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in the same cup in which it was brought. It was hot. I
toted it. I drank about two tablt-spoonfals. In about
1,',11- et hour or an hour I was sick. I vomited violently
during the whole afternoon till about live o'clock. I was
obliged tog) to bed. I vomited a great many times. During
the waning I had felt perfectly well, and had not taken
anrthing that could disagree with me.
During Sunday Cook appeared to continue vomiting
after taking food. On Monday, when Palmer was
sway. Cook appeared to recover ; he got up, dressed
and shaved, and seemed in better spirits. That
night at nine Palmer returned. About eight a box
of pills had come from Dr. Bamford's, which witness
placed on Cook's table before Palmer's arrival.
Between nine and ten Palmer returned, and she
saw him sitting in Cook's room. Shortly before
twelve o'clock she was called up, and heard
szreams from Cook's room. The witness here
detailed the dreadful symptoms under which Cook
suffered when she entered his room. Palmer was
called up, and came over and administered two pills
and a mixture. ,Cc.ok snapped at the spoon and
glass, and swallowed the draft., but vomited it. imme-
diately afterwards. After a short time he became
more composed. About the next morning this
witness came into Cook's room :

I asked if Palmer had gone. and Cook said he left at a
quarter before five o'clock. I asked if he felt any worse,
aid he said no, he had been no worse since I left him. I
said, " you were asleep when I left." He replied, "No,
I heard you go." He asked me if I had ever seen any
nue suffer such agony as lie did last night. I said no, I
never had. He said he should think I should not like to
see any one like it again. I said, " What do you think
wu the cause of all that agony ?" He said, " The pills
which Palmer gave me at half-past ten."
During the day Cook appeared better ; Palmer
was with him a good deal, and Mr. Jones arrived.
At half-past ten at night she gave Palmer some toast
ant water for Cook. At ten minutes before twelve
Cook's bell was rung violently :
On hearing the bell (continued the witness) I went up
to Cook's room. Cook was sitting up. I think Jones was
,upporting him, with his arm round his shoulders. Cook
said, "Oh. Mary, fetch Mr. Palmer directly." I went to
Palmer's and rang the surgery bell. As soon as I had
rung I stepped off the steps to look at Palmer's bedroom
window, where I expected him to appear, and lie was
there. He did not lift up the sash, but opened a small
casement and spoke to me. I could not see whether he
was dressed, but I heard and knew his voice. I asked
him to come over to Mr. Cook directly, as he was much
the same as he bad been the night before. I don't re-
member what be replied. I went back to the hotel, and in
two or tbree minutes Palmer came. I was then in the
bedroom. Jones was there supporting Cook. Palmer said
he had never dressed so quickly in his life. I left the room,
but remained on the landing. After I had been waiting
there a short time (about a minute or two) Palmer came
out. I said, He is much the same as he was last night."
Palmer said, Oh, he is not so ill by a fiftieth part." He
then went downstairs as though going to his own house.
He was absent but a very short time, and then returned to
Cook's room. I also went in.

Winless was then sent, for Dr. Bamford, and when
he and sbe returned Cook was dead. With respect
to the missing betting-book, Elizabeth Mills swore
positively that the book was in Cook's room on Mon-
day night, when at his request she handed it to him.
She went in the room atter Cook's death. Palmer
was searching the pockets of Cook's coat.
The conrt here adjourned till Thursday. On re-
assembling the next morning,
Elizabeth Mills was recalled and subjected to a
close cross examination by Mr. Sergeant Shee, who
failed to shake her evidence. Sha stated further,
that Palmer, when she called him up ou Tuesday
morning, was dressed in a plaid dressing-gown and
red cap.
lime Brooks deposed to having seen Palmer in
the passage of the Raven, at Shrewsbury, on the
night of the 14th Nov., with a tumbler containing a
small quantity of water in his hand :

I
saw him *kali e the glass round, as if mixing the fluid
in it. There was a light near to him. He held up the
glass. as if to the light, and then said, " I will be with you
Presently." He saw me the moment I got to the top of
the stairs. After he said he would be with me presently he
remained for a minute or two with the glass in his hand,
and held it up once or twice to the light. When he was
standing there snaking the glass. I made an observation
tgyout the fine weather. There was a sitting r.,om door
partially open near his sitting•room. He took the glass
into that room, which I thought was unoccupied. He re•
!Tinned there two or three minutes, and then came out
with the glass in his hand. Whlt was in the glass was
mill of the colour of water. He then went into his own
sitting•room.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEE N
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great nutnher of racin g men were taken ill at Srews-
lnry with sickness, which could not be accounted for, h
and
it was thought the water hsd been poisoned. They were
alerted with sickness and purging. Palmer held the glass
uP to the light, to see if there was anything floating in the
Own. There was a chandelier there. I thought he was
making himself up a cooling draught.
Lavinia Barnes confirmed the fact of Elizabeth
Malls being taken ill with vomiting on the Sunday
morning. She corroborated the evidence of that
ir4tUesli in every importitut particular, She owore

Palmer coming to see Cook between eight and nine
on Monday evening. At twelve o'clock she was rung
up, and entered Cook's room, and found him very
ill :

He screamed, and cried murder, and sail be was suf-
focated, and his eyes looked very wild, and stood out of
his head. He was also beating the bed with his hands,
and he exclaimed repeatedly, "Christ have mercy on my
soul ! " Palmer came very shortly and went to the de-
ceased's bedroom; and, at this time, he appeared to be
more composed, but said that he should die. The prisoner
said to him, " Don't be alarmed, lad." Shortly after this
I saw the deceased in the act of drinking some dark
liquid from a glass, and I heard his teeth snap at the
glass. After he had taken the draught he appeared to be
more composed, and on the following morning he seemed
a good deal better, and continued so all day.
On the Tuesday night the same thing occurred. Pal-
mer was sent for. He came over rapidly. "He was
dressed," said this witness, " in his usial way; he
had a black coat on and a cap." When Palmer came
out of Cook's room he said Clok was " not so bad
by a fiftieth part as he was before." After Cook died
she went into the room:—

Palmer was there. He had a coat in his band when I
went in. He was feeling in the pockets. I saw him feel
under the bolster. I said, " Oh, Mr. Cook cannot be
dead." Palmer said, " Yes he is; I knew be would be."
I left him in the room with the dead body. I remember
seeing Palmer on the Thursday following. lie came into
the hall of the hotel, and asked me for the key of the room
in which the body was. The key was in the bar. He said
he wanted some books, papers, and a paper-knife. He said
they must go back to the stationer's where he had tbem
from, or he should have to pay for them. While I was in
the room he asked me to go to Miss Bond for some books
she had. I went down stairs with the message be sent,
and returned with the books. When I returned with the
books I found Palmer still in Cook's room.

Lavinia Barnes further stated on cross-examina-
tion that the undertakers and women who laid out
the body were alone in the bedroom for some time.
Anne Rowley deposed to being sent on Saturday
by Palmer to the Albion Inn for some broth, and
taking it to Palmer at his house. Palmer warmed
the broth himself in his own kitchen while witness
was engaged about the house, and then bent witness
with it over to Cook at the Talbot Arms.
Charles Honey took broth on the Sunday from
Palmer to Cook.

Mr. Jones, the surgeon, deposed to having known
Cook for the last five years. He was with Cook at
the Shrewsbury races, dined with him on Tuesday,
the 13th, the day Polestar won, and left him that
night well, and not the worse for liquor. On the
following Monday he received a letter from Palmer
at. Bugeley, requesting him to come and see Cook
"as soon as desirabl6, as he had been taken ill at
Shrewsbury," and had been confined to his bed sinee
his return to Rugeley " with severe bilious attacks
and diarrhoea." On Monday Mr. Jones went to
Rugeley, saw Cook, but observed no symptoms of
bile or diarrhcea. He gave him some toast and
water which was in the room, and Cook immediately
vomited. A consultation was held, about 7 p.m.,
between Dr. Bamford, Mr. Jones, and Palmer, and
it was agreed, upon Palmer's suggestion, to give Cook
some more morphine pills. About 8, Palmer left to
get the pills from Dr. Bamford. When he returned,
a little after 11, he produced the pills, and, with
much difficulty, induced Cook to take them. This
witness then corroborated the statements already
made connected with the details of Cook's death,
fixing the time of the attack at about twenty minutes
past lt?. He also te-tified to the expression
used by Palmer, " that he never dressed so
quickly in his life before," and the administer-
ing two more pills to Cook by Palmer. The
moment Cook bad taken these pills be was seized
with frightful convulsions. Mr. Jones was of opinion
that the pills could not have caused the convulsions.
After Cook died Mr. Jones went out of the room for
a short time: when he returned Palmer was examin-
ing Cook's clothes, and suggested that he (Jones)
should take possession of the effects. He found
neither betting book, letters, nor bank-notes. The
subject of the betting•book was mooted by witness
asking for it, when Palmer replied it would be no
good to any one In answer to further questions,
this witness stated that he was satisfiel the death did
not result from epilepsy or apoplexy.
Charles Newton, assistant to Mr. Salt, surgeon at
Rugeley, gave important evidence as to Palmer ob-
taining strychnia from him on Monday evening, the
19th of November :

I saw Palmer that evening at Mr. Salt's surgery about
nine o'clock. I was alone when he came there. He asked
me for three grains of strychnine, and I weighed it accu
rately, and gave it to him iu a paper. Strychnine is a
white powder. He said good night, and took it away with
him. The strychnine was not sold, but as I knew him to
be a medical man I made no charge. The prisoner was
not in the shop more than two minutes.

Witness then deposed to meeting Palmer the follow-
ing day at the shop of Mr. Hawkins, another Rug°.
ley druggist, and that Palmer said, "he wished to
speak with him," and led him out into the Rtroet.
While coßversiss with Palmer, it Mr. BrasSingtelt

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came up and entered into conversation with witness,
when Palmer left them, returned into the shop, and
came out again immediately afterwards, and went on
to his own house. On Sunday, the 25th of Novem-
ber, witness was sent for by Palmer to his house:—
I found Palmer, when I got there, in his kitchen. He
was sitting by the fire reading. He asked me bow I was,
and to have some brandy and water. No one else was
present. He asked what was the dose of strychnine to
give to kill a dog ? I told him a wain. He asked me
what would be the appearance of the stomach after death ?
told him that there would be no inflammation, and that
I did not think it could be found. Upon that he snapped
his finger and thnmb in a quiet way, and exclaimed, as if
isomatuning with himself, " That's ail right."
At this stage the court adjourned.
On Friday the court resumed.
Charles Robierts, apprentice to Mr. Hawkins,
druggist at Rugeley, deposed to haring sold to
Palmer, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2 firms. of prussic
acid, 6 grs. of strychnine, and 2 drms. of Battley's
solution of opium.
Mr. W. B. Stephens, stepfather of the deceased,
gave a lengthened evidence connected with the
circumstances occurring subsequent to Cook's death.
He first heard of the death on the 21st, and went
down to Rugeley at once. He met Palmer, and
spoke of Cook's Wain. Palmer said that for
4,000/. were out with his name attached, but that
Cook had enjoyed the sole benefit of them. The
witness then detailed at length various conversations
he had with Palmer, by which it appeared that
Palmer betrayed anxiety to get the body buried, an
apparent indifference connected with the betting•
book, and showed evidert emotion—a sort of
" spasmodic twitching of the throat"—when asked by
Mr. Stephens if he would object to answer any
questions in the presence of a solicitor, and a
certain. nervous anxiety when the intention of holding
a post-mortem examination became known.
Dr. Harland, of Stafford, stated the results of the
first and second post-mortem examinations of the
intestines and spinal cord. There was nothing un-
natural in the appearances presented. The liver,
heart, kidneys, longs, and brain were healthy.
There was no appearance of disease in the spinal
cord. The blood was in a fluid state. Witness
further stated that Palmer during the postmortem
examination did undoubtedly try to upset the jars
into which the stomach and intestines were placed
by pushing against Newton. and jerking part. of
the contents of the stomach into the intestines.
Palmer also moved the jar away to the door, and
when witness called for it and examined it., he found
the covering cut through.
Mr. Devonshire and Dr. Monckton corroborated
this witness's evidence.
James Mayatt deposed to being employed to
drive the fly containing the jar and Mr. Stevens to
the station. Palmer met him before starting. and
offered him 101. to upset the fly or break the jar.
The evidence of Mr. Cheshire, the Rugeley
postmaster, next examined, went to prove that
Palmer, on the Tuesday evening of Cook's death,
sent for hint to write out a cheque in Cook's name
for 3ftoL on Messrs Weatherby, payable to Palmer.
Palmer, on the Thursday or Friday following,
wanted him to attest a document, stating that certain
bills, the dates of which and amounts were quoted,
were all for Cook's benefit and not for Palmer's.
Mr. Herring proved meeting Palmer at Beaufort-
buildings on Nov. 19, and receiving instructions from
hint to settle Cook's account at Tattersall',., and to
pay himself on Palmer's account 2001., Padwick 3501.,
and Pratt 4501.

At the conclusion of this witness's examination
the court adjourned. _

From the general features of the ease we have
reason to believe that this remarkable trial will not
oe concluded muoh before the middle of next week.

A DREADM. AND INSANE ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE
MURDER BY PoISON, AND SUICIDE AFTERWARDS, was
made last week in Roehdale, by an innkeeper named
Taylor. The man bad been suffering from delirium
tremens for some time past, and last Wednesday three
men, to whom he had given a pint of ale, became
suddenly very ill. Medical assistance was sent for,
the stomach-pump put into requisition, and their
lives happily saved. Meanwhile Taylor went into
the room where his wife was sitting conversing with
a neighbour, and suddenly struck her a tremendous
blow on the head with the poker. The neighbour
seized him, and after a desperate straggle, the police
being called in, got him out of the house. While
going to the station.honse Taylor suddenly swallowed
something, and in about an hour and a half after his
arrival there died almost without a struggle. He
had swallowed a powerful dose of oil of almonds.
ALLEN HOWARD AND OSCAR KINGSTON the two
Americans charged with having committed several
hotel robberies, were re-examined on Wednesday be-
fore Mr. Carrie, and after some further evidence had
been taken, against a warm protest from their eouvselt
*gait) rewasded.

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a cup in which it was brought. at was hoe I Palmer coming to see Cook between eight and nine came up and entered into conversation with witness,
on Monday evening. At twelve o'clock she was rune, when Palmer left them, returned into the shop, and
tested the
sit.. eldrank about two table-spooned& In about
hour I was sick.
about livveooni.ted. violently
, up, and entered Cook's room, and found him very came out again immediately afterwards, and went on
lee an boar or an
clock. i was ill :._._
daring the whole afternoon till
Lobed. I vomited a great many times. During to his own house. On Sunday, the 25th of Novem-
theged tog 3 He screamed, and cried murder, and said be was se. her, witness was sent for by Palmer to his house:—
wonting I had felt perfectly well, and had not taken
focated, and his eyes looked very wild, and stood out of I found Palmer, when I got there, in his kitchen. He
chat could disagree with me.
his head. He was also beating the bed with his hands, was sitting by the fire reading. He asked me bow I was,
anything
During Sunday Cook appeared to continue vomiting and he exclaimed repeatedly, "Christ have mercy on my and to have some brandy and water. No one else was
after taking food. On Monday, when Palmer was soul ! " Palmer came very shortly and went to the de- present. lie asked what was the dose of strychnine to
away, Cook appeared to recover ; he got up, dressed ceased's bedroom; and, at this time, he appeared to be give to kill a dog ? I told him a gain. He asked me
slla shaved, and seemed in better spirits. That more composed, but said that he should die. The prisoner what would be the appearance of the stomach after death ?
night at nine Palmer returned. About eight a box said to him, " Don't be alarmed, lad." Shortly after this I told him that there would be no inflammation, anti that
of pills had come from Dr. Bamford's, which witness I saw the deceased in the act of drinking some dark I did not think it could be found. Upon that he snapped
' placed on Cook's table before Palmer's arrival. liquid from a glass, and I heard his teeth snap at the his finger and thnmb in a quiet way, and exclaimed, as if
Between nine and ten Palmer returned, and she glass. After he had taken the draught he appeared to be einamaning with himself, " That's ell right"
more composed, and on the following morning he seemed
saw him sitting in Cook's room. Shortly before
twelve o'clock she was called up, and heard a good deal better, and continued so all day. At this stage the court adjourned.
e'reams from Cook's room. The witness here On the Tuesday night the same thing occurred. Pal- On Friday the court resumed.
mer was sent for. He came over rapidly. "He was Charles Roherts, apprentice to Mr. Hawkins,
detailed the dreadful symptoms under which Cook
ressed ," said this witness, "in his usial way; ; he druggist at Rugeley, deposed to having sold to
suffered when she entered his room. Palmer was d
called up, and came over and administered two pills had a black coat on and a cap." When Palmer came Palmer, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2 firms. of prussic
and a mixture. ;Cook snapped at the spoon and f Cook's room he said Cook was "not so bad
out o
1 - - and swallowed the draft, but vomited it imme-
g A..., by a fiftieth part as lie was before." After Cook died solution of opium.
diately afterwards. After a short time he became she went into the room :
gate a lengthened evidence connected with the Mr. W. B. Stephens, step-father of the deceased,
more composed. About six the next morning this Palmer was there. He had a coat in his hand when I ".
witness came into Cook's room : went in. He was feeling in the pockets. I saw him feel circumstances occurring subsequent to Cook's death.
I asked if Palmer had gone. and Cook said he left at a under the bolster. I said, " Oh, Mr. Cook cannot be He first heard of the death on the 21st, and went
dead." Palmer said, " Yes he is; I knew be would be." down to Rugeley at once. lie met Palmer, and
quarter before five o'clock. I asked if he felt any worse,
I left him in the room with the dead body. I remember spoke of Cook's Wain. Palmer said that b-_;ls for
aid he said no, he had been no worse since I left him. I
seeing Palmer on the Thursday followin lie came into 1,000/. were out with his name attached, but that
said, " You were asleep when I left." He replied, "No,
the h:11 of the hotel, and asked me fur the of the room Cook had enjoyed the sole benefit of them. The
I heard you go." He asked me if I had ever seen any
liein which the body was. The key was tehe bar. .He id witness then detailed at length various conversations
nue suffer such agony as lie did last night. I said no, I
wanted some imoks, papers, anda paper-knife. lie said
never had. He said he should think I should not like to he had with Palmer, by which it appeared that
they must go back to the stationer's where he had them Palmer betrayed anxiety to get the body buried, an
see any one like it again. I said, "What do you think
from, or he should have to pay for. them. While I was in
was the cause of
all that ony ?" He said, " The pills apparent indifference connected with the betting•
the room he asked me to go to Miss Bond for some Looks
which Palmer gave me at Ralf-past ten."
she had. I went down stairs with the message he sent, ' and showed evidert emotion—a sort of
During the day Cook appeared better ; Palmer and returned with the books. When I returned with the "book
spasmodic twitching of the throat"—when asked by
was with him a good deal, and Mr. Jones arrived. books I found Palmer still in Cook's room. Mr. Stephens if he would object to answer any
At half-past ten at night she gave Palmer some toast Lavinia Barnes further stated on cross-ezamina- questions in the presence of a solicitor, and a
and water for Cook. At ten minutes before twelve lion that the undertakers and women who laid out certain nervous anxiety when the intention of holding
Cook's bell was rung violently : the body were alone in the bedroom for some time. a post-mortem examination became known.
Oa hearing the bell (continued the witness) I went up Anne Rowley deposed to being sent on Saturday Dr. Harland, of Stafford, stated the results of the
to Cook's room. Cook was sitting up. I think Jones was by Palmer to the Albion Inn for some broth, anti first and second post-mortem examinations of the
"importing him, with his arm round his shoulders. Cook taking it to Palmer at his house. Palmer warmed intestines and spinal cord. There was nothing un-
said, "Oh. Mary, fetch Mr. Palmer directly." I went to the broth himself in his own kitchen while witness natural in the appearances presented. The liver,
Palmer'- and rang the surgery bell. As soon as I had heart, kidneys, Tangs, and brain were healthy.
was engaged about the house, and then sent witness
rang I stepped off the steps to look at Palmer's bedroom . There was no appearance of disease in the spinal
with it over to Cook at the Talbot Arms.
window, where I expected him to appear, and he wascord. The blood was in a fluid state. Witness
there. He did not lift up the sash, but opened a small Charles Honey took broth on the Sunday from
casement and spoke to me. I could not see whether he Palmer to Cook. further stated that Palmer during the postmortem
was dressed, but I heard and knew his voice. I asked Mr. Jones, the surgeon, deposed to having known examination did undoubtedly try to upset the jars
him to come over to Mr. Cook directly, as he was much Cook for the last five years. He was with Cook at into which the stomach and intestines were placed
the same as he had been the night before. I don't re- the Shrewsbury races, dined with him on Tuesday, by pushing against Newton. and jerking part of
member what be replied. I went back to the hotel, and in the 13th, the day Polestar won, and left him that the contents of the stomach into the intestines.
two or three minutes Palmer came. I was then in the night well, and not the worse for liquor. On the Palmer also moved the jar away to the door, and
bedroom. Jones was there supporting Cook. Palmer said when witness called for it and examined it., he found
following Monday he received a letter from Palmer
he had never dressed so quickly in his life. I left the room, the covering cut through.
at. Rugeley, requesting him to come and see Cook
but remained on the landing. After I had been waiting Mr. Devonshire and Dr. Monckton corroborated
"as soon as desirable, as he had been taken ill at
there a short time (about a minute or two) Palmer came this witness's evidence.
nut. I said, -He is much the same as he was last night." Shrewsbury," and had been confined to his bed sinee
James Mayatt deposed to being employed So
Palmer said, " Oh, he is not so ill by a fiftieth part." He his return to Rugeley " with severe bilious attacks
drive the fly containing the jar and Mr. Stevens to
then went downstairs as though going to his own house. and diarrhoea." On Monday Mr. Jones went to
the station. Palmer met him before starting. and
He was absent but a very short time, and then returned to Rugeley, saw Cook, but observed no symptoms of .
offered him 191. Lon pset the fiy or break the jar.
cook's room. I also went in. bile or diarrhoea. He gave him some toast and
Winless was then sent for Dr. Bamford, and when water which was in the room, and Cook immediately The evidence of Mr. Cheshire, the Bageley
postmaster, next examined, went to prove that
he and cbe returned Cook was dead. With respect vomited. A consultation was held, about 7 p.m.,-
Palmer, on the Tuesday evening of Cook's death,
to the missing betting-book, Elizabeth Mills swore between Dr. Bamford, Mr. Jones, and Palmer, and
sent for hint to write out a cheque in Cook's name
positively that the book was in Cook's room on Mon- it was agreed, upon Palmer's suggestion, to give Cook
for 3110 L on Messrs Weatherby, payable to Palruer.
day night, when at his request she handed it to him, some more morphine pills. About 8, Palmer left to
She went in the room atter Cook's death. Palmer get. the pills from Dr. Bamford. When he returded, Palmer, on the Thursday or Friday following,
was searching the pockets of Cook's coat. a little after 11, he produced the pills, and, with ' waeted him to attest a document, stating that certain
The court here adjourned till Thursday. On re- much difficulty, induced Cook to take them. This bills, the dates of which and amounts were quoted,
'
assembling the next morning, witness then corroborated the statements already were all for Cook's benefit and not for Palmer s.
Elizabeth Mills was recalled and subjected to a made connected with the details of Cook's death, Mr. Herring proved meeting Palmer at Beaufort-
close. u.ildings on Nov. 19, and receiving instructions from
to settle Cook's account at Tattersall', and to
cross. examination by Mr. Sergeant Shee, who fixing the time of the attack at about twenty minutes
b
failed to shake her evidence. Sha stated further, past 12. He also testified to the expression ni
's account 2001., Padwick 3501.,
that Palmer, when she called him up ou Tuesday used by Palmer, "that he never dressed so pay himself on Palmer
morning, was dressed in a plaid dressing-gown and quickly in his life before," and the administer-
and Pratt 4501.
red cap. ing two more pills to Cook by Palmer. The At the conclusion of this witness's examination
lone Brooks deposed to having seen Palmer in moment Cook had taken these pills he was seized the court adjourned.
toe passage of the Raven, at Shrewsbury, on the with frightful convulsions. Mr. Jones was of opinion From the general features of the ease we have
reason to believe that this remarkable trial will not
night of the 14th Nov., with a tumbler containing a that the pills could not have caused the convulsions.
be concluded mut% before tbe middle of next week.
small quantity of water in his hand : After Cook died Mr. Jones went out of the room for
1 saw him shake the glass round, as if mixing the fluid a short time ; when he returned Palmer was examin-
in it. There was a light near to him. He held up the ing Cook's clothes, and suggested that he (Jones)
A DREADM. AND INSANE ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE
glass. as if to the light, and then said, " I will be with you should take possession of the effects. He found MURDER BY PoISON, AND SUICIDE AFTERWARDS, was
Presently." He saw me the moment I got to the top of neither betting-book, letters, nor bank-notes. The made last week in Roehdale, by an innkeeper named
the stairs. After he said he would be with me presently he subject of the betting-book was mooted by witness Taylor. The man bad been suffering from delirium
remained for a minute or two with the glass in his hand, asking for it, when Palmer replied it would be no tremens for some time past, and last Wednesday three
and held it up once or twice to the light. When he was good to any one In answer to further questions,
standing there shaking the glass. I made an otservation
his witness stated that. he was satisfied the death did men, to whom he had given a pint of ale, became
a:vout the fine weather. There was a Rifting reom door suddenly very ill. Medical assistance was sent for,
partially open near his sittinmmom. He took the glass not result, from epilepsy or apoplexy.
the stomach-pump put into requisition, and their
into that room, which I thought was unoccupied. He re- Charles Newton, assistant to Mr. Salt, surgeon at lives happily saved. Meanwhile Taylor went into
miined there two or three minutes, and then came out Rugeley, gave important evidence as to Palmer ob- the room where his wife was sitting conversing with
with the glass in his hand- Whst was in the glass was taming strychnia from him on Monday evening, the a neighbour, and suddenly struck her a tremendous
still of the colour of water. He then went into his own 19th of November :
blow on the head with the poker. The neighbour
sittinernorn.
I saw Palmer that evening at Mr. Salt's surgery about seized him, and after a desperate straggle, the police
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEE : nine o'clock. I was alone when he came there. He asked being called in, got him out of the house. While
NA great number of racing men were taken ill at Shrews- me for three grains of strychnine, and I weighed it scow going to the station-house Taylor suddenly swallowed
tiara with sickness, which could not be accounted for, and rately, and gave it to him iii a paper. Strychnine is a something, and in about an hour and a half after his
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it was thought the water had been poisoned. They were white powder. He said good night, and took it away with
arrival there died almost without a struggle. He eeted with sickness and purging. Palmer held the glass him. The strychnine was not sold, but as I knew him to
uP to the light, to see if there was anything floating in the be a medical man I made no charge. The prisoner was had swallowed a powerful dose of oil of almonds.
glaas• There was a chandelier there. I thought he was not in the shop more than two minutes. ALLEN HOWARD AND OSCAR KINGSTON the two
reeking himself up a cooling draught. i Witness then deposed to meeting Palmer the follow- Americana charged with having committed several
Lavinia Barnes confirmed the fact of Elizabeth l int; day at the shop of Mr. Hawkins, another Rugs. hotel robberies, were re-examined on Wednesday be-
Bills being taken ill with vomiting on the Sunday ley druggist, and that Palmer said, "he wished to fore Mr. Carrie, and after some further evidence had
ramlinn. She corroborated the evidence of that I speak with him," and led him out into the gtroet been taken, against a warm protest from their couneelt
irituesa in every important particular, she imore W While conversins with Palmer, 4 Mr. BraisSingts* .gain rellaadtd•