The Express. — 1864-10-28 (London, England)

POISONIIO CAST IN SWITZERLAND.  The Court of Anises of Berne commeooed on Moods/ the trial of Dr. Bertusao Demme, • profemarof the Uuinnity of Barite, aged 30, oa a charge of hariog oa the 15th F•bratz7 last caused the &alb of M. Trampy, • hanker sod oommistioe meet, by administeriag a strati dose of strychiee wild* attending him as • physician. The widow of the demand was also charged se aa sccomplios is the crime.  Thecirotimetesces of the cans, as stated in the indiettneot, are briefly as follows :—Oo the night of the 15th February last, M. Trumpy died at his country seat at Webeni, near Berne. Two days later rumour. reached the Prefect of Berne that the demoted had committed suicide. He therefore at mei applied to the premier, Dr. Demme, who bad attended the deceased io has last illness, to preset a report am to the cause of death. The prisoner at ooce acceded to the demand, and presented • repcet is which he attributed the death to apoplexy. As this statement WaS sot is accordance with 'mown facts, the Public Prosecutor, Os has part, called oaths prissier to draw up a second report, which be did, sad in it attributed the death of M. Trumpy to poisoning by stryobsioe. Two emioest physicians of Betas, Dr.. lCupper and Kninserd, were then empowered by the aathonties to make a poet-roortem examisatios of the body, sod the costente of the intestines having been anavied, more than tee grains of str) choine were found. The investigation which followed lasted till the beginning of May, and lad to the conclusion that the hypothesis of • suicide was scarcely admissible. But that there ware grave ressoos to suspect that the poison bad bees sandalstered b Dr. Demme, who was alone in &Seedier"' on the din during the night of his death. and that immediately preceding ; this suspicion wao sti °esti:toned by the discovery of facts indicating, it is alleged, the existents of an illicit connexion between the doctor and Madame Trumpy, taboos betrothal had in the interval been publicly eel*. bested is aocontaime with the custom of the country. The result of the inquiry having been communicated to the public prosecutor, oe the 9th May last be ordered the arrest of Dr. DOOM, and Madame Trumpy, and they were committed for trial, after examination which rather aggravated thee mitigated the evidence against them. The iodiet. meat, which was drawn up by the Procureur-Giniral, oseelades with stating that Trumpy lived unhappily with his wife, that he was a man of irregular habits and violent temper, and bad caused his wife to keg ono eye by throwing • lamp at her ; it also admits that there are cirounistasces which favour the hypothesis of • suicide, =Gag which are the pectudary embarrassments of the dammed, who had wall nigh raised himself by • series of unfortunate speculations, and bad even more than opos threatand to kill himself. After the readies of the indictment the court adjourned to the following day. The prisoner Denim* is delerfhed as being about 30 Tears of ape, tall, with a fair completing tad of prepormosiai appearance_ The widow Trumpy is rather short than otherwise ; her feature, an delicate, and bar cognisance pleasing. without Wag pretty. Elbe has los the eight of one eye, osier, it ti said, to an act of brutality OR the part of Ur husbaod.