The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-18 00:00:00

THE MIMI THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, Mk

pinthe ibri O. amp of =Mr had sot boa satiate-
Masi; end eke Asa thew lid reed the =els ef t=e;
that weed Mel it le be than hew ft say OM the
was set galley
_of ilhe edise et 'Ma be wee ere LL He
red not them that It was the dry et= preriellea
lath • w se this le men eat the charge wither there.
i deb) of doubt—• OM hie MO VMS set meter-die
reementim me Mined to wide: the jury that the perm '
• wr peg of the orbs ; sad if they
ting failed `sass pore
I lisem-11 tap sloes Irk me lirr wee
by the low of MOM =O to to the brat of Shit
they wore bona to morn him. His
Isdeal,rael bred ia detailing the perneelmee of thin
shoed wiparifide car had eadiehthen to tride them that
the demised MIT died of pole=s* that that pain was ad-
, earietered by the had of the rdertaziste gerhemen at the
ter--safesteaste if he were rely, doubly infternate
r hated Vhe were noose= He remplid them greameitions
bie beefed friligaret be fired reeneenr eirew that
he bed lidied In oat a Own tm of , sed Om theyi
wets net celled se eine= the jetsam din fiend
Brims laid to . *et= rem as to the mare
of the priamser. add net dry that he bed violated
the maul law. sad parr seen • reser me* that be era
monied In MO to • worm minedi eider theibbreff; ad
that Dr. ffeathand, forgetting his dry to him any
as sonsty—remps Wasted by paler er tithe.
, controond • marriage with this
that
Dr.
Steethum mast himself ague with W that time
could be no palliation fur this conduct, bat, at the same
time, it woe clear that no deception had been practised apea
the deemed, ad the she was perfectly well swore of the
fact, mad the they both MA Ride-terrace with the lanation
of ii=elyegethar se maend wife, sad that the lady hers&
wee aware of the Illegality of their erase=
TW feat, it appeared to him, afforded en explaastien eta
greet memy of the circumstances that had been detalbd to
the ram of the came. The first that was heard of them
arrest& sprayed to be a letter addreseed by the deceased
to bar ester, is which she spoke of having been ill, and re-
quested bar deer to mend her • mall remittent*,
sad aim appeared to ha perfectly happy at this time.
They were then found at Pa garden. and here
It was said the priaosr conceived the cruel design
of rhstrytem the life of this unhappy lady. It was said
that the riser rind= to have roe back to his wife, but
he submlW d that the evidence felled to eamblish that fact,
ad tar sa that aware to the contrary the =foe with Hiss
Robs wensistreed to be • permanent tee. The lifer el
W rims, is Ms wife wee relied upon sa the pried*
sewer le show not he trended to return to his wife, hat
all In mid is that latter was that If anything unforeseen
should reveal bin from returning before the 11th, he
lessees= • cheque fur 61. le pay for his wife's lodging sad
sem; a= the Jury would remember that before the pri-
mer fed Ms.. emitre ha made • direct arrangement that
the perm= should be made on the 11th and the 26th of
amok 11106114 sod all he meant was that if he was
melt able to go himself he would send the
waxy, mad Owe wee aim weenie to ober that
ha ever Meade to rebus to his wife. The seat
peat *stoppered to be relied ea wee, that the Omar
vie ropestaled lobar kept the deceased entirely ender
her control, and that he left bee alone. This, however,
bad been positivdy disproved. It was shown that he want
several times to Leslie, that he also went into the town.
which was ten minutes' walk off, and that there were ample
opportunities for the deceased to have ersienakeird with
say one she thought proper. He shoed orient' with peat
marmot that there was no evidence of the prieseses
having practised any concealment, either with remorse to
the dims* under whith the demand May WY IBBIBBPBI or
es any other matter. The pressen= bed bent cosernall
resort to the mast trivial circumstances harder be eadeavenr
to make out the guilt of the pricier, sad he would sit
tree whether anything cold be more ridiculous
thee the suppostioa that the Owner bad gone out of the
room sad pissed pore in the soup that had been brought
for the timeterd by her leer. That the primmer Amid
have seed in this ream was opposed to sit the other fors
to emcees, sad it was sherd to suppose that he bed done la.
The art pests that we tried upon were, that the prisoner
baddreired torepleys nerse,upon the ground that he could
not sand it, whoa be had 1004 or 1601. et his raga's, and
thst be bed the keys tithe secretary that was outride he apart-
meet ; bat it tamed or that in point of fact he had sever
lemma Wed to haw • sumo and se to the keys, did the key
err Wow • ere where • lerttledy did not give the bye to
kr Is EP It spewed to him, that BO far hum these
fee= eieggeenes re akaasw againet the prisoner they se-
Om case for the prosecution ; end
he laird the Jay weed we. to the combealen
the ha hod merely dipmed of them He believed that the
wig that had been mete by the doomed was the satin
fenediation for this rhpppe, and that no charge would have
her made against Dr. bisthurnt if thle will had sot bent
aerated. It might be said that this supplied the motive, but
if the ether evidence was insufficient to support the charge
that the prisoner had wilfully destroyed the Life of this lady,
it appeal* to him the the exist/ate of the will ought not to
be allowed to operate in say way upon their judgment. Sup-
peeing, however, that the will was to to taken as evidence
of a motive, what was that motive P It was said that be had
this crime to obtain puesseeion of about 1,700/.
oP:14 ,B'l7ol:°but he would equally have come into possession of '
it if the demand had lived, for it was clear she was deeply
attached to him, and that she handed over to him the dividend
that she received in April. While she lived also, ahe w
entitled to the life interim in 6,0001., and the prisoner would •
have had the benefit of that also, and that he bad a mesh
meager motive for her to live uo he had to deem her.
Again, could there be any doubt thst the will wee the eel el
the deceased as much as it was that of the primmer, sad Just
as mach as the maniege was her sot as such as It wee
Tree he believed were the principal points relied upon by
the prosecution to show Or the prisoner's was the head by
which the crime wee camentied, sad he would ash them ma-
Meetly whether they could at the utmost be taken to
amount to more than sompleion. He was certain they would ,
not =got the uniform kinds's' and affection with which be
bed been proved to have treated the decreed, sad although
it wee suggested on the part of the prosecution the this
conduct was merely practised to deceive and to throw off re
picks, he was sure the jag would ruse before
they =Abated such diabolical conduct to say
human berg, nabes upon the very strongest ri-
ders. The suggestion on the pert of the prose-
neat= was that the prisoner was poisoning this lady, but
yet there could be no doubt that he was the first to propose
that additional medical moistence should be called a, and
everything he did must have been due under the eery eyes
of several medical men of the greatest skill end imperionce.
The cosine of the prisoner was sztrardisary ai nor-
countable upon the supposition of his nib; but it wee dear,
straightforward, and there upon the suppoeitioa of his in-
scomos. lie would now Isar OM part of the cam sad call
their attention to the evidence by which it was right to
make out that a crime had in peat of fact been committed,
and it appr ad to him that the evidence, as It me wasaothlininta theory set up by actuante we, front beginning
lead. end that there were no facts upon which the jury in
• ere elle wad death would be justified In coming to the
cenereion tint • Grime bed been committed. It was and
that the death rose hoes the administration of some irritant
porn, such as nem= or antimony. In the trot place,
had the primer been shows, either indirectly or
directly, to have had anything to do with say
poises, or to have had any poison within his reach or
under his control P A. to the theory that the poison
had bra carried off by =me of the chlorate of pour it
would be exploled long before the conclueion of the trial, if
it were not so already ; It was merely the truing of a
fertile bine, to roust to what was felt to be an almost
overwhelming difficulty la the way of the prose-
canoe—namely, the absence of any poison in the
body of the deceased. He would ask his teamed
friend, sod he would also oak the jury, whether they
had ever heard of • oi eviction for murder by
poison without some evidence being adduced that
the prisoner had poison in hie poem:Moe, or that be
was la a condition to obtain it P And upon the absence of this
evidenoe alone, It appeared to him that they would be toad-
ied is acquitting the prisoner. It was mid that he bad an
= oity of making away with the poieon if Mt was so ;
but tetras not the feet, for he was taken suddenly
into oestody, he was seseetted, sad ha had no opportunity of
concealing the poison, there ever had been any In hie pm
54000111. The lensed wejeant than referred to the evidence
of Dr. Taylor, and remtheed them the when he was examined
originally he stated distinctly and ponavely, sad without the
least reeervetion, that he had discovered arsenic in • utast
that was in the messamion and control of the prisoner. I
this had been the fed it would ban been
almost conelutive evidence against the meaner ;
and if the mistake had never been found out,
upon that fact Jona the prisoner would have
game to the naffed perfectly innocent, probably, of
the crime for which his life was bemired. If the case had
rested with the coroner, or with the magistrate, the reser
would have been convicted ; ode ha could not avoid saying
that it was almost • miraculous interposition that the Idenise
arse have been dimmed. Would they not pants Whet
they pm effect to the medical smailintory_ , Air Ws sane=
dimity fact. Dr. Tat let so doubt beim= that haws elebt ;
but was it not clear that be was wren P AM Oa queer
then was, what reliance ought to berme apes soldenes
this description, in a cams whore the 116 Of • 611111Y11111•
tale was at stake. The mar WS as
to the intonation that wee smellto toe
rata of pease ; d how were they to tell w her
there bad not been some mistake with am se with the other?

He called upon them to dismiss altogether the evidence
of Dr. Taylor from their consideration, la this particular W-
aseca should show teem that in the common grey
powders that were =sally administered then was frequently
foetid watlesooy,that bismuth alto frequentlyceataited arsenic,
awl they would remember that Dr. Ts*, himself admitted
that is the sulphate of copper that came from the surgery of
De. Mks be discovered slight traces of amens. The jury
siee would remember that the evacuation withal was
said to have contained the anemic was beaded to
Dr. Julius by the prisoner himself. Dr. Julius,
It appeared to him, wood in a very peculiar position. He
admitted that on the 18th of April be suspected that mime
ems Mies edenhastseed, and yet from that time down to the
gay balk* the death of the unhappy lady be took no steps to
01Alla a MINN Or to take any ohs atofla *lap to put a atop to
the wheel pmeeeding which he believed we rase on. If
IA aeellybeamed that the prisoner was administering poises
to the dOsasadr why dad he sot insist upon a nurse being
employed I. welt epos her, mid to throw up the cue if his
directions were net attended to P If this bed bees done, Dr.
litostanust must at once have donated from the
musecutMn of hie wicked dosage, if he bad really
ever entertained it, or be must have been detected.
The teamed serjesat thee proceeded to detail at cm-
eiderable leech the molly* of the medical evidence
he proposed to lay Won the jury, sad as sod

he belied he should be are lo show them sot only that Ike
deemed did se an el poise Mt Met ahs rid tem
natural awelady mid he eanolesi • teat able spook by
ear torsdki re re eat they wore deem with the
Ufa of a hem beg, that ea if,.,. wdkt wet be it
terashis, end ohurring the he was see ther would sot
Mirk hs meg asstere harm that He to whom
ems they wen= kr der redid word guide
thin to • tights
The fiblastebts riders we the alder ke the peewee
Mr. D. W. wireorewa deposed the he ow • doctor or tar.
Hie, • ftemints se the Orris if Physkies, and
=llld emattsmy at Gramme School. He bad
b• Mims r to the symptoms of the dr
tessul, ul. ht le spire they en sot moos-
darks ellt • ere if lbw amuler rimming.
Erse le aft skew of sneer tomplees be 160•1111 expect
Yin see •me Er melt cd ohs pst orient Oil-
molosilea GOMM also, re net with a case
rendellasehowelptiss, se the brammatra appieri
to man fa that retie deb erten which
Y arm el by Mild° wantany nerd the tout
trey.ass nattily epee la a ore at poke-
* by sem* that seer well be hod to the ewes of
the body. He had tried sem aestrests with seer ad-
ulterated ha small dor wpm • dig, In estebnatios with
Wee of pots's, and after tie dos wa• deer* he 161e0-
geed aerie In the liver, lungllrt, sad spleen et the
animal. He administar a of &lo-
uts et poles with the sneak, in tol::2ethet it tad
the Ant ef dienating the poison.
The Lord Chief Baton—How much arsenic do you say
you administered to the animal
Witness—Eighteen groins to sixteen days.
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The Lord Calf Barn—And how mach remained in the
body, mad hew math did you find

csaaot ay.

The Lard Mist Batint—Sony you can tall as whether
than was a gran cc half a gran ?

Witesee--1 don't think there wu so mach aa e grain dis-
covered h• ths body. Than !sight have been halt a grain.
. .

The Lord Cldenterar—Oat of the whole eighteen pains
that you admisletwed ?

Witnese—Yes.
By Mr. Gifford—Witmer hied experimentsupon two other
doge with antimony and aremdc, gives elternstely, one In
cesinsetket with &locate of mew end the other withont.
One of these doge died at the expiration of eleven, and the
other of twelve days, sad fa both ewes a portion of the poison
peril away is the whs. Is MOM a slow wleenlng by
andmiew be theishl sweet te bed • seftesing- of the liver
and anspreks et the leap. He should else expect
And saw et the poison in the liver after
death. The liver see geweeity the great depot for
weenie or antimeny. He Weer a peat tow ewes of
weds and «diary dossaisev, sad ft apparel to Mae that
the symptom enhaleed- bydradeeswed 1110“ rambled those
of the knew via* Ora the roma of slow
eismical or amehmedel pelsadatis,lie bed frequently
ma in oases el We relent
heed from from ve Prat the dawriptka that
bed her given tithe dement lady le eeneldered she was a
very likely ..hestfar dyeatery. Belted rogrosi himenth
en it was cedinerily ebtelnel, and he bed dieleversi the
premed of amenksla •ge iney feeleaces. The hugest
quantity he discovered was bar 1 sneak la aaennes
elblereuth. T bee were MO psis Is ea ounce. He had
eyes one wombs reseelbei arrevel dos to a
apillared and he asewtalwil thst AN taking it days
ct.s.s=lif womb pima from him
Be did set menthe the bismuth to the
pitied Irak o view IdsgMagorfilsess Meow He tied
ohs szawhasol spas tbs dogs solely der his ova lalbrsoo-
tam, gad kw*/ rood
web
dis asasposes itio previous
period thews, Is whit& it wee Mated by Dr. Toile that he
believed the chieAM of poem might haw the egret el pew
tug od the Folsom. Witham vas assiolud ea Palmer's trial
for the defence. At that time the seslehlument with which
he was connected wee calla St. George's School, but the
same bad since been altered to the drawn, School. He
vas called to prove that Cooke did not die of strychnine, but
of a dimmer called an pectoris, and be stated that accord-
ing to his own 'change knowledge, end the opinions of the
beet authorities, he believed that Cooke did not die of etrych-
nine, but of the disease he had mentioned. He ,
wee sot aware how it became known that he had
made the expwiateats upon the doge, bat Mr. Humpheys. '
the prisoner's solicitor, became acquainted with the fact, and
ogled upon him and requested him to &poser as • *these.
By the Lord Chief Baron—He bad only been • witness in
this court in the case of Palmer sad on the present occasion.
He was consulted In another case and he gave an opinion,
but he wee not collet se a wittier.
. . .

By Berjeaei BaUsaTizie:The dog took the chlorate of
pores" very well. (A laugh.) They mixed it with the poison
and gars It him in his food, and sometime' it was given to
him in milk. He did not remember once nearly poisoning
one of his patient' by giving him an excessive dose
of antimony wine, but he did upon cos occasion
prescribe fifteen minims of antimony wins to a patient, and it
End a more powerful effect on him than was anticipated, and
he was ill for several days. Fifteen minims was about the
twelfth part of a grain of antimony. Antimony would un-
doubtedly cams Bickner, end sometimes purging, and it
would also be calculated to produce a sensation of burning
beat in the stomach. from the mouth ell through the body.
He did not believe that sulphate of copper was likely to wo.
dual snob a sansadon as that which be had just described.
It Wag now six o'clock, tics further proceedings in the
kid woe Fetponad, sad the cart adjaussed.

NSW COURT.
(Beim Mr. Bans Martin.)

Murk PeterDreal, 17, eaddistree-maker, was Indicted
for feloniously shooting at Susannah Hinton, with intent to
do her bodily harm.
Mr. Best prosecuted, sad Mr. Bibton defended.
It appeared from the statement of the procecutrir that she '
knew the prisoner, having for about two years Heed with his
mother. She had never had any quarrel with him. On the
20th of June, she was walking through Jennyn•street,
when the prunesr came up and fired a pistol at her, and she
at the acme moment felt a pain at the back of her neck, which
upon examination was found to be blackened and scorched,
having been struck by the wedaing, the pistol being only
loaded with powder.
Tits jury found the prisoner guilty of an unlawial nomad-
ism sod he wee sentenced to four months' Imprisonment.
lih one WegAt, 28, postman, wee indicted for stealing a
post-letter oonteming a half-soverkgn.
Mr. Clerk and Mr. Metal(' prosecuted; Mr. Best de-

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced
to eve years' penal esevitude.
John Soak., 22, postman, pleaded guilty to steeling
pat-letter.
He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
William Gambols, 22, labourer, was indicted for feloniously
eeccttne 4l letter?, he ?tog • letter-csrrier.

Mr. Robinson defended.
Tba • oar woe an eadetant-ourier, end on Saturday,
the 2Yrd of July, the letters wire given to biro to &direr to
the Reithbonerplace dingier. The letters were not delivered,
but on the following morning they were picked up floating
in the Thames. The account which the prisoner pee of the
transaction wee that he had got intoxicated, and he did not
know bow the letters had got out of his palmation.
The jury Tempel a verdict of Not Guilty.
Morrie Been, 22, rariorter, wmei indicted for cutting and
wounding John Bone.
The prosecutor is a police constable, and bed taken the
to charm fm_Ocking rockets in that notorious
Ovarge-yard,Whiteehapel. Upon being epprehended
be attacked the promoter in a moat garage yammer with a
double hook, In use with porters and carmen for lifting bake
of wool sad sacks of rage, trying to stick it into the prose-
cutor'i abdomen.
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`-ikelery round the primmer GuUty, end Yr. Bans Martin
ordered hint to be kept to petal servitude to

THIRD COURT.
Pekoe Kr. Justice Erle.)

Patrick Marna, 601abourer was 'indicted for the man-
dear of CaAerate itasesil. )ILr. Poland praleatted, and
hlr.Bebbsea delmaded.
,4 that the demand end the prisoner reside in
‘. e-ooart, Wapping, and that oa the 17th of last month
tha who was much addicted to drinking, hot been
during the whole of the day abusing the prisoner, and about
nine in the evening the dammed threw a gime at the pri-
soner's wife, and prisoner was seen to follow her into her own
bones, and she was almost immediately afterwards found
lying in ea Insensible state, from which she never recovered,
demo 'rising trout an effusion of blood CC the brain. The
o°, whoa leaving the house, was hand to say that he
gl7. her something to quiet her.
The jury found hire Guilty, sad he wee sentenced to four-
teen days imprisonment.
(Beforeldr. Justice Wales.)

.lolos Wild earrrendered to take his trial upon an Indict.
meat for the maealatighter of Jams Groombridge. The
peiaoaee was engineer to the hydraulic steam preps la the
London Decks, and the deceased, a ohild, was killed by some
striae width had been let off through • grating on which the
child w "Meg.
The prisceer was arraigned on the coroner's warrant, end
no
Irrineree being offered. wu 40/Sailed.
dem M'Oesser, 29, stoker, was indicted for the men-
de
et Joseh Lancaster. git;m. Coopepr promoted.
The amend was a soldkr, and on the night of the 12th
et July, being drink et Woolwich, met the prisoner, whom
he assaulted. Prisoner with his heed butted hire down, end
then ir'elted him la the throat, and from the effects of the
injuries inflicted he died on the spot.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, end be was sentenced
to two months' Imprbenmest.
Charles Murray, 20, sailor. wee found Guilty of stealing
a watch from the person of Mr. Gorge Stacey, a gentleman
living at Richmond, whilst he was walking in Commercial.
NOW.
Mr. 111. Donnell defended, and stated that the prisoner wee
UM MI of Sir George Murray.
He was sentenced to four years' peal servitude.
Par% • behionably-dramol women, surrendered to
lake bar vial for felmionely latarmanylng with Phillip
Pero, her husband, Robert Kirkeidy, being alive.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Cooper appeared.
' It appeared that In 1828 she was married to a men named
Jelin Daniel, and she lived with Ids until 1844, when he
left her, and he in 1846 arse lamspetted. In 1860, having
heard that her husband was dead, she married Kfrkahly, and
he after living with her • few ',AWN loft her, telling her