The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1890-11-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE OXFORD SHOOTING CASE.  EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS. Miss Kate Ricci's. was on Monday brought up before the Viestinmeelke of the Word Univacsity, Canon Boya, on reuse* Irmo the Police Courkeberind with fhs• tildesapiedß:l=. of Dr. PrankietquMaalier of en uim College, br him,Thursday lea The chamber in 'ch the Court was hat we. extremely. woe% and the reeeeihelfe. were considerably heaspesed owing in tin 17101111811 state. The prisoner looked extsamely :hyena walked with evident difficulty, lowing the arm of her attendant. She evidently safierri very much, and was accommalated with a mat during theproceedings. Mr T. W. Melissa, solicitor, appeared to prosecute, and Mr Puller, solicitor, de- I fended. TheVice-Chancellor en tared the court aceomponied by numerous Univerzity functionaries. On the opening of the door for this salminsion of the public there was an extmordineey sionitof disorder. Several hundreds of anasqpithraitedetedie a rush for the entrance, and in the crush sisrisral were seriously injured, loud criesreaebing Iltsessolr room. On the open ng of the proccedinptheenimmes appeared in adaaed state, and the cham.bia be read over to her several times helm rible, we. aide to understand it.—The Yiee-Chaneelkw- theft asked the prisoner's solicitor whether, under the circumstances, he was prepared to go on with the ease.—Mr !team said that unless there wee medical evidence to show that she was unable to understand the charge the ease must go on.— Ultimately the prisoner said she understood the charge, and the Laze proceeded. —Mr Haines then gave evidence of meeting the prisoner on Thursday at Dr. Bright's. On Sunday morning he receited from prisoner a letter confessing that she had shot at Dr. Bright, but had no intention of harming him. She bought the revolver two months ago in Pall Mall, and hardly knew what she had done while at Oxford. She was now heartily sorry, and put herself at the mercy of Dr. Bright and Mr Haines. Witness said that on several occasions recently he had had letters from prisoner threat..ining to murder the whole of the Bright family. One letter con tamed the expreeaiou, "By God! I will be a murderess!" The prisoner said that she was his (witness's) wife, and had the marriage certificate. It was not true that he was married to the woman, or had at say time promised her marriage. —Dr. Bright's butler and the porter of University College repeated their evidence as given at the ' polies enquiry.—Drs. Collier and Wingfield gave evidence of attending Dr. Bright, and detailed , tkhe character of his injuries. Dr. Bright's injuries 1 ' confined him to hisbed, audit would hardly besote for him to leave his room during this week. The ' wound, however, had healed so well that there wee every reason to hope that no complications would now arise.—lnspector Dixon and Superintendent Head gave evidence of the arrest of the prisoner in London.—A barmaid from the Mitre Hotel, Oxford, gave evidence of receiving a letter purporting to come from the prisoner, whom she did not know, saying that if Dr. Bright thought he could gel his daughter married without a scandal, he had made ii great mistake. The letter also contained some vulgar statements about Dr. Bright's family, and some poetry was also enclosed. The letter also said that the people of Orford would have another Hampstead murder soon, but there would be more than two.— A prison warder having given evidence of the taking of a statement from the prisoner on Monday, the case for the prosecution closed.—The ViceChancellor read the charge over, but the prisoner made no reply, and her solicitor announced that she reserved her defence.—The depositions of the witnesses were then mad over and signed. The Vim-Chancellor then formally committed the prisoner to take her trial at the sunning Assizes on the charge of attempted murder.