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London, England, 1831-02-19 00:00:00

OLD IMILST.—Tats DAY.

Beroat MR. JUSTICE DAYLNY AND HAIM HOLLAND.
TRIAL OF MR. ST. JOHN LONO.
At ten o'clock this morning John St. John Less was placed at the
,st to take his trial, on an indictment charging him with feloniously
'silent; and slaying Caroline Campbell Lloyd, by rubbing, washing, or
ieneine the breast of .he said Carolina Cetupbell Lloyd with a certain
„cid peletration, prepared by himself, and thereby causing an indam.
0. don, and also a sickness, Atom which she lanquisheol and died.
The ATNIIINEY-GENEHAL stated the case. It would be idle to sup.
pose that they were ignorant of the circumstances of the case; but he
:ailed upon their. to dismiss from their minds all they might
hare heani or read on the suhject, and to confine themselves
:0 the evidence they would that slay hear. The deceased la.
siuntil u„dcr ' nervous complaint, known by medical nisi as
glohs hystericus, and which caused an unpleasant suernmks
:n the throat. In every other respect her health was wait.
,1,1..,0nd • hue being anxious to get rid of the trifling inconvenisein
;used thereby, she was induced to apply to the defendant, who cause*
at to be rubbed on the breast with e preparation, the nature of
ride!' was not known. The first rubbing took place on the 6th of
October, and the effects were almost immediately such as to excite the
:neatest alarm in the mind of her friends, and the defendant was spoken
on the subject ; hut instead of expressing any alarm or doubt on the
subject, lie said that every thing sou going on just as he would
seb. On the 12th of the same month she died, and it would
le for them to say, whether the application used by the
elsoner was the cause of death. The defendant, it was ad.
seced, was not brought up to the study of medicine ; but he did not
ii,;l this circumstance to prejudice him. The question for them would
1,?. Whether he was sufficiently acquainted with the particular disease
:-tler which the deceased laboured, to justify recourse to the powerful
nt.:,licine he used.
f.vidence was then led, which supported the charge of the Learned
Among the witnesses, were--
Capt. h. Lloyd, It N. examined—l am a Post Captain ;in the
:ronth of September 1. came from Cheltenham, where I reside, to Lon-
; I was accompanied by my wife and family ; Mrs. Lloyd and my.
:clf became acquainted with the prisoner In consequence of seeing him
,veral times at the house of a friend in the fiampstea? road, where he
as professionally employed ; Mrs. Lloyd was in consequence Induced to
apply to him; she represented to him that she had a choking sensation
in the throat. It was on the Gth of October that she first became his
rodent. She had previously been in the habit, when she caught a cold,
of applying a small blister to her throat. She bad applied one ou Sun.
day the 3rd of °nether, but the part to which it was applied had
income nearly well by the GM of October. Aftes having recourse to
the defendant, she visited him each day successively from the 6th to
the 10th or Oct. On the latter day she complained to me of a violent
burning en her chest and breast. 1 in consequence was induced to ex-
3eine then:, mid found them much starker than the other parts.
The followirg day she war very unwell, and compelled to keep her
bed during the greater part of it. She complained of great sickness
her stomach, and of being very dry. I saw her chess and breast
eat :lay, and
,found it presented a great degree of lividness, with a
es& spot hi the centre, front which there was ti ttischarge. A
ebeage leaf had been applied two days previously to the parts by
lirection, as t understood, of the prisoner. The deceased com-
plained of no odd sensation all ode. her. On the morning of the
twelfth I again saw her breast. It was more puffed up and
,!arket ; and round the edges of the livid parts there were small
blisters. The discharge had extended Itself to all parts of the bosom,
ra she tempi:tined of considerable irritation. Wherever the ells.
c:,arge went, the flesh mortified, and the skin came off. She
1..1. on the twelfth extremely unwell, and had no appetite,
nil in cense:pence went to the prisoner at his residence.
adonmanied her. The prisoner expressed his surprise that she had
rot come more regularly, to go 1111 with die rubbing. t :old him it was
impossible, she e.as so very ill; and that she had been constantly unwell
since Sunday night ; lie said be dare say the. would very soon go off, as
cat generally the case ; I told hint of e shivering fit she had on Sunday
night, for which we hail given her some hot wine and water, as she was
;ling to bed ; he said, in reply, that hot brandy and Ovate' would have
been a better thing, and to have put her head under the bed clothes.
I described to him the appearance of her breast, and told hint how
bad it was; to which he replied, that it was generally the case in
the first instance, but that it would go off as she got better. There
was, he said, no fear or danger to be apprehended. On going away,
I requested him to call and see her, which he did on the evening
of that day. I was present at the time. In the course of the
day, Mrs. Lloyd had taken off the cabbage leaf, and had
applied a common healing salve so the parts. The prisoner on seeing
her, said he was sotry to see her so unwell, and told her she ought to
hate endeavoured to have got up and come to him, and he would have
given her sotrething to relieve her. She said it was impossible, she
Le so very ill; and that with her breast open in the way it was, it would
he dangerous. The prisoner then asked to look at it, and on seeing
I: observed those greasy plasters have no business there, and that she
ought to have centinued the cabbage leaf. She told him she could not
bitr the pain. tie then took off his great coat, and said he would rub
::oce which 'would give her relief. She exclaimed out with fright at
ee idea of such a thing in the state her breast then was. Ile asked her
ela• she wanted and she said relief, end that she wanted to have the
round healed up. He said 't would never heal with those salves
:Ton it : he called for a towel, and began applying !t to the centre of
wound, whence the discharge came, and recommended the applica-
bof old linen ; but he said she might apply a blister if she pleased,
and when the wounu had skinned over he would rub it again. She said
me thought she never could submit to being rubbed again, from what
she was suffering. Ile then went away. He called on the following day.
bhe was in very low ttpirits awn pain and fever, and afraid of any thing
touching het breast; she declined seeing him, and begged of me not to
let him come to her, and in Piece be never saw her then or afterwards.
Dom:. Camden had been called in to attend her the previous day. end
cord:wed to visit her till she died, which took place on the 6th Nov.
beirq exactly a month and day after her first application to the de-
Cross-examined by Mr. AeexT—The prisoner visited at the house of
the deceased's mothet ; Dr. Camden bad seen her on the evening of the
12th, previously to the prisoner calling. The Timmer, on seeing her
night., complained to the salve which bad been applied, as improper,
and calculated to counteract the effects of his system. He said it would
eat heal the place. When the prisoner said he would rub it out, I did
nn understand hint to mean the plaster, but the effects of his own pre-
paration ; Dr. l'unce was called in to the deceased about the 24th
December : Or. Camden had alone attended her up to that time ; he
is quite a young man; an extraordinary person who might beat physician
for what know, called, and was allowed to KC the deceased; he said
he canie front the primmer ; the deceased had for many years been at.
Meted with the complaint. it her throat, and had been attended by dif.
fated eminent physicians ; I had a son under the prisoner's care fur
45out a fortnight previously to the deceased consulting him for herself ;
'he had been in the orbit of accompanying her son on his visits to him,
Ad it was iron: that eircutestruice that she was induced to consult hien
herself.
By the Judge.-1 did tot see the deceased pay the prisoner any less,
tut I Gnd from entries in a book kept by her, that she paid bin: a
Pound on each visit.
Mrs. Elisabeth Campbell examined.-1 was present when the pri-
soner tisited the deceased on the 12t1: of October, and saw him apply
a towel to her breast to absorb the discharge. It was then ID
a dreadful state, and more inflamed than when 1 saw it
the slay before. The wound in the centre whence the db.
charge came was as large as a breakfast cup. On the
moaning of that day the cabbage-leaf had been removed, end spermaceti
oirtmeht spread on linen, applied. 'l'hc deceased complained of gnat
pain in her cheat, and the prisoner offered to rub it nut, but she
fused to let hut. lie the:* asked her what she wished to have doss.
and she said she wished to have the place healed up, and he told her she
reieht Reply a blister for that porpose. He then went away; he called
the next day, but was net permitted to see her.
Croseexamintd.—l did not aecerepany the deceased to the Coronet's
inquest on bliss Cashin, but I know she attended it. It was after that,
aid with her husbetid's consent and knowledge, that she applied to the
prisoner. On the 10th of October she hash a shivering fit; she had been
out that day ; she told me she had been to the prisoner's house, which
ein liarley.street. I have heard her complain repeatedly of her throat
before the prisoner attended her ; she used to go to Dr. Farce on the
subject. The prisoner immediately on seeing the breast of the deceased,
on the evening of the 12th of October, expressed his disapprobation of
the greasy planter being applied.-( sene trial was proceeding when our
Raper went to press.)

Ir. Conn MT.:: A btotit half-past two o'clock yesterday
11A) London Grand Jury came into the Sessions Hall with a
‘onsiderable number of Bills, which they had in the course
of the morning, found ; amongt which was one against Mr.
1111bant Cobbett, arising, as we understood, out of the pub-
.qratiun of his late addresses to the agricultural population,
[lo.::slied in his " Weekly Register." A Bench Warrant,
,itmed by Mr. Baron Bailey and Mr. Justice Bosanquet,
immediately issued for his apprehension.—Chronick.-
1,(. understand that it is Mr. Cobbett's intention, to move
ith action by a writ of certiorari, into the Court of King's
tench.