The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-27 00:00:00

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

TWELFTH DAY.
CONTINUATION OF THY ['MIMING UP.

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The opening of the court this toornieg preempted
the same eatraordleary geese of eseitemest which was
witasmed yesterday. The smut was Ailed immediately
after the opening of the dons, sad Om:wiliest the day
kW the OW Bailey vas threaded with mutes sallow to
Mora the prcgrese of the swim up, or to obtain Mias-
mas We the seen.

The prima ereahl--. bited so narked change in bie appear-
wee. Ocemismily he 'tensed with attention to Lord
Campbell's charts, sad road notes to hie mussel, bet for
the meet pert there woo matt of entreat indifference is
hie demeanour.

The Lord Chiefiestice, Baron Aidereus, sad Mr. Jetties
Cmewell took their seats on the beech at tea o'clock.

His lordship commenced this morning by observing, that
at the adjournment yesterday evening, be had laid before
the jury all the evidence for the prosecution, and eartaialy
this evidence preemies( • serious car elitism the prisoner.
It appeared that la the middle of N .vember Met the prisoner
wee Involved is pseanlury difficaltiea of a most formidable
Mareeter, and from which he could not liars possibly agit-
ated himself without the most eatmordiauy moms. At
this period the primmer amempanied the demand to
Shrewsbury races, when the detoured won a large sum ad
mosey, and where, it wee alleged, the prisoner formed the
desigs of getting pm 'Cm or the demand's property.
Before and after the death, the prisoner took
steps to collect all the mosey dies to the dec
sewed, and resorted to a devise for earring 'he horse
Polestar, which also had belemed to the dimmed. In
bet, bed lb. Ostia of the prisoner, ea develop d is the
deem, succeeded, he would hem become pwesseod 01 all
the derseasers property; and hearse it could not be mild
that he would have derived ao Mufti from the death of
his friend, no, mold it be urged that the betimes of act-
vantages wee In favour of his wishing the deceased to live ;
Mace there was • strong motive for the committal of the
crime imputed to the prisoner, and with this Mootedge is
tksir peemesioa It wee for the Jury to deletealm whether
the symptoms of the deceased justiled the sowelosioa of the
Meat& "vibrate fee tke proseentioa that death wee
the result of pole "Mug by strychnine. It was tree
that so strychnine had been found is the deemsed's
elsemeb, but in point of law there was so amessity that it
amid be found to justify the miviellesof the primmer, if
then were other sad seldeint *video's te satisfy the minds
of the jury that reek a poison had beea administered. Well,
new, there were two biome/lie evidence when, bared al
'seniors, crychaine had been adiniaimered, and yet so
trims of it could be found after death, while another portion
of the evidence went to Mow that the bedy maid be so pre-
pared by antimony and similar deadly drugs as entirely to
destroy all traces of strychnine after it had run its fatal
course. Now, fa UM ease, there was the stroegeet
proof that mammy mast have bean administered
to the diseased immediately before death, and empliag
that aims/tams with the madame of the medical
sew who bad deseribed list the symptoms of the
deauseed, and semadly the symptoms smelly obser-
vable Is stryohnla "Minim, it would be for the jury
to say whether the prosecution bad sacomeet In briegieg
the Marge of swim home to the prisoner. There were
individual sets of Me ph/ war moved in sickles's whisb
tie jury might very well 'made, is striving at uheir dos;
eseelubm, such es the feet of his having parchneed or ob-
Weed 'timbales bees two different personalist previously
te the death ; the feet of his having attempted
to bribe the poet-boy to upset the Jan, the
fast of his having got the poetmastar to epee Dr.
repleee Meer; sad betty, the feet of his bawls' tampered
with the saes., to primers a media latish would have
amounted to en acquittal rot the ebyge which was thee, ae
am, hanging over his bead. Them were the main features
of the case for the press/sties, sad, hackie duly weighed
and otasidered them, it would be for the jury to say whether
they breaght to their minds an Irreamtihle e*avietioa of the
pleames guilt. Oa the ether bend, sew roue witnesses
had bees abed for the defence, and it remained for him to
go through their seldom" with the same can and mitoses
with whisk he had goes over that of the proems
ties. Like the 'video's of the prmication, the evidence
fel the defame partook of a moral and imam*
eltormilar. These who MA bees called to give the latter
evidence were men of high beamr, of satiated integrity,
sad profound seisatille knowledge, and It was only doe to
them to say, that in coming there they appeared to have
bees only "Muted by a detail, to speck the math, and to
assist is the dee administration of justice. This evidence
his lordrhip then proceeded to r. ad over, eimmeacieg with
Dr. Nunneley. Commeatiag upon that gentlemaa's evi-
dence, his lordship obeseved that Dr. Nsaneley seemed to
have displayed ea interest in the am whisk was not alto-

ptherectmietent with the character of • witness. He diffSred
very neck from some of the witticism 'remised for the
miasmic's, particalarly in referees:* to rigidity hieing
preload by at:yelping after death, sad it wield
be for the jary 0 determine to which side they attached
the most weight in these matters. The neat witness is
order arse Dr. Herspath, a gentleman who had direeted
mach attention to the operation of pitmans. His lordship
baring read Dr. Herapath's evidence, observed that it dif-
fered from that of the promestion In a leading partittelar,
isaemath as it went to abet that where death woe mew
dosed by strychnine, its traces were always discernible is
the body, bat on erceseamaination the wittier admitted
that he had before expressod an opiates that Coen died of
stryabalae. and that Dr. Tapia bad sot takes the proper
mesas to dad it. Yawing to Dr. Letteby's seams Me
lordmhip remarked, after readlog It, that the exeeptiose
which is orom-ezamiaaties the (bettor allowed be bad met

with in his eapcirlemee, of the elects sad symptoms of
stsychaine, were ',Melva to seawalls* the sidelines in
chief so far as it weal to rebut that of the
promeatina. The seat aitaw was Dr. Gay, who
spoke to Lotion sees • ova of idiopatbie mates, is sa
omnibus c »doctor. Remarking epos this mil Ivies, h's
lordship said it wee for the j try to say whither the neap.
ems ia this wee seMeisetly ocereopuided with those of she
der •ssed, to brim' the two MKS tato the saw aloe;
bat it mast be emitted that there wee a differ.... is the
symptoms, while there was e.ioag evidence on
rowed, whisk welt to show that As doomed's
ease wee neither inertial's nor idlopatble tetanus.
The seat endear* was that of Mr. Rom, who leisured a
ass when • man bad died from tetanus ladawd by sleets
en the body; bat his lordship r minded the jury that, is
the sew of the dowsed, there was no evilest. whatever
that ho had suffered from tweeds or ewes of any
• Speakieg of the evidowe of Dr. Wrightsou,
who had diseevered strychnine is peveryicg blood
sad doiemposed matter, and who bad gins as opi-
nion that strychaise sever decomposed, his lordship
told the jary that the doctor, who was a mos at endoest
meientille attaisessate awl satespeschahle bosear, W gloss
bie evidence with becomieg sastioe. The doctor mimed to
think that the poises, if admiaistered, *grit to have bees
fogad, sad in deals( with this part of the sass the jury
timid have to 'wider whelk's' it might mot have existed
la this woe, sad yet have dolled the tats employed to the-
orise It. Raferriag to the milder, of Dr. Partridge, his
lordship mid it was remarkable la this—that the symptoms
of the doreesed did set strictly sonesp itd with those he
should bare expected is the we of a death from stink
slaw. )dim lordship moat read the evideoce of
Dr. Gay, who spots to a saes of titans. ia
a child of sight yeses of op, seperventeg from an
Missy to the great Is., sot impressed Ma iodation that there
woe so auk gy Weems that and tki. sae', while the wit
nes, his lordship added, had declared It to be his be-
lief that snicks of teams* could always be trewable
to tome eslltteral is... Ria lordship thee reed the linglby
',ideate of Dr. McDonald, of Idiabargh, who attributed
the death of Cook to epilept;c soaritleiceis with totemic
complissatitma,' siding that it was within' the nags of pro.
bability that the sosealeteme la this saes before the fatal
attack were the malt anvils) exeitememt. Rialordallip
reminded the jury that this wee the Gel, witness who had
given a positive opiates as to the cases cf death; the cause
ho bad dieerlbed, sad it might, eeeocdiag to the witness,
have swims host mental, moral, or mental enolisment. It was
for the Joey to say whet weight they &Imbed to this
tostimeny in the face of the ether mos et .reediesi ',ideate
loading to • diflviet avelselso. Ravin disposed of ether
wiammem, W lordsldp suite seat la order to lb* OVidellell
of Dr. Rleharilseo, who bad &earthed • romalabla saes of
angina poserris, sad bed premouseed as opiates that the
symptom to deseribed Is Cook's some pewouted a
'larder singseity to Ave of the strings owe refereed to.
It wee for the jury to detonator) whether the diseased died
hen se:Viso:of the sues dimes ; bat ea spownsimisatisa

the iett;ese edaitted that the empties* le by eels night
Mee veleltei f streihaise, but at the thew It emend Yes