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Page 55 - I have sent for you, gentlemen,' said he, 'to tell you I committed the murder!" When I could speak, which was not immediately, I said : 'Of course, then, you are going to plead guilty?' 'No, sir,' was the reply; 'I expect you to defend me to the utmost.
Page 101 - Why my beloved did you not come to me. Oh beloved are you ill. Come to me sweet one. I waited and waited for you but you came not. I shall wait again to-morrow night same hour and arrangement. Do come sweet love my own dear love of a sweetheart. Come beloved and clasp me to your heart. Come and we shall be happy. A kiss fond love. Adieu with tender embraces ever believe me to be your own ever dear fond MIMI.
Page 134 - The stained garment found in the boiler hole had no connexion whatever with the deed. As regards the motive of her crime, it seems that, although she entertained at one time a great regard for the present Mrs. Kent, yet if any remark was at any time made which in her opinion was disparaging to any member of the first family, she treasured it up, and determined to revenge it. She had no ill-will against the little boy, except as one of the children of her stepmother. She declared that both her father...
Page 63 - I," said Mr. Baron Parke, happily still spared to us, " had a reason which the lord chief justice did not know for watching you narrowly, and he will remember my saying to him, when you sat down, ' Brother Tindal, did you observe how carefully Phillips abstained from giving any personal opinion in the case?' To this the learned chief justice instantly assented.
Page 18 - The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen remains standing. The garden has been dismantled, though a few laurels and flowering-shrubs, run wild, continue to mark the spot. The fatal pond is now only a green swamp, but so near the house that one cannot conceive how it was ever chosen as a place of temporary concealment for the murdered body.
Page 130 - Wiltshire, one Francis Saville Kent. Before the deed was done, no one knew of my intention, nor afterwards of my guilt. No one assisted me in the crime, nor in the evasion of discovery.
Page 141 - Good heavens, has she taken this much since Tuesday ? " What more did he say ? He charged me to say nothing about it. Lord Justice-Clerk — Give us the words he used ? He said it would not do for a man in his position to be spoken of. Mr Gifford — Did he say anything more ? He said he would take the bottle down and show it to Mrs Pritchard. Did he...
Page 94 - Chapter 4 MADELEINE (1950) I know from experience that the world is not lenient in its observations. But I don't care for the world's remarks so long as my own heart tells me I am doing nothing wrong. Letter from Madeleine Smith to Pierre Emile L'Angelier, 1855 Certainly these letters show as extraordinary a frame of mind and as unhallowed a passion as perhaps ever appeared in a Court of Justice.
Page 12 - They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered In; His name was Mr William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn.
Page 133 - She thought the blood stains had been effectually washed out ; but on holding the dress up to the light a day or two afterwards she found the stains were still visible. She secreted the dress, moving it from place to place, and she eventually burnt it in her own bedroom and put the ashes or tinder into the kitchen grate. It was about five or six days after the child's death that she burnt the nightdress. On the Saturday morning, having cleaned the razor, she took an opportunity of replacing it unobserved...