The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

THE MYSTERIOUS POISONINGS IN YORK.

Mrs. Cooke was yesterday brought up for re-ex-
amination before the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall, when an
immense number attended to hear the case. The prisoner
was to-day defended by Mr. H. Breary.
The witness Ann Clancy was recalled, and in addition to
her former evidence about Mrs. Cooke (the prisoner) offering
to give her 5!. if she would put something in the flour bin
in the prosecutor's house, she now deposed that she remem-
bered that the prisoner had at the time the conversation
referred to took place asked her to go out and fetch some
packets of rat powder, observing also that if she could get
"shut
" of the old gentleman. Mr. Edwin (her husband)
would soon die of grief. She alio added that they were a
bad family Soon after this the witneu was discharged
from Mrs. Cooke's service.
Mr. Cooke, sea., was also called, and after deposing to
some unimportant facts, he was cross-examined relative
to some domestic pecuniary matters. From this evi-
dence it would seem that the prisoner posses/ma some
money, the whole, or most part of which, had been in-
vested io the purchase of the prisoner's husband's business
in Coney-street. Money matters, therefore, it seems has
partaken largely in the family differences of the Cooke..
He also stated that in consequence of the former attempts
to poison he had, for the sake of precaution, ordered the
servants to procure the dour in small quantities of a dealer
in the neighbourhood, thus preventing the possibility of
toolarge a quantity of poisoned dour being made at once.
The remainder of the witnesses, twelve in number, were
then called, from whose evidence it appeared the prisoner,
on a recent visit to her father-in-law's house, was left
alone with the servant, when she took the opportunity
to ask several questions relative to the fastenings of
the hack and office doors, between which places the
flour bin is said to have been placed. Mr. William Procter,
M.L., of York, had received a quantity of flour, bread,
sod mince pies, which had been taken possession of by the
police immediately after the last poisoning took place.
He subjected those articles to chemical analysis. In the
bread loaf be detected a very inconsiderable quantity of
arsenic; in the flour, however, there was a very large
quantity of that poison very unequally diffused, just as
the appearances would be presented if a person had placed
a quantity of arsenic in it, and then the portions of flow
had been taken out from time to time. In the mince pie be
discovered 224 grain, of pore arsenic ; and from the piece
of mince pie he obtained about 12 grains. He wandered
that between three and four grains were a fatal dose. He
bad attended the family when they were ill, and he was of
opinion that they were all suffering from poisoning by some
mineral poison. The result of the ease was not known
when our parcel was despatched.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE LONDON, BRIGHTON,
AND SODvii.COMIT RAILWAY. —The inquest on the body of
Richard Simmons, who was kille4 by the collision that
took place on Thursday night lastTioaley-green, shunt
two miles from Morley station, was held yesterday at the
brag's Head Inn, Harley, before Mr. W. Carter. The jury
returned • verdict of "Manslaughter against Edward
Rely," the driver of the goods train, who was at once com-
mitted for trial at the next Surrey assizes, but the coroner
admitted him to ben in 1001, with two sureties of 501. each.
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