The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

obtain passolion of the 111. that hal been received by the
deceased on the day she was tint taken ill.
Mr. Dixon, aelsrk in the General Post-ornee,' peeved thy
the letter just read releglng to the supposed loan of sor
was between ten o'clock on Saturday, the 18th ofr
o
, and eight o'clock on Monday, the 20th, at TON
einem-place post-office, near the realms* of the deoesnaL
Mr. SIOV•1111011, the hoeband of • former witness, proved
that he had • conversation with the prisoner, and she sill,
in answer to questions he put to her that there was plenty
of evidesoe to justify the coroner's jury in retundes
verdict of natural death, and that she then said, "Ah, if that
fellow gave her anything—," and then suddenly stopped
without finishing the sentence.
Mr. G. Whidborne said—l am • surgeon reading at
Guilford-street, Russell-square. I was acquainted with
the deceased, but I had not attended her protesnosally,
and I considered her very healthy and a ninon
of cheerful dispositiuu. I was gist called on to attend
the deceased on Friday, the 17th of October. It was in the
after part of the day. I found her suffering from great
sickness and pain in the bowels, and there were also spurns
and grist rerftwess I heard that she had vomited, and
there bad been a great deal of purging before I cams. The
deceased looked very dejected, and in consequence of the
state I found her in, I inquired what she had taken, and
she said she had taken some pork-pie which she supposed
might have disagreed with her. The prisoner was present,
and she appeared very kind to the deceased. She said the
pork pie was very good, and she showed me the re-
of it. I prepared some medicine, which con-
tained • mild preparation of *=, and it was sent
to the deceased's house imaelkilak. I do not moiled
ever having said anything to the pommy about the medi-
cine. I went to sea the demand again late at night, and
found that the median) had had no effect in alleviating
the symptoms, end I prepared some a little stronger. On
the Friday night I remember a statement being made by
the prison to the effect that the deceased bad got into
acme trouble and anxiety on account of her common with
some man she had met in an omnibus. I was at the house
of the deceased at a very early hour on the Saturday morn-
ing, and the deceased was then alive, but as 111 as she
could possibly be. and I considered that she was near her
end. After the death had taken place an application was
made to me for • oertidoste as to the caw of death, and
I refused to give one. I was afterwards examined at the
inquest and made • post-mortem examination of the body,
and to the beat of my recollection the mucous membrane
of the stomach and Mira was inflamed, and I
attributed the death of the deceased to that isflamina-
tion. The effect of the medicine I had prowling in
a cam of cholera° diarrhos should have bees to ease the
pais and stop the purging. At the time I attributed the
death to natural MUM, and the coroner's jury returned •
verdict to that effect. A person named Dixon lodged in
Mrs. Soamee's house, and he died there in June, four months
before the death of the deceased. During his illness I had
• conversation with the prisoner, and she told me that Dixon
had been in the habit of taking colchicum for rheumatism,
and 1 told her that it was • very dangerous medicine, and
that it should not be administered except under medical
supervision, and the prisoner replied that she knew thin,
and was well acquainted with it. An over-dose of colchicum
would perdue* all the symptoms that were exhibited by
the deceased, namely, vomiting, purging, sickness, and pain
in the cheat and bowels. No such results could have fol-
lowed the administration of the medicine that I prescribed.
I was satisfied at the time that the inflammation in the
stomach of the deceased had been produced by something
she had taken., and any vegetable irritant poison would have
produced all these appearances, and colchicum, if adminis-
tered in brandy and egg or brandy and water, would cer-
tainly have done so. I also have no doubt that such a poison
might pass out of the system without leaving any trace,
At this stage of the cue the trial wasadjounied, the jury,
as im smal in cases of felony, being taken to the London
Ooffee-house, in the charge of the oaken of the court.

NEW COURT.
(Balm Yr. Justice Kestiog.)

Thomas nortelife, an elderly men of decent appearance,
surrendered to take his trial es as indictment charging him
with the manslaughter of LOWS' Oliver, a woman with
whom he had cohabited.
Mr. Kemp conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner
was undefended by counsel.
The circumstances disclosed by the evidence ware these—
Oa the morning of Sunday, the 27th of July, a quarrel
ensued between the prisoner and the deceased, when the
latter alleged that the former bad been in improper com•
may, and had been robbed of his wages. From high words
came to blows, and in the sod it appeared that the
prisoner, seising a large shell which formed one of the ores-
mans of the mantelpiece, threw it with great force at the
head of the decamped, carning. as it tamed out, a slight
fracture of the cranium. The fact of having thrown the shell
was admitted by the prisoner to some of his neighbours,
.and
the whole question turned upon the fact whether the injury
had been a primary came of death. In the course of the
trial it transpired that the cleansed had for a long period
of time suffered from summating turnouts in the head.
which frequently burst, and the evidence of the medicel
gentleman who bad been called in went to show that the
pus from these tumours becoming absorbed in the system
wm the proximate canes of the death. The deceased
was proved to have been a woman of intemperate habits ;
whereas the prisoner, on the evidence of several highly.
respectable witnesses who were called, was shown to have
been a sober, orderly, peaceable, and well-conducted man,
who had been in one situation at the Commercial Docks for
upwards of 30 years.
Mr. Justice Keatiog summed up the evidence, and
The jury, after being locked up for a considerable time
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mary Riley, 30, married, Ellen Roue, 24, and Mary
Flynn, 44, married, were given in charge to the jury on the
coroner's inquisition for the wilful murder of John Riley ;
the indictment had been ignored by the grand jury.
Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Ribton far
the defence.
It appeared that the deceased was the child of one of the
prisoners, and its death was caused from an overdose of
laudanum administered to the child negligently and ignor.
antly by the three prisoners.
Kr. Metcalfe said that after the course the grand jury
bad taken he should not offer any evidence to support the
coroner's inquisition.
Mr. Justice- Keatiog said that that was a very proper
course to pursue, and directed an acquittal.
The jury Acquitted the prisoners accordingly.
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Emma Sophia Shepherd, 29, married, was indicted for
feloniously wounding George Austin, with latent to murder.
Mr. Dickie prosecuted.
The parties in this caw were of the lower class of life, and
lived at Woolwich. The prisoner had been separated from
her husband. and since bad cohabited with the prosecutor,
and on the Bth of July, after some disagreement between
them, she with a razor attempted to cut his throat, and in-
flicted a very severe injury on the tack part of his neck.
The jury returned a verdict of Gadly, and the prisoner
was sentenced to ten years penal servitude.

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Henry Ouilv!!, 26. painter, was indicted for feloniously
killing and slaying a male child.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, said that
in this instance the grand jury had thrown out the bill, and
he should not feel himself justified in offering any evidence
on the coroner's inquiaitioo.
Mr. Justice Keating said he had read the depositions, and
he thought the learned counsel had exercised a proper
discretion.
A verdict of Acquittal was accordingly taken.
Maria Marsh, 36, widow, was indicted for killing and
slaying her infant male child.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and it appeared from the facts
adduced that the prisoner, who seems to be in a most
wretched state of destitution, was in June Last confined in
the Strand Union of a male child, and left the eitablieh-
ment in July. OD the 2nd of August a hamper was left at
the house of Dr. Partridge, in Pall-mall, with his servant,
and that hamper had been found to contain a male infant,
about three months old. The child was in a very
emaciated state, and apparently dying. Dr. Partridge did
all that was necessary for its condition, and sent it to the
workhouse, where it only lived a few days. The prisoner
afterwards called at the workhouse to mate inquiries about
the child, which she said belonged to another woman, and
information having been given to the police they went to
where she wee living, and ascertained' that .he was the
mother of the child. At the time of her apprehension

she Cold the constable that she was in the utinor'at poverty,
that the child was sinking for the want of milk, which she
mould not supply, and that she placed it is • hamper and
sent it by her brother-in law (the prisoner Ogilvy), who
was acquitted in the preceding case, to the house of Dr.
Partridge, hoping that it would lbe taken care of.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner
received • @entail°e of fourteen days' imprisonment.
I Wiltiant Hook, 18, labourer, was indicted for unlawfully 1
and maliciously throwing at a certain carriage on the Great
Western Railway • quantity of hard clay, with intent to
eudanger the safety of the persona being in such carriage.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Rasher appeared on behalf of the
Great Western Railway Company, to prosecute, and the
evidence which was adduced disclosed that on the 14th
September the prisoner was seen to throw over • hedge a
lump of dried clay at • train that was comas to West
Drayton. It struck the window with great force and broke,
but as, fortunately, there was no person is the carriage at
the time oo penonal injury was inflicted. To a servant
of the company who took him into custody, the prisoner
said he had only been throwing at a bird.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
Mr. Justice Keating sentenced him to three months' impri.
moment with hard labour.

Ellen Regan, 45, married, a dissipated-looking Irish-
woman, of the lowest class, was indicted for the man-
aleughter of Ana Farrell.
The deceased, who was spoken of u a very respectable
woman of the age of 7s, resided with her husband in
King's.head-court, Westminster, and on the 29th July,
the prisoner, in a state of intoxication, went into the house
of the deceased, and claimed acquaintance with the husband,
at the same time using very bed language. The husband
warned the prisoner to leave the house, Saki she refusing, he
pushed her out ; when the prisoner in a violent rage seized
hold of the deceased, who was near the door at the time,
assaulted her violently, and finally threw her into the street.
She fell, and in the fall her leg was broken, from the effects
of which she died a few days after in the hospital.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner
was sentenced to six mouths imprisonment with hard
labour.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and Yr. Collins defended.