The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 262: what you’re looking at

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THE MYATREIRA OF THE court. 6-851 Sate Aa NN EL eee eeamamnanmneneminainmadn mind. Les me seo? If I steady thy head on: bis conversntion with her: but on this head it is buth my bands, I can always reflect with more likewise unnecessary for us to enter idto partiou- clearness: I will shut my eyes, so as to seo late at the present moment, inusmuoh as the whole nothing to take off my attention. There—liko , will shortly transpire. that !” | At the expiration of another wock the trial of Now the woman ceased speaking; and Redcliffe , Lettice Rodney commenced at Liverpool. The anxiously waited to boar what next might issue aouire, opéning with the usual suloninities, was from her lips. Bat five minutes passed—and she : crowded ty excess: for all the excitement which grid nothing: tou ininutes—and still she continued | the muirdéf had crvated at the time, was now ro- silent. He held his breath suspended—he was | Vived. Jt Had been rumoured too—ne we havo motionless behind the hedge; he waa #¢ com. | alréady Mid—tliat Lettivo Radnoy was not alto- pletely on his guard a8 not so muth as td fostled | gothor Withoat fiends; and that there wero ccr- Jeaf for fear of interrupting: her in the cuttent Of | thin gutrteta in Which a belief of hor innoconen her thoughts. | bist » Ablo counsel were engazod to prosecute “There now!” she abruptly exclaimed: “I —dble dodtgel likewise appoarcd for the defence ; have sot the whole of it as completely in mg head | ahd the dountenantiod of. the jury showed that tery as if this was the night when it happened, and as | were filly dware of tho deap and awful responel- if | had not thotght of anything sited. Ab! if: bility whith attached itsdlf to the duty they had tu any one to whom 1 chose to reveal ié sholild piss | perfurm, by at this moment !” | The entransd of Lottica Rodney into the court Redehtfe glided noiselessly along the back of. produced a attong bnpression upon all present. the hedge—reuched the gate by whith He had. She was dreaded in her plainest apparel: the entered the fivid—and passing through it, ottte bloom of her beauty was gotie but uf that luvt. mure emerged into the lane, Cray Jane imine- ; liness @ afitdiency remained to show what it must diately recognised bim as the gentlemati whom she | Have beon before anguish atid illness had worked had seen two or threo days back id company with | such tavages upon lier, Har domeancur was in Sie William and Captain Stanley; and by a cefthin | one sense timid and rotiring ;—yot blouded thore- association of ideas, she conceived that any friend | with was thp lock which congsmous {inovence cnn of theirs must be a fit and proper person to receive | Mlont aséame, but which superficial or worldly. the communications which she had to make. For : minded observeré nevertheless too often fancy ty the woman's nifellects were not so completely dis.‘ bo the evidencd of a guilt that sechs to shield ordered as tu prevent her from having at times a , Itself under a byld effrontery. rertain awount of the reasoning faculty left: and, Tho ense for the prosecution commeneed ; and morcuver, a8 ig the case with uoarly all persons the counsel on that side detailed in his opening whose minds are unsettled, there were particular , speoth all those particulata with whith Che reader circuinstances which would lead her ideas into a is already aeqdeinted. He stated how Lettien connected fluw und in continuous chanhels, This. Roddey, assuming the ndme of Louies Ruyner, wis the cise now; and for nearly helf-an-hour did: and pétsondting that lady, had intfoduerd herself Liedefiffc remain in discourse with Crazy Jane. Ho’ to Mr. Pollard for the purpose uf receiving te suin was careful how he dealt with ber: be huinoured , of three thousiudd pousids which thdt gent! man was | her—he did not interrupt her quickly not sud. | prepared to pay to his wird. Lhe counsel dwelt | denly—he exhibited all pussible patience, suffering | strongly upon the cirenmetance of the pridoner the woman to tell ker talo in ber own way ;~and | heaving sclf-appropriated the writing-desk contain. thus from her jerking, disjointed sentenced, he | ing the papora witich were requisite accessorins to managed to cheit a narrative which in itself was | the carryiny-odt of the fraud; and he more than complete as well as consistent in all its parte. | inferre® that & younge woman who would po ta What this was, we need not at present explain to , such length. for eo vilely dishouest u Purpose, - - the reuder: suffices it to say that having obtained cotld not, ti say the least of it, bo surprised if sho from the woman all he could elicit, he gave ber : found herself in her present position, accused of a soine money and returned to Stanley JLall. erimeé whith somebody mual. have perpetrated, and After a lony conference with Sit William and of which alt the evidenco pointed to horself ns this Captain Stanley, it waa decided that an attempt ‘ authoress. He then detailed the particulars of tho bhoud be made to induce Crazy Jane to take up: Mutder, according ro the deposition which Mrs. her abode at the HaH,—where 1t was proposed to ' Webber had made before the police- magistrate, ptace her under the eare of the housekeeper, who, aud whith eho bad subsequently repoated before wag a kind-licarted and intelligest woman. We the coroner. The learned counsel added that Mrs. | need not uonccessarily extend the details of our _ Webber herself would be almost immediately | martative bedescribing how this aira was accom- . placed in the witness-box, to reiterate her testi- | | plished: if is sufficient for our purpuse to state ‘mony; and then he proceeded ty observe that | | that it was successtuliy carried out; aod when the | rumours had bern floating abrotd within (io last | ! pour woman found herself appareiled in decent | few days to the effect that the ¢ase for the defence ' attire, seated in a comfortable room, supplied with ‘of the prisoner would be far stronger than | ool wholesome food, and treated with the most. the public had hithorto expectod—but ho satd, compassionaling kindness, ashe eo fully compre- that for his own patt he was at a loss b&w | hended the clhenge in her condition that she was know what this defertte could be, unless it meited to tears, ‘were tu revive the story which the prisoner bad Mr. Redcliifo hastened up to London, to ascertain : told before the magistrate—a story which must in- the progress of those measures which he had some . deed etrike every rational person as a met ingo- months previously set a-foot on Lettice Rodney’s | nious concoction. But if this story werb brought bebalf, and to which he had distantly alluded in! forward, it would be authing moro nor less than ECONNIC I OOO©