Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

The trial came on at the Old Bailey before Mr.

Justice Darling.

Spilsbury and Wednesday were convinced in their own minds that Bertha Roche must have attacked Madame Gerard, but there could be no legal proof of this.

A submission was made on her behalf that there was no case to go to the jury, and the judge gave his ruling.

The jury took only a quarter of an hour to decide that Voisin was guilty.

Mr.

Justice Darling passed sentence of death in French.

[dramatic music] On the day before Voisin was executed, Bertha Roche appeared at the Old Bailey and was sentenced to seven years penal servitude as an accessory after the murder.

The trial opened before Mr.

Justice Darling at the Shire Hall, Hereford, on April the 3rd, 1922.

Snow was falling heavily when the prisoner was brought up from the cells.

Armstrong was a curious little figure in the oversized dock.

One moment, Major Armstrong.

Mr.

Justice Darling put down his pen, leaned forward over the bench, and for 20 minutes he questioned Armstrong on his story of the strange dandelion-killing experiment.

Every question was courteously phrased as from one legal gentleman to another.

Six minutes later, Luciano began his return trip to Brighton Beach.

Charles Darling, a lawyer riding in the first car, later said that the train moved with sudden starts and stops and sped around a curve at Sands Street, the first station in Brooklyn.

The train then rumbled onto the Fulton Street elevated line.

Walter H. Simonson, a civil engineer who was on board, recalled that the car was jammed to near standing room only.

Bodies were smothered to death, found only with slight marks or injuries.

The last cars had survived the disaster, and the locomotive was also largely intact.

Attorney Charles Darling watched as Edward Luciano emerged unscathed from the cab.

The lawyer asked him what had happened.