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loved him.
The opening day of the trial, however,
made it plain that Adelaide Bartlett
alone was to be tried for her life; and
on the second day George Dyson ap-
peared as leading witness for the prose-
cution
But heavily as the dice appeared
loaded against the unhappy woman,
fate had in store for the young widow
great piece of good fortune. She had
lost her lover, but had acquired in his
in the person of the already famous
advocate, Sir Edward Clarke He firmly
believed in Adelaide's innocence, and
made up his mind to save her.
From the day he became her official
defender Clarke devoted himself entirely
to the case. Though member of Par
lament, he did not go near the House
of Commons, and instead of working at
his chambers, where he might have been
interrupted, he stayed at home, though
while there he did not open a book or
glance at a newspaper. Instead he gave
himself up entirely to the study of
chloroform, and to the acquiring of i'm
portant medical witnesses. What he
hoped to prove was that it would be
impossible for any human being who
was not skilled physician to administer
chloroform by inhalation and so pro-
duce insensibility, and then to follow
up the doing of that by pouring liquid
chloroform down the unresisting throat
of the drugged victim.
But though to the end of his long life
and he lived to be 90-Sir Edward
Clarke always declared that with the
aid of his medical witnesses he had
proved this view of his to be a fact,
what really made all the difference to
his client was the moving and eloquent
way in which he expounded to the jury
the amazing story of Adelaide's strange
married life. Also the convincing fashion
in which he set forth what he declared
could alone fit in with those facts
which we're already admitted.
He declared that what had really
happened was as follows: Adelaide, while
willing to be the faithful and loving
companion Of Edwin, had been induced
to consider herself as bound to George
Dyson. That being so, she had held it
to be a duty to her womanhood to
resist certain suggestions which had
been made to her by her husband since
their arrival in London. With his full
assent, she had procured the chloroform
with the object of sprinkling 10 or IL
drops on a handkerchief and waving it
in his face with a view-as she had
actually once said in her husbands
presence to her landlady-to soothing
him and putting him to sleep.
On the fatal night, before she had
actually used the chloroform, the two
she and Edwin-had talked amicably
together, though he had appeared
deeply grieved at her decision that their
relations should continue to be what
they had long been. According to her
and with that view Sir Edward Clarke
concurred-grief at his wife's firm deci-
sion that there should never be effectual
marriage between them had given Edwin
Bartlett sudden impulse to end his life.
The last word rested with Adelaide's
official accuser, and the judge summed
up dead against her. The jury con-
sidered its verdict for long time, but
finally brought the prisoner in mot
guilty"
1t is within my private knowledge
that this good friend kept up his ac-
quaintance with the singularly Inflated
uouoan and assisted her tn find work
of q kind which distracted her mind
from the terrible experience she had
gone through.
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