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London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

S N, LONDON, FRIDAY

SERMON

TRIAL OF THE MAN.NINGS,

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY
OLD COURT.

The trial was resumed this morning at ten o'clock.
Long before that hour, however, th pasrages lead-
ing to the place of trial, were crowded to Excess, and
the public thoroughfare in front of the court again
presented a scene of much greater excitement than is
usual at the sittings of the Old Bailey.
By half-past nine the court was completely tilled,
and among the auditory there were as many ladies as
yes terday. .
The jury were provided whh beds and refresh-
ments fer the night at the London Coffee house,
Ludgato-hill. They were placed in the charge of
three officers, Messrs. Harker, Miller, and MaelEay,
and we b:dieve beds were made up for the whole of
them in one room.
The barristers and solicitors engaged in tha trial
made their appearance shortly before ten o'clock.
The jury were brought into court by Mr. Harker
a few minutes before the hour of trial and placed in
the jury- box.
The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Cress well
took their seats on the bench at five minutes after ten,
followed by the Lord Mayor, and Aldermen Magnsy
and Carden.
We noticed also seated on the bench Lori Lang-
ford, Lord Howden, the Marquis of Hertford, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, and Lord Nugent.
Tile prisoners were immediately placed in the dock,
and after standing for a few minutes, both sat down.
Manning looked very pale and careworn. Little
change was observed in the appearance of the female
prisoner. She wore a black lace cap to-day instead of
a white one.
Henry Odling, son of the surgeon, said he had
made some chemical experiments upon the dress
which had stains upon it. He had applied the usual
chemical tests, and he found that they were stains of
blood.

Cross-examined by Mr. BALLAINTINE—No one was
present when I made the experiments. I have arrived
at the mature age of 21. I allowed the dress to
stand in cold distilled water. The staics were upon
the left side of the lining of the skirt. I have made
some experiments also upon the stains found on the
collar, but I cannot say that they are produced by
blood.
Re examined—l have been studying chemistry
for five years, both at Guy's Hospital and
the College of Chemistry, and I have a certificate
of proficiency. The stains on the collar were not the
cause of iron-mould, or any vegetable matter ; they
are more like blood than anything else.
By the COURT—I cut cut the stained piece of the
dress, and steeped it in distilled water, and then boiled
the water, and there was a sediment at the bottom.
composed partly of albumen, which is a constituent
of blood, and partly of colouring matter.
Mr. Francis W. Stevens, stockbroker, 3, Royal
Exchange, said,—l was acquainted with the late
Patrick O'Connor, and I was in the habit of doing busi-
ness for him. 1 purchased for him on the 31 Aug. last
ten shares in the Sambre and Meuse Railway. They
were numbered from 6,460 to 6,469 inclusive. They
were ordered on the 3d, or a day before that. I pur-
chased also ten shares in May in the Amiens and
Boulogne Railway, numbered 48665 to 48,674, and
I delivered them on the 11th of May. I recollect the
female prisoner very well. She came to my office on
the Ist, 21, (r3d of August. She introduced herself
by saying that she had been recommended to me by
Patrick O'Connor to invest 2001. She said she wanted
some shares that she could sell abroad. I asked her
to be kind enough to say where she was going, so
that I might the better advise her. After some
little hesitation, she said Paris. I told her then
that she had better purchase French rentes. I showed
her a list of foreign stocks, and she asked me what it
would cost to register shares, as she wished to sell the
property again. She asked me, if she took the
.Boulogne and Amiens, or Sambre and Meuse, she
could sell them without her husband's control or not ?
I told her she could do so. She then went away, and
said she would call again.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—On the 3d
of August I purchased the Sambre and Meuse, and
they came to 271. 103. I purchased the Amiens and
Boulogne shares in May, and they were 711. 17s. 6d.
They have since diminished in value, and in May
following they would have only been worth 471.
O'Connor never mentioned Mrs. Manning's name
to me.

Mr. Lamond, stockbroker, said—l was acquainted
with the late Patrick O'Connor, and I purchased
some shares for him in the Eastern Counties
Rail-
way in the month of April. I witnessed the trans'er
of them to O'Connor. They consisted of twenty
Shares of Consolidated Stocks.
Mr. Green, transfer clerk at the Eastern Counties
Railway office, produced the transfer, signed by
O'Connor.

Mr. Lamond's examination continued—Mr. O'Con-
nor paid for the shares the same day. I purchased
also for the deceased ten shares in the Sambre
and Meuse Railway. I don't know the num-
bers of them, but I can identify them by
a mark. I bought them from a Mr. Cooper Russell.
the shares in question were produced by the clerk
of Mr. Russell. Those are the shares which passed
h througmy hands with reference to the transaction
With
O'Connor. Mr. Wenbam, Mr. Cooper's clerk,
brought them to our office. The Nos. of them I find
are 26,523 to 26,532 inclusive.
Mr. Green, recalled, said there was no subsequent
transfer of the stock produced.
Mr. Lamond cross-examined by Mr. BALL ANTINE—
InTe hefemale prisoner brought a letter of introduction to
front O'Connor. She was not introduced to me as a
person with whom O'Connor was very intimate I
had no dealings with her.
Mr. Hayward, from the office of the Treasury
Solicitor, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I
was present at the police court when a witness named
John Basset, who is now dead, was examined. I re-
ceived from him that scrip and assignment, which
he produced to the magistrate on the 7th of September
last. They have been in my possession ever since.
Mr. Green recalled, said that one was the original
certificate of the stock, and the other the assignment
of it.
Mr. Shillibere said, he knew the prisoner Manning,
and he did not believe that the signature " Patrick
.I". Connor,” to the transfer was the handwriting of
euanning.
,14, r. Richard Hammond, clerk in the office of Messrs.
k
17nitlick and Co sharebrokers, examined, said—l
°"iv the male prisoner. The signature to the
transfer is not in his handwriting. I saw him at our
ifiee, and he said he had come about some shares. I
came to
him to Mr. Basset, and afterwards Basset
to me and said he wanted 1101. I gave him
that sum in a 1001. note, and one 5/. note, and five
ivereigns. I took the number of the notes. The
anoo note was numbered 15,048, sth June,
d 1 ; the Si. note was numbered 20,031,
dated 13th of July. Before I parted
With the money I looked over the transfer. 1 went
into an inner office and gave Basset the money, and I
law him give it to Manning. The signature upon
the transfer was wet at the time. I did not hear the
name of O'Connor mentioned in the presence of
Manning. On the 20th of August I went to the
Bank of England, at nine in the morning, to stop
the 1001. note. The 1001. note produced is the one I
gave, and I identified it by the name of Charles
James Butler, which was indorsed upon the note when
I paid it away.
Cross-examined by Sergeant WILKINS—I do not
know Charles James Butler. Charles James Butler has
not done any business at our office, and I do not
know who he is. Messrs. Killich are members of
the Stock Exchange. I cannot show throughout
tile book i entered the number of the notes any
Other instance in which I had taken down the numbers
of the notes paid away. It is not my business to do
SO. Mr. Flight, who attends to that department, was
out of town.
Mr. Shillibere re-called—l find on the back of the
100/. note "F. G. Manning," which is the undis-
guised writing of the male prisoner.
Air. George Linthorne, share-dealer, examined—
I remember being in the office of Killich and Co.
On Saturday, the 11th of August, about half-past
eleven in the morning. I recollect a person there
who had come to sell twenty shares in the Eastern
Counties Railway. I did not take any particular
notice of the person. I decidedly remember a trans-
fer being executed by the stranger who was then
present. I cannot say whether I should know the
person again. I saw the money paid over in a 1001.,
a Si.note, and five sovereigns. They were handed,
decidedly, to the same person who signed the
transfer.

Cross-examined by Sergeant WlLittris—l have no
interest in the firm of Killich and Co. I am a dealer in
Shares, and do not deal in anything el!e. I have
never officiated as a lawyer's clerk. Basset wrote
the body of the transfer, and, in fact, all be
11.ane. I was in the habit of going to Messrsut. Kilth
leh's office every morning. I have no particular
1111,,,4ce of business. I have had an office at No. 46,
the last
during the railway mania. For
last 20 years I have been a dealer in shares. I
14' net certain whether I hal an office for twelve
Cy,"ths. I rented it of a hairdresser. I live in lodg-
:gs, 47, Dean. street, Soho. They consist of the
'",cind floor and a porCon of the third.
'lr. Griffin, clerk at the Bank of England, said
4' e 100/, note was exchanged by him on the 11th of
t,gust, and he gave the person who presented 't 50
tt,v'.r'gns and a ticket for 501, more in notes. nt is
t;'e habit of persons changing notes to put their
110'e?3 on the back of notes. The indorsement on the
koe 14 G. Manning, 7, New Weston-street, Ber-
Udsei .

I Mr. Adams, another clerk in the Beek of England, such a murder,' or by jealousy, for he showed
ivIITIIDE R. I said he gave in exchange of the ticket live 101. notes, i
Ivery little sensitiveness about the honour of his wife.
numbered froia 700,372 to 700,377. I Now, as to description of the body ? Why, he says
John Ashford proved that the signature to the I a wound was in the head, produced by a pistol shot.
transfer was not in the handwriting of O'Connor. I The shot must evidently have been fired upon the
Barnes, police-constable, said it occupied him to man's. back ; he would fall upon his face, and then a
go from Minver-place to O'Connor's lodging walking person would have no difficulty in the world in corn-
forty-two minutes, in are omnibus thirty- five minutes, pleting the deed with such an instrument as that
and in a cab twenty-five minutes. mentioned by the witness. He would not stop to
I
David King, an officer in the London Docks, ex- inquire as to the length of time the body had been
amined by the ATTORNEY- GENERAL, said—l received buried, because it did not seem to him that that
the letter produced by the post on Friday, the 10th , would bear upon the case, and he should not be bene-
of August, and I sent it to O'Connor's lidgings. I fiting his client by urging upon the jury topics which
I. Lacking, messenger in the London Docks, said were not sustainable by sifting the evidence. It had
—By the direction of the last witness he took the been proved beyond all question, that O'Con-
letter to the deceased's lodging; in Greenwood-street. nor was never seen alive after five o'clock
The ATTORNET•GENERAL—This, my Lords, is the on the Thursday afternoon, and therefore he
case for the prosecution. would trouble the jury with no observations upon
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then rose to address the jury Mr. Lockwood's evidence as to the length of time the
on the part of the male prisoner. He said he was there body had been buried. The next witnesses were How
as the advocate of Manning, and therefore no doubt and Tomlin, but they merely spoke as to the teeth
they w-culd watch with great jealousy any observa- taken from the mouth, and it was not necessary to
tions that he might urge en his beealn he did not comment upon that. Then they had Pierce Walsh.
complain of that ; a man who stood up in any case as He told them that he was intimate with O'Connor,
a mere advocate ought to be watched ; but, at the and he identified the body. He told them further,
same time, he need rot remind them that it was their that on the Bth of August he dined with the deceased
duty to weigh well all that he should say, and to give at the house of the Mannings. Now what took place
to it that attention which it deserved. More than when be was there? He granted the jury there was
that he should not ask. When he said he was the a principle of law—perhaps it was a wise rule—
advccate for the male prisoner Manning, they that the wife is always considered to be under
would at once perceive that he stood in =uljection of the husband ; but was it not quite clear
a position unequalled in the history of that here, at least, the rule was reversed, and Mrs.
criminal trials. His difficulties were immense. To Manning was the mistress of the house ? Who wrote
argue against foregone conclusions placed difficulties the note to invite O'Connor to come to dinner ? Mrs.
in the way of an advocate which he found it arduous Manning. Then, again, look at the conversation she
to encounter. What was the nature of the case with had with some of the witnesses. Did it not prove,
which he had to deal ? In the first place, he had to beyond all doubt, that Mrs. Manning was the master?
answer the first counsel in the land, and in the next She alone it was who used her influence to induce
he had to conduct a defence which, at first sight, op. O'Connor to come to dine with them. Did she not
peered odious. He was to be followed—strange as sign herself Maria ? Who had access to his secrets ?
it vi ould appear—by another defending counsel, Who had taken pains to possess herself of a knowledge
whose duty it would be to neutralize, as far as in of the amount of his possessions ? Why, the woman.
him laid, all his (Mr. Wilkins) arguments, and On the Friday before the death, whom
to seek to destroy the man whom he would did they find in close examination of
endeavour to save. Whatever might be the the deceased ? Why, Mrs. Manning, who from
case, however, of the counsel for the female prisoner, beginning to end had a motive for this act. Cupidity
he should not quarrel with them. Though the poai- showed what her motives were from the beginning to
tion they would take with regard to his client placed the end of this dreadful history. Then, again, the
him in a painful situation, he was ready to award to next witness they came to was William Keating.
every Man that mead of approbation which was due He says—and he prayed their attention to this—on
to him for the faithful discharge of his duty. But the Bth of August I saw the deceased upon London-
his difficulty did not end there. How did it happen, bridge, going towards the Surrey side. It was about
in the age in which they lived—when they boasted of a quarter to five o'clock, and he said it would be found
their liberties and of the security of those liberties— that all the persons who spoke of seeing him spoke
how did it happen that in a case of this kind the coup- nearly to the same time. He thought the jury
salter the Crown, and even the Learned Judge him- would be of opinion that the last witness
self, felt themselves called upon to caution the jury who spoke upon the point was mistaken both in
against any impression which might previously have the time and the direction the deceased was
been made on their minds—against the efforts of going in. According to the statement of Mr.
those who set themselves up before the Keating, he is seen upon London-bridge, going in the
world as defenders of liberty—against the direction of Minver-place. Some of the gentlemen
efforts of those who would prejudice their minds, and of the jury might know the distance between there
darn up the stream of justice by prejudging the case, and the bridge, and could, therefore, estimate the
and urging upon them topics and circumstances length of time it would take O'Connor to walk it.
which ought never to weigh more than a moment, On the 12th of August Mr. Keating said he went to
but which must necessarily have a great effect upon the Mannings' house, and at this time, beyond all
their minds ? The Learned Attorney-General, in a question, the man was dead. Well, whom did he
way which did credit to him, had told them to forget see ? He saw Mrs. Manning, end he begged the
all that they had heard and read up to that time, and jury to mark this wonderful circumstance in this
to come with minds perfectly unprejudiced and un- part of the evidence. He asks Mrs. Man-
biassed to decide upon a subject affecting the Ding if she had seen O'Connor? She :aid
temporal and eternal interest, he might say, she had not seen him since Wednesday night.
of two fellow-creatures ; but who rendered that She said "itis a very strange thing—very strange
caution necessary ? Who, then, rebelled against jus indeed, for we invited him to dinner on Thurs-
tice; who dared to dictate to the court and to the day, and Mr. Manning thought it a most un-
jury, and seek to intimidate them to adopt conclusions gentlemanly thing he did nut come to his appointed
with an imperfect and incorrect knowledge of the time." She said further, " I went to his lodging to
whole circumstances of the case ? They had read ascertain the reason why he did not come." At the
with deep interest that frightful event in the history very moment when she made that assertion her lip
of the world, the French revolution, which did more was noticed to quiver end her cheek to grow blanched.
to ennoble and disgrace, to dignify and to degrade At the very time she used that expression even her
the human race, than any event with which they were self-possession was not sufficient for the moment, and
acquainted, and during every stage of cruelty and horror she said, " Poor O'Connor, he was the best friend I
nothing, perhaps, called forth more of their indignation had in the world." Poor ! why poor ? Why should
than the hare, cruel, and despotic press, which pre• she say he was poor, when she knew his body
judged cases before they were investigated, and made was mouldering in the earth ? There were moments
a trill a mere formal matter, the verdict having al- when the self-possession of the hardiest beings gave
ready been pronounced by those who dictated to the way, and even the nerve of this woman gave way at
public mind. Great, however, as the influence of the that moment. You (addressing the female prisoner)
press might be, aided by good and terse language, knew where be was at that moment—at that moment
and a wide circulation, he trusted that the jury would you were in possession of his property. You knew
come to the present inquiry with calm and entirely his mouth would never speak again; it had been
unprejudiced minds. But he must not forget that ushed for ever. You knew it, and well might you
he was asking them almost t ) unman them- say " poor O'Connor," your lip quiver, and your
selves, to do away es ith their very na- cheek grow blanched. If it had occurred to you at
ture, for day after day had those bonds that moment that he had gone out of town—that he
of prejudice been cruelly and artfully woven was of a peculiar and uncertain mind, who took a fancy
round the public mind, so as to render it ex- one moment and another the next, which perhaps had
tremely difficult for any one to rise up and break them caused his absence—why did you say, " poor O'Con•
asunder. He would not attempt to dictate to them nor ?" Why the jury knew, he had no doubt, that
what their verdict should be; his duty was to watch sometimes it required more skill and forethought,
his adversary, to see that he did not take an unfair and more circumspection than falls to the lot of even
advantage, and make propositions which the law the wicked and callous, to conceal their emotions, and
altogether repudiated. He asked them to look at that very moment, when she exclaimed " poor
at the result of the investigation, because it O'Connor," the cheek of this woman who feigned:to
reached from the earth to futurity—futurity be astonished that he had not come to dinner, whitened
never ending—and, therefore, he asked, he im- and her frame quivered, she knew if was true that at
plored, he entreated them not to blink the question, this time she had possessed herself of his pro-
not to call up their passions and prejudices, and thus Pert Y—she had got his shares and his money in
destroy their understandings, and thus let a verdict be her possession. How then did she get them? You
stolen from their weakness or their cowardice. Let them went (again addressing the prisoner) to see why
look at the facts of the case.
O'Connor did not come to dinner. Well, when you
What defence did
Manning set up at the moment of his arehension ? found O'Connor was not at home on the Thursday,
a defence which he persevered in up tothat moment why go up stairs into his room ? Why wait for an
,
and which he should seek to substantiate by reason of
hour without coming down ? Why, when you went
argument and evidence, and then leave them to form
away, was your cheeks noticed to be more pale than
their conclusions. The first question was, had Patrick usual ? How did you become possessed of the key
O'Connor been murdered at all ? About that he to unlock his box when he always carried the key in
feared there could be little doubt, and he was his pocket ? How elv then could you get the
not there to insult their understandings by key but from his pocket? and if from his
arguing upon topics which would not bear investiga- pocket, where did you get the pocket ? Why,
tion. There can be no doubt that this wretched man from his clothes? and if from his clothes, how did
—who excited our sympathy only because he was you get access to them ? He did not agree with the
hurried from time into eternity, without leave to re- theory of his Learned Friend the Attorney-General.
pent—was murdered by some one. Well, then, when He thinks that upon the Thursday she did not pos-
was he murdered? How was he murdered? Where sess herself of the property; but he (Mr. Wilkins)
was he murdered ? And by whom ? He feared he was of a different opinion. She might have taken as
was compelled to admit the hypothesis made by the much as she could at onetime ; and he contended that
prosecution, that lie was murdered on or after Thurs- she took a portion on Thursday and another portion
day, the 9th of August, for the probability pointed to on Friday; or it might be that she thought it
that fact, although it was by no means proved. Prudent to go on Friday to give a colouring to her
Where was he murdered ? That was not so movements. It was clear she knew where he kept
clear ; but it was said by the prosecutor that he was his property. She knew, also, the nature of that pro-
murdered at the house where the two prisoners lived. PertY) for she had access not only to his rooms, but
Next again, how was he murdered ? About that even to his very secrets. Now, he must next pray
there could be no doubt, for the medical evidence their attention to what the next witness said. Mr.
which had been given was very explicit. But the all- Graham corroborates, almost to the very letter, what
important question was—by whom was he murdered? Mr. Keating says. He was in company with Keating
at the time he met O'Connor, and describes how
Was he murdered by both ? If so, where was the
evidence of concert ? As far as the male prisoner and where they were when they did so.
Then Mr. Coleman says upon the 9th of August he
was concerned, what single fact was there in
the case, from beginning to end, which justified his saw the deceased, about one hundred yards from
Learned Friend the Attorney-General in say- Manning's house, at about five o'clock; so that here
ing that he premeditated the destruction of the they had one witness seeing him on London-bridge
murdered man ? It seemed to him, and he had heard about a quarter to five going in the direction of Man-
the case with great interest and attention, that the only ning's, and in ten minutes afterwards another
circumstance which argued anything like premedi-
witness sees him within 100 yards of the house
tation on the part of the male prisoner was the itself. He could not help thinking, therefore,
purchasing the lime and the crow bar. Let him that Younghusband must have been mistaken
when he saw him at half -past five o'clock going
direct their attention to those two facts. The
Learned Sergeant then dwelt upon the probability of towards the City. There could be no doubt that 1
Mr. Ballantine urging on behalf of his client the he was invited to the house to dinner, that was beyond
comparative differences of the two sexes, and the all question ; and why he should turn away to
diminution of power and strength on the part of the go back again, when it was clear he was al-
female. It would require little difficulty, he said, to' most within five minutes' walk of Manning's
come to the conclusion that that rule door. It was true there was no evidence as
was neither general nor universal. History taught to who let him in, but could the jury have any
them that the female attained to higher eminences in doubt that the person who invited him did so ; who,
virtue than the male, and also that if she once gave according to her own showing, did not leave her
way to vice there was no end to the depth to which she house till six o'clock ? Well, then, it was quite clear
might descend. Women either soared higher or sank that O'Connor could not have turned away from
far deeper than the other sex. Husbands had often the door if she was at home; and he
been the dupes of wires who had employed means asked the jury if they could have any doubt
with which at the time they were utterly that she was at home when she came? Then the
unacquainted, but which afterwards developed them- next witness they had was Sophia Pyne, who said
selves in a frightful character. The Learned Gentle- ' that on Thursday the 9th of August, at a quarter
man then proceeded to dispose of the two facts before seven o'clock, she saw Manning sitting on
alluded to as bearing upon the assertion that the garden wall. He invited their particular
Manning contemplated the murder. With respect attention to this part of the evidence. He was not
to the lime, he asked if it was not possible that his saying that Manning might not, after this transac-
wife had got him to purchase, it under the pretence tion, have ordered and assisted in secreting the body,
that she wanted it to kill the ' slugs which destroyed but mighnt not Manning, after the deed was done,
the vegetables and flowers in the garden ? for it had out of regard for his wife, have aided and
been proved by two of the witnessess that some assisted her. There was nothing to show that he
scarlet runners, and other plants and vegetables, were knew that the person was about to be murdered;
growing there. Besides, he made no secret of pur-
there was nothing to show that he participated in the
chasing it; he went to a place close to his house,
act; but there
wrote his address, in his own undisguised hand in Was a witness raw him as early as seven
o'clock or thereabouts on his own garden-wall. From
order that it might be cent, and instead
fear, or the cause he had just stated, he might have
of making the purchase at night, when
he might have been unobserved, he did so in the taken steps afterwards to aid and assist in concealing
that which might jeopardize his own life ; and he was
morning, and of course in broad daylight. Then as
seen by that witness on the garden wall. How did
to the crowbar, he observed in the first instance that
he appear ? As usual. Had he his usual dress on ?
there could be no doubt in the minds of any that he He lead. Had he got his waistcoat and trowsers on ?
asked for a ripping chisel. To show that he had He had. Did he present at all his usual appearance ?
no desire to conceal what he was doing, He did. He had no blood on his clothes, no stains,
he alluded to his going to a respectable ironmonger
nothing to indicate that he had been engaged in
in a large public thoroughfare, without obtaining, as
this dreadful deed. Now did the young chemist,
he might have done, the article at some of those
whom his Learned Friend (Mr. Ballantine)
receptacles for stolen goods known as marine store-
had thought it convenient to call—a boy
shops, in dark and obscure Ines or alleys. To but whose evidence displayed skill and ability that
show that his wife might have also induced would do no discredit to a grey head—say as much
him to get it under the pretence that she wanted it for the woman ? He did not. The spots'
for some ordinary purpose, „he referred to her on her dress he proved beyond all question
having met the boy at the door and taken it from were produced by blood. He contended,
him, and on being told that it was made larger than therefore, that from the beginning to the end of this
the one ordered, paved him a shilling above the price terrible transaction the woman had taken as much
agreed upon. Tids showed that she knew all pains to impose upon her own husband as
about it. The next point touched upon was the fact upon any body else in the world. This offence was
that these were the only two instances in which committed on the Thursday. Upon the Monday
concert was proved be fere the murder, and afterwards Mr. Bainbridge's servant said he requested
that everything tended to show that there her to go and fetch his wife, and could the jury have
,was no concert afterwards, it never having any doubt in the world, especially look-
Peen proved that they had been seen ing at what took place afterwards, that
'Peaking togetter br in caul, other's company.
Th Manning believed his wife was act at home. ?
Learned sergeant then went on to show that the I The servant came back and said she could not find
femalet, 1
in all probability committed the murder fthe place. What did Manning do then ? Why
er lie said, after the pistol was fired and took effect, he goes himself to the house and knocks
a child almost minlit have inflatted the injiniee at the door, hut no one answering, he goes and taps at
found on the budy. He also endeavoured to show the window. Now, could the jury have any doubt it,
that Manning was not the man to be the world that he did not expect an answer from
led sway by the love of lucre to oommit within? lie asked 4 person who was stand-