The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1856.

It is often Clic& to dim into the beast of sea, and
to seciertain with gay ogrtainty the reasons which directed
him to any particular mune of action ; and the Wen-
' tale cheroots, of say particular motive ought not to
! destroy the form of a well.autbentiested fast. But
motive LB negueetionably en important elemest ia • case
rim which any doubt as to the taste sae by any possi-
bility rest. I believe I can perfectly satisfy your minds
that in this ease the rimner bad • motive. aad • very
obvious motive, foe Wass sway the life of Cook. Hews. at
the time reduced to a maditioe of the direst embarrasements
with rule staring him In the fan that sothiog could avert
save the immediate attainment of pomaiary meant. It
appears that In the month of November he owed on bills aot
lose than 19,0001., of which 12,6001. worth ma tithe hands
of Pratt; and oat of that letter ems 6,6001. was merlin for
Immediate payment. His entire were, it was perfectly
clear, appreaaWng a crisis. What was be to do t It wee
clear he meld sot go to hi/mother. That source had loop
boas exhausted, or he would aot have tried hie mother.
eau. • morn lender is indolont enough while his sees-
rity rummies, and he takes his periodical auto t or die-
gout ; bet the moment that security is gut, you may as
well ask urn of a rabid tiger as at the hand. of a money
loader. His expectatioe of mosey for the insurance effected
on the He of his brother Walter bad failed; the money
Ude, was raisin; Uwe wee the mosey to be had ? By
the death of Cook he was enabled to obtain poultices
of 1,0201., doe to the latter in the shape of bete; he was
ambled to obtain potful= of the money which Cook
must have bad about him on his arrival at Beesley, and
which, according to one of the witnues mast have
smutted to 700!. or 8001 ; and he attempted to obtain
possession of the 3601. which the Mows. Weatherby ware
to have received as the amount of the stakes of the Shrews
bevy Handiesip. TM ardor forwarded by Palmer to the
Manse. Weatherby for the 360!., and purporting to boar
the signature of Cook, had been ant back by them to the
primmer ; and if that signature was not • forgery, why bed
it not bees produced on the past of the defounant ? My
learned [rind says that Cook wee the Met friend of the
primmer, and that Cook was the only person to whom be
meld look for assistame in his embarrassusta. Bat
Cook had no masa of assisting him, sakes he were to ap-
propriate to his as. the money which he bad won at
Shrewsbury, which was all the property he thee punted •
end ma any me Where that the deceased would have parted
with that soon, and would have left himself wholly with-
out any resources for the approaching winter t My
leaned friend contends that the feet that Cook had
written the letter on the Friday night, In which he
asked Fish*, to pa y 2001 to Pratt oa aceout of aurae.
den Is which both he and Pieter were isterested, while
OW mare were to be mat op ou that night—say loused
blond gestemds that that fact shows that the prisoner gad
ran dsmaiod prefer:Cy understood one another at the time,
Ind for to prove the inamenee of his client. To my
Mum, that very circumstance affords every wag
Aggaggat in favour of the cam for she grown. The only
BUMOliren with Pratt, is which Pulsar and Cook were
hia Will that relating to the bill for 6801., and is
shill Omb hsi asipal his hone as a collateral security.
it way mg M use that he most have felt particularly
ag•Metg Mg that claim should at once be settled, and that
Me hams Heald come Into hie oat undisputed pommies,
sae of these buses tieing a very valuable one, namely Poh-
ang, whisk had last won the Shrewsbury rem. H. a-
was ly, I have so doubt, gave Pelmet 8001. to be east
up to I.sdaa on amount of that bill; bat that sum was
sever applied by the primmer to the purpose for whisk
it had bun placed is his Lands. There is net the slightest
foandatisa for the statement that Cook had entered into as
arrangement with Palmer for the purpose of &dandies
Fisher of the 2001. he had advanced ; for there was nothing
M his character which could show that he was eloshlo of is
infamous as set, and it Gould aot pomibly have been his Is
tenet that it should take place. I will not ask you to diesel
your attention to the request addreered by the prisoner to
Cheshire, the postmaster, that he should bear his witness to
the Reanimates of Cook's signature to the order on the
Mows. Weatherby for the sum of 3501. That request was
made 48 hare after Cook's death ; and if the signature was
not a forgery,why was that eatraordinary demand made of
Cheshire. and why had not the document been siece pre-
dudedt It is impossible to forget that if C mishits had testified
to the gessium of that document the prisoner would have
bees enabled to esevelso ever him the moot fatal control, and
that be might thes Mee eseaulled him to sign another paper,
trauferrtsposas prima bad sought to do in the mane of
ono of bit ses with Mr. &evens, to the deceased
the listaity he 0001 or 6,0004 duo on bile to Pratt, and
onteemadieg b s own name. All these feels show Wefts-
plgy, as I ematead. that the death of Cook btd,in the opinion
of the peinerte beams most deirable foe his own relief
Tare is soother pert of his conduct as ter ding to Om iw
light cm this natter, and that is with reference to Cook's
anise book. On the sight when Cook died—oaths buts*
had hardly pasted bola that poor man's body—the misuser
was found thee*, rummaging his pockets, sail searching alt
his papers. When, salmagundi', Stevens asked for the
betties book, the prisoner said, "Oh, it I, of ao use, foe •
dead man's
bets are void.', True it Is that a dead man's hey
are void, bat not whoa they are paid during big life. Who
rewired the beta ? The prisoner at the bar. Who was sa-
turable for them ? The primmer at the bee. Who had ea
interest in resealing the amount of then bets / The psi-
suer et the bee. It Status had mesa that book, he would
have seen that Omit was entitled to s sea of 1,0201.; be
soul have seam that Fisher was Me spat, sad have
leaned bat las that Herring, and not Fisher, had
oollmalsil hi Isle. But there is still store yet
to be 1116.1104 ter. Whoa Stevens determined apes
baelas • pag martina easnalsatirs, whet was the esaduet
of time ? Dr. Haslaad sumo over to perform' this
duty i aspley. The primmer at him on hit snivel, and
got ice assunatios with him. t' Whet is this?" Dr.
Honied inked, " I hear them is • suspicion of pelissaiss."
"Oh,eV' said the prisoner. "sot at all; the mas bed
two Ste em Moaday sad Tuesday, and yes win
find rid asses of the hoed sad heart." That wiry am
man, the mins% 114 IS NW previous day, asked Dr.
Bamford to 1181:+mir.emedliells the deceased, mid bed
suggested " is the MIMI of death. The Atter-
ary-Geseral sammeated on as redact of the pri•
man la reassefag the oat of
the inteetioes sad
angiadi aft asamed, oat of the aqua room, and his
sumps es him the postboy to upset his chaise and Meek
:rr whistm its way to the analytical chemist, and asked
thejury M aka all this into their uasideratios is 'ivies
verdict. He had now got through the whole cam ;
sod it would be foe the jury to (Backup their duty. Oa
the oeu hand, there was a man pressed with high
prewar, foe ;Remain liabilities which he we. ma-
shie to liquidate, sad in legal penalties threatesieg
him with the dirsasizteasment, the only mode of averting
whisk wse by eget msy. The demised wasis pes-
saries dome mod not, it was true, to a very !seen
mesa; hat .till seamiest to he a tempting belt, The
was at hie bedside, with the mesas of admiabger-
aisgimpaltres to him, mad bad poises is his powsislos I mad
them there was the feet that the doomed we. mimosa, and
that M eabilasel as symptoms of the particular pigs
whisk the miaow bad the same day purchased ; sad all
these oftesmetasess, together with the veriest other plate
M whisk be had adverted, mast enter into adz
suet easeful asslderattes. The hos. and leaned

radioman proceeded—lt Is for you to fay, sabot
then elsomuttnees, whether or not the death of the
deceased was sassed by the piaster at the bar. You
have lade*. had hatioduold ism this ease one ether
elemeot which I cannot help thinkieg atilt well have
bees omitted. You have heard from my learnt" I friend an
uninuel, I think I may iv.. my as unprecedented, inns
Dim of the innoontee of his client. I as only say upon
that pelt that I believe my loaned !Med might bays
dottiest! from nay tub 'tamest. What would he think
edam, if, imitating hie example, I should at this moment
declare to you, on my honour, as be did, what is the th-
ermal elevation which has fdlowed from sly conecientives
sonsideratkm of this ease 1 11y learned friend bar, with a
fall display of his great ability which is admired by all of
as, ale o adopted another course, which, although sometimes
resorted to by members Li' our profession, Woolens is lay
mind • species of intuit le the good sense end the geed
feeling of **jury ; he hes endeturoure4 to intimikee gm
by erotic( your own oesscientioas scruples for the wpm
of prevestlog you from adopting the only imeet mode of
disehergiag the greet duty you ars called um to perform.
My leagued freed told you that if your veeMeeks this vas
should be guilty, the lamest« of the prfesawr meld
oar day or other be made unifies, and yes meld
nem, mese to regret the verdict you bud gives. If
my leaned Mead wee Mare is that—sad I kdbw that he
was, foe time is no man who is mon blies than he is to the
slakes of truth and honour—but if he said what ha believed,
all I can state la answer is, that I can only attribute the cm-
victon he has expressed to that strong bias whisk hie 'Riad
easily, perhaps, received in eirecting all his energies to
the delouse of a mu charged with this frightful
grime. But I still think he would have doge well to
have Obtained from say saturant* of the thiamine of
the primmer at the bar. I go further, sad say that I
thiak he ought is justice sad le comideratioa to you to
have abstathed from telliag you that the Mee of the one-
try wouldeot sansUon the verdict which you might give.
I say nothisi of the indoesistency woioh M 1111/01Tht IS such
a statement coming from one who bat a short Ume before
kad temple:Media elegem* tensed the 'offered tomato(
prided*, sad Utilised= by which, he said, his *!lest wee
bone down. In answer to my learned friend, I have oaly
this to my to you : Pay no regard to the voice of the country,
whether it be for eondenthation or for acquittal ; pay no re-
gard to invades bat to Use Murata lobos of your own coa-
selemess; taut te themes of that duty to Mod and sae,
which you re about to discharge upon this othesioe, ma-
ins no reward naps the comforting as aaaaa at that when
you shall look beck at the events of this trial, you have di&
shamed, to the bast of your ability, and to the utmost of
iyour power, the duty Joe have been called spin to fulfil..
f, on • review of the whole Gast, Gasparini the
evidence oa on. side and ow the other, end
weighlag it is the ems melee of bath*, you
ma am to the conclasies of the theoceacit, or
even entertala that fair and redeemable doubt of
reit, of which the gamed le entitled to the benefit, Is
tiod's aim give to hies that bent fit. Bat if, on the other
head, ell the facts sad all the Mime lead your Wade, with
satiefectios to ;ousel's% to the elsehasioa of his (Gambia—
but thea osly—l ask for a verdict of guilty at your baud..
Fat the ymteetion of the good, for the repression of the
withal, I Um ask for that verdict by which alone—ae it
sums to me—the safety el society ean be enured, gad the
.*meads, the imperious dossada, of public Joliet e.a he
satisfied. _ _ _

Tho hoe. sad loaned hootlowee essolodod his editor
alertly attar half• put 6 o'olook, dm laving ample& else
breathless smash* of ivory eao who bad ►oud Yin dewing
a period of throb boon sad throwqoarton.
Defies the addroos of the loused Attoesey-Gleanal,

primmer regarded him with the Wined attention, but bc-
I tnyed very little emotion.
be Lord Chief Justin, addressing the jury, said he n
stetted very mach that it would be mummy to detain than
until Meador, but it was absolutely emissary. It was his
intention to read over the whale vt the evidence tk,t had
been given, and it would be perfectly melees to commence
sueb a trek at that late period of the day.
The jury inquired whether they might be permitted to go
rasher,* on the Sunday ?
The Lord Chief Julies said eertaialy, and every other
reasonable facility and amemmodation would be offered
them, consistent with the proper administration of justice.
The court this adjourned until Monday morning at ten
o'clock.

URTROPOLITAN COUNTY 00VIIIII.
Nttlas days applated tar the present week.
Ctiaworwau, Ouaces.awswas.—Woaday, Kay T 6; Tawdry, 17.
limonsiam Piaass‘rand.—lllorday, Day At
Dow, PairSeid-nawl—Wedassday, Day U.
Wsnwszsassa, Osbara.strasc —Thema,. Nay 27.
Lamm CvhsrwU Naw.rawL—Towslay, Nay 17.
Oaszawica.—Wedsaday, May U.
WooLwasa.—Tharsda , Ida 29.
Cart or Lamm, 0 —llcaday, May 16; Tuesday,
t 7.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-MAY 24.