Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-10-09

mum and make each dose up in q separate
piece Of paper In the usual manner" VSe
@Where do you keep your stock of
bromidea" 9In Q large glass Jar ON tAo
lower shelf Of the cupboard in my d..
pensary."
sVery good; and now, sir, answer me
without hesitation, where do you keep your
stock of strychniaa" "In the same cupboard,
sir"
"Ah" Belmore locked up at the jury with
a face that spoke volumes. Everybody saw
the point at which he was aiming-every.
body except my darling, who sat looking
pale and fatigued, and almost l~istless, as
though the whole thing were q easily farce
which wearied her. At long intervals she
raised her eyes and looked at me. Il was
only then that any sign of life or feeling
came into her d;ar face .
Cross-examination continued-"You say
the strychnia and bromide of potassium
were kept in the same cupboard. Now do
you ever make mistakes, DR.. Carrick, in
tho compromising Of your medicinesf"
swell, sir-I should not like to say posi-
lively"
"Come, come. DR.. Carrick, be frank with
us. Tell ME; did you ever make q mistake
in making up your medicinesp
SBelmore stood like a tower among his
seated brethren. His long arm was out
stretched, and his forefnger, which was
pointed direct at the heart Of the witness.
almost seemed as though it were q rapier,
by which the unhappy man had been trans
fixed. There was something terrible, too,
in the eye of the great advocate as it flashed
upon the witness, something mer CHESS in the
firmly closed mouth with which he waited
for the answer to his question. Everybody
In court, I think, was fascinated by the
spectacle. There he stood, motionless as a
statue, and unrelenting as an inquisitor,
while DR.. Carrick writhed visibly lefore
him.
"You must answer the question. sir" said
the Judge in peremtory tones
Breathing hard, and pausing a moment to
| wipe the perspiration from his forehead,
the witness spoke: II lave made a mistake
once-it was years ago"
"What was it," u used a wrong drug in
making up a simple prescription"
"The wrong drug! Tell me the name of
that drug, sirs" ut was arsenic. My lord,
this happened twenty years G and I as
sure your lordship that there has been moth
ing
speeches." said Belmore. "You tell us that
you did make a mistake once, and that you
put arsenic into your medicine instead Of
something else. Pray what was the result Of
medicine?" "He did, SIR"
"And he died2' ayes, to my lasting pain
and sorrow, he did. 1t was a baby, sir"
sDon't make speeches, DR.. Carrick. You
tell me that once already you have made a
mistake in compromising your medicines
which cost one of your fellow creatures his
life. Now, will you admit the possibility Of
your having made another mistake2 You
know your %strychnia and your bromide Of
potassium were in the same cupboard in
your laboratoryf' mo, sir, I can't admit
that I made any mistake on this occasion. ]
got a terrible lesson twenty years ago."
mo doubt you did; but, excuse me, I did
not ask you whether you had or had not
made a mistake on this occasion, but
whether it was or was not possible for you
TO do soy mo, sir; it was impossible"
"You are infallible now, eha" eyes, SIR
olurted out the unhappy man, whs evidently
lid not know whether he was standing ON
ais head or his heels.
swell, I mean to ask the jury to pro-
aounce an opinion upon that point, DR.. Car
rick. You can go NOW"
But before he went he was re-examined
~ Hawk.
"Do you r%ecollect making up these par
ocular powders for MI. Mauleverer1" aPer-
:ectly WE'LL"
"Are you quite certain you made no mis-
sakes" II am positive I did not"
"In what part of your cupboard do you
keep your s%trychniaa" "On the top shelf,
ir.6
"Now, there were eighteen powders origin
lily in that box. Were they all made up at
The same timer ~"Undoubtedly, SIR"
"From the same bottle Of bromidea" aCer-
ainlv."
"Have you examined the four powders
which remain in the box" ayes, in company
With my eminent medical colleague, Mr..
Allgood, I have examined them"
"And do they consist Of bromide of potas-
,ium or strychnia9" "Of bromide, of course"
"Then we may take it for granted that
III. Mauleverer had been using these pow
iers without suffering any i'll effect from
hem down to the day of his death, and that
Ill the powders left in the box after his
leath are perfectly harmless3" ~ apprehend
hat is the case"
DR.. Carrick was followed by Mr.. Allgood,
E.R.CS., the eminent toxicologist, who
gave convincing evidence of the real cause
If Mr.. Mauleverer's death. The unfortu-
nate millionaire had evidently taken a large
lose of strychnia about an hour and a half
before he was heard by the servant maid to
Try out He confirmed Carrick's statement
'egarding the powders remaining in the box.
he had not discovered any trace of bromide
II potassium in his analysis of the contents
II deceased's stomach.
After him came the chemist at Little
Lorton, Mr.. Smirke, who told how on the
fth of October the prisoner had driven up
% his shop in her uncle's carriage, and had
Explained that she wished for a quantity Of
trychnia, to be employed in poisoning the
ats which abounded in the CO lars of the
lan. He had remarked upon the very dan
perous character of the poison, and had
recommended some other method of getting
i'd Of the vermin. Miss Stancliffe agreed
with him that the poison was an exceedingly
dangerous one, and had expressed her re-
yret that her uncle wished her to procure 1t,
She had further requested him to supply it
% her in a sealed parcel, so that, in case of
is being accidentally found by one of the
servants, it might not be opened by mistake.
Belmore only put one question to this
witness: "~supposing you were to see that
parcel again, would you know it at once and
20 able to say if it had been tempered
With" Eyes, I could not mistake that
parcel if I saw it again"
Then came the evidence of the chief con-
stable, my acquaintance Eastmead. 1t was
errible to hear him tell how, sin conse-
1tence of information he had received" he
aad felt it to be his duty to make certain in
luiries regarding MI. M%auleverer's death.
At that moment I dared not nave faced
,ither Daisy or DR.. Branksome. I was