The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-08-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE BALRAM MYSTERY.  The Bravo inquiry was resumed on Monday. Mrs. Harlond said she bad known Mrs. Cox about twenty years. Mrs. Col made a communication to her with regard to the intimacy between Dr. Gully and Mrs. Bravo. She advised Mrs. Cox not to tell her counsel of Mrs. Bravo's confession. Her reason for giving that advice was because the matter was so shocking. Mrs. Cox told her that she knew nothing of the circumstance until November last. Mr. Madilocks, assistant with ! Mr. Smith, chemist, Balham, said he would sell tartar ! emetic to any medical man that was known to him ; ! but he should ask for an order, which would be filed. Dr. Gully was in the habit of dealing at Mr. Smith's shop. Mr. Brooks, solicitor, said that if Mr. Bravo had died ou the night when he became ill the whole of the property would have passed from Mrs. Bravo; but he made a will in her favour before his death next day. When he heard of Mr. Bravo's and Mrs. Ricardo's en. gagement he cougratulated the former on the fact. His reply was that he did not want his congratulations —he only wanted her money. Mr. Henry Smith, surgeon, said tartar emetic would cure persons of drinking, propensities. The deceased, whom he had known from a child, might have taken antimony to annul the effects of the laudanum. On Tuesday Mrs. Bravo, in reply to Mr. Lewis, said there was no sort of familiarity with Dr. Gully between May and November, 1875, which she wished kept secret from anyone. Being closely questioned by Mr. Lewis with regard to an allusion in a letter to her maid, wit. ness burst into tears and appealed to the Coroner and jury to protect her from questions which only gave her pain, and were not material to the enquiry. In farther examination, witness said that it did occur to her that Mr. Bravo's connection before his marriage might have been one of the causes which led him to commit suicide. Dr. Gully knew of her engagement to the deceased. After hearing of it, Dr. Gully wrote her an angry letter, which she burned. She did tell Inspector Clark to go to Dr. Dill's to acquire a particular piece of information that she had communicated to him. If questioned as to the nature of that communication she should re.  fuse to answer, as it was a subject on which she would speak to a medical man alone. Mrs. Bravo's examination being closed her evidence was read over and signed, and the enquiry adjourned. On Wednesday Dr. Gully, who offered himself for examination, said, in a low, depressed voice, that he was sorry it was too time, as stated, that there had been a criminal intimacy between himself and Mrs. Bravo. He felt his position most bitterly, but he &dared on his solemn oath that neither directly nor indirectly had he had had anything to do with the death of Mr. Charles Bravo. Since the marriage he had not bad any communication with Mrs. Bravo, and since 1842, when he went to Malvern, he had never prescribed antimony nor possessed it, and had never written an anonymous letter in his life. The suggestion that he had put tartar emetic into the laurel-water bottle was a wicked and infamous falsehood. The criminal intimacy with Mrs. Brave commenced long after the death of Captain Ricardo. He knew Mr. Bravo was aware of that intimacy. He had been at one time very much attached to Mrs. Ricardo, and believed his affection VMS returned. The Court then adjourned.  DEATH OF AN Aintotaarr.—The celebrated aeronaut, M. Duruef, has just died from the rupture of a blood vowel. He became famous at the time of the siege of Paris, when he was the first man to leave the city in a b illoon. The most prominent event in his adventurous life was his effort to cross to England in a balloon, accompanied by hi 9 wife. Oa that occasion he was overtaken by a -Worm, and was on the point of being precipitated into the middle of the Channel, when he was rescued by the crew of a coasting vessel. It wan after that exploit that the medal of the Aeronautic Club of London was awarded to the daring navigator of the air. In the course of his life hi. Duruof made seventyfive ascensions,and his ambition was to raise the number to 100.