Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-18
CREAM AND POISON.
When in Unison, Woe Betakes Poor
Misled London Girls.
THE MURDERER's TRIAL BEGINS.
A Female Companion of His Tells How
He Pursued Ono Victim.
HE THE FIRST TO MENTION THE DRUG

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE trial of Thomas
Neill Cream on charges of wilful murder in
connection with what are known as the
Lambeth poisoning. cases, opened before
Justice Hawkins this morning in the Old
Bailey. The Attorney General, Sir Charlie.
Russell, @. G., M. P; the Hon. Bernard
Coleridge, @ c., M. P; H. Sutton and Mr..
Gill appear on behalf of the Treasury, and
the prisoner is defended by Mr.. Geoghegar
and II. Warburton.
The prisoner walked composedly into the
dock, whence he surveyed the crowd in the
court room with an air of the greatest un'
concern. Neill was charged in the indict-
ment with having murdered Matilda Glover,
Ellen Donworth, Alice Marsh and Emma
Shrivell; attempting to poison Louisa Har-
vey or Harris, and attempting to blackmail
DIR. Broadbent and DR.. Harper. Neill
pleaded mot guilty."
An enormous crowd besieged the Old
Bailey, but only about 8 per cent of those
seeking admission were able to get 10. Sir
Charles Russell began his speech at 1:5C
and did not conclude until 3:45.
Nein the First to Speak of Poison.
He wished to emphasize the fact that
Neill asked his landlady's daughter to as
certain if the Glover girl had died from the
effects Of poison, at a time when no one sus-
pected that she had been poisoned Neill
had. also, charged Dr.. Broadbent with pois-
oning the girl with strychnine. when no.
body except the murderer knew that strych-
nine had been employed to kill her.
Sir Charles then gave many details of
Neill's visit to America, and his friendship,
on his return to London, with HAYNES, who
acted as spy on Neill's actions. Neill
told Haynes that the son of DR.. Harper had
poisoned Louisa Harvey, who was alive
and would give evidence against the pris-
oner.
The first witness examined was Edward
Levi, who identified Nein as physician
he had known in Chicago. Elizabeth Mas
ters testified that she is married oman
separated from her husband. On Tuesday
night at the beginning of October last year,
she remembered a gentleman speaking to
her at Ludgate Hill. She went into the
King Lud public house with him, and fro m
there to the Orient buildings She recog-
nized the prisoner as the man.
He Ought to Be Well Identified.
She then went to Gattis' Music Hall, and
while there saw friend of hers, Elizabeth
May. The prisoner wore fiat top felt hat,
and had on waterproof While at Gattis'
he told her he was o student at st. Thomas
Hospital, and that he had come from
abroad. He showed her two photographs,
one of which he said was of his brother and
the other of his mother He took off his
hat to show her that he was like the photo
graph. She looked at him and noticed that
he was cross-eyed and bald, He told her
that he was staying at a hotel in Fleet
street.
After the performance was over the wit
ness. the prisoner and May left the music
hall together and rode to Ludgate Circus
Neill said he would write to her in few
days when he was settled, and took down
her address. He said he was going to leave
the hotel and take some rooms.
On the following Friday she received a
letter from him. She showed the letter to
Elizabeth May. She kept it for some time
and then destroyed it The letter said he
would call between 3 and B that afternoon,
and would expect to see the letter when he
came, and that she was not to destroy it.
Saw the Man Following His Victim.
About o'clock that afternoon the wit
ness and May were looking out of the win
dow and saw the prisoner coming along the
pathway. There was no name on the letter
but only initials The prisoner was dressed
in dark suit and had on a silk hat He
then appeared to be following girl, who
wore q white apron with straps across the
shoulders. She was carrying basket and
was walking toward Lambeth road. She
knew the girl by sight, having often seen
her pass the house. She saw the girl look
back and smile at the prisoner. A photo
graph of Matilda Glover was her shown to
the witness and she identified it as a pict-
ure of the girl she saw the prisoner follow
ing.
The witness said she and May went down
the street to see what Neill did, and they
followed him and the girl She saw the
girl 60 to q Lambeth road. She stood at
the door with the handle in her hand and
waited for the prisoner, who went up to
the door and went in with her. May
waited for about half an hour to see if be
came out He did not, however, and they
went away. She did not again see the
prisoner, but her friend May spoke to her
about him.
Shortly after she heard of the death of
the girl, whose name, she learned, was
Matilda Clover. That was about fort
night or three weeks after she saw Neill
following her. The next time she saw him
was at the Police Court She had never
seen the girl under the influence of drink,
She heard at the time what it was said she
had died from. She heard nothing about
strychnine until shortly before the inquest
AGLUT OF GRAIN IN RUSSIA.