The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-13 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, Mance 12.
THE POIIIONINGB AT CLATBRING.—SICOND TRIAL.—At
the conclusion of the former trial, the jury were challenged by
the prosecution, and having been empanelled, Sarah Cheahant
was again arraigned upon another indictment char=hae:
with the murder of James Chesham, another of her
by means of poison. The evidence was precisely the emu
as on the former trial, with the addition that it was pored
there was a much larger quantity of poison in the stomach of
the deceased child than appeared in that of his brother.—
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, said the ease was a
very proper one to be fully enquired into, ae it appeared per-
fectly clear that there had been two most mysterious deaths
by poison within a vet y short pried, and the question for
the jury was whether the evideacemade out that the prisoner
was the person who administered that poison.—The cry, after
deliberating for some time, returned a verdict of Not °witty.
At the sitting of the court, this morning, TAOIROJ Newport,
the person whose name was alluded to on the forma trials
and who, it appears, is a tanner, and a man of some pro-
perty at Clavering, surrendered in discharge of his bail to
plead to an indictment that had been returned against him
whe grand jur The indictment alleged that Sarah
kun had unlawfully administered to Solomon Taylor,
the illegitimate child of one Lydia Taylor, a large quantity
of poison or some other deadly ingredient unknown, and
that she did thereby kill and murder the said child, and
Thomas Newport was charged with aiding, counselling, and
abetting her in the commission of the felony and murder.
The, prisoner pleaded not guilty. Newport was also
arraigned upon an indictment for misdemeanour arising out
of the same charge, and to this he also pleaded not guilty.
It was then stated that an arrangement had been made that
the trial of these charges against the defendant should stand
over until the next assizes, and he the liberated upon enter-
ing into a recognisance in the sum of 4001., and linen two
metals in 2001. each.
Klan INDICTMIXT.—Thp prism" Sorah Media ne
was then placed at the bar to take her trial as the
principal in the murder of Solomon Taylor.—Mr. M.
Chamber, on the part of the_prosecution, pecoesded
to state the nature of the evidence glued the pri-
soner, and which will be found in the following narra-
tive, it being more intelligible in that form: It appeared
that in the commencement of the year 181,5, Lydia Taylor,
the mother of the deceased infant, went into the service of
Mrs. Newport, who carried on the banners of a farmer at
Claiming, her affairs being arranged by her eon, Thomas
Newport, who was indicted as an aceeseary in the present
indictment. There appeared to be no doubt that this' Tho-
mas Newport carried on an improper intimacy 'With
!tete jprismar Chatham, who, as has already been
is a married woman, her husband being a
labourer magloyed by another branch of the Newport
family. Tory ma after, Lydia Taylor came into the service,
Newt seimed bar, and she became in the family-way, and
the mama: the bet was discovered by her mistress, she dis-
charged bar, and she went, home to her mother's house at
Masada, a village in the neighbourhood of Clavering.
!.Tmert never 'appeared, to deny the paterniq of the
,Ina sad kr mine time he gave money to the mother. The
caild wee been en the 18th of December, 184.1, and was ap-
parently a healthy infant, and the mother and the child con-
tinued Is reside at the house of the mother of the prisoner at
Hamden. Thomas 'Newport continued, as above stated,
mating mosey to Lydia Taylor for her support. It
ammei dist while she mu in the aerate of Mn.
Newport, the prisoner, Sarah Cheaham, had been in the
habit of maim le the house, but she hardly knew her, and
about a month after the birth of the child the mother was
somewhat surprieed at the prisoner coming to her mother's
cottage to see her, and she then condoled with her upon her
situation, and made some observations condemnatory of the
conduct of Thomas Newport towards her, and she at the
same time caressed the child, and appeared to be very fond
of it. The prisoner paid a second visit to the mother, and
upon her saying that she was surprised at it, and that she
to had nothing give her, theprisoner said she wanted to
take nothing from her, but she brought her something,
sad gave her a rice pudding, an apple tart, some tea, and
other articles. Upon this occasion the prisoner took the '
baby from the mother, and said she would feed it. The
mother told her it had been fed, and did not require
anything, but the prisoner persisted is taking the '
child down emirs, and when Lydia Taylor went down after
her in a few minutes, she saw her In the act of wiping her
angers down her gown, and there was an appearance round
the child's month as though it had been fed, and it also
appeared to have been sick. The prisoner, it appeared, fed
the child a second time on this day, and immediately after
the had done so, the infant's lips and face assumed the
expression ea if something nauseons bed bass administered to
it, and the prisoner herself exclaimed, "My tied, Lydia it
has turned as callow u a rat." The mother asked her what
she had been giring the child, and she replied, " only some
mar." The mother then observed that the chiM's lips
looked very slimy and white, and it vomited; and it
was with considerable difficulty that she could wipe
the stuff from its mouth and hoe. Prom this time
it appeared that the child was continually ill, and
never recovered. Upon this occasion, when the pri-
soner left, she repeated her protestations of friendship to the
mother of the child, and invited her to her own cottage, and
it appeared that she did go there to visit her, and while she
was there the prisoner took the child in her emu and said
that Its to would won be there. A sees was at this
time observed coming across the fields towards the house
and lb. primer said it was Newport, and she wished thd;
wiether M gee and meet him. She refused to de se, and the
primmer sealsbed up the child and ran down 5idge......t11..is
time it wad& the mother entertained mina
of the eanduct towards her chill. asil=B 2-
lowest her ismidietely, and cm rifting deem M ere %he
saw bee waft very fast by the site of thead
she elesuremil whier Segue ler
drew The didh appseare md
to -hhave bees ash, said
some mot of heat was reeled its lips. Ilse rid the
prisoner what the bad given to the child, and she
that she had enly ohm it a seeker, or some swestematftett
to seek. The maw teak the child away, and whin the get
hems diet elemved sena patsies or spots ea the eddies dram,
sad when it TT INNITINAS weird these awn be ca.
pakat, mad it apparel as thou min swabs mielenee
bed hem thrown upanthe dna to eases that ell*. The
dad after this appeased again to be very ill; and es eases
sight, when the primmer aesompanied bee pert of the way
home, the mother a semi time saw the priermar Teat MOW
duALLestessuaithe ineuth, and alminsi that IS was
skit afterwszds, and dining wear poet el
the
the flawing ht the child was very ski, awl in nevi
skim. Is hese, 848, the mother west to her wile,
be/ AM in the dime of her mate at Mannefts!dind
sewed that the west to the mother's teems end
she Ins then observed to give the emnsibhg
whisk to make it sick directly @AUNTIE& j adit
sener_egpsaved opts to be healthy, but ftsmassil en le Ifte
27th Rephsembsr when it died. At this Om it mem&
that lame was me umpides el the did bade. sum Its he
death cab *y, and it was beefed In the sisal mum ;
but when the eisemmismens essaseled with the death
of the pdesnar'• sou drains barene known, it was
deemed advisable that the body dam hawed haat afteedi
be exhumed, la ender that the stmandt *ma mfteep
radial exananisn. This It awned bed bees deep,lrd
no tram et asy felon was ani it adiftles to
this lavetereble eill/114101. ftr the ,it lamed that
there were indisadase et Mow might have ems-
aimed the death ides MBA

The evidewsoWee then pow We; the witness, Lydia
Taylor, twins edlisetel to a mot
I tioa by teteent Iwo; its, howtreet is the state-
I node ahe inaloitionaliniississ in salthey noparted
in en the assiuw the aegis ihs owenegibr Ike
potion.— Tighe woo disk oink tad his
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deo subehree baling the onus of the du* and
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dame, might Aid net think time was WI:
conviction, sot he thirtieth; withdrew heaths
The jog ugly reastnad a verdict &Not
diANoTlPoisolguro Cape.—fioroA Ibiodit,4l=-,
of bar illegitiwate
Bray Bright, by ad wilfulllleteriag to it a qog
and Decd Gray, 21, labourer, was ill.
inciting her to commit the minder. In thillesollill=
°videos' was very slight indeed spinet th.Leamem It
appeared they had been keeping
_and the
result was the birth of a child irCline=tltwegsher
last. The child died on the lith et leinsigy hhewhifi
and the coroner's jury returned a meat lint it
died of cOnvolsiolll. Frain salrignant inquiries that
were made, it was thought proper_ to Ifflllilla the
kis
prissner Bright, and she then atimmillni that she ind
the child tares at four drops of aseplinitheet. whisk mid
mho theft mishit do it geed. sal when the tree
oposei time did nst appear the allelateet trees et his.
hiesT. ;droll m0..,...wita. ty
tbptLparbletstherm. wily.
posy with analbsimaarq; wawa, and that mho no lave
anything hen to do with him, shag the ferthe palms,
wu delivered of • child by Win, Ant open this
be said that he would not mind IMos the shill any ems I
than • sparrow, if it was not IR thglisne, sadism odor
= 'amMr of • similar earsider.-11r.Chogisk did the
that it weal& he advintie is eil the
eueseisilreet whom, ask anserdinft. lik- ail,
warm, et Molnar% was ;mid.ant no eehhine