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of spasms on the previous night. She said she !:ever
fered so much in her life.
John Hicks, examined be Mr. Hardy—l am abo okseller
in Upper Heel-row, Leeds. I was called up on Set tela,
morning, the 21 of March, about half-past 12. I 69. V. the
prisoner, and he 321 d " FOIL' God's sake, come down a. 'd
let me in." I went tlown, and found the prisoner vele-
intoxicated, and much eeeeited. I opened the door, and
he said, " Poor Harriet's deed." He was in great trou-
ble, and seid, " me, I wish set -ill weep. I wish I could
weep." He solicited me earnestly to go with him, and I
did. As we were going I asked him about the death of
his wife, and he said, "Oh, tio not shuns to her death at
ell." He s lie was very apprehensive of an Lequest being
hell, and ho was afraid they would examine the body.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—l had forbidden him coni-
ing to my house prior to this. Prisoner was full of lamen-
tation all the way from my house. He raid Mrs. Dove
objected to a post mortem examination.
lie-examined by Mr. Overend—l forbid the prisoner
earning to my house because he freqtteetly came intoxi-
cated, and also on acceuut of his general conduct to his
wife.
He -,ry Rose, examined by Mr. Healy---I am a baker at
Leads. I saw the prisoner on the Thursday before his
wife's death, at a drain-shop at the bottom of Laud's-lane,
Leeds. Mr. Dove gave me a card with his address on,
and we afterwards went out. He said hie wife was poorly,
and be thought she would not get bettee. Mr. Morley
thought she -eould, and she thought so too ; best prisoner
did not think so ; and ivheu she was dead, he would have a
regular jollification. He asked me to go and sed him,
and I suggested Sunday, but he said I had better not
go till after his wife's death. Ho asked my rain°,
and I refused to give it. I asked him why he wanted to
know my name, and he said he wanted to say something
to me that he did not want every one to know. He then
said he could not live without a .woman after his wife's
deethe eHeshould -want satefor,his own accommodation ; •
and if I knew of one that would snit him, would I takeher
down to his house. I said if he took me for a person of
that sort, he was very much mistaken ,
William Harrison, examined by Mr. Overond—l live at
5, South Market, Leeds. I have know the prisoner for 20
months. When I first knew him he was living at Nor
wanton. He consulted me as to what would do his wife
good. lam a dentist, ko. lam an astrologer also. Peo-
ple consult me. Prisoner asked me to cast his own na-
tivity, which I have never completed for him. In January
I saw him at Leeds, at a public house, and read to him
something about Palmer's case. There was an allusion to
strychnia. Dove said, could I make or get him any? I
said, " No.'' He said, if I could not, he would get some
elsewhere. I saw him again at the same house on the 6th
of March, and he told me there was an inquest being held
over his wife. He said, " could they detect a grain or a
grain and a half of strychnia ?" I said, " Why, have you
given her some ?" He said, " No, but he had got some
from Mr. Mosley's man to kill cats with, and some might
have been spilt, and his wife might have got some." I saw
him after this at my house. He said, " Mr. Morley has
told me they have found poison in my wife ; will they tale)
me if Igo back ?" I said, "If you are innocent, go back.
Why be afraid, if you are innocent. They will not take
you if you are innocent."
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—l never saw him but
twice when he was not affected with liquor. When he
was affected with liquor he was always talking of being
haunted by devils and spirits, and thunder and lightning.
He told me he had sold his soul to the d.-1, but he be-
lieved I had greater power over devils than him, and could
send devils to his wife, to frighten her out of bed, to come
back. That was when they were not sleeping together.
He said sometimes that there were devils and spirits in his
house—was there no means of getting rid of them ? He
imputed the thunder and lightning to the d-1. I at-
eribeted these speeches to delirium tremens. He never
came to me to put a spell on Mr. King, to get his farm
back. He many times applied to me to torment his wife,
to mike her go back to his bed.
Re-examined by Mr. Overend—The only times when I -
saw the prisoner not drunk were on the 6th and 7th of
March.
By the Judge—l did not at all encourage the notion
that I could remove the devils the prisoner complained of,
nor that I could act upon his wife as he wished. He did
not expl du what he meant by selling his soul to the
By the Foreman of the jury— erisoner said nothing
about the devils end spirits on the 6th and 7th of Meech.
Ann Walker examined by Mr. Bayley—Witness corro-
borated the statement of Harrison as to the conversation
between him and the prisoner respecting strychnia.
William Storeg, of -Leeds, broker, examined by Mr.
Hardy—Was at the New Cross Inn on the eth of March,
when Harrison and the prisoner had the conversation al-
luded to. Witness heard Dove use the word "a grain, or
a grain and a half," but did not hear what they applied
to, farther thin that, an inquest was being held.
Elizabeth Brown, examined by Mr. Hardy— I am
housekeeper to Harrison. Dive come to his house on the
7th March. I heard Dove say that they had found poi-
son. and what must he do? Herrison said, "Go home,
and if you're innocent, they'll not take von."
Thomas Glover Frost, exerained. by Mr. Bayley —I keep
the Victoria Shades, near the railway station, Leeds.
prisoner was at my house on Thursday, the 6th of March.
He afeAecl me if I had heard he hail lost hi; wife? I said
I had nu'. He flaked me about disposing of his furniture
—whether he should keep his house on, or sell his furni-
ture. I advised him to sell off and go into lodgings. He
then introduced tbsesubject of etrychnia, and showed me
vsSeh a little antler how much would poison me, I asked
hini what strychnia was. The prisoner said he was
sumpectel of having poisoned his wife. He asked me
whether he would be required at the inquest, and I told
him I did not know. I said, "If you have poisoned your
wife, your own conscience go with you." He appeared
quite calm. and said he had given his mother-in-law and
his sister his wife's clothes.
Cross-eicarnioed by Mr. Bliss—The prisoner and his wife
had been at my house during the life of the latter, and
they appeared to be or good terms. He showed me his
wife's wedding ring. He told me he had some strychnia
of Dr Morley's young man.
Elizebeth Jenkins, examined by Mr.Overend—l am the
mother of the late Mrs. Dove. My daughter was married
in 1852. Sho was 23 years of age when she died. She
and the prisoner were married at Plymouth. They went
to live first at Brambane, and afterwards at Normanton.
(Letters were here put in referred to in the opening state-
ment for the prosecution.) I went to see my dauguter in
her last Meese, but when I got to Leeds she was id. I
saw the prisoner on the 4th of March, when he showed me
his wife's ring, said he had had it made a shade larger and
I could not think but that he should marry again. Isaid
I hoped he would never put that ring on any other woman's
fine, Ho showed me the bottles of medicine he had got
for his Wife. He kissed his wife's corpse and said, " Lord
Jesus, so teach us to number our days that we may apply
our hearts to wisdom." On the day of the adjourned in-
quest ho asked me. "Do yon know that oil of almonds
will kill a person?" and he added, " Belladonna they can-
not detect." He took a bit of salt in his hand and said
there is a poison that will kill by so much, and it can be
discovered in a man, but not in a woman. (The letter
sent by the prisoner from York Castle was here put in and
read.) Before Dove and his wife went to Leeds I heard
complaints, and I went over to Normanton in October.
Negotiations were entered into for a separation. It was
fully understood on both sides that they should separate,
and the prisoner was to allow his wife 201. a year.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—The prisoner seemed in-
different as to whether hied ife remained with him or not,
lee finally all was amicablsettled, and at times after the
prisOUet and his wife were agreeable together. On one
occasion tfle, prisoner threatened to shoot me and to shoot
himself. That was in January, 1855. I did not hear him
say that he had one ball for me, one for his wife, and one
for himself. He had been drinking at this time.
Re-examined by Overend—My daughter had made
some complaint to me. I said the prieoner was the
cause of the ertate of perieerbation she was in, and be then
fetched the pistols, and made use of the threat have al-
luded to.
Mrs. Risdon, examined by Mr.llart! v—l am sister of the
late Mrs. Dove. I was at Leeds with my, mother after
the death of my sister. Sty mother said ' I wiah I had
been here sooner, to son my poor die." Prisoner
asked me what my mother meant by that? I said he had
cased deceased to have hysterics by his conduct, and he
said she had not hysterics—it was something else.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss— My sister was once sub-
ject to hysterics in consequence of trouble at losing a bro-
ther. I have seen her in hysterical fits at the time of my
brother's death. liar appearance was that of spasms at
the stomach. She had twitchinmis ; that is, her arms
moved sharply and soddenly. It was not like a galvanic,
shock, or any: king of that sort. She might be in a ner-
vous state for a short time after the death of her brother.
0 tti well Kell, examined by Mr, Bayley—l am the coro-
ner's officer at Leeds, and on the 7th of Mareh I appro.
hendel the prisoner. I ieceived a piece of cerpet from
Mrs. Wood, some marks upon which I have compared
with marks upon the floor of Mrs. Dove's bedroom, and
found them to correspond. I searched the prisoner and
his house, but did not find any strychnia.
John Elletson, examined by Mr. Overend—l am a pupil
of Mr. Morley, surgeon, Leeds. I knew Mr. Dove, who
came to our surgery for medicine. About a month before
his wife's death he had some conversation with me about
Pahner's case. He wild Palmer poisoned his wife with
antimony. He said Cook had been poisoned by strych-
nine, which could not be detected. I said it could, and I
mentioned nitric as one of the tests for it. I showed him
Dr. Pereira's " Ms.teria Medico" on the subject. He took
it into his hands, and read the passage I referred him to.
After he had read it, he said his house was infested with
wild cats, which he wished to get rid of, and he thought
-laying some poison would be the best way to destroy them.
He asked me for some strychnine, anal gave him 10 grains.
I wrote " poison" on the packet, and told him to be care-
ful. He took down the antimony bottle, either then or on
another occasion, and said-that was what Palmer poisoned
his wife. The strychnine bottle contained a drachm or so ;
about 60 grains. After this he said he had laid the poison,
but some of it had got washed away with the rain. There
was another cat he wanted to kill, and he asked for some
stychnia, and I gave him about five grains, marking the
packet " poison" as before. This would be a week or a
fortnight prior to hisevrife's death, nearer a fortnight than
a week.

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Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—He said the wild cats be-
longed to some people who lived in the next house. The
people had gone, and the cats had turned wild; strychnia
was mentioned after ho lial talked about the wild cats. I
believe it was first mentioned by him. He said the cat
was buried in the midden. Peacock was present in the
surgery on one occasiou—l believe both. The conversa-
tion about Palmer's Case was beforethe prisoner mentioned
the
Ja cats.
mes Bailey Peacock, examined by Mr. Hardy —I am
surgery-boy to Mr. Morley, and remember Dove coining
to the surgery. Witness detailed the conversation between
last witness and Dove, respecting strychnia and antimony,
in similar terms to Elletson.
John Wm. Scarth, examined by Mr. Bailey—l am a
pupil of Mr. Morley's. I kuosv the prisoner. I was fetched
by him on the :esthof February last. Mrs. Dove was in
bed. She complained of great
pain at the chest, and there
was clenching of the hands, and the teeth closed together.
The jaw was closed. The head was slightly thrown back
and the shoulder likewise. The feet seemed to be stretched
straight out. On the way to the house the prisoner said,
" If Inv wife were to die would the coroner require an in-
-OL.Oi t ?" I told him I thought not, except in case of acci-
dent, poisoning, or sudden cle.ttli. He then said, " Would
4 Mr. Morley require an examination f' I said Mr. Morley
had in many caeca, and he dud he eheuld net giye ilie 0011-

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sent nor would any of his family, jHe said he was sure
Mrs. Dove would not consent. I saw Mrs. Dove on the
Thursday night, when I noticed. the same symptoms, but
in a more aggravated form. Her p!incipal complaint was
about pain in her shoulders. The head and shoulders were
thrown baok. The attack passed off while I was there. A
draught of medicine was given to her which had been pre-
scribed by Mr. Morley that morning. I never noticed such
symptoms as those of Mrs. Dove's case before, bat I have
not attended a case in which strychnia had been taken
that I know of. On Saturday night I told Mr. Morley that
Elletson told me he had sold some strychnia a short time.
before to Dove. On the Thursday of ter Mrs. Dove's death
I got a boy to dig a cat out of the midden behind Dove's
house. It was examined in my presence. I have seen the
prisoner at Mr. Morley's more than once a day.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—l did not notice any arch•
ing of the body of Mrs. Dove. I thought at the time she
was suffering from some derangement of the nervous aye.
tern. I asked if there had been any foaming at the mouth,
and I was answered there had not. The spasms I saw on
the Thurslay were not of short duration n.,s spasms. They
were not so intense on the previous Monday. The; cat we
ound was a large cat:
Re-examined by Mr. Overend—lt not occur to me about
nlotson having supplied Dove with strychnia until after I
he; grd of Mrs. Dove's death, on the Saturday night. I sup.
loos ed the cause of the symptoms to lie in the nerves, or to
IV, attributable to some agent acting on the nerves. Some
o f the symptoms were such as I should expect to see in
h) 'Aerie ; but taken as a whole, they were not symptoms of
by. ‘t eeitte
71n. Renton, examined by Mr. Overend—l am coach-
man t ) Mr. Morley. I have otten seen prisoner at the sur-
gery ei nce last Christmas. During the week prior to his
wife' g n ,ath I saw him. On the Wednesday ho said to
me, " I have offended Mr. Morley to-day by saying that
my wife %%would not get better." I said, you should not
have said co, because it's apt to make people who are ill
worse to talk iu thet way. He said he thought his wife
wouli net g better bee ruse she had fits. The prisoner
wee iit the surgery for some time alone that night.
Melers. Morley, .hTnnneley, Teale. Ward, R. Hey, Dr.
Hobson, and Dr. Christison were called to prove the medi-
cal p srt of the case for the prosecution. All these gentle-
men declared their belief that the deceased died by stryche
nine, sand not of hysteria, as was suggested for the defence.
TL's a closed the case for the prosecution, and the Court
adjeut. ned.

THE' DREADED PEACE 42 LAST I

(pm" the Sydney Empire of April 19.)
And so we are in have a peace! There is little doubt
of it ' • but what a peace I Even now, when the Allies
have Russia in their power, literally in their grasp, when
she must be reduced to nearly her last rouble--and they
know it—they study her dignity before their own honour,
look to her support before the preservation of Turkey,
and in deference to her pay not the slighbest regard to
the permanent tranquillity of troubled Eurtope. In the
spring of 1854 Baron Brunow, the Czar's at nbassador at
the Court of St. James's, took his nnobtrua ive leave of
England, where the name of his imperial master had
become a byeword of scorn and execration to the
people. But ere two years have elapsed, after
whole hecatombs of illustrious warriors have
been sacrificed to his dreaded ambition, the same repre-
sentative of his policy makes a triumphal entry into
Paris, and before " the points" are even discussed the
Russian ambassador's hotel there is defiantly illumis
nutted. The plenipotentiary of the arch-enemy of Europe
had outstripped all the envoys from the other Powers,
that be might first gain the oar of Louis Napoleon, and
digest with him a secret which the world will hereafter
wonder at. For this is not to be a peace given to the
conquered, but one suddenly coalesced in by him. ' Its
propositions are thus far only vague and incomprehens-
ible. Yet, this we feel, that the legitimate protection
of Turkey will, in the spirit of that term, be subse-
quently abandoned ; and that, therefore, England has
spent her life and her treasure in vain.
Some one of the European Powers will be the gainer
by this mockery of amity—not, however, the Sultan.
Not only is not a word said on the subject of disburse-
ment 3 by Russia to the Allies, but the expenses of the
war incurred by Turkey at the provocation of her here-
ditary foe are not even hinted at. The Emperor of the
French has paid the Ottoman Sovereign the doubtful
compliment of conferring upon his Highness the Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour. But will that, or- any
such flattery, shut the eyes of his Divan, to the nu-
merous loopholes contained in the five points which
would enable the Czarto easily pounce upon his prey at
any future opportunity ? The Crimea is to be metered
to Russia ; the 'Esstern coast of the Mack Sea is to be
dotted with her armed fetes as of cod ; and .Nicolaieff;
with a rising navy growing rapidly on the stocks,
ii not to be regarded as a port of the Ermine.
At any time, then, she may suddenly pour fortir the
strength of her arsenals and dockyards, which, unnoticed
by the mariner on the neighbouring sea ; lie hidden out
the banks of its tributary rivers ; and she will do it. Se
that, if these points be acceded to, Nicholaieff and
Kherson not being included amongst the ports, the
dynasty of Abd-sl-Medjid in six years will cease to be
reoognised in the coveted city of Stamooul. '
"All is not geld that glitters." And Austria, the
solitary power to be so particularly benefitted by this
patched-up pence, may yet, and at no very 'distant
easy, have to rue the contemptible part the has all
along played in her diplomatic' traneactions. With-
out a delibl-, she has a right to plume herself
'on the euccees of her adroitness in thus, with-
out having lost a einole life in the great cause
at stake, bringing about a peace for her. own
personaloscivantage, and the salvation.from 'utter flows-- - -
oral ruin of our ever-hopeful enemy. Bet in the doing
of this deed she has exposed her own fears, and there- '
fore weakness, to so great a degree as in turn to have
cast herself on the patronage, if not „the protection, of
France. Will not Russia make her repent it? Even
now, it is said, she is in dread of that union being ulti-
mately effected which the great Napoleon so strongly
recommended viz., a Russo-French alliance. Bat
there are cards yet to be played, and something
more to be won ; whence, " it is whispered that Aus-
tria has agreed to give her support to the Emperor
Napoleon sholild he demand the annulment of
that convention of 1815 which excluded the fa-
mily of Napoleon the Fixot from the throne of
France. "She has the satisfaction of knowing that her
wishes have been acceded to, in that neither Prussia nor
any of the German States "shall be allowed to partici-
pate in the deliberations" about to take place. She has
also had her revenge against her old adversary Colonel
Tubb, whom England permitted her to first judge and
condemn to death, and then, out of respect for the ap-
plication made
.by our Government iu his favour, to
mercifully pardon. Eut, it we mistake not, Austria will
not much longer carry the bell.
The protocol expressive of the "willingness of the
belligerent powers to treat for peace," has been already
signed by their representatives at Vienna ; the formal
preliminaries to it will be so at the meeting
of the Congrt ee, which would take place about the 21st
February. No true Englishman, after perusing the pro-
positions said to have beta esicepted, can feel exalted or
cheerfully satisfied with such an impotent conclusion to
all the fervour and glorious enthusiasm which was still
animating the whole nation to see justice done to op-
pressed Turkey. This. is the result—before the object
has been attained—of all our mighty preparations to pa-
ralyse, for half-a-century at least, the means in the
hands of the Czar to profit by his neighbour's weak-
nese. The cause of Poland is shelved. We shall hear

little more of Italy. If Hungary move, it will henceforth
be by the assistance of the Czar. And what of Sweden/
Will her alliance with the Western Powers be forgotten
by the Russian Cabinet ? Is she to be betrayed, and
in the next European embroilment lose Norway for that
anticipated interference ? There is something unholy
about this contemplated peace which makes it rather
prophetic of pernicious than of fortunate results to the
nations concerned, It holds forth no prospect of genial
durability. It seems but as an apology for shifting the
scenes of bloodshed, and changing the role which each
of the great actors has hitherto unsuccessfully per•
formed.