Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-12-10
the Oldest barrlster living, or the

! whole history OF criminal JurlSprll-
dence: that he need not recall to mem
DRY the celebrated cases Of Borgia,
Essex, Brinvilliers or Lafarge to
prove that youth, beauty, womanhood
, and high rank combined We're not In
compatible with deep guilt and dark
crimes in their possessors; that he did
not mean to draw any comparison be-
tween the female fiends he had men,
toned and the prisoner at the bar.
for he should soon prove Eudora Lea
ton had succeeded in reaching Il
much higher point upon the dad EN-
inence" of criminal fame than had
ever been attained by Lafarge, Brin-
villiers, Essex or Borgia.
1.-The prisoner" he said, "of Indian
1arentage. was the only child Of the
late Honorable Charles LeatOn and
his wife. Oolah Kalooh, of Lahore.
and. doubtless. she must have derived
from her mother all those subtle. Sc
cretive and trcacherous elements or
character for which the East Indian is
noted. while she gained from her faith
err all that rare. dangerous botanical
knowledge of the deadly plants of the
country. the study of which had once
been his favorite pastime land the ac-
Gently her most fatal medium of de-
structiOn.
.By the death of her parents" he
continued. "she was left an orphan
ut the early age of sixteen years. Her
uncle, the late Lord Leaton, as soon
as he received intelligence of her con-
dition. dispatched special messenger
to India to bring her home to his own
house. Upon her arrival he, as we'll
as his whole family, received the Or
phan with the utmost tenderness,
placing her at once upon an equal
footing with his only daughter and
sole heiress."
"But how" inquired the prosecutor.
''has the benevolence, confidence and
affection Of this honored family been
repaid by their cherished protege?
They have been repaid by the black
est ingratitude. the foulest treachery,
the deepest guilt; they have been re-
paid with death-the insidious. prot
tracted, dreadful death Of slow poison
poison administered by her whom
they received into the bosom of their
family.
"And what" he asked, tempted
this young, beautiful and high-born
girl to plunge herself into this deep
Gehenna of guilt, misery and infa-
my?
1.-THE basest motive that could influ-
cree human nature-the love of lucre!
She knew that in the event OF the
death of Lord and Lady Leaton and
their daughter. she must he the sole
inheritOr Of the whole Leaton estate;
and for this Inheritance she has per-
petrated crimes unequalled in atroci-
ty by her most notorious predecessors
Of criminal celebrity.
':Slie has sacrificed her nearest kind
rcd i'll this world. and her dearest in
terests in the next. She has destroyed
those who sheltered her. Yes, she
whom they received into their homes
and hearts. warmed at their house
hold fire, cherished within their bos-
om's love, she drugged their daily
food and drink with the deadliest poi
sons. until they wasted, withered and
persisted before her, as plants before
tho breath of the death blowing sir
Deco!
LAS. under the action of this slow
poison, one after another sank upon
the last couch of illness, she it was
who superseded every honest and
trustworthy attendant, and with de-
ceitful zeal and deadly purpose, hoy
cred about the bed of death!
Her hand it was that changed the
heated pillow. bathed the burning
brow, and then placed the poisoned
cup to the parched lips that thanked
her for the cooling draught and
blessed her for her loving care.
"Her hand it was that wiped the
death-dew from the faded forehead,
returned the last pressure Of the fail
ing fingers, and closed the glazing
eyes of the dead yictim-dead by her
deed. But they
"Are in their graves. where she,
Their murderess. soon shall be-
"For she has lost the game At
which she staked her soul. and sits
there now to wait her doom.
'Bowed down and crushed almost
unto death is she? Aye. not by grief
for her sin, but for that sins detec-
ton and despair
Beautiful, is she? Aye! beautiful
as all the fatal growths Of her native
cline! beautiful as the spotted SER
pent of her jungles-as the striped
ugress of her forests-as the stately
ignatia Of her plains!
THANK heaven, she is not native
of civilized and Christian Europe. but
Of that deadly cline where the fierce
heat Of the sun draws from the earth
the most noxious plants, and develops
in man and brute the most ferocious
passions-the land of the upas and
the cobra-the land of NenA Sahib!
"But enough" he concluded. He
would not deal in invective, or seek
to cxaggerate that guilt which no
wc-ds Of the prosecutor could magDi-
fly. He had stated the facts of the
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