The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-03-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AOCUSED'EI VERSION OP THE AFFAIR.  Madame Hermann, who is in custody charged with the wilful murder of Mr. Stephan in bar room at Grafton-street, Tottenham Court-road, has given to her legal advisers a version of the affair which virtually confirms the statement which she made to Detsctiv•-inspector Turner while proceeding to the Marlborough-street Pollee-apart, Tint of all there was the quarrel between her and the deceased, who struck her a blow on the bead with the poker. This she lost away from Wm, and retaliated with Wiwi Mama, which landed es his head. Hermann grassidad to declare that after the first scuffle la whleh the blows wire stoma the deceased, who mimed to be in a dosed castillisa, sat down la the edam, armchair, only, however, shortly after to reel or the chair and fall on M the fender. His bead strait what the feeder vielleal". and then it was that filimbroa setsMiondthe terrible wound, 3ela. teal.istelaingseer thodigla ear. Stephens saursawn4 as he lag eirelidosd on the floor with his hood in the fender, "list me up." This Madame Her, according to Mr story, endeavoured to do. it was after Use greatest exertion, and with the utmost . that she managed to extricate hie bead time the mod to et him back to bis sear im olks chair. Virdlioj that her companion was lode, a imp blood, from this wend over the sailwrsid and that he was becoming very darted out to the Grafto• pubilabnelre ale the opposite side of the road, just basso dogleg lint, rocurod half a pint or berawty. Oa vearrahrg to the house she bathed his woomes with mid water and brandy, but all her efforts to stammb the flow of blood from the gash in the shall indisiod by the fender proved unavailing. Madams Mormana avers that she did not give the deceased sag of the brandy to drink, and this coincides with the statement made by the divisional surgeon that at the post-mortem examination he Sid not discover any traces of alcohol in the dead man's stomach. Mrs. Hutchings, she said, was quite right when she stated in her evidence that after the fall she over. beard a female voice say, "Speak. speak Mesh: did you hurt yourself when you fell?" for she did use some such exclamation. It was equally true that the dressmaker's daughters, when they came home from the ball about 4 o'clock, did hear moaning in her sitting-room, for Stephens remained in the wicker chair all night moaning and groaning. She herself sat up with the man right through the night, and did her utmost to bring him round. About 7 o'clock, when the excessive bleeding from the principal wound over the right ear seemed to have abated somewhat, the injured man apparently dropped off to sleep. When, however, she shook him and endeavoured to rouse him some two hours afterwards all her efforts were unavailing. No response came, and as there was not the slightest movement of the body she came to the conclusion that Stephens was dead. Then it was, so the statement continued, that the conscience-stricken woman, appalled at the gravity of her situation, rushed downstairs—as she alleged—and called on Mrs. Bricknell, the oocupii,r of the ground-floor rooms, to assist ha  An inquest has been bead at Oxford upon the remains of the Hon. Mrs. Charles FeiWing, who had been missing from bet home for • week, and whose body was found in the Cherwell on Saturday after. noon. A verdict of found drowned was returned. The Limerick and Liverpool Company's steamer Ardamuft, while on her last voyage to the Mersey. picked up a lifeboat lout by We Melia steamer Cephalonia in mid-Ocean. After the rescue Of ship's crew the boat drifted away, but when found It was little the worse. It was conveyed to the owners.