The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-14
"BEAU UTIFUL FOREVER"
The Case Of Madame Rachel aud the
Bond street Mystery I'm London.


Bond street Mystery I'm London.
A correspondent writes as follows to the New
York World
LONDON, Sept. 26.-Poor old Madame Rachel
has gone up at last. l went down to the Old
Bailey on Friday TO hear the summing up OF the
case, and by judicious use OF the omnipotent
talisman which does so many things which appear
impossible, obtained seat where, In the words
of one of the Corsican Brothers, "I not only
heard oil, but saw ALL" The arguments OF the
counsel were very interesting, and the summing
up OF the Judge was somewhat better than the
famous charge of MIR. Justice Stareleigh; bat
the last eventlul scene of this sad history was
very painful. The old woman tainted when she
heard herself condemned to i've years imprison-
ment and was carried out OF the dock tnsensible,
while the astonis hment and grief of two OF her
daughters we're painful to witness. l do not
think that with the same evidence an Ameri-
can jury would have condemned the &C,
cused The case was a very nasty one, and
it was plain that of the two women Mrs. Borro.
dale was really the worst. No doubt she had
lost all her money, but she certainly deserved
to lose 1t, and 1t is by no means certain that
Rachel got all of it. Mrs. Borrodaile's testimony
would scarcely have been accepted as true by
an American jury, enlightened with the wisdom
of frst-rate criminal lawyer, and one of her
witnesses was unmistakably perjured one. He
was boy, who pretended to have written down
in a memorandum book certain conversations
which he overheard many months ago. and
contain not merely memoranda, but the whole
of the story which the jury had just heard the
prisoner repeat, as If he had Just learned 1t by
rote. Mr.. Digby Seymour, Rachefs leading
counsel, IS very good lawyer, but he failed to
get his client off, which a smart American attor-
ney would almost surely have accomplished
with the advantages which Mr.. Seymour failed
to use. The trial was so interesting, as picture
of female folly and depravity, that sketch of
It may be well worth the space it will occupy In
the World.
Mime BacheIs name is Sarah Rachel Tever-
son, and although she looks much older, is said
to be but 43 years OF age. She was charged with
unlawfully obtaining by false and fraudulent
pretenses from Mary Tucker Borrodaile, some
This was the second trial-the former jury hav-
ing disagreed. The prosecution was conducted
by Sergeant Ballantine, assisted by two counsel;
the defense by Mr.. Seymour and three learned
sergeants. Mrs. Borrodaile is clever little
woman, older than Rachel and very much In
need, not of something to make her beautiful
passably good-looking. An uglier little woman
have rarely seen. She testified that she
first went to Rachels in 1864, in consequence
Of seeing all advertisement in the ewspapers.
freckles," and wished to have them
removed. For this she paid fl7O, but all she
got for her money was some soap and powder
and something to put in her baths" The freckles
remained, and she was not yet beautiful. Two
years afterwards she again went to Rachel. who
then told her that Lord Ranelagh was IN love
duced to Lord Ranelagh in the presence of
Racbel's daughter and Valera." Rachel said,
~ will introduce you to the man who loves,
you," and opened the door leading to the shop,
went up TO him. said this susceptible widow,
''and asked if he were Lord Ranelagh;" he
handed me his card and said 81 am" This was
the whole of the thrilling conversation which
took place between the lovers on that occasion.
A few days afterwards she went again
to the shop. ~ ., found Lord kane. neo
Rachel said she would again introduce me
and did so; Lord Ranelaeh bowed, aud nothing
more passed." do not know whether this is
the ordinary style in which lords make love, or
whether Lord Ranelagh Is an ordinary lord, but
Mrs. Borrodaile thought it was all en- regte.
Rachel told her that before she could be married
she must be made beautiful forever, the expense
of which would be 9lO00. Mrs. Borrodaile sold
out f13OO in the funds and paid f1OOO to Rachel,
for "enamelling and beautifying her." taking
receipt which stated that the process was to be
continued until she was finished" All that she
got for this We're "some powder and soap, and
some small bottles containing magnetic water
to be put into her baths. The powders came
from Arabia" Rachel told her that while the
would be conducted by letters. and that
Lord Banelagh would correspond With
her. under the name, of 'Willam." Pre-,
sently the correspondence commenced, and
on both sides. The letters from William were
in different handwritings, and one OF them was
signed Edward, /" but in the guileless innocence
of her heart the love lorn widow believed them
The answers she wrote TO them were dictated by
Rachel Mrs. BorrOdaile Is an educated woman,
Rachel can neither read nor write; but the
former allowed the ignorant woman to dictate
every word of the letters she wrote to her pros
pective husband. Rachel always took the
letters when written, saying she would
forward them. Acting all the while under
the direction of Rachel, Mrs. B0rrodaile
bought $500 worth of lace, for her mar
riage trousseau, and diamonds TO the amount OF
fl260 the lace she gave to Rachel; the diamonds
she got the jeweller to take back by paying
him Gl00. She subsequently, paid Rachel
9l400 more. Rachael told her that Lord Rane-
laeh had got the money, and was using 1t for
or another, $4,000 of Mrs. Borrodaile's money
got into Rachei's hands, and finally she gave
to Rachel 10 bond for fl600 more, falling to pay
which Bacbel had her arrested, aud placed in
mony, Mrs. Borrodaile declared that the only
OBJECT with which she paid the money was to
prepare Tor and facilitate her marriage with
Lord Ranelagh; that all the letters were written
70 him; and that she had no other lover, or any
ttdsson with any other person. The theory of
the defense was that no such promise as that
represented had been made to Mrs. Borrodaile
by Rachel; that the former was CARRYING
on an intrigue, by the aid of Rachel,
station IN life; and that the money had
been used in this way, with the knowledge aud
consent of Borrodaile. And the evidence
really seemed TO sustain this view OF the case
at least il soon became impossible to believe
word that Mrs. Borrodaile said. On being
shown her letters, to which she had sworn on
the previous trial, she was very unwilling to
ADMIT that she had written them, but finally she
Thought" they were hers. She confessed that
the letters were full OF statements wholly false,
and which she knew to be false when she wrote
them; they were dated from places at which
she did not reside; they were written, as she
Seiieved, to peer OF England, but they warned
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