The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-11
MANIA FOR MURDER
Thomas Neal Again Brought Up
for Poisoning Girls.
DAMAGING TESTIMONY DEDUcED.
How the Willy Doctor schsmed and Worked
to Accomplish His Horrible and Devilish
Desigus-Testimony OF His Victims

1NctStn AtntAShoHs " 49,
Especial 10 THE HERALD-Examiner Gable
LoSDox, Aug. lO.-Thomas Neal, alias
Thomas Neill Cream, was brought up again
today On the charge OF having murdered
Matilda Glover by strychnine poison. Miss
Laura Sabbatini, young woman shabby
dressed in black, with a pink hat, was
called to the witness stand. She testified
that in November of last year she was IN
London and Nell was introduced to her as
s'Dr, Thomas Neill Cream" He said ne
was a doctor in America, but was DONG
nothing in this country. He saw her ire
quently after the introduction and shortly
afterward proposed marriage to her and
sac accented him. He went to America
Jan. 6, this year, and said he was going TO
see about his fathers estate. Before he
went. Jan. 5. be made will in the witness
favor. in which he described himself as DR..
Neiu Cream The witness understood
that he
LEFT HER ALL HIS PROPERTY.
The document was witnessed by her sister.
NELL came back at the beginning OF Aprn
and she saw him Immediately on his return.
hIr. A1lil 8EkeQ NC GNCL GcAC0 --O- -
write letter for him. The witness an
swered that he had. Mr.. Gill handed the
witness other letters and envelopes. wnl .Si
she said she wrote at the request OF Nelll.
The first letter was as follows:
LONDON. May 20, 1892. Coroner Wyatt Of St
Thomas Hospital London-Dear Slr-Nu
YOU please give enclosed letter 10 foreman OF
grand jury atinquest on Alice Marsh ana Emma
Shrivell and oblige, yours respectfully.
1Ssignedl WILLIAM HENRY MURRAY.
MIR. Gill then read the following letter,
which witness said was the first, one she
wrote TO the foreman of the coroner's jury,
in case Of Alice Marsh and Emma ShriVeI:
DEAR SlR-I beg to inform you that one of
the operators has positive proof that William
lIarner a medical student at st. Thomas hos
pital son OF DR. Harper OF Barnstable. Is re-
sponsible for the death OF Alice Marsh ano
Fmma Shrivell he having poisoned these girls
with strychnine. This letter you can have Oh
paving my bill FOR services 10 Judge Clarke y
1jockspur street. Charing Cross, TO whom Will
fulv' W. d. MURRAY"
These letters witness said were written
at the same time. She wrote them al
Bark Hampstead. Neill was then staying
at her mothers house there. He dictated
what she was TO write, but give no reason.
Mr.. Gill then called Louisa Harris as the
next witness, and there came from the
back of the court girl Of %. Louisa
Harvey. who Nell believed had been
pojsoned She told an interesting story,
illustrating how Neill might have poisoned
tie other girls She said in October last
she was living at No Al Townsend road,
ST. Johns Wood, with Charles Harvey. Al
the Alhambra one night she WIS spoken &c
by the prisoner, DR.. Neill. She occupied 6
room with him at the Parish hotel.
ON the morning before he left did NJ
say anything about some spots OF youl
A.-Yes sir, and he said 1 wanted Sons
medicine.
Did he say anything about sesini
A.@Yes, sir; he made an appointment t
see me on the embankment near Charinl
Cross station at 80 the same evening.
Odd he say anything about medicine
A-He said he would bring some. II
gave me e3 and left me.
Odd you see Charles Harvey tina
day. the man you were living wi-1}
A.-Yes, sir, and told him what l hay
told you now.
Q.-When he spoke of giving you med
cine were you afraid
A.-Yes. and asked Harvey to go wit
me to the embankment that night Il
O.-Had NeiIl said be would take 70
anywhere that nights
A.-Yes. to a music hail. and asked n
where 1 would ike 70 go. l said the o.
ford.
ON the evening you went with Ha
vey, left him, and met Nellie
Ayes. sir.
Q.-What did be say2
Al have brought your pills"
Odd be say where he had got the
mace up.
A.-Yes, in Westminster Bridge road.
Odd be ask YOU TO have glass
winel
A-Yes. later. ! asked him whether
should take the pills then or with the win
and he said with the wine. We went 10
public house. the Nortbun berland, and
saw Harvey watching Us. Neili said tn
he could not 60 10 the music ball that nigh
as he had to be at St. Thomas hospital at
O'Clock and he would be gept there IN
1880 He would meet me outside the o.
ford st II, he said, on the embsnkment
Odd he give you some tigss
A. Yes. in q bag, and said l was to e
them when had taken the pills. He ga
me then two long pills and said. "Dor
bite them; swallow them as they are"
IL was in the most matter of fact ma
ner and with voice to al perception abs
solutely unmoved, that the girl told u
story. amid strange silence IN the coul
Were you afraid 10 take them3' ask
Mr. GILL;
away
ii was in the lonely half darkness Of t
embgukment that this scene took pla'
The man gave her the two pills in b
right hand. AZ she took them she put B
hand behind her and passed them into
lett. Then she put her right hand up
her mouth and pretended to swallow the
while she threw the capsules away ".
ner left hand. She
ELABORATED THIS GRIM COMEDY
on the embankment by making belle
that the swallowing hurt her throat.
ii seems was anxious to be quite cert
that she had swallowed the two capsul
with whatever was inside Of them, for
made her show her hands to make sure.
showed him her right hand as she brou,
il safely away from ner mouth, and u
when she had dropped the things
showed him her empty left. Mr.. Har'
Identified the long pills she received
similar TO the capsules found in CLIPS p
session when arrested The man,
added, went away when he thought
had swallowed the pills. The prisoner '
again remanded.