The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-04 00:00:00

°DEFECTED WIFB-POISONING IN NEWCASTLE

A man is in custody, ander the name of Samuel
Wilkinson, on a charge of having caused the death of his
wife by means of poison. It appears that the prisoner ie •
native of Selby, in Yorkshire, and is a brickmaker. His
real name is Richard Barker ; and. see is shown by docu-
ments, &0., found in his possassion, be had enlisted at
Kingston-upon-Hull, into the Royal Artlllety, and is at pre-
sent • deserter from that regiment. His regunental number
Is 6,389, and he belongs to the lit battalion. He is 26 years
of age, sad the demoted woman was 24. They ere supposed
ant te have been married, though they were living together
oresedbly as man and wife. Her name is Mary Blake-
borough, and her Miler resides at Bardthy, near Wetberby,
Yorkahlre. The prisoner works at the brickyard in Sluts-
wood-road; and be left Ms house on Friday morning at six
o'clock, to go to his week as meal ; there was, however, no
implement foe him, and Ise returned to his have about ten.
His wife was then very 11l and vomiting. He procured her
some teandy,which she took, but almost instantly vomited it.
He next gam her some laudanum, but thia also she vomited.
A neighbour then suggested that he should obtain the Assist-
once of • radical mere, sad he went out for that porpoise. When
he returned he said he had been at two or three surge cow
houses, but that no medical man would COMP. He then went
to the shop of Mr. Jobson, chemist, Plummet...trot, and
Mr. Jobson went to his hones end saw this women. She was
then very W and votatiog. lie rammed to his shop and
compounded some medicine, which ha gave to the prisoner
with instructions dist • certain quantity wee to be given every
hoar. She received two portion. of the medicine, and imme-
diately vomited each of them. She was enceinte, and a mid-
wife was sent for, but she left immediately, became the said
the woman was not in labour. About 9 o'clock the prisoner
went to a neighbour's home and said his wife was dead; and
the neighbour. on going to the house found It to be true. The
eirenowtseree having come to the knowledge of the polies,
information was given to Mr. Hoyle, the borough cermet,
who opened an inquest at the Bath Hotel, Sootewood-road, on
Saturday evening; and the inquiry was adjourned till &post
"torten examination WAS made. This examination was
commenced on the following morning by Mr. W. 8. Rayne,
the surgeon to the police force. Mr. Raj no found no external
marks of violence, sad no appearances on the head to account
for death. From the appearance of the viscera, however, he
has come to the conclusion that death has been aimed by
poison. In order to render this opinion concliudve, a large
quantity of the intestine. has been taken from the body and
submitted to the meat careful analysis at the Neville Hall
College of Medicine by Dr. Richardson. The remit of the
analysis has not transpired. There ars other suspicious
circumstances against the penmen The police have been
unable to find any medical gentlemen to whom the prisoner
applied for aid, and when asked by Sob-Inepector Amos why
he threw the medicine bottle into the tire to denied that he
Threw it is, and said his coat sleeve caught it and knocked
it in.—Niereerfie CAronicle.

THE ArI'EMPTRD MURDER IN IRELAND.—Onr
readers will not hare forgotten that about a year and these
months altos a reepectsble farmer, named Edward Kelly, was
murdered in the itemedisteneighbourhoodof Meows derellieg,
neer Klibeggan, county of Westmeath. The most active
reassures were immediately taken by the mahortiee for the
apprehension of the amounts. An entre force of police was
quartered within a few hundred yard. of the murdered man's
house, and a stipendiary magistrate was sent to reside in the
town of Kilbeggsn, for the special purpose of protecting
Kelly'. widow, whose life was threatened, and of watei-
ing the progress of the investigations relative to the
murder. Haying held for some months the farm, on
account of which her husband was doomed to death, Mrs.
Kelly because so etriouely alarmed for her own safety
that the surrendered the land to the owner, Bt. George
Smyth, Esq., of Drogheda. The feral was subsequently
let to • Mr. Jesiop, of Tyrreleas, who, relying on
the protection of the police removed to the hones pnimeetely
occupied by Edward Kelly. Be,. he has sine. resided,
never leaving home without being armed, and almost In-
variably wetted by a policeman. On Bstorday Mr. hemp
*needed the market of Kilbeggan, and unfortunately re-
turned on his way home without his usual escort. When he
bad arrived near his own bones, and within a quarter of a
mile of the temporary police barraek, be was fired at by a
men .rationed behind a wall by the reed side. The shot
took effect in his abdomen, but he had time to observe the
men who wounded him, and to rotors his fin before he fell
bisessible. He was coaveyed to his hems by swim weer"
by, sad thread 11114141111C11 was obtained. The ball has been
~meted, bat we learn that at poet hour last evening little
hopes of remover, were entertained. This outrage occurred
is the broad de) light, at about four o'clock in the afternoon,
on the pablle road, is • populous aeighbourhood, and within
sight of • polies barracks.—ltrusisy
14U1CH or VZSSZLII FOZ FOREIGN GOVERN-
zahre.—Two mimeds built foe foreign nowerloneate were
launched yestmdey at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwell.
One wee a anew called the titvidrent, for the Hessian go-
vernment, of the following dintenaL .—Length, 130 fret
between die perpendiculars; length of keel for tonnage, 118
feet; breadth for tonnsge, 20 feat; depth in m.dahips, 12 feet;
and Mathes la tans, 241 6044. The engine. are by Mesas.
Reveasidll, Seibold, &e., from designs by Mr. Jams. Asb.
The other wee • screw, built for the Bowan government.
She wee named the Immaculate Conception, and her Minn-
slow are es follows:—Length between the terpeadieulare,
173 feet ; length of the keel for tenure, 161 fest 6 lathes;
breadth, 27 feat; depth in midelzipe, 16 het; and Mathes is
to a, 627 38-44. Mar engines are by fisawald, of 160 horse
power.
A monthly steam-packet communication is about to
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