THE BRAVO CASE.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 730, 21 October 1876, Page 3

THE BRAVO CASE.

LAWYEBS' COSTS IN THE CASE. {From a correspondent of the Press.) Though the Bravo enquiry came to a close some weeks ago ignorant and tiresome correspondents to the papers will not allow us to hear the last of this miserable case. The trash that the newspapers insert from correspondents on the subject bespeaks the usual August dearth of news. The conclusion was cei tainly far from satisfactory. After a vast expenditure of money, time, and labour the jury left off very near where they began. They found that Mr Bravo had been poisoned by antimony, but that there was not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any individual or individuals. But no amount of writing to the papers can do any good, as it does evil in keeping in the minds of people an unsavoury story, which it is not good for men and women to dwell upon. The only persons who have reason to be satisfied with the Bravo case are the lawyers who were engaged in it. The total law expenses were between ten and fifteen thousand pounds. Sir Henry James, retained by Mrs Bravo, received a heavy fee with his brief and a hundred guineas a day. Mr Murphy, who was called in on the seventh day for Mrs Cox, and Sergeant Parry, who appeared later on for Dr Gully, received, in addition to their retainers, fifty guineas a day. The three juniors received, one thirty and the other two twenty-five guineas a day. Mr George Lewis, the solicitor engaged by the family of Mr Bravo, was paid a fee of one thousand guineas for the job. The enquiry occupied twenty-three working days, and the number of witnesses examined was forty-three. The spiritualists have not lost the opportunity of turning a dishonest penny. At their seances the media interview with Mr Bravo and communicate his opinions on his own inquest to the company. It is an ill wind that blows no good, and the professional spiritualists are driving a lively trade amongst the innocent and foolish.