Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-24

| had gone down to the kitchen to have a
| chat with her fellow servants, and fetch
| her supper. She was supposed to eat
this in the nursery. but partook of it
| below stairs that night, and afterward
| Joined IN a game of cards in the SER
wants hall, the gardener coming in I'M
| expectedly toward the end of it. They
had fallen to talking of the diamonds.
and she had said in joke that she would
| marry him (Digges) when he could give
her as fine necklace as the one her
| mistress was wearing that night. and
| being a stupid fellow it had taken some
| time to explain to him what diamonds
were, and how valuable She had re-
manned behind after Sarah Bodkin had
answered her miStreSS'S bell, and on re-
| turning to the nursery had been start
| led to find Lord Lovel there. for she
| knew that the butler had gone up stairs
| % shut up the house for the night, sup
| posing him TO be gone.
His lordship accounted for his ap-
pearance there by saying that he was
| certain he had seen Mrs. Clarke enter.
but on assuring him that such was not
| the case, he had advanced to the inner
room to search it, and was conversing
with her on the subject of Master
Dody's health, when the shrek was
heard from the opposite wing that
reused the house.
| Witness then detailed the scene that
had met her eyes when she had rushed
| TO Mr.. Eyre's room, and in spite of a
| severe examination, was firm in
| her denial that she mad removed the
diamonds in the confusion of the scene
CrosS-examined as to her intimacy
with Hester Clarke, she admitted it.
| but added that her mistress knew of,
and encouraged it, and had babe her let
Master Dody walk or play with the
prisoner whenever they should meet her
| abroad
At these words, a look of agony was
observed to cross the prisoners fea-
lures, her head sank lower, and the
whole attitude of detected guilt became
more marked.
Her examination continued. Joseph
inc said that she had not been present
when Mrs. Clarke had returned to tne
Red Hall. She had sat up the proceed
ing night, and Lord Lovel had insisted
on her going to bed; and sharp eros :
examination ELECTED but little more
from the Frenchwoman than the fore
going, and it was with an air of con-
sclouS innocence that she left the box
to nuke room for the next witness, the
doctor who had been fetched by Frank,
and who had been with Mrs. Eyre till
within an hour of her death.
He said that he had previously at
tended Mrs. Eyre in her illness, and
was called up at about twelve O'Clock
on the night in question. He found her
lying on the bed, pulseless, and appar-
emily dead, her white wrapper deeply
stained with blood, and on the left side.
just below the heart, a small. incised
wound, likely to be produced by mar
| row, long knife, such as the one now
produced in court. BY the aid of vio-
lent remedies he had produced some
signs of life in her; but she was practic-
ally dying when he first saw her. and
would in all probability have succumb-
ed to the fatal blow at once, were it not
for the condition in which she. was.
CrOsS-examined as to whether she
had not actually died in childbirth, or
of the violence of the remedies applied,
he said, that to live more that few
hours after such an injury was impossi-
bic; and when pressed as to whether the
chlOrofOrm administered by Mr.. Eyre
had not been dangerous to her life, he
replied that though possibly she might
have been kept alive another hour or
two by skillful management. nothing
could have extended her life to the mid
die of the following day. Great force
must have been used in making the
blow, and it was impossible that she
could have inflicted it on herself-everv-
thing pointed to its being struck while
she was asleep, as Mr.. Eyre's evidence,
taken from her own lips, would pres
emily show.
The next witness called was Lord
Lowell. He was in deep mourning. and
in this respect offered marked con-
trast to Mr.. Eyre, who, to the scandal
of all present, was habited precisely as
usual; while in Franks haggard face
grief showed more plainly than in Mr..
Eyre's, who was but a shade darker and
grimmer than his wont.
Being asked what reason he had to
suspect harm to any OF the inmates of
the Hall, Frank did not Immediately
reply. He was wondering how much
was known of the real story, AMI
whether it were bound to come out in
the course of the trial; he chose mid
die course, and told a part of the truth
He knew, he said, that the prisoner
had a very strong affection for Mr..
Eyre's younger child, and had suspect
ed her of an inclination to steal it. It
was for this reason that he had re-en-
tered the house by way of the nurseries.
Asked If he thought the murder had
been committed by the prisoner through
Jealousy caused by himself, he replied
coldly that he did not consider himself
obliged to answer that question.
He then cOrrobOrated Josephina's
evidence, and described the circum-
stances under which ne had accom-
panied her to Mrs. Eyre's bedroom.
Here his by no means interesting evil
dence ended, but his cross-examination
TOOK longer, and was another matter.
Lord LOvel was quite sure that
there was nothing in his conversation
with Mrs. Eyre to which her husband
could object, if according to the gar
dener's evidence) Mr.. Eyre was an I'M
suspected auditor of their conversa-
tion?"
But Frank. not choosing to reply to
Un1s question, II was not pressed, though
one equally offensive was substituted.
Lord Lovel did not think it likely
that his host had purposely left them
them?"
Frank looked up, and his eyes meet
ing Mr.. Eyre's both men smiled, and
none present could henceforward doubt
the perfect confidence that existed be-
tween them.
he answered. however, GldG DIS IOGIl-
ing was likely to be said in Mr.. Eyre's
absence that could not freely be said in
his presence, there was no necessity
whatever for his host to listen at key
holes.
Frank was next asked if it were not
niaUUer or public notoriety that some
months since he had eloped with the de-
ceased lady, and her husband pardon
ing the escapade, witness had afterward