Show ictor ic dad 4 I 1 ida adil 49 tnt THE LITTLE WHITE VICTIM wo we really should bo be thankful that we live in these enlightened times when our lives cannot easily cosily bo be sworn away in the courts when medical edical ini men inell know something of medicine and Ilia bringing nging judges are few and far nr bo ba tween A few weeks ngo ago some merry in fit a western town refreshed themselves with ice aco cream and shorty shortly ly afterwards they tying them solves pelves in sal suitors lors knots and loveral narrowly escape death the learned physicians who were summoned BUin monod sold that ptomaine poisoning was waa ble and nobody was waa limi limited ged iad ifill that occurred a hundred years ago the doctors would have said bald that eliat was Us tile cause of tile the calamity and the lie officers of tile law would have gone lit hunting tiling for the then woo betide anybody who alio was known to havo have a grudge against filly any of tile sufferers 1 ilow how many innocent people accused of poisoning have been legally butchered will never bo be known until tile the roll Is culled called up tip yonder but 1 wont went alfend perhaps obe ahe was nerv ous perhaps she forgot to put in some necessary ingredients however that may be the dump dumplings lings were a dismal failure they were flat find and heavy nna off color and elizabeth who wag heart broken over it wonted wanted to throw them into the alley or give 5 the deserving poor but mrs birs tur burnsr r like to see bee anything go to waste so she sh had them served up the in members embers of the family ate some steak and potatoes tal then tackled tile after abing ing a small portion old mr bir turned reared up lip nn oni yelled and hit bit a piece out cut ot of the baca of his chair and then began rolling on oil the floor then robert gregson turner tumor gave a good imitation of a contortionist and presently gnirs turner and the clerks did some ground and lofty tumbling and apothecaries were summoned and of 0 course they decided that tile family faintly lind had been poisoned with asente asen lc abd who but 11 11 zabeth fenning could have administered the poison ner her guilt wag manifest so elizabeth went to jail A great mass of was in ili trod produced by tho the prosecution tit at the lie trial and till oil of it was waa s df trifling va im to bo be ab alfurd furd orant root ot atress for lit lir stance was laid upon the fact that eilzabeth had repeatedly asked per Inis siou to malre make irple dumplings dump lings thia was na considered conclusive proof that rho he hall had contemplated tho the erline it 11 ion lona it occur to anybody thal dumplings dump lings were not necessary to tile the administering of arsenic llad had she been anxious to poison tho the turners she had biad opportunities every deiy mrs turner testified at great length and in every sentence showed aliez liez hatred of tile the girl sho she te stilled that there hall had been a n paper of ni in tho the drawer of the kitchen table and when lien she recovered front from her sick sickness neso site nho looked for the paper but it wai gone tills this ninde made a deep impression upon the ho jury and seemed to stick in ili their minds to the exclusion of the story of one of the clerks who swore that the package of arsenic had bad been missing before elizabeth 1 went to work for the hir nere it was taken for granted that ernle had fill been bee used because an Is doctor and a more ignorant druggist said so in after 3 1 11 pt i I 1 old id man turner reared up and yelled and bit a piece out of the dack back chair their names tire legion among these sacrifices to in medical edical ignorance and ancl stupidity na as well ng as to tile bloodthirsty rapacity of prosecuting lav none ever gained the public sympathy to such it degree ns na did ellza beth penning who suffered on oil tile tireless gallows nearly it 11 hundred years ago for a long time lier her namo name was n household word lit in Eng engllind enghild Engli ind hind when mie wait sentenced to death some boino of tile grea greatest Kroat cst and most famous men in tile country exerted themselves in lier ter ili behalf poets wrote verses lier her men of high standing circulated petitions tile plain people hold wars mass meetings and passed resolutions but till nil in vain the iden idea ot of justice n hundred years ago was waa that it Is better to liang hang a hundred innocent people than to lot let ono one guilty person escape elizabeth penning was tho the daughter of poor but worthy parents and sho grew brew up with the knowledge that site would have to wo wok k for lier her living being it n sensible girl slie she determined to excel in her ter humble culling calling so file became tit nil excellent cook U t odd bitnes she studied diligently and gained n general education that was ivas unusual in one of her station she wits was pretty nodest modest and self and made nado a good impression everywhere upon nn an ovll evil tiny day sho she accepted it portfolio it as cool cook in the fat family tilly of robert hobert gregson turner a london or cr turners father lived with him and also two or three clerks mra airs turner was ono one of those imperious queen elizabeth sort of women nho lio were more heaven I 1 it century ago than they tire now she looked upon her servants anil and hand maidens aa being a trine less than human antin slid and always was rending reading the riot act to them and making their lives a burden she rebuked elizabeth for imaginary offenses tho the girl who did her work conscientiously was moro more used umed to praise than criticism and mrs airs turners lectures wounded her deeply ruiza elizabeth beti wits was at a good cook and sho rho took special pride lit in her tipple dump blus she felt that when it come came to tipple dumplings dump lings site sho could please alonso the crowned leads heads and upon several ol oc arelong site sho asked mrs birs turners permission to prepare these delicacies the old girl always vetoed this proposition saying that her folks caro care three knoops for dumpling dump lings si at last the girl got permission to dish up of her celebrated dumplings dump lings so eo sho nto secured dome yeast from the brewer nd and some nomo milk from tile the milkman and years on nn eminent british scientist wrote it 11 paper on oil this case tind demonstrated conclusively that the turners were not poisoned with arsenic it whatever at ever caused thel r sufferings none of 0 the symptoms of arsenical poisoning wils present all evidence against the girl wm was freely admitted but whenever a witness for the defense was on oil tile the st stand at it lila his evidence was ruled out on oil one ona pretext pretest or another and if tho to unfortunate girl was found guilty and sentenced to death aind she been convicted ot of milking making bad ineil dumplings dump lings and lined filled five alvo shillings unit that would bo be no cn canuso use for complaint but tile tho girl really wag ged tor for making limiting poor dumplings dump lings nobody outside tile the courtroom and tile tho turner fai family tilly ever believed sho she was a 11 pol nothing could bo be more pitiful than tile lio fate of elizabeth footling such determined efforts were being made in her behalf by great weli and women that it seemed almost certain her sentence would be commuted but till nil the efforts foiled failed find on the morning ot of july 26 1815 site was told to prepare herself for translation she cumo clime from her coll cell wearing a white muslin dress mid and a snowy cap her pretty gentle face was untroubled her eyes undismayed Ilard hardened ened criminals and men accustomed to horrible scenes had tears aca ra on oil their cheeks checks while the executioner bound her ber hinds A distinguished citizen of london who ila had worked night and lay day to save lier her stopped stepped to her sobbing and sold said tell tile 1110 BIl elizabeth zabeth in the name ot of god that you ore are innocent in tho the name of god oil then I 1 am innocent replied tho the girl and they acro her last dinst words she died tit at the ago age ot of twenty one unil no gallows gallons wits was over ever put to a more barbarous we use next day and for several days dais thereafter crowds collected in tho the street where lioio tho the turners lived and bombarded the house with rocks find and it wits na a long lone time before any of the turners could appear in public will safety elizabeths parents had bankrupted themselves trying to secure justice for lier her and a fund wits as raised for or their relief and thu fact that money for that fund clime from all over europe shows chons how intense was the indignation over oer tho the murder ot this unfortunate girl |