The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-20 00:00:00

211 E POLICE COURTS.

BOW-STREET.
Two wen, netted John Hanle and Beery Sullivan, and three boys,
mama Da.* Pam and George, ail Inmates of a mambos brothel
and das of thiewin Otargwetreet. Bt. Wes's, were brentbt up on
ram/ sheeted whit Wang ecereened la breaking lane the wit e
wen of Moms. Clove and Cuespany, under SAW Chapel,
The boy /keep la the seer IM rasa who
thkart
kees47llll=ra. Georpateset, sad had tow eat an ball ALA
enanalnatios.
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Itwi that as the morning of the 4th WM, mg shoot 6 o'clock,
Ms MYtr Ramis was met Is the Meat by ee smeble E el, alto,
obssmimg Mot be me amp trimly k aded with melba, took him to
mob* ea =pliers them. Knowing Mn Harris lived
at Ms bomb Ommmaliest. and banag rece iced some talortnation
whist' MI W M mamma Mat Davie was commaist with him,
Immimor Clisebble mot be tb• balm and took Davis in charge. Oa
balm bemebt r 1615 skailmbamo Dams stated amt at about It
AWL so lbe MeMms algld he MIA with Rants r the seller ander
the amid. MINI Barrie mkt Mm IS Mil Immo mom • etoun:e of
lima Wham 'IMF this lea swap le babe of Mee • gamut, of
Nisdke, mad • Ms al Isminmaidm. am ramered to George.
mask Mum tat hr of lm•lnummls our gives own to the ca e *I
Mom mrt et as Mumma goodies to George, abd past to Sullivan.
deli et dam ea lie mpposSamied. ap Ms peados et the pro.
gmeg kilgurt=ii=re bit ed Dem magma! Ma. Is
MAIM at of vim Mil M. men, and the
be. at wkiedirtimibletsimselm INS mined at M.
The primates, vbeedbeed me diem% wipe an mottaltted for trial.
DAM* mad Hauls ter Imam Ma psptetp, sod the others for re.
eelviop It. Omega was spin admitted to WLL

11 ARLiOROUGH-STREET.
Jews Mom wee enraged. ia his own coolession, with baring set
fire to the workshop of Mr. Oink* Little Forl.atreot.
Polisoonslehin Morashy saki the prisoner same into the Bow.
street statism Moth II Ode* ea Monday week. and stated that be
waived to gths Idomnif iv tee banns rat an to acme preunars in
Little lart4tress. Illmosimor was q“ite eober at the time.
George ankh aid OS pftmaiat was cos of at. lodgers, end acce-
pted a mom r the has Pa 14% Little Forhareet, to which boor
than mos we werbisp4 prithipady both on wood, attached. On
Mes brit the/,Mr dolblea Lim at his loam is Tower-street,
sad WI lin that lY weibi=sre as its. Ho %sew. to Little
Earialsest. as/ Mod the Me in extinguishing the
thaw.
Us NNW vain Ore hem lop, Ana in about an
hoer*, Ire Ins =biol.

--17/10161iffeeeill ea Monday Met he sw mem and ere comber
throe. Ihe imams albs woksop. Ile mpa he to two boo. and
widie Meg this Ms
War~imic sumo oft of the member with •
pocket-lee Is hie aid W. " I'm almost ota, bed."
fibrin 0111sei6 NM= 6 end 6 o'clock on Monday morning he
heard thegehmerr rem dorm Maim, sod cry oat. 4. Fire l" The pet.
sew weelewelded et the time. Fboe after Mks tire broke oat us
the workshops.

11;.111n1Mid the damage done wee between 701. an 4 8)1. Re
did net tbedtthe ate paid be enabiental, for no ono bud been at work
in the siege dace the pewees Friday.
The pitmen mid be bed teen drink's /on to. morning in question.
yetstest's wife said ber boattesd bed been ongleted Ina lonstie
whim. Whenever be took too mash to dz het be became guile
. . .

IL' trims' Ix , wbe sow denied the dame, was fully committed

•01JTHWA.B.K.

Kr. Oen. Wm. is•-st-er67,teiw7r.-carryiesi at badness in
Georges WeiniA. lisethwwk, was charged wort beteg toocenred
wit °Am sat U sewed, in stoning forty-Az steep iron Vietos la
Park, too pomp el Kr. Wham beak" of Wlutealtspel, and Mr.
Aram tY I.:7.attrik.
Mr. Ileimea lit the reamed.
tir.lamie be was • laded* hatcher at No. 44. High.
strut, War," Os Wednesday be bad AO sheep paring in Vlstocia
Park. On the tellowise woraing fifteen wets Bred beienginn to
1 wham, sad Uto Mr. draraw. Ue Word., he meat to the Borough
Market and saw thirty • esp skim wite• he ideatalso as rams od
Ms sad Mr. driames dm. war had her steles. lame or um
were his sad twestyme lir. Ailiew's. Wilmer demur mat
to the primaries hem and bred him writer be kM re.
ready rewind q "Imp 1 The primers mild that be ressied
kety.els es Werridep israble, wash be KIM er der he
aget le Kr. Blirrassed twelve to Mem& Der ma sada-
Pr aim ma Ma deed that be had rat tarty el the drier Mr.
W semi dale 1111 M. Malt of the skin met. Whir riled
uldlizlitlas sirup he hie. la :Wiest, Time • yam wham it
tw ke • Sonar sand has" d Neat
among is him se WS, ImareCete to his ape to kit tife
mod *sue mete Nina • hied to oohs so, sal raft
deem Ili Ike Perla kera. He met turew Me Pea% rese, hat
be had hilhd Meaty Ise him s swath sno• sed mg Pm es Idergre-
mast! Wirer sad him Pe roe el Ps ma mobs breart
W
mld be lied thet be did
.apthar Mt se dead be sear
Id him elle that are dhe roe Ind la Ids 'Pla-
sma. VIM. Mg Pan sirinelle Ida h ea Met Oriemesed, sad
whoa nay= art bow Ws to Id Pe party, be we ihe
Ist artmg the mime mai a pry halm
cliarbarideleelle• by Mr. Sakes% wham odd the the psi.
eineed via duleiss of diorellas sow aweaseho Is demur-
lag the per". Zs dki art eh mks is Mime% presume swam
shut midis my darn hi the ping. his r aelhipedruairlay
man arta no ortrora for the sweet., sod Yodel is him 4.1.ae
pees of Oa poosson Thus was a ON os. mu gig, sod two
uweelis at Um Nan bun Mr. sad Mora Desa sad
lids&
Inpont bars nwisiali. I IL. Nil Ye punt wi Yr.
helm whoa du primal orb lhowlemnewe. woe
ke motto Wuth skin
Nowleet wed aw the tally Ida lanai Mann mat wait ken
kg raw to ism Onlin+ and non an Pero is. pilaw rid
vao slid^ owl he Oa Main an dine be stgo to led thew
ma& d 4 sip In la ooloon art WM wain dna no nod. •
yang ins am mph gem awe apprithe phew we druhswilkar,
whim Moho, he us TIN gems" Pik whams UM le was Mt.
Mem% wins Imo NW him vim liskuriviwiaw via He
mid el tem Os plop Uwe the puty woe sot ft lo
kwird. Nil they nunell badger Tko primer sherinde maid
anis or to not nom, et rte Conn lea at irat Gnarled ea
Tardy artalag aut. le no Mr Pe arr.
suriss wham mkt rat the genre told Ida lid
be On Munn ems sty hew par wits lawaglettk• sip.
WM= Tidy. a deviet, Nil he beil Skop oa Wee promatees
*up the Peak. sod os Ileoploy aseemew big Siglied
mud et We; sod es mgr. seminges Weed that thq
bus Mum as et So got hoods geibeel.peur reed. Be Wooed
kolusing is 11w. aim sal u is ar. Or we.
Mr. Meow hue girl tar • rearal, to math thaw to shako re/i-
-liac
Ilr=l Nil Sot his woe array qate wader ed.
dry to metre kh amosiwg Ps primmer ; sad at the num of
Mr. bariesse. he Wee Who. e• risk Wu to beg -Moult to leol.,
sad Me wilmedm et Ilk ask. TM uwerrato.ltowue, squired it
Imre War al the meas. es it was • my serious sad spurn
ratemel.

Is anticipation of Ow lemons concoarna that will
press iato the Ora-park at the inassisatioas. the aatho•
raise have denned It advisable to lore aye additional open•
lags tats that path; thaw frog Pieesdilly—ase apposite
Deveashire-hence, seethes feints Dona-street. the third
awaits sipeley.hense—tlie &lira •as Coastitatioa-bill,
resin the auttasee an the park from Grosvesor-plaos, and
the litth sear Bathalaad•hoaw. lath of thew is 60 fast in
width.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.
FIFTH DAY.
(Continued from yeatirdsee Express.)

Berjoant Sae:—Do pose rerromhsr nay co, of strychnis
poisonmg when the patmot len fie ;amid so speedily an
Offal did on the Monday rash, ?
Dr. Taylor—That would depend upon the amount of the
dose. He would ff e .ver sumer if only a sixteenth part of
a grain were administered than if he had taken an eighth.
Crmseeaantioati .n continued—l ft..d • case in my took
on medical jurisprudence wt ere th, (ominous gradually
auhsieed after • period of lota hoer.. In this case the
poison was nos vom-ca. Half en urine. arm taken. That
is • milder poison than strycnnine coop.. when token in
loge doses. In this ea.v halt en ousted of out Tomes was
mkt n. Ido not know any Ms'a .ct of stryeacioe ison
where so long en intereol owe Waco between the attacks
as Ir tm Hondas to Tuardat ',lot The colour tests f r the
discovery of stryihntre Brno( au uncertain character. Tue
fifthfifti•tbpartofa groin could nut ptoeably be doe tver d
under soy circumstances, nod on the nee of half a grain •
good nevi would depend whether tr e•• wss any food in the
stomach, cad the quantity, and the &filename befog mined
with it.

BY the An, they 0 . I—l etr'bute the emptiness of
the heart in this it sat to spaernedic same. Tne same muscles
ware always 'Meted by rogid,ty in cases of strychnine pol-
ecat. g, espeeelly those of oh, limbs and the bark. The
rabbit that was in a Baer d state at the time of its diath
b came rigid while the body ace vet worm. The clinching
of tee hands s f the recessed would give me the idea that
be died under the ii fluent.' of s- me vi heat spasm. I cannot
say whetncr strychnine would he likely t act with more
violence upon a person air-coy wvekenea by disease or not.
I ascribe the beating of the arm• in toe bed to a feeling of
unesetuese and a sr-nee of oa the part of the
patient. A feeling of sultsca two is one of the earliest symp-
toms of the administrators:l of itrycl no..e. All the articles
that I made use of for the putpuws of teats are pure,
bicau.o I take core to ill! them boore I coma ence
any operations. Every test I utest gave the same re-
sult, and I have no daubt whoever .hat it was antimony
that was produced Icm of c vise unable to say
whether it was the sundae of a forge core or the re.
side. of several small ones. Sdkne a would remove a
portion of the antimony tram as stomach. The reason
that I suggested querrias at the i o o. et'. inquest •Ine,tlat
the °tamer did not put any quo-swops that would eashle me
to form an opinion. I think that this was owing not t s at-
willingness, but to his ign,rsecti of the points that were
necessary to be inquires into. I noticed that be did no,
take down a good many of the answer that were given, but
I did sot complaic, ea I bad obtained the to formation Ire
spired to enable me to form an opinion. Before I com-
menced the examination of the stomach I was generally in-
formed that the death had been mud :ea, end my atteation
was mere aura t-d to prusale add end mo•phoe, and upon
finding the antimony I and Dr Rees spread that this might
have bees the cause of the death. Br f are I wrote the letter
to the Lased I had been *Racked in a great many quarters,
and letters bad been written ribectina upoo me. It had
also been represented th t I lied said that airy hnine never
could be detectrd after death. and than :t was destroyed by
putrefaction, and it was nieray wsh a view to my own via

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dietitian that I wrote the fett4in question.
The examination and croo-examination of Dr. Taylor
occupied mire than five huge..
Dr. 0 0. Rees, examined by Me. B. James, Q.C., said—
I am a lee•urer on materia medics at Buy's Hipp tai, and I
assisted Dr. Taylor la melee the post mauls examination
referred to by that gentleman, and he has most correctly
stated the result. I was present aurieg the whole time,
and st the discovery of the antimony. I am of opinion that
it may hove been administered within • few days r r a few
boars of Mr. Cook's death. All the tuts we milled failed
to discover the preforms of strychnine. The stomach was
in a most unfavoureble state fur examination. It was cut
open, and turn. d inside out; its moe us surface was
lyieg upon the intestior, and the contents of the
stomach, it there had been aey, must base been thrown
among the intestines, and =tad with them. These cir
commerce. were very unfityou•shl to tee i.ope et discover-
ing strychnine. I agree 'Mil Dr. Taylor uto the manner
in which strychnine set. upon the human frame, and I am
of opinion that it may be taken eith.r by aceinent c r design
sufficient to destroy life and n t trees of it be found after
death. I was present at the ex petimeuis made by Dr. Tay-
lor upon the animals and at the endeavour to di teat it in
the stunach cite rwards We failed to do so in three cases
out of fear. The symptoms scoompar yieg the deaths of
the animals were vary similar to those d. scribed in the cue
of Mr. Cook. I have heard tee rates that hove been men-
tioned in this court, and the 'paroles in every one of them
are analogous to th 41 in the ease of Mr. Cook.
Cross-examined by Mr. Or •,, Q C.-1 dad not see eiiher
of the animals reject any p irtiou of the poison, but I heard
that in ore cue the ama at did inject • portion. I have no
facts to state opts which I formed the opinion that the
poison seta by absorption.
Professor Breads, :emitted by Mr. Welsby—l am pro-
fessor of chemistry at the Rolm li 'citation. I was not
present at the au.lysis of she liver and 'vein, etc., of the
deceased, but the rep a by Dr Taylor and Dr. Rees was
sent to me for my inspection afterwords. I was present at
one of the swayers. We exemined in the first plate the
action et copper upon a very weak solutton of autinem), end
we ascertained there was no altos u tol the solution was
slightly acidified by touristic at d. The antimony was
then deposited, and I am enabled to state poitively
that that deposit nes antimony.
By the Attorney-0 I—The experiment I refer to was
made for the purpose of testing the accuracy of the test that
had ahead, been applied, and it was perfectly satisfactory.
Prof..tor Miamian said—l am a Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, and Prof. seor of Metals Medic. to
the U.bsrsity of Rdineorph. I am also the author of a
work on the subject of poisons, and I have directed a good •
deal of attention to strychais. In my of Won it acts by ab-
sorption into the t10..d, and tl• rough that .pan the nervous
system. I have seen it. effect to a human subject, bat art
• fatal ease. I have seen it tried upon trey, eabhits, at.,
and nos wild boar. (A latish.) I first dime ed my attention
to this l.oiscia in 1820, in Perm. It had been discovered two
years before in Paris. In most of my experimeets upon
animals I give very Mall do.er, a stab act a grain, but I
once admitost. red a grain. I cannot soy bow small a dose
would cue.* the death of an brined by administration in'()
the stomach. I generally applied it by injection through
au incision in the cavity of the chest. A sixth part of a
grain so administered killed a dog in ten minutes. I once
administered to a Tebbe, through the at .mach, a dose of a
grain. I saw Dr. Taylor adusinieti r Ones quarters of a
grain to a rabbit, and it sea. all swat owed except a very
small quantity. The symptom, are nearly the time in rab-
bits, cata,snd doge. The first is a slight tr. mor and uawilling-
nese to move, then frequently the anirotl jerks its head bock
slightly; soon aver that all she symptoms of tetanus come
on which have been so often described by the previous

witnessm When the pnieen is administered by the:to:ouch
death generaby takes place between a pre nod of flee minutes
and five and twenty minute. alter the sy. ptoms first make
their appearance I have frequently °peed the bodies of
animals thus killed, and have Lever been able to trace any
effect of the poison upon the stomach or intestines, or upoo
the spinal chord or brain, teat Imola trace sat s'act riiy to
the poison. The heart of the animal generally contained
blcod in all the cues in which I hey* been concerned. In
the case of the wild boar the piton was injected into the
chest. A third of a grain wee all that was used, and in
ten minutes the symptoms began to show themselves.
If strychnia were administered in the torn of •
pill it might be mixed with other ingredients
that would protect the period of Its operation.
Thia would b. the MO it it were mixed wilh
religious materials, or any materiels that were difficult of
&potion, and such materials would be within the know-
ledge of any medic sl man, and they are frequently need for
the purpose of making ordinary pills. Abeorp i n in such
a use would not commence until .h • pill was broken down
by the or, eels of diaestioo. In the present state of our
knowledge of the 'reject I do not think it is pc ealble to fix
the precis* time when the operation of the poison cow-
maces in a human subject. In the case of an animal we
take cue that :t is fasting, and we mix the poison with in-
gredients that are readily s. 'able, and every eircutnetanes
favourable for the demloposeat of the poison. I
have men meny eases of tetanal arising from
wounds and other tutus. The general symptoms of
the disorder vn7 yearly resemble each ether, and is all the
'laurel forms or tetanus the symptoms begin and advance
much more slowly, and they prove fatal much more slowly,
sad there is no intermiseinn in c rtain forms of clitoral

tetanus. In tetanus from etrychnis tiers are short inter
mlesioas. 1 ham heard the evidence of what took place at
the Talbot Arms on the Monday and Tuesday. and the re-
sult of my experience Induces me to come to the conclusion
that the 'port me eshibi,ed by the deceased were only
attributable to mutilate. or the four poU,ns containing it.
(The mitoses gave the technical Games of the poisons he re
Trod to.) There is no natural dins,' ',soy de,cription that
I am isequeinted with to which I could refer these symptoms
Is OMB of twines oonsciouasers remains to the vary last
moment. When death takes place in a human subject by
spangle tends to empty the be art of ht. oi. Where death
la the mammas, of the admioistratons cf stryohaia, if the
quantity is small,lshould not *spent to find aey trace in the
body atter death. if there wee an .anew cf quantity more
Wan was required to cense death by absorption, I should
expect to find that excesa in the stomach. The colour tests
for the detection of the proteins of atrychaia are anortaia.
Vegetable potation are more dillkelt of detection thee
saLeral ones, and there is one poison with whisk I em ac-
quainted fcr which no known test has been discovered. The
stomach of the deceased woe sent in a very unsatisfactory
stet* for ezemisation, and there must have been a consider-
able quantity of otrychsia in the stomach to have enabled
&erne to detect its presence under such ciromastaaces.
Cross-examined—The experiments I rater to wore made
mazy years ago. In one instance I tried one of the colour
testa in the use of a man who was j oisourd by strychnia,
but I failed to &mover the potence of the poison in the
stomach. I tried the test for the development of the violet
salmi by the mime of milphurie acid and oxide of lead.
!rem my owls observation I should ray that animals de-
strewed by stryebala die of arsbyaia, bat in my work,
whist+ his been referred to, it will be seen that I have left
the titivation epos.
lama instlier tontine were pat to the winter by the
ham& sesamil foe the primer in reference te opiaioas
enpreeeed ley lila k Ids weak, sad be explained that this
milk was written twelve years ago, end that the experience
Ins had dam 'Wined had 'acetified some of Um opinions
be Mess saimisinsd.

6;es;eseeeteette taattaaed—l have sot itatieed that in
ewe views gallsat is salidag team glyphs% the slightest

touch appears to bring on the paroxysm. It is so murk-
ably in the ease of anima., unless you touch them very
gently indeed. Etryrt M. has • moot nee y bitter taste.
It is set', on the auth rity of a French eneroist, that •
grain will give a taste to more than • gallon of water. If
resinous sub.t omit were used to the forcurtion of a till, it
does not follow tt- they w •uld !neer:wt., be found in the
stomach—they might be parsed off
ity the Alt tarry (Sere. al—Oce of the cares referred to
in the wank that has been referred to was that of a game-
keeper who was loans dead—his herd was thrown back,
his hands were douched, and his limbs were rigid. A
paprr cOn,iiiiii g stryania was found in his p .eket, and
u;ron a port mortem examination there Vett* indications
which, wider the cticumstaccee, satollen him of the exit-
erne of strychnis. Thero was a autismr cc it the body of
an intense bitter, which was t, stud by tt e colour test, and
it succeed d m ace brewer, but failed in another. I hers
no doubt that cclour tests are hot tr nitre,' on.

The trot yam then awn adjourrod at .in o'clrck until
this morning a, ten o'cLck. Tie jury sue taken, u on
toe former I'CC l'l,llP, to tbe Lonciou Cdfae house, in tze
charge of the officers of he COWL