Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-12-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WAINWRIGHTS.  HENRY SENTENCED TO DEATH. THOMAS SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.  TUESDAY.  The trial of the brothers Henry and Thomas Wainwright was resumed on Tuesday mornine, at the Central Criminal Court. The crowd in and around the court was greater than on the previous days of the trial. The Attorney-General, in summing, up- on behalf of the Crown, said that after reviewing the codtae adopted by the oauneel for the defence, that considering the nature of the injuries, it was impossib:e to imagine that the remains were those of la person who had committed suicide—a theory advanced on behalf of the prisoner Henry. If the Imlet found in the pad WAI fired first, and the position showed that it must have been done by the all of a seeme4 person, then was it probable that & woman committing suicide would have fired the remaining shots at the portion of the head to whieh the entrance of the bullets had been trace.: ? Reversing the order of things, was it nossible that the peraon whose rem-due had been found could after giving the first two ehcte fire a third which lodged in the pal in the heir ? If the theory of suicide was incorrect, then it was incumbent on the prisoner Henry to afford an explanation and no explanation, had been brut forward. If it was not suicide, then there must have been foul play. There could be no doubt that it was the prisoner Henry who had mutilated the remains. Notwithstandivig the evidence brought forward, there could be no doubt that in the midele of 1874, Henry Wainwriebt was in emberassed circumstance., and had great difficulty in supplying Mrs King with money. The attempt to pledge the revolver anl the fact of Mrs King having pledged her rings, proved this. As to the Frieake theory advanced by the defence, it was quite evident that in Aneust or September the person met Mrs King who supposed him to be Mr Ftieake, the auctioreer of Colemau-etreet. The letter written to that person by Mrs King was indicative of no undue familiarity existing between- the two. It was not credible that such a woman as Harriet L tne would have gone away with a man who was a cower:Jive stranger. H ariet Lane, it had been proved, was very fond of her children. Conclusive proof was furnished by .the witness Humphreys that the man persouating Frieake was Thomas Wainwright. The date of the purchase of the chloride of lime had been definitely fixed. The date of the firing of the pistol shots was not definitely fixed, but if the remains were of Harriet Lane, there could be no doubt that she had met her death on the 11th Septemher, by means of these pistol shots. The Charing Cross letter was false from beginning to end, and it was dictated to Thomas by a man who knew that at that time Harriet Lane was lying foully murd -red at 215, Whitechapel-road. That letter, part of a cunningly derised scheme, was followed up with the Dover telegrams. Miss Wilmore had been led to believe that Harriet Lane would return, and it was there. fore but natural that seeing ROMS one in a cab like Harriet Line she should jump i.t the conclusion that it was the person, but it had not been proved that it was Harriet Lane. It had been urged that the conduct of Henry Wainwright was not that of a guilty man; but Stokes and Alice Day might hAVC been resorted to for Vie purpose of averting suspicion. Was it not the conduct of a guilty man to attempt to bribe the police with £2OO, as Henry Wainwright did on the day of his arrest. After ample time for deliberation, how lame was the explanation given by 'aim with regard to the manner in which he came in posses. on of the bundles containing the remains. •The learned counsel then wont into the medical evidence, and maintained that it conclusively showed that the remains were those of Harriet Lane.  The Attorney-General completed hie reply at five minutes to three o'clock, and the court adjourned.