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VITRIOL OUTRAGE. I

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VITRIOL OUTRAGE. I A Young Woman's Distressing Appearance. PUZZLING FEATURES IN TRIAL I The jury at Leicester Assizes to-day resume the hearing of a puzzling case of vitriol- throwdogr. The sufferer—supposed to be the subject of mistaken identity—is Miss Ellen Peck, whoee disfigured face presented a dis- tressing spectacle in court on Saturday, when the trial commenced. On the nigflit of January 24 Miss Peck (who is very popular among her circle of friends) had sulphuric acid daehed into her face as she was about to enter her lodgings by the side entry. The sight of one eye was destroyed, and that of the other damaged. Miss Peck saw a dark shadow just before the acid was thrown, but whether of a ma.n or a woman she could not tell, a" the person, whoever it wae, had been concealed behind a garden wall. Mr. Ryland Adkins, M.P., and Mr. M'Curdy, on behalf of the prosecution, suggect tha.t Herbert Henry Wildman, a dyer, aged 21, was the author of the outrage, and it is his guilt or innocence that the jury have to determine. The theory of the prosecution is tlhat Wild- man did not even know Mies Peok. But there was another young woman, named Miss Wilkinson, lodging at the same house, with whom he was acquainted. Miss Wilkinson and Wildman were in the employ of the same firm of dyers and cleaners, Miss Wilkinson being in charge of a receiving shop and Wild- uian a presser at the works. It was the duty of Miss Wilkinson to see that the goods were properly pressed, and she had returned some garments to be pressed again. It is alleged that Wildman resented this, and on one oooa- eion declared that he would "do Miss Wilkin- son one." On January 15 Wildman was dismissed because, so it w.as alleged, he had gone out for a drink and had been impertinent to his employer. On the evening of the same day a woman, whom the prosecution declared was Wildman's wife, bought some sulphuric acid at a chemist's shop, and it was plaoed in a small bottle similiar to one found where the acid was thrown. Next morning Miss Wilkin- son received a post-card on which was written the one word, Remember." Eight days later the outrage occurred. On January 29 Miss Wilkinson received a letter in capital letters (as before):- I failed three weeks ago, again last Thnre- day, but remember. Three weeks previous to this Miss Wilkinson had found some acid stains on her dress. uno/t evidence, aoooraing to tne prosecution, pointed to the fact that Miss Wilkinson was the intended victim. A lady's motor cap was found in the garden from which the vitriol was thrown. Thait cap tad oritginailly been white or cream, but had been dyed blue. The headgear was similar to one which had been worn by Wildman's wife in the previous autumn and the early winter; it was then white. A waistcoat and a coat belonging to Wild- ma-n were also found to be stained by acid; but it was admitted that in the work on which he was engaged at the works he would have to use vitriol. Miss Wilkinson, in her evidence, admitted that she had been told by a. woman that another man, whom she named. had threatened to blind her.

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