The Bartlett Poison Case

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 8 July 1886, Page 3

The Bartlett Poison Case

The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes: — No greater triumph «f advocacy than the acquittal of Mrs Batilett 6n Saturday last has been witnessed in our time. On Thursday night a conviction seemed inevitable. "* By three o'clock on Friday an acquittal was certain. " Alone I did it !V. Mr Edward Clarke might; well have, said, for no witnesses were «alled >on the prisoner's behalf, and she herself failed to tender any explanation of her mysterious conduct. Nevertheless Mr ■ Clarke effectually f hook the case for the Crown. Every person I spoke to on .Friday appeared to feel the same. It was all very suspicious and very inexplicable, but a doubt as to. Mrs Bartlett's absolute guilt existed, and she must get the benefit •£ it. Unquestionably, too, ijso fact that the deceased was a profoundly eccentric, tiresome, and foolish person operated in Mrs Bartlett's favor. After ally even if she is guilty she has not gone unpunished. As for Mr Dyson, " preacher of the religion of self-sacrifice and adept in the art of self- preservation," no one will pity him, though, from a mundane point of view, there never was a man more completely ruined. On Saturday afternoon the crowd would have ducked him in the nearest sewer if they could have got hold of him. In Court the verdict was received with round upon round of cheers, which the scandalised Judge was powerless to to check. Mr Edward s Clarke, of course, came in for enthusiastic and well deserved congratulations. Never since iba. made his first reputation in the Penge case has he done so well — at least that is what the papers say.

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