The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-08
Is Attempting to Lighten the SEN
tencc which Mrs. Osborne
is ALMOST CERTAIN TO Be GIVEN.
a Plea of Hysterla to be Entered In
Her Bchalf:..Grcat Pity felt for Her
Observation-Disclosures tho Treasury Got
Evcn...scntimcnt Is Mt Last Chang.
ing.

LONDON, Eeb. Mrs. Osborne, tho
aristocratic thief and pcrjurer, who,
after stealing her friends jewels, tried
to bring dishonor upon her friends
family, has surrendered to take her trial
in preference 10 lifelong exile with the
constant danger OF arrest. To judge
from the sentimental language heard
OIL all sides and read in tho newspapers,
Mrs. Osborne's surrender coupled with
the fact that she Is about 10 become 4
mother and that she wept in the dock,
constitutes full atonomcnt for hor sins.
1t is evident that powerful friends arc
preparing experimentation in her favor,
in the hope Of influencing the Judge and
jury, and OF justifying tho clemency OF
the crown when shc shall have been
formally found guilty and sentenced.
1t is understood plea OF hysteria Is
to be put forward OIL her behalf, and
TINT there is evidence to justify it in
her own mental and physical condition
and in her family history. Ii the plea
should succeed, there will have been
placed on record tho most remarkable
and prolonged case OF hystcria known
in criminal and medical annals. III
,oyn ATTACK on uysrrp,cs
Many good and ordinarily sensible.
hard-hcadcd Englishmen seem already
to have forgotten that Mrs. Osbornc's'
bvs,cria-or wbotcvar else /. NAV be
culcd-cnablcd her to deceive fond
friends, devoted lover and husband,
s ,alS soac.tors Tnu eii' .Is 'atra
nfbc vorv vnr"c If triunnlInnt suc.
cnve whnn ali lar TlGtti,y AMI lviuy
was nnsot bv the mcrnst accident
NTnch N his mipnIocnd svmnothv ia
doubtlrss duo 10 natural COMMUNICATION
for tic terribly wronged husband Int
Captain Osborne viii best be served by
allowing instice To tnkc its course "a in
Tho cose of nm ordinary norson rather
than To arouse into active INDIGNATION
tho feeling always lolcnt omono thc
masses in this conntry TINT there is one
law ior the rich and another for the
.poor.5
Mrs. Osborne ia bcinr treated in Hol.
loway prison az = sick prisoner in tho
inirmarv To-day ebn is rnnortnd to ho
nbcd md in = vrrv nros,rota condition
II hor hoal,h sho,ild nnrm;t shn viii hn
brouoht before n moristrotc and com.
mitted for trial next Friday. she will
Mead cuiltv nj tho Old Bailey and in nil
probability hcr into will he decided hv
The end ofithis month
"nh"f me iN 'f ~ GOT EVEN
The strange procedure IN the case OF
Mrs. Osborne created intense surprise.
II was So entirely unoxnoctod TINT No
one could account for it. The true
reason is now known. The orieina!
wa Mafi ~. ioi .l'e arrest Oh Mrs: uspofhe
lenses WAS eranted Nv the lord S1avor
and handed to his own police in the
city OF London. To execute it was
taking the wind out OF the sails OF the
Treasury, the Home Office and Scotland
Yard, who ielt icalouslv irritatcd. But
they bided their time, and when Mrs.
Osborne is at length brought IN in the
Guy lIlc 1FcuSuTV declines 10 produce
any evidence against her.
a The lord mayor is TINS unable to
prove his case, and the woman is dis.
( charged Then the treasury is re.
venged and Mrs. Osborne is rcarrcstcd
on the much more serious charge OF
perjury. Had she pleaded guilty and
been sentenced under the first charge, n
term of three months would probably
have been the extent OF her iinprison-
1ncnt. On the more serious charge she
is not likely to get OF with less than
eighteen months, and it is within the
power OF the Judge to intlict a term of
penal seryitudc.
srxr,vr~r ~ g, ,,,, ,xc,.o
ri, -. 80 a. Lao .a, eiAS'iS'' :,
me sentiment OF the upper classes
is changing toward Mrs. Osborne. After
80 - ~ '''o.Vy "''o D ,s' e'''e."
l!ine, ner sacfilicc OF innocent people
ING lechi les: disregard OF almost every
human opliSatlon caused general horror
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