The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1890-07-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE TRIAL. Mr Emaillion and Mr Grainger, instructed Iby Mr Malcolm, Snail/ion, prosecuted on be. half of the Treasury, and Mr Milvain, Q.C., and Mr Scott-Pox, instructed by Mr Thaw, of Eltoekion, defended. Prisoner, on being  placed in the dock and charged, =omen: Wily looked round and then pleaded "Guilty." He spoke in a clear, steady voice, but looked just about the same MI he did when at the Police Court, It seemed to be scarcely expected that his case would be taken so soon in the day, and Mr pfilyain was not at this time in the Court. The Judge, addressing prisoner, paid: Listen to me, Terry. Do you understand you are charged with the wilful, deliberate, and intentional murder of this girl? and you know the consequences which the law attaches to that. You know that sentence of death must follow. With that knowledge do you still plead guilty?  - , I Mr Scott-Fox (interposmg) mentioned that Mr Mavain had not yet arrived, and asked to be ' allowed to communicate with the prisoner. Mr Milvain however came in, and, learning that the prisoner bed pleaded guilty, ' said he did not know what course he could take, except to ask his lordship , to hear the testimony which had been pro- I vided by the prosecution as the condition of the I man's mind when he committed the act. The Judge : I have read the depositions with great care, and there is nothing on the depositions , to suggest that he was insane. Mr Milvain said the enquiry had been made since the prisoner was committed. It was thought desirable to make enquiries regarding the condition of the prisoner's mind, and Dr. Smith, of Sedgefield Asylum, was sent to interview him. Dr. Smith reported to the solicitor who instructed for the prosecution the impression the formed—the strong conviction he formed— regarding the prisoner's mental condition at that I time.  The Judge: When did he see him ? Mr Milvain : Immediately after his committal, my lord, hi consequence of that report Mr Thomas, the prosecuting solicitor, communicated with the Treasury, and the Treasury sent the same doctor to see the prisoner again, and to make further enquiries. Dr. Smith amplified his enquiries, and made all sorts of enquiries, which corroborated the impression he had formed from the personal interview with the prisoner. On that report being made to the Home Office they took still further steps, The Judge: Then do you desire to raise the issue of insanity ? Mr kfilvain : Most certainly, my lord, most oartoinly. That is the point—as to whether he was or was not sane at the time he committed the offence. _  Mr Hamilton: I may say the Treasury thought lb most desirable, as it was their duty, that your lordship and the jury should have every possible evidence as to the state of the prisoner's mind. At the Judge's suggestion hir Milvain then spoke to the prisoner, and intimated that he withdrew the plea of "Guilty." The jury were thereupon sworn, and Mr Hamilton opened THE CASE FOR THE  saiderration, he bad famed the °plaint plum& would plead guilty. —He the Judge, who very closely She witness, be told in his prisoner was not capable of itemize a zZon as to the nature of the act. He that for years he had been mind. His opinion that the prisoner was __ of appreciating the nature and quality of We act was formed from the fact that the prisoner was weak-minded. The language he employed and his manner of speaking led him to that emsekusion. The Judge remarked that many people were folly aware of the moral aspeet of many things they Witness said that prisoner woken( the crime in • ilippant manner, as though he did rvripppreeiste its real 'nerare.-IPurther pl ray Yr Harnalton, witness said prisoner I be had only time to Wad newspapers and  _ that the Re—PlYinslo queettoned opinion the correct lied no during of weak incapable " ct w 1 not nob so examined told Vol the toli IPH sr IJ  him  811 OT BRAD Nuatimut'aiin stucross. He had been very much interested is 'Jack the Her and in the Davies case (the Crewe murder). Witness asked him it the refuting about those crime* had influenced his mind, aed he repudiated it most thoroughly. Emma Terry, sister of the prisoner, deposed to the face that one day her brother came home greatly agitated, wad said be had had & great fright,