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THE PRESS. MAY 17, 1856. in the same cup in which it was brought. It was hot. I tote d it. I drank about two tablt - spoonfals. In about 1 ,',1 1 - et hour or an hour I was sick. I vomited violently during the whole afternoon till about live o'clock. I was obl i ge d tog) to bed. I vomited a great many times. During t h e waning I had felt perfectly well, and had not taken anrt hing that could disagree with me. D ur ing Sunday Cook appeared to continue vomiting after taking food. On Monday, when Palmer was s way. Cook appeared to recover ; he got up, dressed and s haved, and seemed in better spirits. That night at nine Palmer returned. About eight a box of pills had come from Dr. Bamford's, which witness placed on Cook's table before Palmer's arrival. Between nine and ten Palmer returned, and she s aw him sitting in Cook's room. Shortly before twelve o'clock she was called up, and heard szreams from Cook's room. The witness here detailed the dreadful symptoms under which Cook suffered when she entered his room. Palmer was called up, and came over and administered two pills and a mixture. ,Cc.ok snapped at the spoon and glass, and swallowed the draft., but vomited it. imme diately afterwards. After a short time he became more composed. About the next morning this witness came into Cook's room : I asked if Palmer had gone. and Cook said he left at a quarter before five o'clock. I asked if he felt any worse, aid he said no, he had been no worse since I left him. I said, " you were asleep when I left." He replied, "No, I heard you go." He asked me if I had ever seen any nue suffer such agony as lie did last night. I said no, I never had. He said he should think I should not like to see any one like it again. I said, " What do you think wu the cause of all that agony ?" He said, " The pills which Palmer gave me at half-past ten." During the day Cook appeared better ; Palmer was with him a good deal, and Mr. Jones arrived. At half-past ten at night she gave Palmer some toast ant water for Cook. At ten minutes before twelve Cook's bell was rung violently : On hearing the bell (continued the witness) I went up to Cook's room. Cook was sitting up. I think Jones was ,upporting him, with his arm round his shoulders. Cook said, "Oh. Mary, fetch Mr. Palmer directly." I went to Palmer's and rang the surgery bell. As soon as I had rung I stepped off the steps to look at Palmer's bedroom window, where I expected him to appear, and lie was there. He did not lift up the sash, but opened a small casement and spoke to me. I could not see whether he was dressed, but I heard and knew his voice. I asked him to come over to Mr. Cook directly, as he was much the same as he bad been the night before. I don't re member what be replied. I went back to the hotel, and in two or tbree minutes Palmer came. I was then in the bedroom. Jones was there supporting Cook. Palmer said he had never dressed so quickly in his life. I left the room, but remained on the landing. After I had been waiting there a short time (about a minute or two) Palmer came out. I said, He is much the same as he was last night." Palmer said, Oh, he is not so ill by a fiftieth part." He then went downstairs as though going to his own house. He was absent but a very short time, and then returned to Cook's room. I also went in. Winless was then sent, for Dr. Bamford, and when he and sbe returned Cook was dead. With respect to the missing betting-book, Elizabeth Mills swore positively that the book was in Cook's room on Mon day night, when at his request she handed it to him. She went in the room atter Cook's death. Palmer was searching the pockets of Cook's coat. The conrt here adjourned till Thursday. On re assembling the next morning, Elizabeth Mills was recalled and subjected to a close cross examination by Mr. Sergeant Shee, who failed to shak e h er ev id ence . Sh a state d fu rther, that Palmer, when she called him up ou Tuesday morning, was dressed in a plaid dressing-gown and red cap. lime Brooks deposed to having seen Palmer in the passage of the Raven, at Shrewsbury, on the night of the 14th Nov., with a tumbler containing a small quantity of water in his hand : I saw him *kali e the glass round, as if mixing the fluid in it. There was a light near to him. He held up the glass. as if to the light, and then said, " I will be with you Presently." He saw me the moment I got to the top of the stairs. After he said he would be with me presently he remained for a minute or two with the glass in his hand, and held it up once or twice to the light. When he was standing there snaking the glass. I made an observation tgyout the fine weather. There was a sitting r. , om door partially open near his sitting•room. He took the glass into that room, which I thought was unoccupied. He re• !Tinned there two or three minutes, and then came out with the glass in his hand. Whlt was in the glass was mill of the colour of water. He then went into his own sitting•room. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEE N :- great nutnher of racin g men were taken ill at Srews lnry with sickness, which could not be accounted for, h and it was thought the water hsd been poisoned. They were alerted with sickness and purging. Palmer held the glass uP to the light, to see if there was anything floating in the Own. There was a chandelier there. I thought he was making himself up a cooling draught. Lavinia Barnes confirmed the fact of Elizabeth Malls being taken ill with vomiting on the Sunday m orning. She corroborated the evidence of that ir4t Uesli in every importitut particular, She owore Palmer coming to see Cook between eight and nine on Monday evening. At twelve o'clock she was rung up, and entered Cook's room, and found him very ill : He screamed, and cried murder, and sail be was suf focated, and his eyes looked very wild, and stood out of his head. He was also beating the bed with his hands, and he exclaimed repeatedly, "Christ have mercy on my soul ! " Palmer came very shortly and went to the de ceased's bedroom; and, at this time, he appeared to be more composed, but said that he should die. The prisoner said to him, " Don't be alarmed, lad." Shortly after this I saw the deceased in the act of drinking some dark liquid from a glass, and I heard his teeth snap at the glass. After he had taken the draught he appeared to be more composed, and on the following morning he seemed a good deal better, and continued so all day. On the Tuesday night the same thing occurred. Pal mer was sent for. He came over rapidly. "He was dressed," said this witness, " in his usial way; he had a black coat on and a cap." When Palmer came out of Cook's room he said Clok was " not so bad by a fiftieth part as he was before." After Cook died she went into the room:— Palmer was there. He had a coat in his band when I went in. He was feeling in the pockets. I saw him feel under the bolster. I said, " Oh, Mr. Cook cannot be dead." Palmer said, " Yes he is; I knew be would be." I left him in the room with the dead body. I remember seeing Palmer on the Thursday following. lie came into the hall of the hotel, and asked me for the key of the room in which the body was. The key was in the bar. He said he wanted some books, papers, and a paper-knife. He said they must go back to the stationer's where he had tbem from, or he should have to pay for them. While I was in the room he asked me to go to Miss Bond for some books she had. I went down stairs with the message be sent, and returned with the books. When I returned with the books I found Palmer still in Cook's room. Lavinia Barnes further stated on cross-examina tion that the undertakers and women who laid out the body were alone in the bedroom for some time. Anne Rowley deposed to being sent on Saturday by Palmer to the Albion Inn for some broth, and taking it to Palmer at his house. Palmer warmed the broth himself in his own kitchen while witness was engaged about the house, and then bent witness with it over to Cook at the Talbot Arms. Charles Honey took broth on the Sunday from Palmer to Cook. Mr. Jones, the surgeon, deposed to having known Cook for the last five years. He was with Cook at the Shrewsbury races, dined with him on Tuesday, the 13th, the day Polestar won, and left him that night well, and not the worse for liquor. On the following Monday he received a letter from Palmer at. Bugeley, requesting him to come and see Cook "as soon as desirabl6, as he had been taken ill at Shrewsbury," and had been confined to his bed sinee his return to Rugeley " with severe bilious attacks and diarrhoea." On Monday Mr. Jones went to Rugeley, saw Cook, but observed no symptoms of bile or diarrhcea. He gave him some toast and water which was in the room, and Cook immediately vomited. A consultation was held, about 7 p.m., between Dr. Bamford, Mr. Jones, and Palmer, and it was agreed, upon Palmer's suggestion, to give Cook some more morphine pills. About 8, Palmer left to get the pills from Dr. Bamford. When he returned, a little after 11, he produced the pills, and, with much difficulty, induced Cook to take them. This witness then corroborated the statements already made connected with the details of Cook's death , fixing the time of the attack at about twenty minutes past lt?. He also te-tified to the expression used by Palmer, " that he never dressed so quickly in his life before," and the administer ing two more pills to Cook by Palmer. The moment Cook bad taken these pills be was seized with frightful convulsions. Mr. Jones was of opinion that the pills could not have caused the convulsions. After Cook died Mr. Jones went out of the room for a short time: when he returned Palmer was examin ing Cook's clothes, and suggested that he (Jones) should take possession of the effects. He found neither betting book, letters, nor bank-notes. The subject of the betting•book was mooted by witness asking for it, when Palmer replied it would be no good to any one In answer to further questions, this witness stated that he was satisfiel the death did not result from epilepsy or apoplexy. Charles Newton, assistant to Mr. Salt, surgeon at Rugeley, gave important evidence as to Palmer ob taining strychnia from him on Monday evening, the 19th of November : I saw Palmer that evening at Mr. Salt's surgery about nine o'clock. I was alone when he came there. He asked me for three grains of strychnine, and I weighed it accu rately, and gave it to him iu a paper. Strychnine is a white powder. He said good night, and took it away with him. The strychnine was not sold, but as I knew him to be a medical man I made no charge. The prisoner was not in the shop more than two minutes. Witness then deposed to meeting Palmer the follow ing day at the shop of Mr. Hawkins, another Rug°. ley druggist, and that Palmer said, "he wished to speak with him," and led him out into the Rtroet. While coßversiss with Palmer, it Mr. BrasSingtelt 467 came up and entered into conversation with witness, when Palmer left them, returned into the shop, and came out again immediately afterwards, and went on to his own house. On Sunday, the 25th of Novem ber, witness was sent for by Palmer to his house:— I found Palmer, when I got there, in his kitchen. He was sitting by the fire reading. He asked me bow I was, and to have some brandy and water. No one else was present. He asked what was the dose of strychnine to give to kill a dog ? I told him a wain. He asked me what would be the appearance of the stomach after death ? told him that there would be no inflammation, and that I did not think it could be found. Upon that he snapped his finger and thnmb in a quiet way, and exclaimed, as if isomatuning with himself, " That's ail right." At this stage the court adjourned. On Friday the court resumed. Charles Robierts, apprentice to Mr. Hawkins, druggist at Rugeley, deposed to haring sold to Palmer, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2 firms. of prussic acid, 6 grs. of strychnine, and 2 drms. of Battley's solution of opium. Mr. W. B. Stephens, stepfather of the deceased, gave a lengthened evidence connected with the circumstances occurring subsequent to Cook's death. He first heard of the death on the 21st, and went down to Rugeley at once. He met Palmer, and spoke of Cook's Wain. Palmer said that for 4,000/. were out with his name attached, but that Cook had enjoyed the sole benefit of them. The witness then detailed at length various conversations he had with Palmer, by which it appeared that Palmer betrayed anxiety to get the body buried, an apparent indifference connected with the betting• book, and showed evidert emotion—a sort of " spasmodic twitching of the throat"—when asked by Mr. Stephens if he would object to answer any questions in the presence of a solicitor, and a certain. nervous anxiety when the intention of holding a post-mortem examination became known. Dr. Harland, of Stafford, stated the results of the first and second post-mortem examinations of the intestines and spinal cord. There was nothing un natural in the appearances presented. The liver, heart, kidneys, longs, and brain were healthy. There was no appearance of disease in the spinal cord. The blood was in a fluid state. Witness further stated that Palmer during the postmortem examination did undoubtedly try to upset the jars into which the stomach and intestines were placed by pushing against Newton. and jerking part. of the contents of the stomach into the intestines. Palmer also moved the jar away to the door, and when witness called for it and examined it., he found the covering cut through. Mr. Devonshire and Dr. Monckton corroborated this witness's evidence. James Mayatt deposed to being employed to drive the fly containing the jar and Mr. Stevens to the station. Palmer met him before starting. and offered him 101. to upset the fly or break the jar. The evidence of Mr. Cheshire, the Rugeley postmaster, next examined, went to prove that Palmer, on the Tuesday evening of Cook's death, sent for hint to write out a cheque in Cook's name for 3ftoL on Messrs Weatherby, payable to Palmer. Palmer, on the Thursday or Friday following, wanted him to attest a document, stating that certain bills, the dates of which and amounts were quoted, were all for Cook's benefit and not for Palmer's. Mr. Herring proved meeting Palmer at Beaufort buildings on Nov. 19, and receiving instructions from hint to settle Cook's account at Tattersall' , ., and to pay himself on Palmer's account 2001., Padwick 3501., and Pratt 4501. At the conclusion of this witness's examination the court adjourned. _ From the general features of the ease we have reason to believe that this remarkable trial will not oe concluded muoh before the middle of next week. A DREADM. AND INSANE ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE MURDER BY PoISON, AND SUICIDE AFTERWARDS, was made last week in Roehdale, by an innkeeper named Taylor. The man bad been suffering from delirium tremens for some time past, and last Wednesday three men, to whom he had given a pint of ale, became suddenly very ill. Medical assistance was sent for, the stomach-pump put into requisition, and their lives happily saved. Meanwhile Taylor went into the room where his wife was sitting conversing with a neighbour, and suddenly struck her a tremendous blow on the head with the poker. The neighbour seized him, and after a desperate straggle, the police being called in, got him out of the house. While going to the station.honse Taylor suddenly swallowed something, and in about an hour and a half after his arrival there died almost without a struggle. He had swallowed a powerful dose of oil of almonds. ALLEN HOWARD AND OSCAR KINGSTON the two Americans charged with having committed several hotel robberies, were re-examined on Wednesday be fore Mr. Carrie, and after some further evidence had been taken, against a warm protest from their eouvsel t *gait) rewasded. 1 • • -. .- ~.. - , , , ~ . . . .. , , ' . . . • .. ~...... .111AY 171 1856. THE PRESS. 467 a c up in which it was b roug ht. at was h o e I Palmer coming to see Cook between eight and nine came up and entered into conversation with witness, on Monday evening. At twelve o'clock she was rune, when Palmer left them, returned into the shop, and tested the sit.. e ldrank about two table-spooned& In about hour I was sick. about l iv v e o o ni . ted . viol ently , up, and entered Cook's room, and found him very came out again immediately afterwards, and went on l e e a n boar or an clock. i was ill :._._ daring the whole afternoon till Lobed. I vomited a great many times. During to his own house. On Sunday, the 25th of Novem- the ged tog 3 He screamed, and cried murder, and said be was se. her, witness was sent for by Palmer to his house:— wo nting I had felt perfectly well, and had not taken focated, and his eyes looked very wild, and stood out of I found Palmer, when I got there, in his kitchen. He chat could disagree with me. his head. He was also beating the bed with his hands, was sitting by the fire reading. He asked me bow I was, a nything During Sunday Cook appeared to continue vomiting and he exclaimed repeatedly, "Christ have mercy on my and to have some brandy and water. No one else was after taking food. On Monday, when Palmer was soul ! " Palmer came very shortly and went to the de- present. lie asked w h a t was the dose of strychnine to aw ay, C o ok appeared to recover ; he got up, dressed ceased's bedroom; and, at this time, he appeared to be give to kill a dog ? I told him a gain. He asked me sl la s haved, and seemed in better spirits. That more composed, b u t sa id t h at h e s h ou ld d i e. The prisoner what would be the appearance of the stomach after death ? night at nine Palmer returned. About e i g ht a box said to him, " Don't be alarmed, lad." Shortly after this I told him that there would be no inflammation, anti that of p ill s had come from Dr. Bamford's, whi c h w it ness I saw the deceased in the act of drinking some dark I did not think it could be found. Upon that he snapped ' placed on Cook's table before Palmer's arrival. liquid from a glass, and I heard his teeth snap at the his finger and thnmb in a quiet way, and exclaimed, as if Between nine and ten Palmer returned, and she glass. After he had taken the draught he appeared to be einamaning with himself, " That's ell right" more composed, and on th e f o ll ow i ng morning he seemed sa w him sitting in Cook's room. Shortly before twelve o'clock she was called up, and heard a good deal better, and contin u ed so a ll d ay . At this stage the court adjourned. e 'reams from Cook's room. The witness here On the Tuesday night th e same thi ng occurre d . P a l- On Friday the court resumed. mer was sent for. He came over rapidly. " He was Charles Roherts, apprentice to Mr. Hawkins, detailed the dreadful symptoms under which Cook ressed ," said this witness, "in his usial wa y ; ; he druggist at Rugeley, deposed to having sold to suffered when she entered his room. Palmer was d ca lled up, and came over and administered two pills had a black coat on a n d a ca p." Wh en P a l mer came Palmer, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2 firms. o f p russ i c and a mixture. ; Cook snapped at the spoon and f Cook's room he said Cook was "not so bad out o 1 - - and swallowed the draft, but vomited it imme- g A..., by a fiftiet h part as lie was before." After Cook died solution of opium. diately afterwards. After a short time he became she went into the room : gate a lengthened evide n ce connec t e d w i t h the Mr. W. B. Stephens, step-fath er o f th e d ecease d, more composed. About six the next morning this Palmer was there. H e h a d a coat i n hi s h an d w h en I ". w itness came into Cook's room : went in. He was feeling in th e p oc k e t s . I saw hi m f ee l circumstances occurring subsequent to C oo k' s d ea th. I asked if Palmer had gone. and Cook said he left at a under the bolster. I said, " Oh, M r . C oo k cannot be He first heard of the death on th e 21 st , an d wen t dead." Palmer said, " Yes he is; I knew be would be." down to Rugeley at once. lie met Palmer, and quarter before five o'clock. I asked if he felt any worse, I left him in the room with th e d ea d body. I remember spoke of Cook's Wain. Palmer said that b - _;ls for aid he said no, he had been no worse since I left him. I seeing Palmer on the Thursday followin lie came into 1,000/. were out with his name attached, but that said, " You were asleep when I left." He rep li ed, "No, the h:11 of the hotel, and asked me fur the of the room Coo k had enjoyed the sole benefit of them. The I heard you go." He asked me if I had ever seen any liein which the body was. The key was t e he bar . .He id w itness then detailed at length various conversations nue suffer such agony as lie did last night. I said no, I wanted some imoks, papers, anda paper-knife. lie said never had. He said he should think I should not like to he had with Palmer, by which it appeared that they must go back to the stat ioner ' s where he had them Palmer betrayed anxiety to get the body buried, an see any one like it again. I said, "What do you think from, or he should have to pay for . them. While I was in was the cause of all that ony ?" He said, " The pills apparent indi ff erence connected with the betting• the room he asked me to go to Miss Bond for some Looks which Palmer gave me at Ralf -past ten." she had. I went down stairs w ith th e message h e sent , ' and showed evidert emotion—a sort of During the day Cook appeared better ; Palmer an d returne d w i t h t h e b oo k s. When I returned with the "book spasmodic twitching of the throat"—when asked by was with him a good deal, and Mr. Jones arrived. books I found Palmer still in Cook's room. Mr. Stephens if he would object to answer any At half-past ten at night she gave Palmer some toast Lavinia Barnes further stated on cross-ezamina- questions in the presence of a solicitor, and a and water for Cook. At ten minutes before twelve lion that the undertakers and women who laid out certain nervous anxiety when the intention of holding Cook's bell was rung violently : the body were alone in the bedroom for some time. a post-mortem examination became known. Oa hearing the bell (continued the witness) I went up Anne Rowley deposed to being sent on Saturday Dr. Harland, of Stafford, stated the results of the to Cook's room. Cook was sitting up. I think Jones was by Palmer to the Albion Inn for some broth, anti first and second post-mortem examinations of the "importing him, with his arm round his shoulders. Cook taking it to Palmer at his house. Palmer warmed intestines and spinal cord. There was nothing un- said, "Oh. Mary, fetch Mr. Palmer directly." I went to the broth himself in his own kitchen while witness natural in the appearances presented. The liver, Palmer'- and rang the surgery bell. As soon as I had heart, kidneys, Tangs, and brain were healthy. was engaged about the house, and then sent witness rang I stepped off the steps to look at Palmer's bedroom . There was no appearance of disease in the spinal with it over to Cook at the Talbot Arms. window, where I expected him to appear, and he w a s cord. The blood was in a fluid state. Witness there. He did not lift up the sash, but opened a small Charles Honey took broth on the Sunday from casement and spoke to me. I could not see whether he Palmer to Cook. further stated that Palmer during the postmortem was dressed, but I heard and knew his voice. I asked Mr. Jones, the surgeon, deposed to having known examination did undoubtedly try to upset the jars him to come over to Mr. Cook directly, as he was m u ch Co o k fo r the l as t fi ve y ears . H e was w i t h C oo k a t in t o which the stomach and intestines were placed the same as he had been the night before. I don't re- the Shrewsbury races, dined with him on Tuesday, by pushing agai nst Newton. and jerking part of member what be replied. I went back to the hotel, and in t h e 1 3 t h , t h e d ay Po l estar won, and left him that the contents o f the stomach into the intestines. two or three minutes Palmer came. I was then in the night well, and not the worse for liquor. On the Palmer also moved the j a r awa y to the do o r, and bedroom. Jones w as th ere su pp or ti ng C oo k. P a l mer sa id when witness called for it and examined it., he found following Monday he received a letter from Palmer he had never dressed so quickly in his life. I left the r oo m, the covering cut through. at. Rugeley, requesting him to come and see Cook but remained on the landing. A ft er I had been waiting Mr. Devonshire and Dr. Monckton corroborated "as soon as desirable, as he had been taken ill at there a short time (about a minute or two) Palmer came this witness's evidence. nut. I said, -He is much the same as he was last night." Shrewsbury," and had been confined to his bed sinee James Mayatt deposed to being employed So Palmer said, " Oh, he is not so ill by a fiftieth part." He his return to Rugeley " with severe bilious attacks drive the fly containing the jar and Mr. Stevens to then went downstairs as though going to his own house. and diarrhoea." On Monday Mr. Jones went to the station. Palmer met him before starting. and He was absent but a very short time, and then returned to Rugeley, saw Cook, but observed no symptoms of . offered him 191. Lon pset the fiy or break the jar. cook's room. I also went in. bile or diarrhoea. He gave him some toast and Winless was then sent for Dr. Bamford, and when water which was in the room, and Cook immediately The evidence of Mr. Cheshire, the Bageley postmaster, next examined, went to prove that he and cbe returned Cook was dead. With respect vomited. A consultation was held, about 7 p.m., - Palmer, on the Tuesday evening of Cook's death, to the missing betting-book, Elizabeth Mills swore between Dr. Bamford, Mr. Jones, and Palmer, and sent for hint to write out a cheque in Cook's name positively that the book was in Cook's room on Mon- it was agreed, upon Palmer's suggestion, to give Cook for 3110 L on Messrs Weatherby, payable to Palruer. day night, when at his request she handed it to him, some more morphine pills. About 8, Palmer left to She went in th e room a t ter C oo k' s d ea th. P a l mer get. the pills from Dr. Bamford. When he returded, Palmer, on the Thursday or Friday following, was searching the pockets of Cook's coat. a little after 11, he produced the pills, and, with ' waeted him to attest a document, stating that certain The court here adjourned till Thursday. On re- much difficulty, induced Cook to take them. This bills, the dates of which and amounts were quoted, ' assembling the next morning, witness then corroborated the statements already were all for Cook's benefit and not for Palmer s. Elizabeth Mills was recalled and subjected to a made connected with the details of Cook's death, Mr. Herring proved meeting Palmer at Beaufort- close. u . ildings on Nov. 19, and receiving instructions from to settle Cook's account at Tattersall', and to cross. examination by Mr. Sergeant Shee, who fixing the time of the attack at about twenty minutes b failed to shak e h er ev id ence . Sh a state d further, past 12. He also testified to the expression ni 's account 2001., Padwick 3501., that Palmer, when s h e ca ll e d hi m u p ou T ues day us ed by Palmer, "that he never dres s ed so pay himself on Palmer morning, was d resse d i n a pl a id d ress i ng - gown an d qu i c kly i n hi s lif e before," and the administer- and Pratt 4501. red cap. i ng t wo more pill s t o C oo k by P a l mer . The At the conclusion of this witness's examination lone Brooks deposed to having seen Palmer in moment Cook had taken these pills he was seized the court adjourned. toe passage of th e R aven , a t Shrewsbury, on the with frightful convulsions. Mr. Jones was of opinion From the general features of the ease we have reason to believe that this remarkable trial will not night of the 14th Nov., with a tumbler containing a that the pills could not have caused the convulsions. be concluded mut% before tbe middle of next week. small quantity of water in his hand : After Cook died Mr. Jones went out of the room for 1 saw him shake the glass round, as if mixing the fluid a short time ; when he returned Palmer was examin- in it. There was a light near to him. He held up the ing Cook's clothes, and suggested that he (Jones) A DREADM. AND INSANE ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE glass. as if to the light, and then said, " I will be with you should take possession of the effects. He found MURDER BY PoISON, AND SUICIDE AFTERWARDS, was Presently." He saw me the moment I got to the top of neither betting-book, letters, nor bank-notes. The made last week in Roehdale, by an innkeeper named the stairs. After he said he would be with me presently he subject of the betting-book was mooted by witness Taylor. The man bad been suffering from delirium remained for a minute or two with the glass in his hand, asking for it, when Palmer replied it would be no tremens for some time past, and last Wednesday three and held it up once or twice to the light. When he was g ood to any one In answer to further questions, standing there shaking the glass. I made an otservation his witness stated that. he was satisfied the death d i d men, to whom he had given a pint of ale, became a:vout the fine weather. There was a Rifting reom door suddenly very ill. Medical assistance was sent for, partially open near his sittinmmom. He took the glass not result, fro m epilepsy or apoplexy. the stomach-pump put into requisition, and their into that r oom , w hi c h I thoug h t was unoccup i e d. H e re - Charles Newton, assistant to Mr. Salt, surgeon at lives happily saved. Meanwhile Taylor went into miined there two or three minutes, and then came out Rugeley, gave important evidence as to Palmer ob- the room where his wife was sitting conversing with with the glass in his hand- Whst was in the glass was taming strychnia from him on Monday evening, the a neighbour, and suddenly struck her a tremendous still of the colour of water. He then went into his own 19th of November : blow on the head with the poker. The neighbour sittinernorn. I saw Palmer that evening at Mr. Salt's surgery about seized him, and after a desperate straggle, the police Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEE : nine o'clock. I was alone when he came there. He asked being called in, got him out of the house. While NA great number of racing men were taken ill at Shrews- me for three grains of strychnine, and I weighed it scow going to the station-house Taylor suddenly swallowed tiara wi t h sickness, which could not be accounted for, and rately , and gave it to him iii a paper. Strychnine is a something, and in about an hour and a half after his sl it was tho ug h t the water had been poisoned. They were white powder. He said good night, and took it away with arrival there died almost without a struggle. He eeted with sickness and purging. Palmer held the glass him. The strychnine was not sold, but as I knew him to uP to the li g ht, to see if there was anything floating in the be a medical man I made no charge. The prisoner was had swallowed a powerful dose of oil of almonds. glaas• There was a c h an d e li er t h ere. I thought he was not in the shop more than two minutes. ALLEN HOWARD AND OSCAR KINGSTON the two reeking himself up a c oo li ng draught. i Witness then deposed to meeting Palmer the follow- Americana charged with having committed several Lavinia Barnes confirmed the fact of Elizabeth l int; day at the shop of Mr. Hawkins, another Rugs. hotel robberies, were re-examined on Wednesday be- Bills being tak en ill w i t h vom i t i ng on t h e S un d a y ley druggist, and that Palmer said, "he wished to fore Mr. Carrie, and after some further evidence had ra mlinn. She corroborated the evidence of that I speak with him," and led him out into the gtroet been taken, against a warm protest from their couneel t ir i t uesa in every important p art i cu l ar , she imore W While conversins with Palmer, 4 Mr. BraisSingts* .gain rellaadtd•