The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-23 00:00:00

SECOND DAY-FRIDAY.

The trial was resumed at ten o'clock on Friday.
Mr. Adolphus said, that, before proceeding with the trial,
he had to inform the court, that some additional evidence
had been procured yesterday, and he wished to know whether
he should state to the court what it was? Chief Justice
Tindal asked if the counsel for the defence wished to hear it ?

Mr. Phillips wished to hear nothing on the subject. He had
only heard of this evidence about a quarter of an hour ago.
The officers of police who had examined the premises of
the late Lord William Russell, gave their testimony touch-
ing the course of the scrutiny, and the discoveries which they
had made. Each of them underwent a searching cross-ex-
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amination, but nothing new was brought to light.- Ellis, his
lordship's former valet, was called, and he identified the
plate, the locket, and other property, and also several articles
of plate produced by Mr. Cummins, a solicitor.
By the evidence of Mr. Harrison, a clerk in the bank of
Messrs. Hoare and Co. of Mr. Thos. Wing, solicitor, and of
the Baroness de Clifford, the £lO note found in the prisoner's
pantry was traced to his deceased lordship's possession. Lady
Sarah Bailey repeated her former testimony respecting the
locket. Charles Ellis, the keeper of the hotel at Richmond,
where his lordship supposed he had left the lost locket, pro-
duced the letter which was written to him by Lord Russell on
the subject, and described the search that was made in conse-
quence. The watchmaker, who repaired his lordship's watch,
identified the watch found concealed in the sink as the same
that he had in hand. The next witness called was

Charlotte Piolaine : My husband's name is Louis, I live
in Leicester-place, Leicester-square. I know the prisoner at
the bar. I have known him about four years. He came to
take a place as waiter at our hotel about four years ago. We
used to call him " John." French is the language generally
spoken at the hotel. He stayed a month or five weeks. 1
never saw him afterwards until about six weeks ago. He
asked me how I was, and after remaining a short time, he
went away. He knocked at the door, and 1 said " come in,"
and he walked in. I did not recognise him at the moment,
and he said, " Don't you recollect me ? " I said'` No," and
he said, " I am John, that used to live with yon in the
square." He said he was in a situation. In about a fortnight
afterwards he again called on a Sunday. He asked me how!

was. He had aparcel in his hand. It was a paper parcel.
He asked me to take care of it till the Tuesday following, and
he would call for it. I said I would do so, and he left it and
went away. I locked up the parcel in the closet. I did not
know what the parcel contained at the time. It was tied up
and sealed. I never saw him since. I heard of the murder
of Lord Wm. Russell. The parcel was left before I heard of
the murder. I took the parcel out in consequence of some-
thing I saw in a French newspaper. My cousin read it to me,
and showed it to me. I had some communication with my
cousin, and I sent for Mr. Cumming and another person be-
fore whom the parcel was opened. It had never been opened
before from the time it came into my possession. The parcel
produced is the one left with me. It contained silver spoons
and forks, and two pair of new stockings, an instrument for
for assisting hearing, and a jacket. There was tow in the
parcel, which prevented the plate being felt. We immediately
put•up the parcel again, after making an inventory of the
articles, I signed the inventory before putting up the parcel.
Re-examined : There is no pretence on earth for calling
our hotel a gaming-house. The police never took any one
out of the house. I used to talk to my husband about things
that passed and forgot them. I had no idea that the person
I knew as " Jean" was Francis Benjamin Courvoisier. There
is not such a thing as a backgammon table in the house.
By the Court : The parcel was left about a week or a fort-
night before the murder.

.Cross-examined : Our house is an hotel. A billiard-table
is kept at our house. The police have not been there lately.
There was no gang of suspected persons taken out of the
house lately, I have never heard of such a thing. The house •
is frequented by foreigners. The prisoner was called " John"
for convenience. I never knew him by any other name. We
take the. English papers in. I very seldom read them. I
have not often heard of the murder of Lord William Russell.
My husband is in France : he is master of the hotel. He
has been in France a fortnight. Ido not recollect him speak-
ing to me of the murder. Igo to church on Sunday, but I
never saw placards of the papers as large as he who runs may
read, containing the words, Murder of Lord William Rus-
sell." 1 heard of the murder the day after it occurred. I
cannot recollect whether I spoke to my husband about it.
I have not time to recollect those things. I was shbcked,
but I do not recollect talking about it to his partner, to my
knowledge. I did not say anything about it to anybody, that
I remember. I cannot say whether I spoke to my husband
during three weeks about the murder.
Louis Garde, an acquaintance of M. Piolaine, deposed,
that he was at the house of the latter, on a Sunday, when a
man left a parcel there. He could not say it was the pri-
soner, or that the parcel produced was the same, as, being
only a visitor, he did not give much attention to the circum-
stance. lie was taken to the hotel the preceding day, liy the
partner of M. Piolaine, in consequence of something which
the latter had read in a French newspaper.
It appears, that the paragraph in the French journal was
copied from an English paper, with an addition, to the effect,
that the murder being supposed to have been committed by
a foreigner, it was probable the plate might be lodged in the
house of some foreigner.
Mr. Louis Garde further stated, that the parcel was pro-
duced in the presence of Mr. Cumming, Mr. Vincent,
Madame Piolaiue, and himself, and an inventory of its con-
tents made out and signed by them all. He believed it was
shortly before the murder of Lord William Russell that he
saw the parcel delivered.
Richard Cumming, the gentleman who had produced the
articles shown to Ellis, the valet, deposed as follows :—I am
a solicitor, and carry on business in Old Jewry. I saw Mr.
Garde and Mr. Vincent at my office yesterday. Piolaine is
not a client of mine. We went to the hotel together, and
a parcel was produced to me, tied up in brown paper. I
opened it. My advice was asked ou the subject of opening
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the prosecution. I then came in and made a communication
to Mr. Wing and Mr. Hobler. The parcel was wrapped in
brown paper. The spoons, forks, and plate shown to Ellis
were those found in the pare
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on the parcel. It is nearly erased. Besides the spoons and
forks, there was an ear apparatus in the parcel. It contained,
in all, four table spoons, four dessert spoons,etownot silver tea
spoons, four silver forks, one leather
instrument for the ears, two pairs of white stocagnisgoanne
pair of white socks with marks on each, [they are ua'rked
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Mr. Mortimer, a print-seller, identified the paper in which
the articles alluded to were wrapped as having been sent from
his shop. It was his practice to put a ticket of his address
on parcels, and he had, on the 27th April, sent his lordship,
who was a customer, a parcel containing a print of " The
Vision of Ezekiel." Mr. Vincent, the person alluded to by
Mr. Cumming, corroborated the statements of the witnesses
relative to the opening of the parcel. Eleanor Brooks, who
had washed for the prisoner, examined the socks produced.
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