The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER BY POISON.

On Saturday morning, at the City Police-court,
Manchester, before Mr. Fowler and other magistrates, Ann
Corrigan, aged 54, of 99, Jersey-street, was charged. oo
piciou with the wilful murder by poises of Ann Conway,
aged 44, dressmaker, of No. 10, Itoctulale-road, where she
lodged with Mr. James Sparks, who keeps a smallwareshop.
The deceased bad been ill, and the prisoner had attended to
her more than anyone else. After the death of Conway as
inquest was held. It resulted in • verdict which wee
substantially that death had resulted from natural causes.
Altar the inquest the prisoner took the body away from
the house of Sparks, and it was interred at St. Wilfred's,
Anima. The deceased was insured in the Prudential
loeuraoce Company for 8/.105., and in two clubs for lesser
sums. The total amount doe upon her death was IV. 2s, fid
It appeared that the primmer had possessed herself of the
deceased's papers, and it was suggested that she had drawn
the money from all three offices. The police say that she
has been more or lase drank every day since the funeral.
The other principal fact against the accused is that arsenic
has been found in two of the bottles in which the prisoner
took medicine for the deceased. The principal witness
at the preliminary examiostioa on Saturday morning was
Mrs. Sparks. She stated that Conway had lodged with her
three months. She was unmarried, and very delicate. The
prisoner was a friend of the deceased, whom she had been
io the habit of visiting once or twice • week. No medical
man bad been called in to see the deceued, bat the witness
and the prisoner had often talked of the desirability of
consulting one. The prisoner said that the deceased had
often been as she Irma in her fatal iliooll. The de-
ceased began to be sick on the Friday and died
oa the following Tuesday. her medicine having been
brought and administered to her by the prisoner.
The inquest was held on the day of the death,
Mr. T. C. Fletcher, surgeon to the police force,
said that be had made a preliminary analysis of the con-
tents—less than a teaspoonful—of two champagne bottler,
sod in each be toned indications of the presence el a large
proportion of arsenic. When the prisoner was apprehended
oa Friday morning, she raid she had only giveu the de.
ceased such medicine as she directed, made from a recipe
which she alleged was in the house, but which no one has
ever seen. The prisoner also admitted she was with the
deceased the night before her death. The prisoner was re-
minded for a weak. In the meantime it is probable the
body of the deceased will be exhumed, by order of the Secre-
tary of State, in order that • post mortem examinatiu may
be made.

THE MTRDER AT PLAIaToW.--011 Saturday morn-
ing Karl Kohl, charged with the murder of the young
German, Fahrbon, in Plaistow-marsbes, was removedfrom
Ilford Gaol to Nonage, to be ready to take his trial at the
sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which rumination
to-day. Kohl ham lost much of the hardihood be displayed
when first apprehended. lie has been visited in Ilford Gaol
by several German gentlemen, and has bad frequent inter-
views with Mr. Herbert Wool, his solicitor, and eminent
rousesl have been envied to conduct his defence. The
Rev. Dr. Capped, who attended Muller in his last momente,
hss bees frequently with Kohl.

• PLCIII YVDDINO. —Take one pound of bread
crumbs, ooe tablespoonful of flour, a little salt, one team...ant
of itorwack's Baking Yowler, half a pound of moist augur, half •
ta•apuonful of bortileit'a lilted Spice, and rub the ingredient•
well bigether ; add half • pound of suet chopped fine, three-
quarters of • pound of stoned ratsum, half • pound of nep-
w•abed currants, two ounces candled peel (two eggs ore an im-
provement thoush not necessarl', slightly moisten the whole
with • little sulk, taking tarn not, to realm It too wet, or the
pudding wall be bury. Boil to a hula fur four hours the day
before it le required. Two hours boiling will be sulboeut the
day it l usetl.--lAdvetiimanent.J