The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

-eUGELEY POISONING CASE.

(1111 es t upon the death of Walter Palmer, the brother,
tte:lll4ins have been chemically analysed by Drs. Taylor
oel4' asw resumed on Monday last, before the same
1,4!1(1 jury.
h.° attend
witness was Mr. H. Day, surgeon, of Stafford,
.::ofi'h,cled deceased at the request of his brother from the
41, till his death, on the 16th of August. His disease
-I)po sea to be chronic inflammation of the lungs, with
:441:11 of the liver and kidneys ; but the cause of his
Bet down as apoplexy, produced by the incurably
habits of the deceased. The only suspicious circtim-
,l that he one morning remarked, "The pills you
kli)111,141/t, night, doctor, were twisters I" On being asked
give ' the Patient replied, " Those his brother William
111'n." The latter denied that he had given any
but that prescribed ; and it was concluded that the
ya'atireamed of the pills in his drunken sleep. He
dag
tlie",Tatik, despite the doctor's warning, a quart of gin
I,:4OtVaY, and three pints at night. When on the sober
&"11 th;l' witness said, he drank at least half a bottle. He
04141q1,,;,,eta, and without indications of poison.
kllLte 15.,75' Was resumed on Tuesday. The most iniportant
.•4''1011;`8_, given by Professor Taylor, who said that the
(td drawn from an examination of
.the body of the
t;,,,iseP'e, first, with the exception of the liver, the viscera
OiaNti,a_sed Presented no appearance of disease ; secondly,
00;1114rent of the liver was not such as to account for
‘til Neu death; thirdly, that no mineral or vegetable
Neer, ci be detected in any part of the body ; fourthly,
'tkskr, tiwe as nothing in the appearance of the viscera toeacoi
Ors ,4t,h; fifthly, in the absence of distinct evidenc
kiv,-41u duration of the illness of deceased, we are not
Or -,„an, opinion as to the cause of death, whether from
:erellson. Dr. Bees concurs in those conclusions,
A",`„llee ismravvn up and signed on the 4th January last. I
th,„",eard the evidence given by witnesses as to the
deceased, and my opinion is, assuming nothing
or taken by him an hour before he died, that the
Vt13...,13 death was apoplexy, arising from excessive
tths 11r. Dean : The symptoms of apoplexy are
4ve as those of narcotic poison. After a lapse of
Lod Inontlis, all trace of narcotic poison would have
ear °: of prussic acid either. Prussic acid would
.~e mined fic'jtnight after death. Dr. Monckton, who had
to d d'le body, could form no other opinion than that
te evia,,—ed of a fit apoplexy. The habits of deceased as
Ettallee would be quite sufficient to my mind to ac-
IneO— a fatal termination. By Mr. Dean : There is
irillnsPatible in the symptoms I have described with
•N 3 sit acid.
booditional evidence of importance was that of
04,14e11,:'' at the Grand Junction Hotel, Stafford, which
V. am. o3r the landlord. Myers said :—l•ktiew Walter
'o4,4lterts brother Wm. Ppltrer I remember the time
.t;i„;ave' pal
died. Two.da'ys.before be died, William
.:,011,4Le came two bottles wrapped up in paper, and told
atiq 7. of them, and not to expose them to the air.
;00 ',,thelA betthed them away again the same day. He
u",,,j4die lk again in about an hour. The next day,
clo et the da he rsked me for them again. I
I, -Wu to the yslables"-to him. He took one bottle
Ored and opened it, took a small one out of his
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41 a little fluid from the small phial into the bottle
1/44(11 e d then from the large into the small, filling
4311, eAue small one away with him. Mr. Lloyd,
.r.e e Into the stable while he was there, and I
left the larger bottles with me. He came