The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

NORFOLK.

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MY,TERIOI.'S POISON I NU.—ATTL RBURCi If TH 0 ILSDAY
ineestigation opened by Mr. Pilgrim, the Nor-
folk coroner, on the 30th ult., respecting the deaths of Mrs.
Mary l'earson, aged 50, and Mrs. Elizabeth Everett, aged
56, who were poisoned by means of arsenic, being secreted in
their food, was resumed this morning at 10 o'elielc, at the
Greyhound Inn, Tibbenhans, a village eight miles distant.
James Warren, an intelligent lad, aged 18, servant to Mr.
Joseph Pearson, was the first witness, but his evidence was
so unsatisfactory that the coroner ordered him to the care of
the police.—Eliza Sage, 17, another servant, stated, that on
the day in question she filed the kettle fur hreakfast.—
Coroner : If poison has been found in the tea kettle, eel you
form any opinion as to how it got there ? Witness : I can-
not, sir; she was a good mistress to me, and I ton very sorry
if that is the case. The water that remained in the tea-
kettle 0.1 Sunday morning the doctor took away. I filled a
bottle with the water trim the kettle on the same morning
to warm my mistress's feet. I put the kettle is the copper
hole in the back house on Saturday night. I planed it
on the fire on Sunday morning before I went
milking. On the Thursday before her death, my
mistress took me up in her room and showed
me tome mi.' holes in a closet; she put some poison in the
hole, it was mixed up in something in a basin. 1 swept out
the closet, and some pieces of the poison w ere amongst the
dust which she threw on the fire, and there was no vessel on
the tire when she threw it there ; the kettle was not
near it. On the Sunday night Mrs. John Peerson, a sister
of the deceased, called at the house and directed me to
fetch another tea kettle for tea, as she was amid to di ink out
of the one that had perviously been in use ; she was afraid to
have tea made in it. The medical gentlemen had the kettle
which boiled the water on Sunday morning. A wrong one
was given them at find, but the mistake was nctified, and
the right oneentrusted totheen. Mr. G. W. Firth, surgeon,
Norwich. deposed that on the 31st of March, in :onjune-
tinn with Mr. H. Howard, of New Buckenham, and his
insistent, he made a post-mortem examination of the bodies
of the deceased. The general external appearance of the
body of Mrs. Pearson was healthy. The etoreach contained
about 12 oz. of yellow liquid, a little tinged with blood.
He had submitted the conter.ts of the stomach and a portion
of the liver to a chemical analysis, and had et ,rated arsenic
from them. Taking the circumstance of the death into con-
sideration, he had no doubt that she had died from weenie.
The some conclusion woe the result, on examining the body
of Elirabeth Everett. Ile had examined a teakettle, some
water in a stone bottle, and some in a glass bottle, which war
delivered to him by liloomsfeeld, the Tibt-euham con-
stable, and which he understood to be foetid in the de-
ceased's, Mrs. Parson's, le use. He also examined some
tea-leaves from Mr. Howard, which was stated to
have been token from the teapot which was used by the de-
ceased at the breakfast on the Sunday morning they were
taken ill, and some greasy paste. He foetid arsesie in all
these. The kettle contains only a small trete. The water
in the glass bottle had but a small portion of the arsenic.
The weter in the stone bottle contained the greater portion.
The liquid in the former vessel was evidently not the same
sample. In the tercleavea be found arsenic, as also in the
greasy paste. After the evidence of the medical men the
proceedings were adjourned.