Tientsin, May 23, The heaviest sentence possible for his menace to society" was demand~ the prosecution to-day when counsel summed up.
Mr. A. R, Morrison suggested that the accused was determined to dis pote of his wife in order to pursue an amatory adventure unhindered, and without adding to the alimony he was paying to his second wit With this object in view, Mr. Mor ison continued, accused had decided upon a method of poisoning which produced symptoms simulating certain ailments, Counsel commented severely on the conduct of accused after his ar and during his trial, sachet in the American school, who, according 10 Mrs, Colbert, was a their house, and a friend whose association with her husband had never aroused any objection on her part), Accused, said counsel, had in the space of three months' bought over 000 grains of acetanelide and a further quantity in the form of by tablets, making 880 doses in all.
Dr, Colbert, ko said, had violated! three of the most sacred trusts; the trust between a husband and wife; a doctor and patient: and a doctor and his colleagues, Mr. Morrison closed his address by demanding the heaviest sentence pos sible upon "this menace to society.
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