The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-27
BOOK III.
WINNOHED.
CHATTER ].
O! little did my mither think
The day she Graded me-.
The lands ] was 10 travel In,
Or the daath I xras IN diei

The lands ] was Ia travel In.
Or the death was to die!
The trial of Hester Clarke commence
ed on Thursday, Novem5 r the Twelfth,
and terminated on the following Satur-
day evening.
by nine o'clock in the morning the
best seats in court were occupied by
ladies, and on the bench were the Duke
OF MarmitOn and other county mag
mates, while Immediately afterward
those who could not be accommodated
with seats on the bench, disposed them
selves in the body of the court.
The counsel for the prosecution were
Mr.. Montague, Mr.. Chambers, and Mr..
Sharp; and for the prisoner, Mr.. Valen-
tine and Mr.. Flower.
The attorney for the prosecution was
Mr.. Noble, and for the prisoner Mr..
Day.
At half past nine o'clock. a model of
the house In which the murder had
been committed was brought in and
placed upon the table in the center of
4. ten O'Clock the prisoner, Hester
Clarke, was placed in the dock, and the
clerk proc .edad TO read over the indict-
ment 70 the prisoner, after which the
jury were sworn, and the prisoner, in
loN NolCc, ifiNiIlS piCduCd HOS yut1D, WI.
Montague rose TO address the jury for
the prosecution. ......-
He commenced by calling upon them
to dismiss from their minds any i'm
pressions they might previously have
formed Of the murder of the young, be-
loved, and beautiful lady who had fall
Ell II victim to the hand of the assassin.
He dwelt upon the awful haste, and
the peculiarly pathetic circumstances
that had attended her last moments
how, when practically q dying woman,
she had yet fingered OH I'LL her little
prematurcly born babe saw the light,
and then had died, unconscious to the
last Of having an enemy III the world,
sending with almost her dying breath
message to the prisoner a. the bar.
lie thenproceeded tn state that Mrs.
Eyre had lately lived in great tranquili-
ty and retirement, their sole visitor be-
ing Lord Lovel.
lie would presently show that the
visits of the latter had All important
would describe the Red Hall, model
of which lay on the table. From the
manner in which it was blocked up by
stables and other buildings at the side.
and by the cliff in the rear, IL would be
shown how almost impossible it was to
gain access to Mrs. Eyre's bedroom
without attempting it from the front.
There was no question OF the servants
being concerned in the murder, as they
were all below stairs at the time. with
the exception OF the nurse, who was in
conversation with Lord Lowell when the
shrek was heard that announced some
fatal event, and set every one rushing
toward the wing in which Mrs. Eyre's
room was situated
Not one of them bore her any malice;
even the gardener, when arrested for
the crime. declared his inability to COM
nit it, because she had always been
kind to him, and Ito use his own words)
he had studied her likes and dislilles
even beyond those of his master. There
was not single soul lv ny who could
have an unkind Impulse toward her
save the prisoner at the bar. vino had
been possess ii of that cruces. most
unreasoniug madness that can take
possession Of the lu.Ean htart-jeal-
Ousy.
For the innocent intercourse tliat had
taken place between that cor murder
ed young lady and her old companion
and playfellow. Lord Lovel. had been
exaggerated. by vulgar report, into a
connection very different to the one
that existed; and on the evening in
question, the prisoner had followed him
to the Red Hall, and, herself hidden,
been witness to, and auditor of, a con-
versation that took place between Mrs.
Eyre and Lord Lovel. Mr.. Eyre having
temporarily withdrawn to the next
room.
1t would be shown in Lord Levels
evidence how, after wishing his hostess
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Eyre, but presently departed, the but
Ter locking the door behind him. But
in the moonlight he distinctly saw
figure cross to the wing opposite Mrs
Eyre's room, and in which the nurseries
were situated, and quickly following it,
found, to all appearance, the rooms UNI
tenanted, save by the sleeping children.
The nurse shortly entering. he adj
vanced with her to the inner room, and
he had stood for, perhaps, some five or
six minutes conversing with her, when
the cry was heard of which mention has
been before made.
1t was to be remembered that Mr..
Eyre and the servants were all below
stairs: from the back her room was un-
approachable. and the only possible
manner by which the murderer could
have got ingress to it was by ladder
placed against the wall DV the gardener
that afternoon, and forgotten by him
in the discharge Of his duties until very
late that night; but on this oversight
the most important evidence of the
whole case hinged, and would be gene
into in due course.
On reaching Mrs. Eyre's apartment
they were horror-struck to see her
bleeding and unconscious, while Mr..
Eyre himself, reused by her cry, hav-
ing reached her more quickly than
they, by ascending the staircase that
led from his study TO the bedroom, was
stanching the blood that flowed from
her side.
Almost immediately afterward, the
diamonds she had worn that night were
discovered to he missing, and a man
seen to be peering in at the window,
who was Immediately seized upon. and
in due course committed for trial as the
murderer.
AS prisoner. his lips were closed, but
when Mr.. Eyre awakened from the
stupor into which the death of his wife
had thrown him, he Immediately order
ed the mans release, and demanded the
cOmmittal of the only DprSOu living