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

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CIINT7L4L CRIMINAL COURT.

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.
TENTH DAY.

(TM child Fortiori of the felkwicg cppr•red mar
(Woad Edition on Saturday
I he court re ...ear mblid at her-plat two, when
William Joseph &modem •ho bai bean et bpsaaad ter
the defiers, was again called, but did act appear, t►e Atter-
tifty-Getaral stating that he had does all in his power to
proem hit attendat a 9 as • •itase,
Mr. tioojeast Shea celled for the prodact,os of • letter
from Cook to Palmer, dated January 4, 11E5.
The lam, teal pradased aid read. It was dated from
Ltithetwoeth, sad had reference to • betting
sad st,•ed that there wee a balance of 18L die from Cook
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Mr. Sens Shim then submitted el the court that be
tom nulled to reply t • some st itemests, each bid come
att, fa consequence of the coarse token that morales by
the At onteysOonera, on @taunting mace:sem with rat-
tans Is hoe hie mamma trunnions of Palmer.'
Tao sesta:aims was overruled, ad tin Aroney-Granal,
after rettriag • few siestas, rose to reply.—His day, be
said, was a mo,t important me. Stondiog then as the in- 1
struonest of p abbe justice, he should ha +eating's his duty
it be did not cad to get from the jay a verdict of
=Lamest the prisoner, although if the prisoner wen
t so sae wAsld release more than he at his
Tbey bad to armada, drat, whether Con
bad not beta ;waited, sad tan whether be
bad Mee paneled by the prisoner. The ate
winch be bad to submit was, that Cook stir being
practised upon by seaman, was finally poisoned by
stryconise. Witnesses for the deface bed told them that
Cook bed died from tenses, bat the question was whether
be had at died from tenses proatesd by strychnine, sad
he aseerta, without hesitation, that in no ease of say
*sisal poisoned by strychnies bad the symptoms ban more
marked then in this case. Every sues was PO stiffened
that be could only have been raised w one would rain a
corpse or a kith... leg. It was impossible to deny
that he bad died from tetenea, and it was impossible to
concave say 'vadat.* soya diet oast than that which had
bees green es to the deaiption of idiopathic' tetanus. They
bad bees told by seven! witness.. that tetanus took three
or four days, and even three wake, sad they had
the meet angular misranantations as to the mess
of Cook's death. Tare was an eadesvar to chow
that Cook was sufferiag from so plonk; bat it bed ban
akerly proved on lb. other side, that every trees of the
disease bad disappeared from his body, and there was not
the slightest innate to Now that be had say disease
stoat bin hoes which newest% hennas could result. Ose
or two eases of traumatic Mau had been eddaesd in
*videos', bet the symptoms varied materially from these
presented by Cook. Then it was said that the tan was one
if idiopathic tetsotaa ari-ing from a dimmed condition of
the throat, cold and excitement; bat there was no Geis
demos that be ever tcok cold; sad it was • 'nodal apen a
lowed sad liberal profession that sea should pet forth
sack steaselatioas, letting to aworthy hicehasions, for
tha sake of misleading a jay. The son of excitement
sakes of was esworthy of settee; bat sup7ceigg incite-
ment to produce tetanus, se teas of eteitemeat was about
him was taken ill at Shrewsbury. Oa the
very night of his death, n far from being
seated, be woe lasgbing sad happy, sad look-
to the future without either etchaseat or
despondeney. Their attention bad bees called to the erne of
Mary Wstsoo, which did not at all resemble the ease of
Cook. Without hesitation be asserted, sod the jury goad
eons to no otter coarlasios, than that the eve of C:ok was
altar *se of idiaatbie nor haunsatic tenses. All tbs
witimteest for the defence had differed from gab other ; bat
the horse priaipal ones bed admitted that they knew of so
disease which costa sheath for all the symptoms presented
by Cook. With regard to the experiments with poisons pos
anal', these was a wide difference between 'Dimas sad
hams. being., for a does which might °area
'spa a rabbit might be deprived of its baneful effects
was applied to a bemso being. And when there
was sae ksows disease which would produeo the symptoms,
and whin tan was • known poison that could 'iodine
them, how sopa, how ineeistibie was the inference that
that poison, and that poison alone, had produced the
symptoms. Bat much reheat» was placed upon tab feet
that a strychnine had been found in the body ; bat then
bow afavourable were the eircemstances under which the
saalyeis was made. The eontents of the stomach had been
lost, the stomach itself being eat from end to
end, and the Jar meek disturbed; and although
"taw medial wheelies bad stated that they could Dave
head the slightest trice, be should have elated mon re
Dna epee it if the witnesses themselves hid not boa is
marked I. their partiality, and he would lave placed
Mors Where upon Mr. Herapath if he had not
made himself eves a worm anima foe the defence. Ha
appealing that these gentlemen Ind been able to &Wen
strabalso to the midst of a mass of partisans,
ths washes was, whether it was always to be
fined when death eased ? Dr. Taylor said "No,"
sad all the witatetes said that the pois,a acted
by shoorptioa in the blood a so that if the minions does
wore gives. sad absorbed is the system, it would seise to
be le the blood, and prang eliminate itself from
the Manes Bat tans was a part of the case which
bad aft beta met by the deface, sad that was the
rosessolos of strychnine poison by the primer. Newton
had told them that on the Mandy night Palmer ch-
anted frets him three grains of that poison, from wadi
the tympani and effects whisk were obeerved I. Cook
night really result. It was true that Navas
had sot node the stalseest saki • late pe-
riot. There was astbiag Merge is Palmier. e• •
sleekest leas, mantles pliers ; sod therefore Newton had so
hesitation In nypiglesbisVad gin fogad the gaieties
of Cook's death from -pekes sitemeed is Healey bio kept the
secret to himself lest be shOsid be la sons way istplisated,
'sly =Wei it knows lobes he toyed he was to be ea
salad in that court. And although there bad been nu
endeavour to t sr .w dimeredit es the testimony of this wit.
yew, it was not 90 be sapposed that he, without motive,
would take a false oak to deprive a fellow treatise.
of his lit., whet the stagiest mead used for the Moil
tef his evideace was that be bed sob a Webb' of an boar
or half as hoer in the tins "dos Hee essuesesee took place.
With regard to the swishes* teChrealeh linkb.he asked the
jay at to belkve one ward of It, seta, whines bad ex-
hibited • screasele whisk be had never wen say send in
a seen ofjestlee—ettemptiest to save his friend and cat-
pastas, the seta of that wawa with whom he had bad the
matey which he would fda disguise. Oa the ant
day they had the alarm *widgeon et Palmer having bought
men pekes at the shop of Harkin,. He tint orders
prude sell, sad then etr7ehebee, and Newton banana
tbsm to come lot, the hoop, be take. him eat to ask an an-
Impala* Reseda, and leaving hies outside, goes
bask to satirists the order for the It/photo*, is,
that it was quite Oda Palmer was desire's 1111
hide from Newton that be was hayloft els
mare grates of enshrine, making, with the thine
CrOlhe bed got from Nana, email' to kill
deosea people; sad it mat be remembered
that Pelmet had Bever bees to Hawkins's shop Wan,
sad midweek thers wee BOOM difikelty in meat-
Vh,f7 hie go•o there, it was a greater than prevailed fa
parts of his medic,. He had the strychaine, it is
pleb, sad ha rolled upon the deface to accoust for the al:
grass of steal:Was, as to the ass of which, there e said,
alas! be no doubt. If it was for a patent, who
was that patient? Why was not that patient 'lmitated ?
Bet, if for sae other purposio, was there a shadow of
date that that pupae was the peaces charged its this is.
yens/scam Something had been suggested about killing
ease dews that were trooblesesse to am* mares and foals ;
bat It on, why was not evidence gives of the fact ? Why
wen aot the pathos bating cargo of the mans std foals
here ? Net only an they cot called, they were not eves
sued. This at what inuelasion did we snits ? Death
is all the ass.valeice agony sod throe. of that fatal po'son.—
death with all the appeansess which follow Sill Sark the
administration cd that potem—as4 this the feet of strych-
rreamed by the whetter ea the day of the
of deceased, this fact wholly soseCe•aated
few, without the shadow of as explanation ; sad
was it possible host tat jury (meld cone as say.
other seaelsidoe than that the charge ...net lbeyekasso
was preverly made ? It was sagested that it was metately
that Palmer should pinata mahatma at Ripley, whom
be Goad hays got it is Lesion. Admitted. And if the
prima wield saw that he had stapled the strychn'a to
say !tethers paroose, the fast woad be worthy the W-
ashes ans•deration cf the jay. Add so were all the fasts
and satentiorts connected with this part of the case. It
was said that the circumstenete of the prisoner's calling a
two me heal men to attend os the deceased was a presump-
ties of hie natant. It was true that he did all is two
Modish men• and that they woad be likely to know the
symptoms of strychnine; sad yet it sin k him (the At-
tarsey. Hereto!) that then was a aeries of tacessistaiske
the Nee, sad that here was • strong eostradictles tisk
the *tures for the deface had involved his learned
bleed la. If is symptoms of tho dessesod were
hoe spelbeble to the mak& re variety of cases rostraded for by
witaseser, these medical men •auld sot be able to rea-
aerate them as the matrons iota:yeah*. Bat to pass as
It was tree that the priroon did lead theft two medial
men. One was an old man. He (the AttoneysOecerst)
spike of that swims" in tame of pr par /aspen; but he
thought be did him no Islamise when he said that the
Wreath of his istellecial towan bad probably a ea some-
what impaired by the einem*, of age, and that lie did set
husk be was s parson I kely to stake any very shrewd ob-1
setvaiieas se ro lay ',motes' that might be obeervskl•
either immedhrely heron or hausalately attar death. Tat
best prof of this was the cerilicatio which a wrote C I the
cams of Cock's death. W.to regar I to Joan the same oh
seratioa did not apply. Re was a yang sea of clear la
West. The prisoner had Wasted him, end whet had 4000
00010 01 pus skewed the wisdom of his Makin. The deed'
of Cook occurred is the pennies of Mr. Jones with .11 taw
fa ohs! symptom* which he►had deseriad, and Mr. Jona
traseatirtled. Arad if Mr. S. had not inhibited (bet
aniscity God areas which he manifested shout Mr. Pratt.
if the primmer had steeetled is getting the body iffitrodtoa4
Selene okay aces which he ad ordered to be nee fee
the body tread have bees easigned to the grave, tbe
messes of Mr. Jones would sloths,* led to the detects, eI
the pommies, the yogaq man would hes• • suggested is tbs 'seer of death areslsly," sad the old we would have
writhes ft. It the ;ay belled that the piston al.*
Mend pills to Csok os the Tuesday, then area the yeast
tie@ fief what pavan ware they so stlasistend ? Wes
It to arry oat some foal purpose? Tin Atter
ay
Ossional neat comesested oa hos ',ideate t •
vs s.
Galt driskisg the broody aad water at tittealts,

buy is Fisher's mutest sad there was
something in it which banimi his throat, sad his afterwerds
toeing seised with vomiting, which lasted for tunnel
Were. Oa that same night Mrs. Brooks raw lb. rimier
shaking eimsteing in a glass. It was • remarkable het that
Cook, having drunk that brandy and water, was taken ill a
few minute, attar. There wore, it Is t 0.., ether pours
taken i I at Shrewsbury about tee same time, bat still the
I jury would have to bear in mid that elm of the shelties
up of the fluid la the glees in the peeve, the fact the Om*
wee seesowbat la liquor, and thst la that state be ought not
to have been told by the prime*, that he wield act drink
any =ors sale..
he Sashed hie glass. Pass on, however,
to itopley. The Jim still fused that Cook was wider the
imilaimeis of the same symptoms ea those whine be suffered
et Shrewsbury. They had the fact of the prisms, studio'
him over toast and water and broth, and thee so sooner kad
the poor mu takes these thins thea be an seised with
losossant voimitiop et the most palest eloyeeter. Then,
too, thus was the toroth, said to bats bees met by Smith,
from the Albloy, which was seat, however, not to the
Talbot lan, but to the prisoner's knob's. This broth was
taken over to the Talbot by the primmer himself, and, as
soon as it was touched by Cook, "runnier, again sinned.
There waa, too, th• I. et that the servant at the Talbot, after
taking two spoonfuls of the broth, was ill for several boon,
sod vomited something like twenty times. His lensed 1
Mead said this woe not total to the coroner; it •es true,
aevertheless. It seemed that it did not at first moor to her t
to wound her airbus. with the tasting of the broth; but
afterward. when the death of Cook had mhos place, the
feet of her sickness supervening on her taking the broth
, ass brought to mind, and he believed the jury would
regard it as a very sigeifiesot fact. Thee, spin, on the I
Monday when the prisoner was shiest, Crok was found to
be better, but upon th. Tuesday, when be returned to 1
Burley, the vomitiege Again returned. Now the important
fact wee that autimooy was found In the times of the
poor mates b.dy sod in his blood, and the presence of the
antimony in the bloo.l showed that it must have been
takes within the lot 48 hours before death. The small I
quantity found did not stud, however, the slightest ',Narita I
of the whole quantity admisiat-red. A part rf the CZ
tity gives would be thrown up in the vomiting,
thing had been said about Cook having taken the antimemy
in James's powder," but not a t tile of 'eidetic* had bees
given that be ever took any of these powder., while the
preemies of the tattoos, in the blood proved that It had
been adminlitand within forty c'ght hours of death. The
jury hid a tight to conclude, from all the endue, that had
bees brought before them sun this point, that antimony
bad been edministerd to Cook in a mode and in quantities
which showed tint it could have been given for no lopiti-
mats object ; end tanker, that it must have been admiala-
tired by the primer. Lad from these fans they
would see how great was the probability that he
must in that mu have acted with the view of
°earplug out a fatal resolution previously formed ;
for it is well known that antimony had often
bees given is amounts capable of destroying Ilfe;
and what was the motive of the prisoner t That be might
pusses himself of the mosey tint Cook might realise at the
rues. Cook intended to take it himself; bat if be did, the
prisoner's ribose was frustrated. His plan ws tbilrefrOM
to make him ill it Shrewsbury, sad the. take him to
Barclay. Be (mold sot thee go to Leedom to take this
mousy. The prisouir's plan wee, again, to keep him ill et
all events over the Monday. These =lair have been his
motives. Bat take into consideratiou the conduit of the
prisoner I. the after stages of the case, sad look at what
took pines on the day of Cook's death. Oa the mowing
night he had suffered from whet ins indisputably a most
severe attack. Dr. Bamford saw Palmer on the Tuesday
mottling, and not a word was said about that snack. The
priceer =ingested an anxiety that he should not see the
deceased : he stated that Cook was quiet, and war dosing, ad
that he did not wish to have him disturbed. That might be.
Bet on the other bend it must be remembered that If Dr.
Bamford bed even Cook io the mereion. Cork would is all
probability have mode knows to him his frightful sufferings
of the night beftee, es they wee thee have formed the sub-
ject whit= was, of all others, the meat provost to his memory.
Dr. Bamford, b , did not see the doomed until seven
o'clock on the Tuesday evening, whits he was much better.
Palmer bad then talked of his burin suffered from a bilious
studios; end it was a remarkable fact tut he had more than
ogee npreeented the glues. of Cook moue arising from.
bilious attack, both to Dr. Bamford and Dr. Imes, although
the intent had exhibited none of the symptoms which or-
dinarily aecompauy s Dllios coestitatios. The mutest Dr.
Joan saw him he made the eturvatioo that his turn
was not that of a bilious paean," and the answer he 'pot
from Palmer wee," Oh, you should have ono t im before."
Sean him when before ? 'Moo was riot the slightest groond
for somata= that he had brew sateen from say btliou
sampling, tither at Shrewsbury or slags hie arrival at
Rugeky Bet not on. weld did Palmer say to Dr. Joan
shout the St of Cook toe obi eight before. Well, tea three
medial mw monsulteed together by the bed side of the pa-
t**, sad thee C.ok tamed need sad said, " Mind, I will
have no more pills and modieleas Weight," remempicoof, as
be no doubt did at the time, his Moues of the as
night. No obeervation was mode even them by abut Ns
to what had bus the nature of Cook's attack on the night
before ; but, the medical ISMS having withdrawn foto the
odjoising room or lobby, Palmer immediately prepaid
that Ccok should *gate take the sane pills be
bad taken out the previous night; bat he de-
sired Jugs mot to say mythic' to him about what
they untamed lest he might oiled to take them.
It was then anseged that the pills should be made up, sod
Palmer that they should he compounded by Dr.
B olden. it wee thou early la the evening, and he
Webs orgy bays prepared tins ea Ids ova premises. He
soled Dr. Dauslard to the *agog of the latter •, sad
afterpee bad bees made up them he asked Dr. Bus.
ford be wits its *Moan es *us, sad the address was so
written. Ao has, sea sad el an boar or two, darts(
white Ibe piers* MA sbasileat opportuldes of gain to
his sod dalaswhat be planed is the way of chug-
leg the pi He retuned is the hotel, ad before be pre
the pills to Cook be to* care to cell the ettentios of
Joue, who woe mewl at the time, to the remarkable
handwritle et es obi gentleman like Dr. Bamford, by
whomtbedhaeYeeeatkemdids.hadbeeswritten, What
asensity was there for that ? Might it not have bees part
of a presessehei dodge to save himself from say nine-
sant sersalii his *I able to state that the pil s
had bees hby Dr. Bamford t sad might it sot
have bees for the purpose of disarming soy
imeediele empieloa *the part of Dr. Imes hisareli ? Had
they sot any reason to sappers that it might have bees
egsMssl M adal*ollehlog the latter neat ? Lay one of
I three eiressmeetsses awl set have bess_of se decisive a
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character uto loud the j•ry to clam wsseieUon of the pri-
neer% guilt; but he asked them to empire the. as a
emir of rests following one another in err sucresaim;
and he weer then leave it to tt em to draw the eenclusioa
to whisk try men legitimately lead. I will now (coutianed
the ♦ ) peat over for • moment the ri-
mier, of Mary of the Tuesday night, and I will
tar yes le the eiromestances which immediately fol-
lowed Cries death. Oa the Thursday, Mr. Steers, the
rep -father doomed, west arm to Heasley, na re.
re• isildffeeme fifths sad meat. He applied to Parma
kr rim the sobjegt of Cork's afftire ; son is
dr the esimanniees which pared between
them, Swiess said, " rich or ;NM. the poor fellow should
be redid." Parr then °Nerved that be would soder-
take to bury bin himself. bat Mr. Stevens declined, in
• dethive rarer, to avail himself of that off r. I admit
that there may be aothing empideas fa the proposal of
Palmer to bury his frier, If it Weald be taken by itself, but
tree is this ems what remarkable cifeasetaser la this pert
of the cat, that when Mr. Stevens bed meld that he could
set have the freed Ise a few days. Palmer observed that
" the body ought *boast into • cella immediately ;" sad
when, after ea absorb of about half sat hear, be inthesed,
mid was asked by Mt. Samese fir ths name at as under-
taker to whom be druid gimp diesdisms Neat the hurl,
the prisoner eased. rub M the surprise et tho omWea
whoa be woo ethlremiag, that " he hod Iderstoodend a
obeli sad • Iraq oak attar" Why Ark be bays so
hurray Irsotheed in the bedews ad wadsr was, anima
he bed threwW riad Mirth. help ithseid be consigned
Mar MlSMilang pros and removed from the sight of sea
with the roma psalM. rapidity ? Tee ham beard the
serer ante wMi Wk piece betwesa Mr. &mesa and the
prise= de Sr Saturday at the differ* railway stares at
whisk they met. It appears that at the ease Mr. Sterns
had made up his mind that a post meter essminedse of
the body of the deceased sheath tabs pros is esneegasses
of deounestares width had engeademil a suspicion is his
nisi that the death of his doper bad ant boas the result
of natural derma He bed notices: the strange attitude
of the dreesed—his clutched rads, sad the unused op
armee of his fan--and, befog a ass of natural shrewd-
ens and sagwlty, be felt a bursa saspiclos, which be maid
am aeraeet, that there most have bee. foul play M the
case. He made known to the prisoner his intentise of
rejig the body armed before it was soesigned to the
grave. It is test that the prisoner did cot diaeb fram that
trying ordeal, and that he met with Annum the trying
gam cf Mr. Stevens when the report of the pet water
✓aminatioa was brat mentioned. Bat biding that there
was to be a put rotten esesinatios be was seldom to know
who was tt performs it. Mr. Swans would not inform bin,
bat rarely stated that it was to take place ea the Monday.
Thee we tem oa the Sunday that rensaskable coLvenetion
between the prisoner and Newton, which has bra for some
tire known to the urns. It ia true that Newton did not
reser the conversation is the coarse of hie seassinatith
before the sewer; but the reason for his silence upon the
sebleet en that merlon may be owl, proved. He was
called at the ir.qortt sflely for the purpose of c irroborstieg
tM evi,esee of Roberts with respect to Parer's oppresses
i• Dr. Elawkine'sth,p on the Tarry terrain ; sad to that
point tie evidente before the for seer was smiler. He has
mime deposed that during a souverestioa with Palmer on the
Seaday, the latter soddenly asked him " what quality
of aryelisfas would you give if you wanted to kill a dog ?"
The reply was, " from half • grain to • grain." This pd•
weer thee tithed, 't would you expect to Sod say tears of
it in the search after death ?" )(thrum authored, "N. t"
sad, on his doing es, he observed the primer rake a
roverent conveying an iteration of hie delight. I bad at
one tire thought that my learned friend teigaged foe the
rheas would have 'tempted to show that the priemet
bed perchased the atrychnie at thee ommereimst of the
week for the purpose of deem) fog dogs; but as eviller,
whatever has been adduced to establish snob • pout; sad
we have had no evidef et of say kind to skew bow that
stryshola was applied. Bat my I d friead has em-
bodied that the prisoner had so motive foe taking away
the lift of his friend Cock. Now if I marines you upon
naimpesehatil• millrace that the death of Cook had both
mused by stirring, and that that stryetelee could et),
bays brie sdnalaisterod by the prisoner, then the quietism
of retire most berme a mete secasidary sonsidoration.

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