The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-17 00:00:00

SUSPECTED POISONING OP AN mum BY

ITS-lintil.

An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon at
Tamworth into the cause of death of a chili, aged six
months. alleged to have been poisoned by a servant girl
named Elizabeth Blower.
kilk. John Felthouse, currier, living in Albert-road, said
the deceased, Catherine Falthouse, was his arid. On
Saturday last, about 7 o'clock, his servant girl, Elisabeth
Blower, banded the child to his wife, when the latter per-
ceived a smell of laudanum proceeding from the in-
fant's mouth. Blower, upon being asked if she
had used any, mid she had Leen applying some
to her gums, but that the child hod " knocked
about," and some was spilt on its night-dress. (The
dress was produced. by Sergeant Thomas, and bore
trues of laudanum.) Witness went in the town and re-
turned at a quarter past eight o'clock. The child had then
, gone to sleep, which was very unusual, as it was always
lively at night until they went to bed at about ten. His
wife said she was shad the girl had given it laudanum.
Blower, who was present when the remark was made, how-
ever, positively denied having dose so. Witmer fetched a
surgeon. The girl again denied that the had giveu the
child laudanum; but she afterwards admitted to the sur-
geon that she had given it two drops. The child seemed
much worse at twelve o'clock, and he again fetched the sur-
geon. After the treatment which it received it revived,
and seemed better, until a few minutes before it died, at
a quarter past nine on Sunday morning. The last time
he saw Blower was at 1 o'clock on Saturday night. Oa
ooming downstairs in the morning he found the doors
looked, but the sitting-room window was unfastened.
There was a bottle in the house which contained a few
drops of laudanum. It was kept in the pantry with MAO
other bottles, but the laudanum which was given on Satur.
day was out o a small bottle, which Blower produced to
Mr. Sharpies- Six weeks ago the child slept the whole of
one night, and continued very sleepy all day and the next
night ; but he and his wife were not suspicious of anything
wrong then, as Mrs. Felthouse thought it arose from change
of food. Blower on Saturday admitted giving it one drop
of laudanum ou that occasion. She had hod with him for
fifteen mouths, had conducted herself well, and bad been
generally kind to the deceased and the other children.
John Ruston said be was assistant to Mr. Felthouse,
dist. Blower came to the shop on Friday for a penny.
worth of laudanum. She said she knew the nature of it,
and required it for toothache. The bottle produced was the
one sold her; it contained two liquid drachms; it now
contained &boat 11 drachm.
At this stags of the proceedings the inquest was ad-
jonrned, in order to allow a post ',torten examination to be
made, The girl Blower was present during the
and continued to cry throughout the whole of the pens -
hogs. She was taken away in custody ender a warrant from
the nusistrates.

ZOOLOGICAL &Cirri or LONDON.-At the ordi-
nary monthly gourd meeting of this ardety,held yesterday,
at the Society's House, in Hanover...leers, the Hem John
Barlow, FALB, is the choir' Mr. G. E. Street was elected
a fellow, and the following autdidates for the fellowship
were proposed : —Marra W. Hardman, T. H. Hal; T. H.
ussar•ve, G. Larson, F. Norris, and H. Sargent, and
Captain Fsirholm and Mrs. Weenie. Dr. BLeker, of
Leyden, was proposed u a foreign member of the society,
and Dr. W. 0. Ayres, of San Francisco ; Dr. Victor Carus,
of Leipsic ; Dr. Roth, of the Royal Artillery ; A. Downs, ,
Esq.. of Halifax, N.S. ; and Josiah Rivers, Eaq., of Cape-
town, es corresponding members or the society. The report
front the council showed that the society was in a very pros.
=ocedition. The large number of 381,837 persons
vffi igted the prdens during the veer 1881, sod the excee-
ds= to the sesengerle by gift end Purchase had been very
_arena, he ores, inerneces the animals thus acquired
having bees are species end of greet scientific interest. .
LIVIRPOOL, THIIIBDAT.—Tbe Inman steamer
Edinburgh. Captain Morehouse, from New Yet* on the 4th
instant, rid Queenstown, arrived here about 4 o'clock this
evening. Her advice& are anticipated by the arrival of the
Nova Scotian, from Portland.