Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1875-12-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TUESDAY.  The trial of the brothers Henry and TI °mall Wainwright wee resumed on Tuesday mo-nin 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 sumtninq up on behalf of the Crown, said that after reviewing the course adopted by the counsel for the defence, that consideriugthe nature of the injuries, it was impossible to imagine that the remains were those of a person who had committed suicide—a theory advanced on behalf of the prisoner Henry. If the bu`let found in the pad was fired first, and the position showed that it must have been done by the aid of a second person, then was it probable that a woman committing suicide would have fired the remaining shots at the portion ot the head to which the entrance of the bullets had been ;raced ? Reversing the order of things, was it possible that the person whose remains had been found coult after giving the first two shots fire a third which lodged in the pad in the hair? If the theory of suicide was incorrect, then it was incumbent on the prisoner Henry to afford an explana tion and no eXplanatien,lsad been !kr gittlorward, If it was not 'suicide, thin there Inuit have been foul play. There could be no donbt that it was the prisoner Henry.who had mutilated the remains. Notwithstanding the evidence brouebt forward, there colud be no doubt that in the noidole of 1874, Henry Wainwrtgbt was in embarassed circumstances, and had great difficulty in supplying Mrs King with money. The attempt to pledge the revolver and 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 August or September the person met Mrs King who supposed him to be Mr Meeks, the auctioneer of Coleman-street. 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 Lane would have gone away with a man who was a comparative stranger. Thrriet Lane, it had been proved, was very fond of her children. Conclusive proof was furnished by the witness Humphreys that the man personatiug Frieake was Thomas Wainwright. The date of the purchase of the chloride if 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 he no doubt that she had met her death on the 11th September, 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 Lana was lying bonny murd red at 215, Whitechapeldoad. 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 wr therefore but natural that seeing sOme one in a cab like Harriet Lane she should jump at 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 hive been resorted to for the purpose of averting sttepicion. Was it not the conduct of a guilty man to attempt to bribe the police with .£2OO, as Henry Waiuwright did on the day of his arrest. Alter ample time for deliberation, how lame was the explanation given by him with regard to the manner in which he came in possession 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.