The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-22

convict a murderer. A youth named John Toms was charged at Lancaster assizes with the murder Of man
 named CulsEaw. Culshaw had been killed by a pistol shot, and the weapon
 had evidently been discharged from close quarters. The evidence against
 Toms was meager and unsatisfactory
 until there was produced in court a terribly bloodstained piece of paper. It
 was handed to the jury and examined
 by them. and in it were still plainly l discernible the words of a north coun- try comic song. The piece of paper
 had been recovered from the fatal wound in the dead mans head and
 had been the wad for the assassin's
 pistol. A song book was found in
 Toms pocket and part of one page of
 it was missing. The piece found in
 the dead mans wound corresponded with the lost part exactly. Toms was,
 of course. found guilty and hanged.
 Franz Muller, the murderer of MT.
 Briggs in a railway carriage on the
 North London line. made off with his victims top hat. When caught sev- eral months late a top hat declared to
 be MT. Briggs was found in his | possession. Its shape, however, had | been considerably altered, and Muller
 declared that the hat had been bought | by himself. Was it Mir. Briggs hat? If it is MT. Briggs hat" said the hat ter who supplied him, you may find a
 scrap of tissue paper in the lining. Mir. Briggs hat was too large for him., so I 4a Eolya | the lining was turned down., a. scrap of paper, which had adhered to the leath- CT. discovered. Muller had a bigger I head than MT. Briggs and had. there | fore. resolved to take the paper out. He left that little bit, however--sutff- cient to establish the identity of the
 hat beyond all. question as that MT. | Briggs was wearing when he was 1 murdered. .. ..., l Never was a murder more delib-
 erately planned to baAe suspicion than that of Percy Malcolm by Dr. Lam
 son. Lamson. it will be. remembered,
 paid avisit to Malcolm at his school at | Wimbledon and murdered him with | aconitine put in place of sugar in q I soluble capsule As son as Malcolm
 had swallowed the capsule Lamson set off by that nights mail to Paris,
 whence he returned to give himself up
 when he heard that he was suspected of the crime. Lamson imagined that 1 his return of his own free will from I abroad would proposes people i'm
 mensely in his favor. The whole affair
 was cleverly planned, but the murderer
 was in one respect strangely forgetful. When his clothes were taken from
 him and searched, the police found in
 one of his pockets piece of soiled and lcrumpled paper, on which were some I notes made in Lamson's handwriting.
 They were notes on the effects and symptoms of vegetable irritant poisons
 Among them was acontine. Lamson I had forgotten that fatal note. :
 In a Scotch case in which young woman was charged with the murder
 of her father by poisoning him at the instigation of her lover, a scrap of
 paper played most important part.
 The old gentleman had most emphat- ically refused his consent to his daugh-
 ter marrying her lover and had threat
 ened to disinherft her if she did so. His | HGeblLiI NcS SUll6thS1clplC tliu tAG %yOuil5
 fellow, after some time, succeeded in persuading the infatuated girl to ad- minister. arsenic to her parent in slow ly increasing doses. One day a ser Evant surprised the wretched girl while she was preparing some food for the old man. The girl semed dismayed by the servent's sudden appearance, hast fly thrwe a piece of paper which she had crushed into ball in her hand upon the fire, and then disappeared with the little tray in which the food I was standing. The servant, as soon as
 her mistress had left the room, rescued the paper from the fire. It had been crushed together so tightly that only the outside portion was consumed in
 the flames, and in the creases of it the lresvant detected kind of white dust. She kept the paper, and when her master died and her mistress was arrested and charged with his murder, it was produced in court. The analyst
 had no difficulty in ascertaining that
 the white dust was arsenic, and the
 murderess was condemned to death
 and was executed. =,+t <
 Who was the murderer of Mary Web-
 Der? was question which some years Iago sorely perplexed the Lancashire lpolice authorities. Webber was a ser
 want, and left her mistress's house one
 evening to keep an appointment with
 respect to which she had, her mistress
 subsequently remembered, appeared lpeculiarly anxious. Mary <Webbei Inever returned home. Her dead body
 was discovered the next day in, a lone. ly spot near wood There. was nc idoubt she had been murdered-strang led by some person with large, power. Iful hands, the fingermarks of Whicf lwere to be seen upon her throat.
 No one could say who it was she hat gone to meet, but it was generally sus, pected that she must have had an ap. pointment with some lovers at tha spot where she met with her death Upon examining her box, the dectee. tives found three notes in a strange handwriting, seemingly disguised, ant only signed "G. L. These letters were evidently from an admirer. They were peculiarly disappointing, however, fol each contained only few words mak
 ling appointments for meetings at va. rious places, one appointment being fol the fatal night at the spot where Web