The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1849.

DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE.
This oldeutabliebed annual contest took p' dee yesterday.
The nee utter ds from the Swan, at London-brings, to the
Swan, at Cnelua, seainst tide, and ie one of a most min
eltaraister. The weather was extremely fine, and every plan
Pram which a view of say portion of thee contest could be
commanded was crowded with spectators.
Thames Cole, Chelsea
Uses Arthur leemsnisr,Tedengtau
Willisa Battu. 14$81•11it$0
Toser Itervatedeey 4
Thome Knott, Weide
Samuel Alikon, Tower 0
Attu two lase starts, the man got away together. but
Our a few strokes, Cole and Ile snow showed vial* in
front of the whole party, the former drawing pull by pull his
boat clear of his adversary, maintaining his advantage
throughout, and winning by upwards of two hundred and
fifty yards. There was a much greater distance between the
second and third, the four lest having completely tailed off,
and making a &Elan race of their own. The winner's
father also acquire d much funs by carrying off this pens
twenty-oven years ago.
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itab3 iintelligente.

EQUITY COURTS.-YESTERDAY.
Bawls Viss-Ciummea lixroxr Barn.

PRINCI ALBERT O. EITYLANOR.-ATTOILNIY-01211EILILL O.

STRMIOII.-ROTAL ETCIII/4 06.
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Mr. Smith, the counsel twirled to Mr. Judge, who is de.
fendiog in forma pauperis, moved that the proceedings under
the decree might be stayed until after the baring of the de-
fendant's appeal, so far es related to the destruction by the
Clink of R, cords ad Wrca of the 23 tapir s of the catalonua,
and that the impulsions of t►e etchings might remain in the
same officer's custody pending the appeal. It was stated that
an arrangement had been come to for the delivery of the
catalogues and etchings in question to the plaintiff's adicitcr,
on his undertaking to preserve them sat deal with tLcm u
the court shon:d ultimately decide upon the appeal.
Mr. W. K. James, f.r the pleint.ff, agreed to an order to
this effect, which was made scoot ingly.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—YESTERDAT.
Boon nu CMlir Cosnrissinea.
Is as W. D. (1. PIItIaUTT.—UOING TO AMIRICA.
This insolveir, who had btea a farmer in Devonshire, ap-
plied to be discharged on sureties until his lining in
eissembn.
It appeared that the insolvent left Devonthbe with the in-
tention of f miiratieg to America with his wife and three
children. He was arrested on a judge's order moon after his
arrival in L9ndon, aid had peti ionei this court. Two per-
sons now tendered themselves to be bail for his appearance.
His Honour doubted whether such a person was entitled
to be rt hand from custody, and, slur an finalisation of
the prop, sed sureties as to their sufficiency, required some
amber information as to their property.
The case was adjourned.
Is us WILLIAM NAVGIIAM.
This insolvent, the welt-known chemical lecturer, ob-
tained his Steal order.

By Mr. Creasy—My mother carved and helped us all to
supp r on the night of the 6th of Atoll.
Mary Anne (Merin mid—l am daughter of the
and am 14 years old. I remember my father Wog ill in
September. He was taken ill on Saturday, and died on the
Wednesday Mowing. On Monday I asked him how be
was, and he said he was very all indeed. My father used to
take his dinner with him when he went out to work, in a
basket or • bag, sad I have seen my mother r.t it up L.r
his. I never saw any rats in the house, tindery mother has
never complained of them or said anything about pettier
1 arsenic to give them ; and I rid not upon any oression hear
my brother him say that he wanted any emetic for his
horses.

By Mr. Hurst—l am not aware of my mother havieg
purchased medicine for other per-oas, or that he was in the
habit of selling medicine. I used to asaist in the cooking
and washing for the family. When my father did not carry
his dinner himself, I used to take it to him.
B Mr. Hans—My mother always made the tea and the
breakfut.

By the Court—Daring the Welk my father wow taken ill
my mother put up the dinner for him every day. I, myself,
put anything but what was right and pr..per into the
vietusla.

Alban Oaring said—l am 24 years old. The prisoner is
my mother. In Seprember last I was not living with my
lather end mother. My father was very ill in June and
July, but did not at that time keep his bed. I saw him
when he was taken bad the last time, and be cemplaintd of
having been sick. My father had some money in the SiV•
imp Bark, but I do not recollect ev. r asking my mother to
let me see the deposit book. About a month after my tether
was buried, I asked my mother if he had drawn all the money
out of the bank, and she said he had not, and there
was 121. there. I had no knowledge that there
wee arsenic in the house. I have hard my bra•hers say
there were ran in the cottage, but I Lever taw any toys It.
Jut before my brother James died, I saw some medicine f r
horses in his pentagon. I know it was medicine for heroes
because he told me so.
Bdwin Orering, another son of the prisoner, sixteen years
old, deposed that in September he was living at home with
his father and mother, and used to go out to 'Folk and take
his meals with him. He said that in December, wade he
was sleeping with his brother James, he heard the sowed of
rats, but never saw soy.
Mr. John Pocock deposed as follows—l am a surgeon and
apothecary at Witichile ea' and under a ehar.table be quest I
attend the poor people of Onestlien profusion without
any charge. I saw the deceased on the 10th of September.
He was in bed, and the prisoner was in the room who n I
went in. The deceased was very feverish, and complained
of chills and sickness, and also a difficulty of breathing and
pain in the chest and stomach. I sent him a blue pill and
an opening mixture, and when I called on the sec- ad occa-
sion I found him dead. I trtaud him for a bilious inter-
mittent fever. The primner, of er his death, told me that
her hush .nd had been cuff ring from a disorder to which his
family were subject • and, in cons queue of her representa-
tions, I gave a certificate that the death was occasioned by
disease of the heart and pericardium. 'here was no weenie
in the medicine I administered.
By Mr. Hurst—l had no suspicion that there was soy-
thing wrong in the case.
Judith Veness deposed that she assi.tr d the prisoner to lay
out the body of toe atceased, and, while they were so en-
gaged, the prisoner said it w.s a disease of the heort that
her husband died •f. Some months before the death took
place, the prisoner said that ter husband was a greet trouble
to her, axed she wished he was dead. While they were en-
gaged its laying out the body, the prisoner said she was sorry
be had been taken from her so mid. nly.
Evileuee was then given that the body which had been
exhumed was that of the deceased, and that win it the coffin
WY token home the prisoner wished the body to be screwed
down immediately.
John Hawkins, sexton and gravedigger of Guestlieg, de.
posed that upon the occasion of the burial of the de ceased the
prisoner looked out a piece of ground in the churchyard and
wished him to ask the Rev. Sir John Ashburnham to allow
her to have it, as she said she had a large tonally, and she
should wish them all to be buried tog. ther. Sae at the same
time requested coat her husband's g ave might be six feet
deep, and that a piece of plank should be put over the coffin
to keep the earth from it. Fe ear feet was the usual depth of
a grave it) that parish.
By Mr. Hurst—Had no deubt that the effect of putting
the plank on the coffin was to preserve it.
George Hawkins, father of the last witness, proved that
the cost of the funeral, without the church !Sea, wa' 21 ss.
The deceased and his two ions ea ere bus i.d dose to each other,
in accordance with the request of the prisoner.
Alban Deering, recalled by Mr. Hurst. —I heard my father
say before Lis death that he should !Ike to be buried in a six-
loot grave, sad have a slab placed on his c. din, to keep the
earth from it.

Mr. F. Ticehurst, a surgeon at Haringe, deposed that
on the 26th April, he was present when the battles of
the deceased end his two *ma were dug up, and he after-
wards examined the b-dy of the deceased. There was a
considerable quantity of fluid in the coffin, sad the hotly
was almost swimming in it. The head aced lace were very
much decomposed, but Um external partion of the ab-
domen appeared in good preservation. The tontines were
of a pink colour and were not decomposed. The right lung
adhered to th- pleura covering the rib.. The h. art app. ared
healthy, as .1.0 did the liver. Tree pick appearat.ce of the
intestines indicated severe inflamma•lni, and he had no
doubt that that inflammatioa was the cause, f deatn.
Wa-
nese afterwards placed the eonteots of the Lli:umen, the
stomach, the heart, the pericardium, and th liver in a jar,
which be sealed, and afterwards deliver al to Profs ist r
for on the Ist of May. The witnesa the n prove. 41• d to state
that upon examining the other two bodies, those of George
and James, he discovered similar appearances to those lxhi-
bit,tl in the body of the deceased; and he said that be
placed those portions of the internal organs which he
considered n in different jars, and handed them
also to Dr. Taylor. he witness lilt- wiser Ipfliscrl his opinion
that the appetiranors he observed upon the pat mer tem
examination inducted him to come to the deei led opinion
that the deaths were occasioned by the I zbibi i of some
irritant p isou to the &vetted. Mr. Ticehurst bleu deposed
that the vomit of Benjamin was likewise given to Dr. Taylor
for analysis. lie was called upo I to attend Benjamin, and
fund him suffering from pain iu the stomach, tightness of
the chest, beat in the throat, and vomiting and purging. He
got better under witness's treatment, and afterwards he was
again sent for, and he was satisfied from what he then saw
that the stomach had been irritate I most violently. The
witness then read the sta.emeat which he took do, n from
the witness Benjamin with regard to his synaph ma, and it
appesired teat atter describing what he himself suffered, he
said that his father and brothers suffer d in exude the same
way immediaeely before their deaths. He added that, upon
hearing what B injamin said, he called to the rismer
end teal her that he had just received en ace oat of the cir-
cumstances eannected with the death of her n'la iud and
tons, and he wished to know if it was corn et. He then read
to her what he had taken &wee and she said it was all right.
The symptoms be had destrilied were those which would
re-ult from the taking of arsenic; in answer to a question he
put to the prisoner she said that sho had not bad any arsenic
in the house for twelve months, but said that she used to
keep " the stuff " at one time for the mice. On the foiliw-
ing day he again asked the prisoner if she woe sure she bad
not had any arsenic in the house, acd she said she knew she
had not had any for several months, as during that time she
had kept a good house eat. Upon a subsrqn.nt day a large
pill or bolus was delivered to him by Jeffrey, th. . policeman,
and he gave that also to Dr. Taylor. Witness analysed a
a portion of this pill, and in his °melon it contained arsenic.
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Mr. E. W. Stmt.', a chemist at Rattier, proved that
alorut :ast June twelvemonth, he sold the prisoner arsenic
up n three OCCAIit,III. The las: time was in June. She had
a penny werth each time, which was about 60 grains, and
she said that she wanted it to potion rats.
Croesekateined—He knew the prisoner, or else he ehonld
not have allowed her to have the poison.
Caarlotte Thrubsell deposed that she was in Mr. Stubhes
shop upon an. thee occasion when the prisoner p.ineteetd
some weenie there, sad that on her berg asked who it was
r, eke said it wa • far Sir John Ashb arab am, and it was to
be used for toe cattle. The poison was weapped up in three
papers, and the word poison' was written upon each, end
she wets told to be very careful of it.
Mr. Pittman, mother chemist at Hastings, proved that
noon four several occasions since the Autumn of 1818, the
prisoner purchased arsenic at I is shop. The last time was
ahead the month of February in the present year, and she
tt. en purchased twopsanyworth. She said she wanted the
poison to destroy rats.
By Mr. Hun:—Teropennyworth of arsenic was, of mine,
rather a large quantity of Foison to sell over toe counter,
and he should tint hare sold such a quantity to a straLger.
Sir John Aohburnham deposed that he never authoria d
the prisoner to purchase any arsenic for him, and he also
stated that his servants had no authority to admitister medi-
cine to his horses without his sanction.
A witcees was then called who deposed that about three
years ago he frequently heard the prisoner and the deceased
quarrel, and upon several occasions he heard the prisoner
say that s'te wished the old might drop down dead
• )e fore he came home, and that some one would come and
tell her of it, that she might get rid of him. He also said
that the quarrels were mostly upon the subject of money.
Another witness spoke to hearing the prisoner say that
she did not like her husband, and she never should ; and she
hoped she should pave one year without him.
Sarah Denney, sister to the deceased, deposed that in 1846
she acesnapanied him to the levities bank at Heatless, and
saw him dip isit a sum of 2CI. there, and the book which had
been produced hy the constable was the one he received from
the bank. In March, 1847, by direction of the deceased, she
drew 51. out of the bank. The bock was nlways left in wit-
nest's possession ; but a few months after March, 1847, the
prisoner came to her and took i; away, saying that her KM
Allan wanted to took it over.
By Mr. Hurst—Could not say exactly when this occurred,
bat it was before Richard Oeenng died.
Mr. Bishop, the actuary of the savings bank, proved that
dash g the year 1847-8 the prisoner drew out the whole of
the remainder of the 201., with the excep:ion of a balance
of 43. The whole of the money was given to the pri-
soner herself.
By. the Court—Where they knew the parties the pro-
dnetion of the 'twiny bank book by any memaer of
family was considered sufficient authority to pay the money.
Jane Brown, a married daughter of the prisoner, deputed
that after the funeral of her father, the prisoner said there
was a little money in the savings back, but the deceased
wish' it to remain there for a twelvemonth, and then it
was to be evilly divided betweea the family. Her
father and mother frequently had disputes about this
money.
By Mr. Hurst—Prisoner lied been in the habit of puts
chasing drugs for other people since she (witness) was a child,
red people frequently got her to purchase arsenic for paisan-
ng rats, bteoute she was known to the chemists
Joseph Hoasysatt, the stewarl of the ()nestling Benefit
Club, was than called to prove that, upon the death of

Richard Goering, he carried M. 3.. 4d. to the rrisoner, to
which sum she was entitled as the widow of a member of the
dub. The prisoner applied to him fur the money on the
same day that her husband died. It was the rule of the club
that one &billing should be given by each surviving member.
This was the ease for the prosecution.
Mr Hurst then addressed the jury for the prisoner, and after
requesting their initulgence under the circumstances in which
he was placed in the position of advocate tar the defence. he
proceeded to comment upon the evidence that had been
adduced for the prosecution. He commenced by entreating '
the jury not to show anything they might Dave heard taut of
doors to prejudice the prisoner, but to look at all the facts of
the ease as they had been proved by the wit assess, calmly
and dispasaiunatsly, and upon those facts alma give their
decisbes as to the guilt or innocence of the prl-oner of the
dreadful trims that was laid to her charge. He begged
them to remember, that although a!le was at present only
arraigned upon one charge, yet, he said, it would
be idle to attempt to deny that in point of fact the prisoner
tad been tried tor committ ng three distinct murders. and
that she was excused of poisoning her two eons as well as her
husband. This being the case, he asked them whether it
was not a remarkable fact, that, although all the di ceased
persons were represented to haico exhibited the same symp-
toms, yet no poison had been found in the body of Georse,
and he submitted that this might fairly raise a doubt whether
the deaths had been occasioned by arm nic ? He then
remarked upon the alleged motive for the Collll3ljf,
siou of the crime, and said he could net believe
that the jury could come to the conclusion that for'
the sake of obtaining a few shillings from the Burial do
ciety, for that would be all that would remain after the pay-
ment of the expenses of the funeral, a mother would delib,
retells- destroy her husband and her :tern offspeirg in such a
horrible manner. The learned counsel commented at con-
siderable length upon the absence of any ad. qua..e motive
for the commission cf the crime, and also upon th,
improbability, if the prisoner really entertained the
horrible design imputed to her, that she should
have gone openly to purchase the deadly ingredient
from persons who were well acquainted with her. He con-
cluded his address by earnestly entreating the jury to tele
all the loch, humanely into their consideration ; s nil if any
doubt suggested itself to their minds, to give the prisoner the
bine fit of it, and acquit her.
The learned judge then summed up the whole case, and
the jury, after deliberating a short time in the box, expressed
• wish to retire. They were not absent more than te,
minute a, and at a quarter put 'even o'clock they returned
into ce.urt, and gave a vendee of Guilty.
The Chia Baron then put on the Week cap, an I poised
sentence of death upon the prisoner, who was removed from
the bar apparently very little affected at her awful position.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YESTERDAT.
Bl7ollr. Ms. 8111.16 ANT ADAMR, AVISTANT !ems.
The August general ses+ioa comrcenee yesterday. There
were 47 cases of felony and 13 of misdemeanour for trial.
The learned judge, in the course cf the charge to the
grand jury, exptessrd his sincere rennet that 'he bill for the
sdsoli.ian of the present grand jury system wirhin the me-
tropolitan -.slice district, introduced in'o parliament by the
first law effieer of the crown, had been abandoned for the
present p ,rliamentary session, the consequence of which
woull he that the system would be emtinued, much to the
detriment of the public and the edmi .irretiou of justice,
for another year. To justify that remark, he would repeat,
that, in his opinion, the grand jury was a tribun:.l th
afforded Frei at facilities for prosecutors and thieves to connive
(inflict to effect the escape of the latter fr.= the law;
and, strange as it might appear, there was no remedy
sg .inst this, the grand jury being sworn to sectesy, and
bound to act upon wbstLv.r evidence parties cites: to give.

THE FOLIOS COUBTS.
GUILDHALL.

CHARGE OP OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE FaE•
TENCES.—Yegerday James Game, who has a number o'
alia►es, was brought up for further examination on the
charge of obtaining a quantity of wine under false pretences.
Mr. Woods r defended the prisoner.
The evidence taken on the previous examiration having
born read, which went to support a charge brought against
the prie•.n, r of obtaining three dozen of sherry from Messrs.
Brown, of Leamnhall.street, under false pretences, several
other w itn. sips were produced, who preset that the prisoner
bed ohtained ggods from them on various ace iSions ; but on
behalf of the prisoner it was cent, nded •bnt each of these
tr:nsactio,s was a mere debtor and arditor account.

Ald Sidney said : This is a eir.e se strongly surrounded
by suspicious circumstance*, and knowing how these tricks
are carried nr, that in justice to the public I evil' remand
him un•il Saturd,y, to give the i.ili..er an opportuni7 of ge-
more conclusive evidence than there h. at Ise...mt. At
the same time I must lay that I em not at all surprised that
emir dlors shPuld thrive when tradesmen themselv• a trust
their property to strangers on such very slight grounds.