The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-06
HM0ND, VA:
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1854.
END OF THE GARDINER CASE


END OF THE GARDINER CASE.
Conriction Of DR.. Gardiaer-Seatence and Death.
The jury in this on Friday morning last rem.
dered verdict of guilty. Dr. Gardiner, It will be
remembered was indicted for false swearing in con-
nection with claim for indemnity before the board
of commissioners, under the treaty of Guadaloup
Hidalgo. After the verdict was announced the
court pronounced the sentence-namely, imprison-
ment and labor in the penitentiary for ten years
Gardiner counsel having filed bin of exceptions
during the trial, the prisoner was remarded to the
county JAIL in custody of the Marshal, until the de-
cision OF the U. s. Circuit court could be had. AZ
ter reaching the prison, DR.. Gardiner wrote let
ter which he gave to his brother and in ten minutes
thereafter he was taken with violent commissions.
which, after intense suffering for several hours re
suited in his death
Inc Baltimore Suns correspondent says that
Gardiner, during his suiferings, called one of his
counsel to his sde and protested that he died inno
cent.
Inc impression was very general that Gardiner
poisoned himself. Ajury of inquest was held. but
there was no evidence to confirm this belief The
inquest adjourned until Saturday morning for the
purpose OF holding post mortem examination
The Washington Globe asserts that he had taken
strychnine, and the effects described correspond
with the action OF this poison Thus has closed one
OF the most remarkable exhibitions of fraud and
daring that has for long time characterised the
annals of crime
POST MoRTEM EXAMINATION
oihce the foregoing was prepared we have re-
celVed the baltimore Times, containing the follow
ing dispatch dated Washington, March4:
Dr. Miller, who made the post mortem examina
ton, tesfhed as to the healthy appearance of the
brain and heart, and other organs He noticed con
gestion OF the membrane of the brain, and an nfu
sion OF blood into the spinal column From what
he had heard OF the symptoms, and iudeng from
the post mortem appearance, he had no hesitation
in giving it as his opinion that the symptoms and an
pearances indicated that the death was occasioped
by strycnmne Extreme mental excitement might
produce death, but appearances would be different
The brain would be more congested
The peculiarity of strychnne was that il was
taken INTO the circulation, and acted upon the mem.
hrane OF the brain and of the spinal column All
the indications made him believe that strychniae
had caused the death of DR.. Gardiner. Several
medical gentlemen present at the post mortern ex
animation corroborated the testimony of Dr. Mil.
Ter as to the action of strychnine and the appear
ancc of the BODY
paper containing white powder was taken
from Dr. Gardeners pocket after death. which will
De analyzed with the contents ofthe stomach which
Is now In the hands of the chemists The iurv ad
journed to Friday morning next
Inc body was delivered to his friends this morn
ing IL had changed much from the action of the
opium, and was scarcely recognizable.
Efforts were made to have DR. Gardiner,s bro.
ther before the Coroner, to compel him to produce
the letter written just previous to the formers
uealn OUT ne could not be found last night or this
morning. He is said to be very i'll somewhere but
beyond the reach of the Coroner's warrant.
STRANGE RUMoR
We learn that rumor was current in Wasbino
ton Saturday evening, that lady in Georgetown to
whom DR.. Gardiner was engaged to be married
had also committed suicide; but as our informant
could trace tito no reliable source we decline Civ
ing any further particulars at present
IHE REsTELL ABORTION CAsE-Thursday last
WAS the day appointed for the continued investiga
ton pending against Nine Restell and George r.
Shackiord, in N Y At the appointed hour Madame
Restell and her husband appeared but neither Miss
Grant 0he complainant nor Mr.. S. could be found
This produced considerable excitement, and the
judge was evidently puzzled but it was soon
whispered about that Miss Grant had been
spirited away, and had left the city at the in.
stigation of the defendants Mr.. Busteed coun.
sci tor Miss Grant, and Mr.. Young, one of the
counsel for Mr.. Shackford, were also absent. The
Judge finally expressed himself in very strong
terms relative to the matter, and adjourned the in.
vestigation over until Wednesday next The Her.
aid concludes an account of Miss Grants disap-
pearance as follows:
ia rumored that she has been induced to leave
the city by the receipt of some ten thousand dol
iars we doubt very much if that amount has
been paid, and believe that the girl has been hum.
plugged by pathetic appeals to her feelings Money
mas powerful influence and too frequently inter-
rupfs public justice. We shall see what we shall
see, in day or two.
1HE STEAM FIRE ENGINE.-The steam fire engine
was successfully tried in Cincinnati last week, in
presence of committee from Louisville. The
Gazette says:
The engine was run to the corner of Sixth and
Vlnesstreets six squares in five minutes and half.
The steam was up in four and half minutes after
the loren was applied. In sixteen and half mi
nutes from the time they commenced hitchinr the
horses to the machine, the water was through two
lines OF hose eight hundred feet in length, and
throwing two streams about sixty feet through
inch and quarter nozzes In twenty-five mi.
nates she was throwing two streams on top of the
Mechanics Institute building, one hundred and ten
feet perpendicularly. Trials were then had of
one, two, three four and five lines of hose all OF
which proved very successfully the merits Of the
engine. line of hose was also run into house
near by, and in few seconds the building was
hlied with steam After testing the machine in
every possible way, the Louisville delegation ex-
pressed themselves highly pleased, and all con-
Cured In saying that the steam fire engine was
the greatest invention for extinguishng fires that
they ever witnessed
The MATRIMONIAL FLAREUP.-Our readers will
remember that we published few days since,
from New York paper, an account of matrimoni-
al nare-up behind the scenes of theatre That &C
count, it now appears, was rather highly colored
nevertheless, the lady considers hersefan injured
female for she has placed the matter in the hands
OF the law. She has deposed that her husband
struck her. and that she is in constant fear OF per
sonal injury and in danger of her life; wherefore
she prays that he may be arrested and dealt with al
the law directs. He was arrested and required "a
and bail in the sum of $780,
The lady's name is Frances Fortier
Close OF THE GARDINER cAsE.-Cosyrcrros
AND SEsTEScE.-We learn from the Washington
Star that the jury in the Gardiner case ON Friday