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

MAN POISONED AT AN AUCTION.

A broker from Ratcliffe Bridge, Lancashire,
mm with a shocking death a few days sine..
whilst &needing a sale by auction at Heaton Norris,
ML Alfred Leigh, auctioneer, of Manchester, wee an-
gered is selling the extensive plant and effects of the
Spring Vale Paid Works, the property of Mrs.! Halms,
whin it was mentioned by on* of his assistants that there
was a cask of dang.sabstitud amongst the property, which
hod not been named in the catalogue. Deng-substitute is a
liquor and by calico primers, containing considerable
quaatftim of red and white arsenic, white lead, and other
poisonous laptedisate, and the lineation of It led to a request
that it might be pat up to competition. The auctioneer
ordered a sample to be haadel round amongst the
company, mad this was done in a small pitcher, containing
something lam then half-a- pint. The people attending the
ash, tionneeted with the printing trade, passed the liquor
one to another, after smelling or testing it, sad at learn it
was given, at his own request, to the broker from Ratcliffe.
bridge. A good deal of banter and joking went on amongst
the company whilst this was done, and when the broker had
it, in consequeuse of the time be held it to his litre, some one
mid he must be going to take a drink. The next moment a
at person eadoted— Why he is drinking it!" The cap
was afterwards passed co, the man himself rpittiog a good
deal, to climate his mouth, and observing that it had an
awful bad taste. He did not appear, from the quantity still
loft in the cup, to have draak much, and as probably few
of the company knew sok of the composition of
the liquor, they did set apprehend any bad COM.
queues, and in the exelteneme *Me sale the matter was
soon forgotten. The neat aloft is was rumoured that
the rasa was dead, and ea laquiry it tuned out that be was
seised with violent palm afese leaving the sale, and, about
nine hods alter swallowing the auk died in great agony.
A medical man was samaasese se hieeY, bat was unable to
administer say antidote I. eoasterset pMeu so potent and
deadly as them which bad been swallowed. A rumour was
current afterwards that some beer bad hem given to paeans
attending the sal*, and that this man, min the impression
that the cup contained beer, drank at it peony mil owed-
lowed enough to destroy life before be was anew el kM
mistake. This, however, is incorrect. Audiometers say that
people attend es sales are often ezesedingly loosened or
reckless of the dearer of tasting liquids of this kind.

BRiseD.—'rhe prime of wheaten bread in the me.
Moroi aro from 44. to 10d.; of hoooehold ditto, d. to
ei. • some bakers on selling from ma. to Bd. per 41b. loaf,
weighed on delivery._
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