Evening journal., 1892-10-17
NELL CREAM ON TRIAL.
The Accused Poisoner's Case
Begun in the Old Bailey.
HISTORY OF THE GLOVER MURDER.

HISTORY OF THE ULOVER MUhDEh.
Thomas Neill Creams Trial for the Muir
der of -Four Women Begun in London
Today-suspicious Purchase of Poisons
and the Contemporary Deaths by
strychnine.
[By Telegraph to the Evening Journall
LONDON, Oct. 17.-The trial of Thomas
Neill Cream, on the charge of having
murdered Matilda Glover by poison was
begun today at the Old Bailey. The court
room was thronged.
G. f. Gill prosecuted on behalf of the
treasury. He said that the prisoner had
been indicted for having murdered Ma
tilda Glover, on October 81 last, at q
Lambeth Road From statements made
by the prisoner himself which had been
verified by inquiries, it was found that
his real name was Thomas Neill Cream.
A sketch of the prisoners life was given
up to the time he took up his residence
In Lambeth Palace Road, from April 9th
to June Bird, 1891, when he was arrested
on the charge blackmailing.
Creams Purchase of Poison.
Mr.. Gill went ON TO state that he was
in a position to prove that October 9th
of last year was the first occasion on
which the prisoner met Matilda Glover
and that he was, on subsequent occasions,
seen going in the direction of the house
where she lodged. The next date of i'm
portance was October 18th, when Cream
began to purchase nux vomica from Mr.
Priest, a chemist in Parliament street, in
quantities ranging from one to four
ounces and also ordered a number Of
small empty gelatine capsules.
On the night of October Goth a man
accompanied Glover to her lodgings and
she died in great agony in the early
morning of the 2lst. The only persons
who witnessed the woman's death were
Lucy Rose, the servant, and Mrs. Phillips
(whose real name was Vowles) the land
lady, and naturally they had no notion
that the symptoms were those of poison
ing by strychnine.
What the Inquest Disclosed.
An extraordinary state of things 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 caus-
ed it, And it was the prisoner who had
stated in a letter which he wrote to DR..
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 information he
possessed as a means Of attempting To
obtain money by blackmailing
The dates in the case were very mater
ial because almost Immediately after the
prisoners arrival in this country the
first time the two women, Glover and
Donworth, met their deaths by poison
ing and when he came to England a sec
ond time in April of this year the two
other women, Marsh and Shrivell died
under similar circumstances.
Shortly after having been seen in the
company of a man who answered the de
scriptiOn Of the prisoner Ellen Donwortf
suddenly staggered, and falling in the
street, died in great agony, and in hel
last moments accused the man will
whom she had been seen of giving he
something out of bottle This was a
the time when the prisoner had thu
strychnine, but not the capsules whicl
he (Mr. Gill alleged were used a few
days later for the purpose of poisoning
Clover.
Found at the Prisoners Lodgings.
When the prisoners lodgings wer
searched case was found, in whicl
there were lot of small bottles contain
ing sugar-coated pills which upon analy
sis by DR.. Stevenson, were found to col
tain about one twenty second of a grail
of strychnine each. 1t was found tina
over twenty of these pills, which wer
very minute, would fit into one of tn
capsules obtained by the prisoner iron
Mr.. Priest, and whilst nine or ten nigh
be fatal dose, twenty would certainl
be so.
Blackmailing Tactics.
In each of the four cases which ha
come under the notice of the police th
murdered woman had received lettt
by post just before her death, the el
velopes of which could not be found an
it seems to have been the prisoners pla
to get possession of those envelope
which had passed through the post il
order that some other enclosure migl
be put into them which could be use
for the purpose of blackmailing persoI
as to whom it was suggested by the pri
oner that he was in possession of Il
eliminating evidence discovered whi
searching the effects of the deceas'
woman.
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