Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-17
LoNDON's PoIsoNER on TRIAL.
Thomas Neil Cream. Charged With Mursle
Arraigned in ssofd Raitev,,

Thomas Neil Cream, Charged With Murder,
Arraigned in "oid Bailey"
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE trial Of Thomas Neil
Cream on the charge Of having murdered Ma
tilda Clover by poison was begun today at the
"Old Bailey" The court room was thronged.
Mr.. c. F. Gill prosecuted on behalf of the treas
ury. he said that the prisoner had been in
dicted for having murdered Matilda Clover on
October q last at n Lambeth road.
CREAMS HISTORY.
From statements made by the prisoner him
self, which had been verified by inquiries. IL
was found that the prisoners real name was
Thomas Neil Cream. He was born in Glas-
gov in 1850 and was taken by his parents
when very young TO America. where as a
young man he took a degree at the college in
Montreal. He afterward came back to London.
where he attended lectures at St. Thomas Hos
pital with view OF becoming an NJ. Il. C. s.,
but did not succeed. Subsequently he went to
Edinburgh and took two degrees, in which he
became fully qualified medical man. Leav-
ing England again he went TO Ontario and
after practicing there for a short time he went
to Chicago, where he practiced as Thomas
Neil Cream
Passing over the intervening wears. at the be-
ginning Of October, 1891. the prisoner came
back to London and proceeded TO Anderton's
Hotel where he stayed on the 9th and 18th of
the month. From there he went TO live
at No. los Lambeth Palace road. until
the 9Th Of the following January, and after
ward went back to America where he remained
until the beginning of April. Returning then
to London he took up his residence again in
Lambeth Palace road from April TO June 3.
when he was arrested on the charge Of black
mailing.
MEETING THE CLOVER GIRL
Mr.. Gill went on to state that he was in a
position to prove that October 9 OF last wear
was the first occasion on which the prisoner
met Matilda Clover, and that he was. on subse-
quent occasions, seen going in the direction
OF the house where she lodged. The
next date OF importance was October Is,
from Mr.. Priest, a chemist in Parliament
street, in quantities ranging from one TO four
ounces. and also ordereda number Of small empty
gelatine capsules. On the night Of October 20
a man accompanied the Clover girl to
her her lodgings and she died in
R' of fss ai.t The e only pspsen.
who saw the death Of Miss Clover we're Lucy
Rose, the servant, and Mrs Phillips Whose
real name was Yowles) the landlady, and nstur-
ally they had no notion that the symptoms
were those of poisoning by strych-
was disclosed at the inquest, by which
one was driven to the conclusion that at the
end OF October no human being could know
how the woman Clover had come by her death
but the man who had caused it. And it was the
prisoner who stated in letter which he wrote
TO DIR. Broadbent the particulars as to
her name, where she lived, how she
died and the nature of the poison
which killed her, and used the infortna-
ton he procured as a means Of attempting to
obtain money by Matchmaking. The dates in
the case were very material because almost i'm
naslta faly aff fln
country the first time the two women, Clover
and Donworth, met their deaths by poisoning,
snd when he came TO England q second time in
April Of this year the t~o other women, Marsh
and Shriyell, died under similar circumstances
THE DoNwoRrH MURDER.
Shortly after having been seen in the COM
pany of q man who answered the description of
the prisoner Ellen Donworth suddenly sing
gered. and, falling in the street. died in great
agony, and in her last moments accused the
man with whom she had been seen OF Civ
ing her something out of a bottle. This
was at the time when the prisoner had the
strychnine, but not th1 capsules, which he (Mr
Gill alleged were used few DAYS later for the
purpose of poisoning the Clover women.
When the prisoners lodgings were
searched case belonging to the Har-
were a lot of small bottles containing
sugar-coated pills, which, upon analysis by DR..
Stevenson, we're found 10 contain about one
twenty-second of grain of strychnine each. II
WAS found that over twenty Of these pills. which
were very minute, would fit into one of the
capsules obtained by the prisoner from Mr.
Priest, or probably thirty il they were smashed
together, and while rhine or ten might be a
fatal dose, twenty would certainly be 20.
In each of the four cases which had come
under the notice of the police the murdered
woman had received a letter by post just be-
f,x hor III. AZ ~
not be found. and il seemed to have been the
prisoners plan to get one of those envelopes
which had passed through the post in order
that some other Enclosure might be put into
it. which could be used for the purpose of
blackmailing physicians. TO whom It was sug-
gested by the prisoner that he was in posses
sion Of discriminating evidence found while
searching the effects of the deceased woman.