the case of thomas semthurst, m.d.1859 |
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18th of April acid administered antimony appears attended August Bayswater bigamy Bird bismuth bottle bowels Caudle cause Central Criminal Court charge chlorate church circumstances convicted crime deceased defence diarrhoea discharge disease doctor Doctor of Medicine doubt duty dysentery evacuation fact fatal favour free pardon G. C. LEWIS Gaol gentlemen GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS given grains guilty illness income intestinal canal intestines irritant judge Julius Jury knew lady learned counsel letter living Lord Chief Baron magistrate marriage married matter medical evidence medicines Memorialists Miss Bankes Miss Isabella Bankes Miss Louisa Bankes mixture murder natural never nitrate of silver nurse observed opinion patient Petitioner pills pregnancy prisoner prisoner's produced prosecution proved Richmond sentence of death Sir Frederick Pollock sister slow arsenical poisoning Smith stomach sulphate of copper Surrey symptoms Taylor tenesmus Thomas Smethurst tion Todd told trial ulceration verdict vomiting wife witness woman
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Strana 93 - But the mischief does not end here, for if the same impure copper ' has been used for twenty years ', and evidence given upon it, what shall be said of the justice of the convictions and executions which have taken place during those years upon Dr. Taylor's evidence? " But was the arsenic said to be found in Bottle No. 21 really in the copper used to prove its presence? Could the copper wire gauze dissolved by seven grains of chlorate of potash and its associated hydrochloric acid deposit one grain...
Strana 129 - Coleman by /LS / signed sealed published and declared by the said George Coleman the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Isaac Hindley, HO Roe, William Stocken, of Baldock Herts proved Jany.
Strana 96 - Long days and longer nights went by ; still the same relentless nausea and faintness, and still borne on in patient trust. About the third week in March there was a change ; a low wandering delirium came on ; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. She swallowed eagerly now ; but it was too late. Wakening for an instant from this stupor of intelligence, she saw her husband's woe-worn face, and caught the sound of some murmured words of prayer that God would spare her.
Strana 68 - The sentence of the court upon you is, that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison, and thence to a place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall have been confined before your execution. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Strana vi - I enclose you a copy, and who is of opinion that, although the facts are full of suspicion against Smethurst, there is not absolute and complete evidence of his guilt.
Strana vi - After a very careful and anxious consideration of all the facts of this very peculiar case, I have come to the conclusion that there is sufficient doubt of the prisoner's guilt to render it my duty to advise the grant to him of a Free Pardon, which will be restricted to the particular offence of which he stands convicted; it being my intention to institute a prosecution against him for Bigamy.
Strana 13 - Kent, convicted of perjury, and sentenced to be imprisoned three months and then transported for seven years for the same; we, in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto us, are graciously pleased to extend our grace and mercy unto him, and to grant him our free pardon for his said Crime...
Strana v - MY LORD,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's further report, of the 18th ult., on the case of Thomas Smethurst, who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court in August last, of murder, and sentenced to death. " As your Lordship suggests in that report that reference should be made to the judgment of medical and scientific persons selected by the Secretary of State, for the purpose...
Strana vi - The necessity which I have felt for advising her " Majesty to grant a free pardon in this case has not, as it " appears to me, risen from any defect in the constitution or " proceedings of our criminal tribunals ; it has risen from the " imperfection of medical science, and from fallibDity of judg" inent in an obscure malady, even of skilful and experienced
Strana 93 - I say it could not ; the hundredth part of a grain of arsenic in that quantity of copper would render it so brittle that it could not be drawn into wire at all, much less into fine wire fit for gauze; the fact is, the whole set of operations were a bungle.