The Express. — 1865-07-08 (London, England)

THE PIDGEI3 CHARGE AND THE VERDICT OP  TB/ JURY.  EDINBURGH, nix it The 001Irt met again this morning at 10 dam*. The public ironer in the trial had pertly lowered. mil the done d the coot veer we bregot by headiede id room err to obtain admires to kw the jedgea ewe to the jury.  The Lord Judos Clerk, after retards( to the Fmk atrocity ct the mimes laid to the prison's ohmage, and the singular means by which it wee alleged be perpetrated these minis, said them were three thin. of which the jury most be satisfied upon the evidenca la the feet plate, 'they must be sandal that the deceased died by poison ; it the wand place, that the poison was wilfully edeeinistered far the impose of destroyieg life ; sad in the third Mem, that it was the primmer at the her vibe me ad. ft, or eimed it to ke so admintotered. Beebe goes over the medical widows in regard to the drat vier time, be said the jury would madder wise', it wee pomade to resist theme oimotaidaame Int, that Mrs, Maud died from the adios of amlimany alone, adasialetsred to Isom quantities. mad, secondly,. that Mrs. Taylor died team action al madamy either aloes or in cambiastioa with aconite and aphis. In the case of Mn. Pritchard the midmost( the police having bees takes continuously for • Friedel maths maluded the posibility of either eondist or saiside, sad, therefore, it @nomad imspoeible to Nisi the comiseles that the patios must have bees Mimi: sistseed by some one far the purpose of destroying her Me. The eharsoler sad 'dadaist d Mrs. Taylor sad her goseVall ocodition of body sad mind were such se sot to most the idea of suicide In her cam as a poseibility at all, sad whether she died through the {alums* of antimony NWnistend is several deems, as the inimical reports olsenly bore can, Cr whether her death wee Margin about immediately through swallowin some of the costeals of the bottle of Battley's solution, it was very difficult to saberstand bow bee death was caused by solidest. The jag would ecamider whether they maid reeled the meek. Son that the perm by which Mrs. Taylor was deprived of life was also wilfully ewes for the very parses of destroying life. The third question, which was me of vital interest in the case, was whether the primmer adosinis. iced, or mused to be edmimistered, be either or both of the ladies, the poise by which their lime ware destroyed. His lordship wait minutely into the evidence relating to the illness sad death of the two ladies, directing the ellenMon of Me jury to the fact, sod characterising it as " • Miry remedrable circiumtmace" that throughout, shimmer misses had moues to explain to anybody what he thought was the matter with him wife, he called it parte fever. whoa all the symptoms Indicated the very mime of liwthidag wider fever. His lordskipalsopointedoat to thejiry . that the primmer rep ad to the registrar that Ms. Taylor had bees trader petards for twelve hours, which be kerw TM an absolute falsehood ; and that the disease which Immediately preceded dank was apoplexy, while the snsilikal !Wow* had danammtrated. that there we. mot *tame of apoplexy in the case. The jury would consider whether, la the came of a professional man like the prisoner, he could wader the arcuustaness, if his wife died nadir the affects ef antimonial poison, be so far demigod as to believe she did of gastric fever. After noticing the erideace ma be the poisoned cheese, the egg dip, and the tapioka, his lordship said it appeared berried • doubt that some ens bad been practising a system of poisocing, end ask In poseemion of the primmer were the agents to carry it NU he understood the theory of the prisoner's counsel aright, it wss that Mary M'Leod was the person who mused these murders, and that the jury roost choose be-1 twos km and the primer at the bar by balancing probehilt** ; bat the prieoner's counsel did not Nam saintly is advert to the possibility that both might be begonia. and if that was so they could have very little doubt who was the master and who set on the other; bat he (the Lord Justice Clerk) did sot desire the jury to take this theory, and he thought it quite right that they should consider  *pea the Wailes at PrebebiliWee which el the tw wee the perpetrator od the edam. Was it ceseebrable that a girl. 16 or IT years el age, in the positioa of a sweat maid, could have herself conceived or executed such a desks? eel if she had conceived it, could she have swouted it, subject to the vigilance el the husked of her victim, himself a wean! men? That was tear hard to believe, indeed. On the other head, if the prisoner conceived and executed the design, it was not so dlieult to believe that Nary N'Leod may have been the perfectly UDO:NaCiOII6 and baaweet inetranseat of earryieg out his purpose. If they were 'stilled the warder was mac. witted, the partiselwhe had awes to tire. Pritchard galy could have done it. Some of them were plainly ienceent, and hi owe et ethers the probability of guilt we reduced to two ; al these two ea*, ee both, of thew were guilty of the deed.  The jag noticed to ocuidor thin vordist about twisty minutes put us o'clock, sod retuned is about sallow with as snosimots unliet of Guilty on both eincies.  The Lord Justice Clerk then senteseed the prisoner to be ezemited et Glasgow on the 28th inst., and in pawing suttees* said that the verdict of the jury proceeded nee* ',Memos which could lame no resemble doubt on the minds of them by whom it woe considered. The primer, who had maintained great oompomre throughout the am days of the trial, seemed sweetly effected whoa the verdict ma pronounced, and leant slightly op the poliosessu sitting beside him, but while the sentence was Using recorded be completely regained his mammon, end after senteeee was paned open him be bowed to the judge, and also to the jam before leaving the dock.