Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-12-13
ALEXANDRIA, La, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1873

amongst the jury, looked serenely solemn
and mysterious I; and as soon as we were
settled on our chairs in the room selected
for the jury's accommodation, and some
triiling evidence had been adduced, the
coroner directed Charlotte Warren to be
summoned. Mr.. M'Intyre objected in
stantly to such course being taken.
III, as he understood the case, 81. that
PERSONS husband was accused of the mur-
der-if, indeed, which he, Mr.. MIntyre.
much doubted, any murder had taken
place, his wife could not be permitted to
give evidence which might affect him IA
vorably or otherwise"
The coroner replied that Richard War
ren was detained rs measure of precau-
ton only, and that, although if sent to trial
on capital or other charge, whatever his
wife might say could not be used against
him, yet in that court of unfettered i'll
| quiry as to the cause of death of the de-
tceased Bartholomew Goldsworthy, they
had right, and were indeed bound. to
hear everybody likely to throw light upon
the matter. This was legally correct
enough; the order to bring forward Mrs.
| Warren was repeated, and after a DELAY of
about ten minutes, she was supported into
the room by nurse and assistant, and
seated in a chair almost in fainting state,
and looking as pale and convulsively agi-
tated as her husband on the previous even
| ing at my house. After short pause the
examination proceeded.
| Richard Warren, should state. was not
| present, the coroner not deeming his pres
ence essential in the present stage of in
| quiry. "A whispered caution from him a
minute or two previous to Mrs. warren's
entrance, informed me, moreover, that
| she was ignorant of her huband being i'm
custody.
The statement elected with much diff
| Guilty, from Mrs. Warren, was in substance
this :-sOn the previous evening she had
found herself much better, ard her hus-
band, about nine O'Clock, left her to pro-
ceed something more than a mile beyond
| Hampstead, on particular business. About
| eleven O'Clock the nurse went home,
promising not to be gone more than an
hour. Mrs. Warren supposed she must
have been some time asleep afterwards.
when she was awoke by noise of strug-
| Cling and half-stiAed cries in the adjoining
Ibedroom-her fathers. Starting up in
bed, she drew curtain from before small
| window i'm the partition which looked into
MIR. GoldswOrthy's room. and saw. by the
| dim, uncertain moonlight, her father, in
his night-dress, struggling in the grasp of
a man. She was so terrified, so panic
| stricken, that although she strove with all
her might to call for assistance, she could
not do so, and remembered nothing more
till restored to consciousness by the nurse,
little before one oclock.n
There was dead silence for few min
utes after Mrs. Warren ceased speaking,
broken by the coroner, who, after whis-
pering with a detective, said, in his mildest
| ON Il
Mrs. Warren-the coat, at least-which
the man you saw struggling with your
| father wOre:'
| How shall describe the sudden, flashing
change that passed over the wife's pale
features upon hearing this question? 1t
seemed that an unseen dagger struck her,
or that a serpent-memOry or suspicion
had been awakened by it into life. In a
moment she had hidden her face in her
outspread palms, whilst a convulsiye shud-
dering visibly passed through and shook
her frame.
| After brief pause, the coroner pre-
ceeded with his inquisition, mildly as be-
| fore.
"You told the nurse, hear, Mrs. War
ren, during the first agitated moments that
followed your restoration tocOnsciousness,
that the rObber and assassin wore light
| piONh ptuttpt, VIII ptdIl DuitOuS-lf1c
same kind of coat, in fact,3 added the cor
oner, in a tone subdued dinvoluntarily by the
terrible suggestion his words conveyed,
the same kind of coat, in fact, that your
husband usually wears.'
| The convulsive tremor by which the
wretched wife was shaken, as If with a
paroXysm of ague, increased in violence,
but no words replied to tire coroner's ques-
ton. NAY" persisted the functionary,
"yOu have been heard, when no doubt
fancying no one was within earshot, to
directly and vehemently accuse your lus-
band to his face of being the assassin
Of"
sit could not be ~ screamed the wife
distractedly, and springing from the chair
to her feet. 1T is false; or, if true,
must have been crazed-mad! Oh, heav-
ens!'' She had tainted, and was immedi-
ately carried out of the room in state OF
rigid insensibility.
DIR. Henslop, of Newman street, re-
marked, that although there had been at
one time apprehension of fever in Mrs.
Warren's case, he was quite sure her mind
had never been in the slightest degree af-
fected.
The next witness was Martha Riddel,
the nurse; she had returned to Newman
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detained at home longer than she intended.
just as she reached Mr.. Goldsworthy' Is
door, she noticed the shadow of man, as
she thought, i'm Mr.. Warren's workshop,
passing quickly about, and now and then
STOPPING down; once she thought there
were tico persons in the loft, but on look
| ing more attentively, concluded that the
dim moonlight had deceived her; she won.
dered rather that Mr.. Warren, who she
knew had gone to Hampstead, should be
in his workshop at that time of night, and
thought she would mention it to Mrs. War.
rem, whom, on entering the house, which
she did with latch-key, and proceeding
upstairs to her bedroom, she found lying
across the bed, tainted away. Upon com
ing to herself, she seemed TO be for some
minutes i'm kind of distracted maze
and told witness, first, that a man i'm her
husbands coat-then that her husband
himself-had, she was sure. robbed and
murdered her father. Witness then gave
the alarm, just upon which Mr.. Warren
himself came hurrying upstairs, looking,
witness thought, very pale and scared
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