The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

HEARNE v. STOWELI

The following letter has been addressed to the editor of

the Times:—

" Stn,—As much misapprehension prevails in reference
to the case in which I was involved at the recent Liverpool
Assizes, will you oblige me and serve the cause of truth,
by allowing me, through the medium of your journal, to
assure the public that the document which I read at a
public meeting in Manchester, and which constituted the
ground of trial, was neither fiction nor forgery, and that
I was as little deceived as deceiving in giving it publicity ?
There are at least four credible witnesses who are prepared
to authenticate the narrative in every particular. These
were in court during the time of the trial, besides a num-
ber of witnesses ready to prove that the imposition of
degrading penances upon her members is alike the princi-
,,h. nnrl the nraetine of 'the church of Rome. Why, then,

:his evideilce ad-

Lke: my dis-

reamy ~rations, declined al-
together calling .witnesses, and rested :his defence mainly
on a point of law. That point the judge so determined as
to leave the jury no alternative but to return the verdict
which they did. Deeply do I deplore the course which was
pursued, and which was contrary to my judgment and wishes.
However, we have abundant room as well as reason to move
for a fresh trial. This will be done with as little delay as
possible, and then, if the Lord spare us, the fullest evidence
shall be laid before the public. Till then I would intreat
them to suspend their judgment on the case.
" Let me just add, that had I omitted the priest's name in
the narrative which I read, there could not have been even
the shadow of a pretext for charging rue with defamation, but
I thought it more manly and straightforward to give the
document as it stood, pledging myself to afford the Romanists
opportunity to test its genuineness, should they require it.
Of this promise they might have peacefully availed them-
selves, but they chose rather to make no application to me on
the subject, save through an attorney's letter_

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" HUGH STOWELL."

THE LATE MRS. HENRY CUTTS, OF CARBURTON

It is with feelings of the most painful nature that we again
recur to the appalling death of this female. Every circum-
stance connected with the brief but eventful life of this de-
pr•aved woman, far exceeds those detailed in fiction. Young,
handsome, accomplished, and of the most captivating man-
ners, apparently artless and ingenuous, her heart appears to
have been " deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked." The cool and systematic manner in which she for
months kept administering poison to an affectionate husband ;
the pleasure with which she witnessed his daily and nightly
sufferings, the gradual wasting of his frame, and the total
deprivation of the use of, his limbs, appear too monstrous for
belief. But yet these are, unhappily, facts beyond the possi-
bility of a doubt. Nor• does it appear that her murderous ef-
forts were confined to her unsuspecting husband, for it has
been also ascertained that poison had been administered by
her to the household servants and farm labourers in his ser •
vice. We feel it necessary to make this preliminary state-
ment les

ly of our readers might be iniorant of the facts
Ited. on oath upon
,the inquest held in October last upon
___e mother of her husband, when the corpse of the old lady
was disinterred, in order that the charge of having poisoned
her mother-in-law by means of small doses of arsenic might
be investigated before the coroner

._rs. H. Cutts had been placed at that time under the
veillance of the police at her husband's residence, and in-
formation was brought to the inquest-room that she had
effected her escape from their custody. Nothing was heard
of her until July last, when Mr. Cutts had intelligence of her
at intervals. Shortly since,, her husband was informed that
she was entitled to some copyhold property at Bolsover, under
the will of her father lately deceased, and Mr. Cutts finding
it necessary that they should be admitted to it. and also.b.ing
anxious to make a competent provision for her, he authorised

am, to go to CE

Ld find out the wretched wont
.s referred by her to Mr. Drabb

an, whom he saw there,
le, her attorney, in that

Mr. Cutts- offered to settle on her the whOle of the
of the property, and
_.:tso a-year, if the trustees

towu
proe(
would insure him from be

This they refused to do, and the la