The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

SIX PEE-SONS POISONED BY 'CHEESE AT

GLASGOW.

Several cases of poisonitig, happily not accompanied I
with fatal nvults, took place in the city on Saturday I
week. On that evening information was received at the
Central Police-office that several parties residing in
Princeastreot and Salt-market. had been taken serioualy
ill. the supposition being that they had been poi.uell.
Dr. WOW and Di. Cbaliners at once visited the in.
dividuals, and found that the information was but too
correct. From the symptoms exhibited, the medical
gentlemen conjectured that the atiffivera loot hecin
arsmimilly poisoned, and they a liiiiiiistered accorilintly.
After considerable exertion, all the parties were plackil
beyond the reach of &diger, and it is now hoped that
they are on the fair way toward. recovery. The names
of the sufferers are--Mary Sweeney, residing at 62,
Princes-street ; Join. aged nine years, her d uglier ;
Andrew. aged eight ttttttt ths, her son ; J3olles Bannett,
shoemaker. 87, Saltioarket ; Elizailieth, his wife, •nd a
lodger named Ellen 3ilinight, a (Actor,. winker. It
a 'lvan that Bennett •iid the woman Sweeney had eaeli,
on Saturday, purchased jlb, of cheese from the shop of
James Sweeney, GO, Piinee's•street ; and after the
persons mentioned hail partaken id it they were scared
with aevere dines.. The cheese from which the portions
had been taken was but newly cut. and it appeared to
be a Dunlop of good quality. That one, as well as
, several others in Sweeney's shop. of the same to eke.
I have been taken possession of by the police, and will be
subuutted to a chemical auslyais.—Nortk Brit ish Mad.

RAPID C1:111 ni CuCOR AND DIMCVLYT or BRERTIIING IT
DR. 1....ca1l l'ut.sostc W•raaa —From Th. Harlot...ye., E-q..
CltaUr 11111. .• Slr.—lly rife Itavinz been troubled with a
..ugh and phortnew of breatldnx. and belot; rev.oniroctided to
try ii box of your Wafern. •he did n. aati found relief
from them. Too bozo. at 51. 9.1 each, tu.d in,
.411pletel, re.t..real her.--To Mr. Evan.. Clieutba. ham...ford.
J. II k1it.P.1.7..1.V1.b. Barn,. ford." Dr. Locoet's
Waferf;flts it.taut reilof. and • rapid curt of &Album. cow
•uniption. coughs sod all ill...ordero of the 1,,,th amt
T., gingen. •nd public xforakvru they are Itivaluablt for deadlig
said streogtbsoing the voice. Thoy have • moot [dement lAA&
Price la. lid., s. 9d., bad lbs. psi box. sold by all Chemist*.

ROBBERY OF ELEVEN HUNDRED POENDS.
cuvrit CAPTCht: or A It AM:In:MTh TIIIEF.
A young man who has, without auth..rity collected
upwards ui 1:1.I.X10 front his employer,' cu-nowers. In
Maneloader, and prepared for railing to Australia, was I
captured in Liv, rime'. on Saturday, and brought hack
a ith Ins booty on Sunday wick. Oullonclav he can place,' ;
before the city inagigrates, ciwrged with the rohlary.
His name madames Jackson, and he is isfOrCelY .2.0 yen"
of age. Ile livtd in Prussia-streel, Salford. Supt.
Mayberry stated that the prisoner woo in the ein; ~,,, I
of Mr. Samuel ebeetham, Agent, as a porter, and men.
sionally collected money. On Monnov he went to Mr.
Ellengcr's warehouse. where he reci.ived three cheques,
amounting In "lad 12s. Ile sent a ith them to Lon ion,
where he got them coshet at the Bank of Eglanii,
his employer'. name. He then pro.-eeiled to Liverpool.
where lie was apprehend. it Robert Bennian, a Liver-
pool detective, stated that having received information
of the robbery, he went to the Liverpool Arms, W star-
street, Liverpool, and there apprehended the prisoner.
He had LIP.. 3.1. in his possession, and had deposited
with the latollatly of the house, in Bank of England
notes, PAO Ids. Witensoi received that sum from her.
Mr. Sulam!' Olieetham ilepowed that the prisoner aas a
porter in his service, and had occasionally he, u employed
to collect, but hail ni mohority to collect the slims he
hod obtained. On Wednesday last the prisoner asked
leave to go oft for a few day., awl he (Mr. Cheethau) ,
gave him permission to go, and he was to be back on I
Friday mooting. As be did not coins to w..rk on I
Friday WI: nes. went tO conO. necoutitA, miii then !
found that tlw prisoner hal heel, liefere I , a w,ek or
a fortnight, suit had it some cases allowed an extra per I
twnt, its miler to g.t hold of the minter. Ile 15•441
authority to collect the NUM he hail riseived Iron Mr. !
Ellenger. A eltrk in the employ of Mr.,Ellenor stet
ii
thot on M lay tart he paid the prisoner (who hail I
before collected money) three el e pie. for Mil P2a-
Ile imaul that if the) could oblige Mr. Cheetiooo a 411 tit., I
account he would allow two-and-a-half per cent. dins
count instead of one•atotanialf per cent.. at..l witness
1461 him. Supt. 31aybury Paid there wa, slim a sum of
EISO which the prisoner had obt mitten from another party ;
and when apprehended in Liverpool he hail, alto.
£'9Gl, and had paid his passage to Melbourne.
The prisoner said nothing in defence, and was remounts'
till Thuralay. He had engaged a berth in the ship
Zambezi in the name of Silveater Sound." A M or-
! cheater detettive took a person with him to Liverpool.
who knew the prisoner ; but when find challongol by
the Liverpool detective he fenced on the suhject of the
money, stating that 1:5u0 of it hail been left to idnm by
Ilia tither, and that he hail saved the remainder during
his voyage as a sailor. Ile heel eight Ellid notes. two of
1:50. Nor of EN I.ISS Hai, gold, and 1.1 10a, loose cash.
He had paid Pl 4 for his pas-age to Melbourne. Ell for
a tit-out of clothing. awl in for • rev...6er. .Aroordliog
to the original arrangement for sailing, lie was to be on
board the ship on Saturday night, lie had malted the
cheques in London on 'Elturialay forenoon' and in the
evening returned to Manchester, but paased on the
, branch line over London-road and Oxford-road, and so
on to Liverpool, where he arrived at night.