A Final Reply to the Numerous Slanders, Circulated by Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...at present, hereafter I shall perhaps take occasion to reason upon them. The evidence may with propriety be divided into two parts: --1st, The facts testified to by the witnesses, who had no interest in the result of the trial: and secondly, The proof furnished either directly or indirectly by the defender herself. The only witnesses who furnish the first class of evidence are the two servants, Agnes Sydeserf and Jean Lindsay, who were living at the time the criminal intercourse is asserted to have been carried on, in the house with Dr. and Mrs. Ure. To their examinations I would particularly call the attention of my reader, and I think he will, after a careful and attentive examination of them, admit that they, if divested of the presumptive colouring and support which is given to them by the second division of the evidence which was furnished, cither directly or indirectly by Mrs. Ure, that they in fact do not contain one tittle of evidence which might not be brought against the character the most upright and honourable member of society; who, without any suspicion of a conspiracy against his reputation, was in the habit of visiting intimately and familiarly in a family. In every case of crim. con. which has ever been tried, where the parties were really guilty, it has been almost invariably by the testimony of the servants residing in the family, that the paramour has been found guilty. They, from their situation, must necessarily, if such a connexion existed, bring forward damning proof as to the fact; but here the servants' evidence, if properly understood, is altogether exculpatory. When interrogated, as to whether they ever observed any derangement in the furniture of the room after my visits, or whether during them, they ever head any noise, they ans..