Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-05

COulO De DTONCu ILLAJ
alluded to her jOkingly as his best nurse
and doctor in chief" He, MIR. Hawk, now
wished to call their attention to q late oil
great importance, the evening of tuesday,
the oath of October last. On that day MIR.
Mauleverer was not very well. lie dlned
mt an earlier hour than usual-six O'clock
with the prisoner at the bar and with a
lady named Cawthorne, who was resident
in the house in the capacity of co'.panlon
TO the prisoner. Nobody else was% staying
at the hall at the time except the servants,
nor had Mr.. Mauleyerer seen any visitors
for more than a fortnight. After dinner it
would be proved that the prisoner at the
bar read to the deceased for half an hour or
more, and she then played to him on the
piano until about nine o'clock, ct which
time, complaining of fatigue, he expressed
a desire to retire forest. When he expressed
this wish, the prisoner at the bar said she
would 90 up to his room first and ascertain
that the fire was burning and everything
in readiness for him. She left the apart
ment for q few minutes, ostensibly for this
purpose, but in reality, as he suggested ON
the part of the prosecution, to prepare the
fatal dose of poison which was undoubtedly
administered to the man very soon after
wards. At all events, she had IN oppOrtu-
nifty a that time, if she wished it, of
possessing herselfo Of this poison. Mr.. Maui
everer in the meantime remained in the
drawing room with Mrs. C~awthOrne. ltso
happened, however, that a man servant
who had been summoned for some trivial
r remained in the Don with the
deceased and Mrs. CawthOrne during the
prisoners absence. The fact was not I'M
important, as it tended undoubtedly to
narrow the field of inquiry when they came
to investigate the circumstances OF the
crime.
The prisoner returned to the drawing
room, and told deceased that his room was
in readiness. He thereupOn said goodnight
to Mrs. Cawthorne, and turning to the
prisoner said: II suppose / shall see you by
and by, evidently referring to the nightly
visits which she paid him when he was I'M
we'll, for the purpose of administering to
him any medicine that he might need. In
the course Of half an hour Mr.. Mauleverer's
valet, who had attended him while he was
preparing for rest, informed the prisoner,
who had in the mean time been sitting in
the drawing room with Mrs. C%awthOrne,
that his master wasready to see her, and
she ut once went up to his room.
Now gentlemen" continued Hawk,
speaking in more solemn tones than he had
hither to used, I'VE cannot tell you what
happened during the interview. The prls-
oner alone survives it. What we do know
is that she remained n quarter OF an hour
in the apartment of the deceased. Her OWL
account of the way in which she spent that
interval was given, after she had been duly
cautioned. to the officer of the law by whom
she was arrested. According to her state
ment she read a chapter of the Bible, as her
custom was, to the deceased. She then
gave him q powder of kind which he was
in the habit of taking ut times. 1t was 4
powder of bromide of potassium, q medicine
which, as you are probably aware gentle
men of the jury, is frequently used for pa
tients of an epileptic tendency. He took
the medicine, she says, quite readily, made
no remark on taking it, and, saying he was
sleepy, babe the prisoner goodnight. She
at once left the room, and presently she
herself retired to rest"
The next piece Of evidence to which Hawk
tttklth AllCllNlOu VS. Il ~ liz SAlAo NJ
BILE one. About half-past eleven o'clock,
or an hour and 4 half after the prisoner had
left the deceased, n of the younger house
maids of the hall, who WAS passing along a
corridor not far from the room occupied by
Mr.. Mauleverer, heard, as she declares, q
sharp cry of pain. Unfortunately the girl,
instead of as~certaining the cause of the
cry, He'd hastily to the servants hall. Her
account of her conduct was that She be-
lievcd she had heard i ghost" 1t appeared
that popular tradition declared Great LOr-
ton Hall to be haunted, and as a consequence
the servants were continually imagining
that in certain partSOf the house they heard
various mysterious sounds. Mr.. Maulcv-
erer'S room, rs it happened, was somewhat
remote from the other sleeping apartments
which were occupied that night. The girl
never thought that it could have been from
her master that this cry of agony proceeded,
and SO the unfortunate man was left to
struggle alone with death-tO which he
soOn fell a victim.
The next morning at the usual hour the
valet of the deceased, John Green by name,
went into his masters bedroom. He i'm
mediately saw that SOmethingdreadful had
happened, The bedclothes were in great
disorder, as though the deceased han been
| struggling violently. On looking more
closely nj him Green saw that Mr.. Maulev-
erer was quite dead. He was lying with
his face buried in one of the pillows, and
he had apparently died in commissions.
In one of his hands was clutched a bed
curtain, which in his agony he seemed to
have torn from its ~faSteningS. The house
hold was ut once alarmed. The prisoner
on learning what had happened protested
extreme grief and sent a message forthwith
to summon the nearest medical man, DR..
Carrick, of Little LOrdOn. DR.. CarricR,
who would be called before them rs q wit
ness, undoubtedly fell into a great mistake.
He came to the conclusion, on seeing the
body, that Mr.. Mauleverer had died posi-,
bly, of suflOcatiOn in Aft OF epilepsy, and he
gave a certificate in accordance with that
belief. In excuse for him it might be said
that he did not have the slightest reason t.
suspect foul play, while he was aware that
deceased was afflicted by epilepsy. FOrtu.
nately for the ends of justice, however,
suspicious were aroused; and on the day
after Mr.. Mauleverer's funeral, ut which the
prisoner NJ the bar attended as cilCl mourn
er, his body was exhumed, and on ananaly-
sis of the contents of the stomach il was
discovered that his death was really due
to q large dose of strychnia. All the evil
dence that could be obtained pointed to the
conclusion that this poison must have been
administered somewhere about the time
when the prisoner last saw the unfortunate
man. How could it have been administered?
The answer to that question was clear.
Two persons only had access to MIR. Maui
everer about the time when he unquestiOn-
ably took the fatal dose. One of these
WAS Green, the valet, and the other was the
prisoner at the bar. Now, in Green's ia
vOr certain facts could ut Once be alleged.
One of these was that he had never been in
the habit of administering drugs to the de-
ceased, and any attempt he might make to
do so could hardly have failed to arouse
Mr.. Mauleverer's suspicious. The prisoner,
on the other hand, constantly mixed and
gave him his medicine. Next all their
inquiries pointed to the conclusion that
Green had absolutely nothing to gain by
Mr.. Mauleverer's death. The prisoner, on
the contrary, rs he should show them pres
emily. had everything to gain by il, prOyi-