The Poole Telegram. — 1886-03-12 (Poole, Dorset, England)

PIMLICO MYSTERY.  SCENE IN COURT.  Adelaide Bartlett and Ray. George Dyson were further charged at Westminster Police-court on Friday on remand—the former with the wilful murder of Edwin Bartlett, her husband, and the latter as accessory before the fact. Long before the hour fixed for hearing the Court was crowded. Both peisoners looked better in health, and they seemed inure composed. Mr. A. Braxton Hicks, the deputy-coroner, recalled, produced the depositions of the Rev. George Dyson taken at the inquest, which he read. (In this the male prisoner deposed to buying chloioform at the request of Mrs. Bartlett, obtaining it at the various places, as proved by witnesses last week. He told the vario...s chemists that he wanted it for cleaning clothes, as he did not wish to describe to them what he really wanted it for. Before buying it he had recommended Mrs. Bartlett to get it from the doctor, but she objected saying that he would not believe that she understood drugs and had been accustomed to attend her husband.) Neither of the learned counsel asked the Coroner any questions. Dr. Leach, further examined, said he did not call on the 30th December to see deceased. On the evening of his death he saw Mrs. Bartlett, when something was said about the possibility of his having got hold of poison. She said he had asked for two opium pills, but she was glad she had not given theni to him. After the poat-mortera examination witness communicated the result to Mrs. Bartlett and Mr. Dyson. The next time he saw Dyson was on the Wednesday. The male prisoner here mile excitedly in the dock, and said, "I won't sit here and be lied about. Look at his face, sir." The magistrate intimated that anything he wished to say shculd be stated through his advocate. Witnese, on January 21th, told the female prisoner of a rumour he had heard about the contents of the stomach. Mrs. Bartlett then said that latterly she had possessed herself of a large bottle of chloroform to protect herself against. Mr. Bartlett. She said, "Mine has been a very peculiar life, doctor. 1 was married at the age of 16, and Mr. Bartlett had peculiar views regarding matrimony. He considered a man should have two wives—one for love and the other for use. (Laughter, which was at once silenced.) I have always loved children, and desired through the first years of my married life to become a mother." She also said, "The child died at its birth. My yearning to beeome a mother then ceased, and we resumed the former terms of our married life." She went on to say that during the latter part of her husband's life the feelings which had been absent for 12 years began to manifest themselves in him, and that she told her husband that she felt it a duty to her womanhood and to the man to whom, at his wish, she was practically affianced, that the terms of their intercourse should remain as they previously had been. She said, "You know you have given me to Mr. Dyson, and it would not be fair." She also told me she reasoned with him from tune to time, but that when I (witness) had got him better his symptoms became so pressing that she devised a means of showing she was in earnest. She said she possessed herself of a bottle of chloroform. I asked her how she got it, and she refused to &hewer. Mr. Moloney: Did she say what she got the chloroform for ?—Yes. The Magistrate: Give her words. Witness: "I took it out of my drawer when Edwin was in bed, and told him that I meant to put some on a hankerchief and wave it in front of his face as often as the occasion required." She said she told this to her husband, and she added, "I never kept a secret from Edwin." The case was again adjourned.