The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL POISONING CASES.

LIVERPOOL, TIWINDAT.
This forenoon the neighbourhood of the poliec
court was much crowded. in the expectation that Winslow.
who was yesterday acquitted onthe charge of havingpoieoned
Ma. Ann James, would agaiu be brought up on these other
charges of poisoning. It appears, however, that last night
the prosecuting authorities came to the conclusion that they
could not sustain a further charge against him, although it
is distinctly understood that Professor Taylor has discovered
large quantities of antimony in the viscera of Mn. Town-
ahead (the sister of Mrs. James) and the two nephews,
whose bodies were exhumed by an order of the Home
Anoon to-day Winslow came by appointment to
the policestation for the purpose of receiving
from the police authorities the money and other
property found in the house at Vauxhall-road,
and to which he is now entitled as legatee and sole executor
of the late Mrs. James. When it became known that he
was at the office, the crowd rapidly increased, and the most
intense excitement prevailed among the populace. He re-
mained for some time at the station, and after finishing the
business which he had with the police, he was about to take
his departure by the main entrance into the open street,
, but from the temper exhibited by the mob it was coa-
sidered imprudent for him to peas them, and it was there-
fore thought advisable to get him away by a side entrance.
A cab drove up to a side door, and Winslow was taken
away to the house at Vauxhall-road, the populace not
being aware that be bad left the building.

THE MURDER IN YIN EDINBURGH.
—The post-mortem examination of the body was completed
on Wednesday morning,
.and a report given in by the medi-
sal men to the authorities. The details have not been
allowed to transpire, but it is said that it confirms what was
previously only a dark though generally-entertain
suspi-
cion—that the murder of the unfortunate girl was
by a criminal assault. A number of additional witnesses
were examined on Wednesday by the Procurator-Fiecel,
incuding the uncle and aunt of the deoeaaed. From inquiries
made at Piershill, it seems that the two private soldiers—
named Cavanagh and Barr—who are still missing from the
barracks, disappeared, the fernier on the Monday, and the
other on the Wednesday before the perpetration of the
murder. They have not Ilea heard of in town since, and
it is therefore considered extremely unlikely that they have
been mixed up in any way in this deplorable affair. Tanner,
who is in custody on the charge, and Quin, who was in his
company when arrested, ivad was apprehended along with
him, had not got out on peas on Saturday, and consequently
should have returned to the barracks before ten o'clock on
that fatal night. On Tuesday, a woman who like many
others had gone to see the spot where the occurrence
took place, picked up a button from the ground, belonging
Ito the 13th Light Dragoons, within a few yards of the foot
of the tree near which the body was discovered. The button
is now, we believe, in the hands of the authorities.
Allman bitumen AT HULL —About half-peat
one o'clock yesterday morning a tideweiter, named Richard
Harrison, on duty on the south side of the Queen's-dock,
at Hull, observed two foreign seamen and • female par
him. They halted a short distance from him, and thse
walked towards the edge of the quay, the female having
bold of one ofthe men's arm. The tidewaiter alluded to
then passed them, and they appeared to be in 0011•01111.
tion • but when he had got about a score yards from them,
he heard a splash in the water and a shriek. He immedi-
ately ten to the spot, and perceiving the woman was in the
water, he asked them what they had been doing, but got
no reply. He then raised an alarm, and another customs
officer and a seamancame up with a hook. The woman was got
oat of the dock, but died immediately. The two men
who were in company with her, instead of rendering any
ansigtanoes ran away, though the vessel of which one of
them Is captain, lay close to the spot. The body was con-
veyed to the police-station and identified as that of Lucy
Gray, an wifortuaste. about 22 years of me and the two
men, who were both captains, and who had been at • house
with her, werended during the morning said taken
before the stipends'magistrate, charged with causing the
death of the and were remanded until Saturday.
Their names are Captain Argelander, of the schooner Elo,
and Captain Mutchreich, of the brig Diana, both Fin-
landers. The inquest was being held on the body when
our_parcel left.
EXTRAORDINARY DRAM—Yesterday afternoon
an inquest was held by Mr. Humphreys, at the Sisters
Tavern, Poyrnaltroad, ton, on the body of Harriet
West, ed 59 years, who was found dead under the follow-
ing extraordinary circumstances :—lt appeared that the de-
ceased was • widow, and lived at No. 5, y-place, Queen's-
road. Allston. On Saturday last the deceased was seen by
the landlady in her ugual health, and some hours Weever&
she wee found in her own room lying upon the floor with
her head between the rails of a chair. She was quite dead
and black in the face, with bruised eyes, as if she had sting.
gled violently before death. Mr. Eibblee, the surgeon, of
London-fields, Hackney, was called, and some mystery sur-
rounded the cause of the deceased's death. She had died
from strangulation by pressure of the front part of the neck
on the bars of the chair, but how she came into such an ex-
traordinary position could not be discovered. The deceased
was in the h.,bit of drinking, and it was probable she had
fallen down in a fit, while sonie of the witnesses were of
opinion that the deceased had committed suicide. The
jury ultimately returned an open verdict of " Found deed
with her head between the bars of a chair, whereby she
was suffocated, but bow she came into that position there
was no evidence to prove."
FIRE IN TOOL/CY-STREET. —Yesterday morning,
shortly before two o'clock, a destructive fire broke out on
the extensive premises of Mr. Millership, coffee-house-
teem, 142, Touley-sheet, Southwark, which was not ex-
tinguished until the premises were destroyed. The nose
is unknown. The pre/wage were insured in the County
Fire Office.

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the Arovernors of the settlements on the West Coast of
Africa were sent yesterday_from the Colonial-oftice.
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