may ham ex-
pressed • strong opinion that strychnine bad been taken la
' this case, and that Dr. Taylor bed not taken the proper
mesas to And it out. I obtained my impression from the
newspaper reports. I read automats in • variety of news-
papers to eouneelon with this one, and from what I read
of the symptoms my opinion was pretty generally what you
have stated. _

the stryehola L pars sad itemized
with orgutio matter la the stoutish, I believe t►at the
60 000ta part of a groin eoald be dbcovered. I have placed
two grains in a gallon of water, which is one in 70,000 puts,
and from one tenth part of a drop of the water the presence
of the stryebaiste may be ascertained.
Mr. W. B. Roger,, protium, of chemistry at Bt. George's
Beheol of &lido:is*, Leados, examined by MY. Gray—l
have made experiments with a view to introit eir) chain.
from the dew body of ea animal. I experimented apes a
deg that was poissi.ed by stryebnia. Two grains of the
poison were given to him end he died. I removed the
stomach and some of the blood three days alter death.
Tins blood became putrid la ten dem and I this analysed
it for the purpose of dissevering the presentee of strychnine,
and I eueceeded la doing ee by the colour tests. A month
or five weeks afterwards I asialyeed the *tornado and its
c suet,. They were fa gravid state. I suoutded is dle-
uvulae the premise eif alryehnia. le my judgment, if
stryekame bed bora aildalstered to John Pareens Cook
' it mast have bees diamond is the contests of the stomach.
By the Aesrsey-Geseral—lf the eoateate of the stomach
arose lea; it arw•aaJdd require a good deal more are la the ea-
pserssse the mune* of strychola. I operated
pea Me gamer k and bleed of the dog. I think if stryeh-
nine bees takes It would have been hand eves is tie
time* IA tee body.
By the Lord Chief Jeetiee—lf etryeltala bad bees takes,
I &weld rennet to lad It is the body et the anent meanest.
Dr. Hurry Letheby, emaisad by Mr. Yeaealey—l eat •
bishe'.or of mediciae, aad professor of chemistry at the
London. Hospital. lam also medical °dicer of health to
the City of Loaders. I have been engaged for a smolder.
able time la the seedy of poisons, tad have often bees
engaged oa behalf of the crown is many eases of this de-
scription. I have been present during the ezaminstioa of
the medical vitae's.. in this trial, sod have heard the
symptoms described as attending the death of Mr. Cook.
I have bees present austere' cases of poisoning by sea
?mice, one of which wee fats], and I have OM many
animal deaths from stryehale. The symptoms, la my
npipioo, do not scene wit► those 'pekes to in this
cue. In the first place, I have sever skimmed so long
as interval between the administratioa of the i.ohion and

tTarereseinit ea-of the rymptonse as in this cue. The longest
iaterval I have notified has been three-quarters of an hoer,
sad then the coition was administered tinder circumstances
calculated to delay its effects, the stomach belag fall end
the poinn administered in • soluble tam. I hove MO the
symptoms come on in Lv minutes, and a quarter of an
hour is aboat the average time. In all the Cu.. of ad.
miaistratios of strychnine that I have seen the patient has
slways been in Posh a lute that the slightest satin's, nt,
any effort to move, a slight toilet, • noise, or a breath
of air. will set him off into convulsions. I do
not think it probable that • person to whom stryn.
nice had been administered could get out of bed and
ring the bell violently. The 'lightest movement would incite
the nervosa system and bring on • spasm. Ido not think
it likely that • person is that meanies could beer to have
his neck rubbed. I ensider that strychnine is the easiest of
all patens to detest. I hays &wonted it I. the blood and
in the tissues of animals. The longest period I have ex-
amined • body after death has been one month. The
animal woe in a state of denropreitioa. I have succeeded
in detecting very minute portions of strychnine. Whoa
pore item be detected in so small &quantity as the twenty-
thousandth part of • grain. I can detect the tooth pan of
a grain in a pint of any liquid, and whether the liquid ie in
• pare or in the most filthy state. In my opinion if
there had been strychnine in either of the Jan that were
sent to Dr. Taylor I could have discovered it. I have never
failed. I have made post-mortem examinations upon the
entails I have derroyed by strychnine, and I bay.
invariably found the right side of the heart filled
with blood. I &coolant f.r this by death taking plan by
the fixing of the muscles of the chest by the spasms, sad
the blood is thus unable to peas through the lungs, and Vie
heart cannot reline itself from the blood flowing to it, and
therefore becomes gorged. The Wags are also invariably
congested and filled with blcod. I agree with Dr. Taylor
that strynnia in some instances kills is the sone of five
or eta majesties. I do act agree with Dr. Taylor
that the colour tests for the dissolver, of strychnine are fella-
eoas, and although I agree with him that the Unchains is
ate irbed by the blood, I do not agree with him that its cos
dittos become' changed, and I do not believe that strychnine
undergoes say change in its compoottion, and I am of opiniat
that its pressen can always be discovered. I have sloe stained
the poison of al,tirany. If that poison wen taken at a
sudden gulp in brandy and water it would not create the
sensation of heroin; in the throat. Antimony does not
peons any quality that would nose a burning sensation.
I have turned my attention to the subject of poison. seven.
teen or eighteen years.

•
By the Artarsiey-Oeneral—l am not a member either of
the College of Sansone or the College of Pnysiciene. Yee
two or three years I have meted ',general practitioner. Tbe
lest time I gave evidence for the crown in a case of poise's.
log was in this court in 1851, and the woman who was tried
was convicted. I stated my epielon In that ease that the
arsenic had been administered within NIT hours.. The
sentence was not carried out in consequence, I
believe, of my having written a letter. Bonse
other scientific gentlemen interfered, and chinned
the correetteas of the conclusions I arrived at. I
cannot say that I have hen employed by the crown
sinoe that time. I was the witcess who detected the
poison, end I expressed an opinion that it had bees ad•
minietered within ftur hours. In every instance where I
admisistered the stryehnia it was in the solid firm, in the
seep. of • pill. In the case where three quart' r. of an hour
• elapsed the poison was kneaded up very hard into a lump of
broad. I have always noticed the irritability of the animal
before the patient's c men on, and also the twitching of the
ears and the sensibility to touch. I have known helmet
Interns where the animal has died during the first
I parnyem. 1 heard the evident. ice tie Cu. of Mrs. Smythe,
' Ind that struck TOO as being incoosietent with death from
'UMW" ; but l have no doubt that in that cote
strychnia was the cane of death. It is probable,
therefore, that when Mr. Cook felt the symptoms
none ay in he might have at once got up and rang the bell.
Besides the fact of tee sitting up in the bed, and the lowg
I interval before the commencement c f tee pareiyons,the re is
toothier/ 'hat occurred on the Tunny eight that w.uld not
he c unistent with the fact that the eyinceocis were we of
tetanus fr im dentists. It would be a 'newel proceeding
for say one who felt a difficulty la breathing to sit up in
bed to relieve himself. There Is this di.tinetlen in what
took place on the Monday night, that the deceased man
rang the bell, aid that tb• paroxysm subsided at ones, and
not gradually, al! have always observed in CMS of tetanus
fr ten etrychsis. I am iimlined to thiek Mr. Cook bad a fit
• en the Bandsy audit. The symptoms eenneeted wilt the
death of Mr. Cook, Cr. isreencilable with everything that
I ben ever heard of. They sr* no, reeoseilable with say
known disease with which I ass acquainted.
By &r/u st Bhee—New (attain medicine arc bewails;

known every day, and I do not consider it impossible that
some pusher formulae or malady of the spinal seed, not
discovereble cm:l.-ot immediately atter death, may have pro-
duced some such spat tome as Thou described is the ewe of
Yr Cook. I allude equally to strychsia poles., when I
say the symptoms ere irreconcilable with everything I
have heard of, or ass seqsalated with, in the patens of dis-
ease or poison. In every cue the touching of the animal
Immediately produced the pereipm and in the uses of the
lady referred to I think It very likely that her ringing of
the bell, when she Int began to feel (aspersing of sasest-
ear, immediately produced the paroxysm in which
the was subsequestip found to be labouring. I still
adhere to the 'chime I gave to the emit upon the oio-
cosies to questioe, and I have hired my opinion.
I did, at the request of Dr. Pereira, who interfered in order
to save the women's life, say that them wag • possibility of
the death of ti,. man h.ving arisen under other OiTCIIIII.
stances, and that the poison might hove been administered
loopier than four hours wait dash. I wrote • letter to
that effect, as an act of mercy, in order that the wcmaa's
life =light he saved.
Dr. R. E. Our, essmined by kir. Ssijeant Shee—l am •
member of the R ,tal College of Elorsteons. I attended upon
• person named Foster, who was suffering from tetanus, in
Oct..ber, 1855. I found he had • sore throat, muscular
pains of the neck and the up ser cervical vanish:es. He was
feverish, and presented all the symptoms of ordinary
catarrh. I put him under the usual treatment for that
disorder—saline draughts and external embrocatioes
to the neck, and gargles. On about the fourth
day of my attendure the muscular pains eztended
to the face, end difficulty of swell° clog came on,
and the pains is the cervical vertebra increased,
as d:d also those of the muscles of the faro parti-
cularly of the loeerj sw, and in the afternoon of the sane
day the jaw became comp'etely locked, and muscular pains
✓ime on in the bowels and the legs and arms, sad the pa-
tient was very muck convulsed throughout the entire mos-
tutu system, and ho had frequent violent cootractione of the
sans and bands, end sits rwards the legs. The difficulty of
swallowing increased, and sot • partial of food, either solid
or Liquid, could be taken, and if introduced into the mouth,
the attempt to swallow the smallest portion brought on
the most viilent onveteions The convulsions ware at
times so strong throughout the whole system that he could
empire the appeareasee of the p,tient to nothing more
than • warped board. The bead was thrown back, the,
bowels forced forward, and the legs were frequently drawn
upward end backward. okay attempt to feed him with a
spoon, opening of the window, or the placing the fingers
on the pulse, brought on violent convulsions. The
patient complained of grist boogie, and frequently
sailed sat, " What shall I do ? I am hungry, and cannot
eat." Be was k. pt due to the fourteenth day entirely by
injections of • milky and farenacious character. He
screamed repeatedly, and the noises he made were morn
like a wild man than anything else. Oa the twelfth day he
butane insensible and coutioued in that state unit the
fourteenth day, when be died. This man was an omnibus
driver, and he bad bad a sore throat for a few days, or per-
haps • week, whoa I Bra saw him. He had no hart or
injury of any kind that would moult for those symptoms.
His body wee not examised after death, but I all his
dime* inflammatory sore throat from cold and swears at
the weather, and I consider it bourns tetanio on seminal
of the patient being a very IIerVIMII anxious man. He had
• large family dependant upon him. I have not beard the
evidence in this out, bat I thought it my duty to state the
particulars of the case to the solicitor for the prisoner.
By the Attorney-General—This I consider to be an ordi-
nary ease of idiopathic *stenos, and it is the only one of ti e
kind I ever had to deal with. The disease was altogether
progressive is its charecter,and alit osigh there wu occasion-
ally • remission of the symptoms they levariably ed.
Tee locking of the jaw was among the very first symptoms
that made their appearance.
At the conduit:a of the erosiesessination of this witness,
Retjeant Sue said that the next *items he intended to
call emelt, in all 1 r obability, meow some considerable
time, and as it was now surly six &clock, probably their
lordebips would es insider that it would bet better to adjourn
the examination until the following morning.
The Lord Chief Jug ice said he tonight this would be the
better course. He then inquired of the learned Goliath% how
much longer the can for the delesce was likely to last ?
Ferjeaut /thee sad that he hoped to Sarah the @Remise-
Ras of the witnesses to-morrow. He should endeavour to
do so, if it were predictable.
Tea Lord Chief Justice said there was no desire to harry
him at all. Ahoy yea dof time that was requisite must be
takes in such an important inquiry.
The Court was then formally adjourned to this (Friday)
months at tat o'clock.

Sato I

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MAT 22.
TALBOT'S DIVORCE.

This case, it may be remembered, came before the
louse on • petition of Kr. John Talbot, of Monet Talbot,
Beisoommon, Ireland, praying that he might be divoreed
bent Mary Aline, hie sow wife, on account of adultery with
out William Mallow,. a groom in Lie service. TIA case
romp rid a number of days on former occasions, and the
facts wen tally report= from tiro to tints in the Ea
prom Ti. consideratios of the mooed reading was ad-
jaws= .std to-day, what
The Irma thenseder, la delleerlag hie ammereed by say-
Vumthara eta as ober. ths ermbist of the es he as raptor
row =Mantlear and after the sramd erhekery, was cot
the earn pert with well Or hues he to
der weis whillst dr wirtry al the wit ems pews& Morin vest
wiwrateelßlBllllll Ohs be= =kb have bowl Ow*
pielly Mated
NI be M Ike Mir des of the swabs Ihs re et the
hems trap to ar Malmo am Oa error la thar am Mord la the
sorts brow, he on stem soaker as was prime at Oak lordasille
bet. Be alluded to Ws Irmo am of Oa - who wan
below were abort Mobs Oa acorn, Memo *a boar The
adultery alleged =east M. Talbot was-1W to have Mho pint
with ooh of the douses= of her hashed, =is was la bran= from
1640 to May when the dareessy isakSLykidi led to the
remora.rs of M. Tab= tees Is Mewl Matthan three years
the adultery ems waded so wader= at Wart.
which was certainly set al at mom Itlrk as harm • lady
of lastly and adman. sod delawsly broosht sp. armed to he
own ration. with • preen Os • Perm Is he kusbaatre sent= re.
gaunt the most swat Gram a trabllit Ito =stews to the
satistaellos of Oak Ms larahl4Mos Warmly dboseued
tho arras, Mat al Mom Ass Orr
▪ bassmard Is Mr. rood air it Irollarky
boron Km Whit awl Malasa elkb led to • ausrmiss that
eeuel later unews he Ulm per Yews= Um; he moos of
Mae nu wars tIM at MOM pailado. sr of mitts at law wee
dodos the 'beers tam Was al Mt. -Talbot. Sheila: orknot was
t ra.-Ity a sister of Was
Ass loss, aho in the service of Mr.
At this time also MIWIWOA the important evideaori of
the Be,. Mr. =pat, els arm' to • pertly* am of tu-
rfman* betwasa Moe. TWbot and • sir whom he did sot
The massentary sit= of thls set end& Mr. Sargent bed,
:Zillirev laths= him (the Lard ObeweeLor). U this was the sole
Mims sf oralrery, ant to bolo it Malsiont. A quits.., too, might
Mr mire Is who this mu woo, the adultery being charged
Wart he Ihrist did lot think It was he ; bat
11:4•111=1ChorsBarLysaal spat.. that lt the woman was
Talbot, 011111•1111111111MOMM This r' all the evidetce inculpatory
Of Mr. TAM NMI was nails( hummer-hill, to which be
sherd ikawallergen. In Itovezetter, Me, they removed to kthen.
1111. =4 Is Drember, 1650 Mr. John Perch en upholsterer of Mal-
Mrsod was armed to et up roma pan of the boom, saw Mr..
in a perdue which suet have denoted storage=
energy haw= His girt= This was certainly contlrmatory of
thewtr.d the seer There was so evideoce of anything or.
tar tomes Desswlre, 1830, and May, 143 ; but in that month re-
=Lir berm Mb Is Ms stighbout hood of improper promealtote
Talbot; and he was said to bare boasted
of her favour. Mrs reports ruched Mrs. sad Who Williamson,
adstrwar and willass d the nowt.. In May, 1631, tee, were
madam is Mum Tibet; and just about that time the te dam-
son' hard their sod they went to inform Mrs. Talbot of
whea hod In= e..i i Mr. Tubs beteg steam at roust Talbot
tea Wlllismass worst. to Ildea•bill, to mak Mrs.Talhot to tome to
Oak bows limbs hrH.rs Thsye. eertdeoceosthatores.l.oof
thermions( BraTtillorwhish Ira W. to Ultra that Mullane end
bawd woo tomether be the parosisaf odultery ; and this be (the
lend Charislre)
?whor Ms wit =portant grid. use in Um
of
ale WM Mrs at IMO raw Cot circulating than ta of
kr wllik beg. sad, grosterk the certainly knew that Mal.
isms a/Mtaryht bor bare did not accept tin
levitation
alibi Mlkimmges 10 ausemprigi
tit b their house. Shortly aloe
Mt WINO UM Is Lerafir whin thr hired sew servants for their
New othillkirmalnt teseethlbaileek and among them, es lauy's maid,
ow Mao
arriara.as besmiteeport Crawly Rogers. lb., then
west Is lime IMI AMU, alter they hired ae boor
Mars Mum. TIM was is the beginning of August. Mud= wee
an Misr *skirt Use ars seat for, be being the only mount
Massa bom Mille tram mersale, and ram= his posh= se
Wl= did this imply I Did Mr% Talbot communteste to her
magma the reggelstiMi lam wan airetuatel with regard to her and
Malin. It eseMedisingilie, sr the 6'13130.3nd must have so ed upon
It is geese way. The imarsalsa was MA the w lie sever told the hue.
band that the groom ems dr Nom bar character. ehe did not tell
sad she dither twisted Ms ar audio so him to bring Holism
to Memt Tell= II t0t.,.., se Isnaerly rimed between her and her
prunes?. the Woo= um that at could be roused. Here
reinred the extraordinary evillence of Uturn and another labourer,
who deco= to a poritive act of adultery between Mullane sad Mrs.
TAM. Maria Morey aim deposed to sets which would lead to as
Minor of Ms assualrfaa oi to. soma sort of rico, on a certain
ever= when Mr. Talbut hat ipso oat to dinner. The question wee,
wlsthir Mot Wale MOM Nee statements. 11 true, there could be
so illefAef the odiallairy. lets after tine the Rev. Mr. Coals comau.
siesta' the mons alwasd Is Mr. Talbot's father, but not to Ur. Tel.
bA, and smussemegots wet,e mode for Mr and if e. M'Can.lan. sod
Mre. Illimalifeheir mad mother foe • visit to Mown Talbot, dating
wig& the, 1111110Mailetal to perwande the Talbot. to break tip their I
estddirmata gad ewer to live with her permits. There was so I
herharenildelar =I lath May, 1131, when the discovery took pion,
Mn. Talbot hems his hoar sad Mrs. Talbot ma the next day re-
moved la DEMI& Ils wow IMO to• very itspor tan% parte( the ter,
for it woo ear. .Mw orltawor were to be bellend, that adultery
had bass betwora Mrs. Talbot stud Mullein tor two or three
=lig was borne out by what was Magid by the gee. Mr.
Moe he Wen' other witnetsev or the wore lions made by
Mrs. TOM al the emnsuission of adultery with Mutant, writ were
fatty Urged la the repvrts of Me ease es it proemled en fanner caws.
slobs. as important part of the ere was the way in which .he said
the addresas Intent iirie with Mullao. omentencvd, an. that was to
he ler= le to. ecidenee or the Rev. Mr. tett leiLtad. It was, no
den= anis that Conikesiots of adultery were not vutkeletit ground
era Menne, but It was ana:not common moth to soy that they went
he roles. It was impossible, therefore, to come to say other ass.
mats he that a ninety bad bees emisuuer. Ili. lord= thee
=Ms& 10 M. maw kart areurrase ilopend to by Kr. M
that whim Mawr amid of oislisms If Mrs. Talbot, at Deli*
she spouwel s ebb to ato IN, he ors to eat 1 e Aeitedea with
our. As alba sett Ity ol i allferow whirr% he thooiltte
that, Wise wiry athwart, he their our net sod noseenimies,
their widens generally =gin early he Wen as the Inth.
If they bad wasted to manufacture a glory, they moild
bar Oiled atarething whir would hare been much mar
earlsoir d M. lady's guilt. 1. wee said that Misr
was Wowing sear a dream which, if he had sexes" user.
Gomm with Me.. Talbot, he mom have cocumnalasted to beet bat
se the whoa he had it or belt doubtful. =smatter =sr an
to Is allswel saki re raw et
theist idense as the other Ma.
salltriashmdiMmulsetatbasthe arrioralwas a""Whaduefiraitwll,hierdhatwiabsmarlididad.
MarpmetV.Meinh• Ms Wow that list a.y and
LIZ the neon. Ma rtdYrMwr Ms orison r M Ms,
TON bars ros Madama the mirages of Main Is a Mall of
Swabia% and rim% it *a rash it might es= to he
tar • lady Is bar pooldas Needs so seeder beer. with •
yet it was sot when they took Into meertwhethappser
kW* sad afterwards, for R was only or • of • mdm dams adds,

out ate Medirmied bablt of sexual inhumane with him. It was
segmagbal that the ledy wit 110 overwhelmed by the charges
anzeidezdutesa=teiblion:ebeelArinit,e intadt.
it wan.d.cogrnbtell.edz
ttittt luta, ,
hcea
110111111i11111= Dot, under Moo circurnstanots, to have any weight
with theig ps. Having carefully comi 'eyed the whole medical
millingeran Sid subject, he could not *true tithe concluelon that
dorms Maly to ahead her detailed accounts of her conduct,
Midi 111111 with what they must motor was the troth;
bat te lines Mel Mt Men a word of confereion, and if abs had denied
poslithely motes hml geogoesed, be would have armed at p.essoly
the slime Maelwien. he. Webs at the ',Woes of what took Mass
Mamilinehhil WMlemign elms, he felt booed to my that Yr.
Tdbet bud prow That lb wife bad lived in criminal adultery with
emgelare be b-d Do other coitus to pursue, however
pdaoollll skid by bat to more the emend reading of the bill.
Lad ageogirs told tt yr with greet pain ha came to the
ammo inadasba as Not ands and Learned friend. He discarded alto.
Pfaff iha edisaas 411 Carr and Chum from Ma naiad; but there
woe WM Mu. seldsme left, In his opinion, to make it impossible to
ellsbeisse Me einesedan• of Ws. Talbot.
lard OR Idminda abso.pgorted the mimed reading of the bill.
He entirely impaled Mr. Talbot of haute etteled into any con-
MithvY for the wpm of (gawping a die roe from bh wife, and of
any other attainder in the course of the proem:Mtn. lie did not
think there was my evidence as to Mullane having a disease at Meng
hill which could bear clegatteely against the direct evidence of actual
adultery, or h f the ace of familiarity which led to the inference of
adultery. An to the question of Mrs. Talbot's imanity, it must be
recollected that there was no predispoeition to insanity In her or any
of her fanny, and that th'neb, wimps, she war not a strohgaminded
woman, she wr teought up morally and re igiously, aiac behaved
herself In an 'tulip my manner until her connection with laullane
commenced. The ounclusiou to which he came upon the medical and
other evidence was, that abs was pert. nig sane up to the time when
rho made her lest confession, and all her contemning were Kt clear
and consistent that it wee inipmaitge foe my human being to have •
doubt as to her guilt.
d artog
The lull wee Mau read • second time, and their lordships Mistimed
plassure.