The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-27
man prepared to go in and bear 1t than

man prepared to go in and bear 1t than as a person who contemplated suicide.
 Suddenly Wright rell backward as if he had tainted. The officer who was wait ing to take him to Brixton prison ran to Kings College Hospital, which is nearby, conscious man was propped up on two chairs. The doctor came quickly. His first thought was that Wright had fallen in an ordinary apoplectic fit, but 1t was noticed that his heart began gradually to give out and before another doctor could arrive, Whitaker Wright, within one hour of the time he had been sentenced. was dead.
 An examination of the body, made at a late hour tonight, points strongly to the fact that death was due to poison. The post mortem examination will be held Wednesday.
 Wright's friends said all along that while he was hopeful of his acquittai they were certain he would not survive a sentence and would commit suicide. This apparently Is what happened.
 Justice Directs Jury.
 In summing up. Justice Bigham said he would ask the jury to find general yer dict of guilty of one or more of these charges. They must not be doterred from finding verdict of guilty by the sugges- tion that such a verdict would cast a siur on the memories of Lord Dufferin and Loch. It would not do anything of the kind. Their conduct was consistent in their having honestly made mistakes
 Dealing with the evidence. Justice Big ham described as singular the way In which thousands of pounds sterling be- came millions on paper so far as the Lakeview shares were concerned.
 The London and Globe Standard were gambling concerns which excited his in- dignation. In the course of his long ex- perfence Justice Bigham had never be- fore heard of anything like the transac- tons which preceded the hopeless bank ruptcy of the London and Globe F'inan- cial corporation. Justice Bigham conclud- ed his reference to Wright's career by re- ferring to positions which the defendant claims to have occupied in New York and Philadelphia and said Wright had built up fine position for himself in two or three years and if it was necessary to secure a motive in his actions it would be found in his desire to maintain this posi- ton. At the same time it was said that after the crash of the London and Globe Finanial operations, he found himself with two million pounds of worthless se- curities.
 The jury returned a. verdict of guilty and the court imposed a sentence of seven years penal servitude.
 Woman's Cry is Heard.
 The sentence was followed by com- motion in a distant part of the court and the faint cry of @ woman in distress was heard.
 One man shook hands with Wright us the later left the court by the private ext accompanied by his counsel. Immediate ly afterward Wright was taken suddenly i'll and collapsed in the ante-room of tine court.
 He grew rapidly worse and in less than an hour after his sentence, the financier was dead.
 The tragic end of the case created tremendous sensation. According to court attendant who was in the ante-room when Wright was stricken. the latter was talking to Solicitor Leeds about his fam lily and giving instructions regarding their future, while jailors were waiting outside to take him to Brfxton prison, when wright suddenly stumbled and fell forward. Mir Leeds and the court att tendant caught him and put him in chair, placing his feet on another char. They then summoned a doctor.
 Wright almost immediately became 1fi- conscious and never spoke again.
 The doctor, when he arrived. said noth- ing could be done and by S:55 D. m. the financier was dead.