The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-15 00:00:00

when a person named Stuart, who came with the
leeches, arrived, Wilhelm udopted the unusual
course of ordering her also out of the room, and
stated that he would apply the leeches himself.
The leeches, however, had not the desired effect,
and Wilhelm subsequently left the patient. The
deceased still .got worse, and when it was proposed
to send for another medical man, this was objected
to. Wilhelm and Stadtmuller called again and saw
the deceased that evening, administered some white
powders, and other things, and then went away.
Later on, the deceased became so much worse that
another medical man (Dr. Wilson) was sent for by
Mr. Bilcliffe, and when he came he saw that she
was sinking rapidly, and could not possibly re-
cover. He prescribed a pill and ordered an injec-
tion. (The learned counsel then explained that
from the effect of this injection it was evident that
an attempt to procure an abortion, by instruments,
had been made, but that in reality the foetus had
not been removed ; that great laceration and injury
had taken place, through the use of au instrument
called a" perforator," and that death had taken place
partly through a shock to the nervous system, and
partly through absorption of pus throughout the
system.) She died about 10 o'clock on Tuesday- night.
On the following morning Dr. Wilson was sent for,
and he immediately felt convinced that deceased
had died by some foul means. In consequence,
Bilcliffe went to Wilhelm's shop, and asked for a
certificate. Wilhelm wrote out a certificate which

it would be seen ascribed the death to a totally dif-
ferent cause from the real one. Dr. Wilson himself
afterwards saw Wilhelm and told him that the
death was not caused as he had set forth, upon
which Wilhelm made use of the extravagant ex-
pression that " she must have made use of a shoe
or a stick for the purpose of procuring abortion."
It would be found, however, from medical testimony
that it -would have been utterly imposssible for the
deceased thus to have produced upon herself the
injuries which presented themselves. Upon search-
ing Wilhelm's house a pair of forceps and the for-
midable instrument called a " perforator " were
found. This latter instrument undoubtedly had
been used. But though they had surrounded the
prisoner with all this evidence they were not able
to say whose hand it was and under what circum-
stances these instruments were used, and it was for
the purpose of proving that that they wished to
call Stadtmuller, who went into Wilhelm's service
as an assistant a few days before the prisoner at-
tended the deceased, and who would detail what
took place on Sunday afternoon, the 26th, and how
the instruments for procuring abortion were used.
The learned counsel then proceeded to call wit•
nesses. _
Dr. Wilson stated that the cause of death was
internal laceration, and not disease. The canals or
avenues provided for the natural secretions to escape
had been so violently operated upon as to make a
communication between the two. Some sharp in-
strument must have been used, such as the perfora-
tor. He could not say whether ergot of rye had
been administered in this case. There was no pelvic
malformation in deceased to require instruments.
This evidence was corroborated by another surgeon
who had attended the post mortem examination.
Carl Stadtmuller was then examined (the Rev.
Mr. Steinthal acting as interpreter.) He described
the visits of the deceased to Wilhelm's house, the
modes adopted by the prisoner to ensure secrecy
as to his operations, and finally the application of
the instruments to procure abortion.

The Judge summed up, and after a brief delibe-
ration the jury returned a verdict of Guilty, the
foreman expressing his regret that the law. would
not allow a verdict of manslaughter to be returned.
The learned Judge said the verdict was inevitable,
under the circumstances. A clearer case of guilt
he had never seen. He would, however, forward
a statement of the feeling of the jury to the proper
quarter. Sentence of death was then passed in the
usual form.