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THE DEATH OF DEAN RUSSELL.
In memoriam.
ALEXANDBI EUSSE1L B.D..
Qm abut ad plmw, ad. xui. fcal. Jim., mdccclzzxn.
Nearer thy Fathert love, O loyal heart and lane,
On to the brighter light thy spirit rapt has fled,
IPaoori 4rr\Tn dnll Hnmfana Ira naaf.ti'a fmr maptro
Freed from earth's sadness where in tears we
tread
Our devious way. Stall dost thou, helpful, show
To souls awearied for truth's peaceful rest
Faith's beckoning beacon, with its glory-glow
Caught from the radiance of the Saviour blest,
Throned in the life, and by love's deed confest.
? J. W. O.
The Pimlico Mystery.— The trial of Mrs.
Bartlett commenced at the Old Bailey on
Monday (our London correspondent writes on
April 16), and is exciting animmense amount of
interest, especially among the prisoner's own
Bex, who have besieged the Court, and fairly
elbowed out the male victims of a morbid
curiosity to behold the heroine of a ghastly
mystery, They have chatted, lautthed
knitted, and stared at the unfortunate
prisoner all day longhand have aat unabashed
while detailed evidence was being given more
fitted for a body of medical experts than for
a mixed assemblage of men and women. iThe
Attorney-General opened the case for the
Crown by announcing that the prosecution
had decided not to proceed against the other
prisoner, the Eev. George Dyson, and the
Jury just empanelled were therefore directed
to find him ' not guilty' on the instant, with
a view to his immediate discharge. This being
done, Mr. Dyson left the dock, to appear on the
next day in the character of a witness. The un
happy young woman ia thus standing her trial
for wilful murder alone. Her attitude on the
first day was that of one weighed even
beyond sensibility to surrounding circum
stances. She looked wretchedly ill, but her
bowed head deprived the staring crowd of
any opportunity to criticise her face and its
expression. More recently she has rallied to
the power of attending to the evidence in
progress, and writes notes from time to time
for the eye of her solicitor, always, however,
keeping her head bent, and apparently un
conations of the curious glances directed
towards her. Dyson, who was one of the
earliest witnesses to be examined, repeated his
statement that he. was desired to purchase
the cholorofonn because Mrs. Bartlett had
previously used that drug to her husband's
advantage, and one Annje Walker, who had
then procured it for he?, was now absent in
America. He, moreover, confesses to having
made love to some small extent to Mrs.
Bartlett, whom he was privileged to address
as ' Adelaide,' but he adheres to his original
assertion that the husband was fully aware of
and even favourable to his attachment, and
that there was an understanding between all
three of them that ths lady was eventaaliy
to be his wife, she having informed him that
Mr. Bartlett suffered from an internal dis
order, which must terminate fatally at no
distant period. On the other hand, the
surgeon of an Assurance Company deposes
that he examined the deceased man in 1880
and found so sign of disease about him ;
while the nurse, Annie Walker, has come
into Court to declare that she never procured
any chloroform for Mrs. Bartlett, and has
never been out of England. The father of
the deceased,* who did not get on well with
the prisoner, with whom as a Frenchwoman
he had no sympathy, described his son as
absorbed in business affairs, and without any
peculiar ideas on marriage or any other sub
ject This, however, is inconsistent with the
evidence of a: letter to Dyson beginning
' Dear George,' and signed ' Edwin,' which
is replete with abnormal sentimentality, as
. well as with the cross-examination of Dr.
Leach, who described some extraordinary
«nrersationB ne had had with Mr. Bartlett
OB the subject of mesmerism, which excited
8ra?«doubtoinhis mind as to his patient's
'arity. Tieteial.ia likely to continue for
'everaJnjoredayeV
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