The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-30 00:00:00

NORFOI4 CIRCUIT.—No9wics, Mai= 29.

Mary Arse Fisher, 30 years of age, was charged with
poisoning George Fisher, her husband.
Mr. Prendergast, Q.C., appeared for the prosecution;
Mr. Daunt for the defence.
The deceased was • wood.tunier in Norwich, sad had
lived in apparent happiness with his wife. In November
last, having sustained a rupture, he placed himself ceder
the ears of Mr. Morgan, a surgeon, and on the 28th that
gentleman pronounced him to be in a fair way of recovery.
In the evening, however, his wife came hurriedly to his
brother, William Fisher, and entreated him to go and see
deceued, as he was ding ; and, on the young nun going to
the deceued's room, he -found him in the agonies of death.
Mr. Morgan, when requested to give the usual artilleate,
expressed his' wish, before he did so, to make a post-ssortem
examisatlon. The prisoner, and one or two other pencils,
objected, but it was eventually adopted, end a powerful
smell of the essential oil of almonds was found to pervade
the stomach and body of deceased. Lupin. s were set on
foot, and it was found that on the 26th of November the
prisoner had galled at the shop of Mr. Halm., a druggist,
• aid producieg a bottle labelled " Folios," asked to have it
filled (with essential oil of &lauds. Mr. Helms at first
refused to sell the poison to her, bat she told him not to be
afraid to do so, as her husband used it in his business, and
added that she had had such difficulty in procuring it for
him, that Mr. Morgan had given her a written autho-
rity to get it. Oa kerning this statement Mr. Hulse
gave her 40 drops of the poison—a quantity sufficient to
mese death; and be did not discover until too late that the
=story was a fabrication. A married woman tamed I
n, who resided with her husband is the hoses
panty I=d by ased sad his wife, stated that the
har upon the night on which the deceased
crwlte was dead when she was applied to, though she
hal heard nothing unusual talkies place in his room, from
widish she was separated by a thin 'partition wall
sob. She had MN las desseed the day before, and
be bed these sealed is bre diet be was mash better.
• wows named Boardroom saw Ida tho day before be
died, sad he told her he bad Mesa saftsfax Intensely /rem
bereft yaks la the sheet mad ewers!. libe and others
W hen seemed sewn le his behre by the prisoner,
although it wee Miele= thel he seseplained that none of
his neighbours onto to she Ws. To John Bisly, a neigh-
bour, who saw him ass Wise be died, the unfortunate man
said, " I han taken all sorts of things. Last night I had
each a deft as I shall never forget ; I thought it would
have burnt my very inside Oct." This statement was not
justified by the medicines which Mr. Morgan had prescribed.
Shortly before deceased's death, prisoner caned a woman
named Brinell' if she knew what Mr. Woolner, the draggist,i
sad Mr. Smith, the onfeerioner—two persons who have
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recently committed &abide is Norwich—psi-issued themselves
with. 13rittain said she thoaght it wee oil of almonds, sad
the prisoner observed inuedaloutly that she did not think
that was poison. The conversation closing here she went
up to a young man mused Spence, who worked in the same
room with her at Meson. Bokser and Co.'s, and asked him
whether he knew the nuns of the poises 11•11415. Woolner
and Smith took. The reply being as before, " Essential oil
of almonds," she said "I don't think that is poison, for I
have need it fir my hair." Spence rejoined, "Yon can't
have done so, for it is rank poison." The morning after the
deceased died she knocked at Spence's door and said to
his, "Oh l what a _ jeb—Qeorge is deed. I shall
WIN, get over it. He has taken poison." Spines
owl, asked " What place ?" this replied, rather left-
HMV, " eisential oil of almonds." Spence asked who bad
pindineed it. 13h• replied, " I did ;" to which
that
essiliesty rejobted, " Why, how could you do that; I told
rile k was rank poison ?" In reply she said her husband
bed toserd bee to get it for him some time, as he wanted to
Wm* limey in wood staining with it; and having bought
as before—eueh sugar of lead, copperas, Ito.—
she eritilest procured it. She added that, having per-
ihelia hate • the bottle in which it was contained on
the that her husband then asked her to go
emi sees . Clarke, who bad been very kind to
them; and that .he availed himself of her abseil*
esmmit suicide. It was proved that prisoner had
Wato Mbar chemists besides Mr. Reline for poisons,
tley bad refound to let her have them. The caw
seise the prboner appserion to be a very grave one, the
Muter for the city, Mr. W. Wilde, adjourned his in
lewd times to afford opportunities for the production of as
math evidence as possible ; and on the 30th of November
the bin attached to the house of the deceased was searched
very minutely, but nothing to excite particular attendee
was found in it. On the sth of December it was examined
again, and a bottle resembling that which the prisoner pro-
duced to Mr. Rubes was found. This could not have been
lying in the bin wiles it was first searched, as its contests
were isarefony weed three& a small sieve and it mast
have been dlormillell tbe NI arise the affair had attracted
the enmities of Hee plies. The het WNW ed mediane
which the desired Mil medusa Orem Mr. Mormsse—which
was gives es the rims: ea the night el hie death—wee,
feud standing in the hones untouched.

(DT Blum= 221.1101 APE.)
The jay thought the cue doubtful, ud hsp acquitted
the prima.