Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-03 00:00:00

SECOND DAY.-WEDNESDAT.

The judges took their seats at ten o'c ock. W. A. Stevenson was
again placed in the witness box. Ho said—Before the great mass of
tho letters were taken possession of by M. Murray, some of them
were handed to the fiscal. That was on IVednes lay morn[ ng, the
20th March. I handed them personally to Mr. Young. I did not
mark them at the time, but I took a note of the date. I have not that
note, bat I have a note of the numhers put on HIS- letter, at terwards.
By the S)licitor-General—Do you remembar how many letters you
gave up at that time? I think seven in all. Will yon look at that
letter, N 0.75, and say if its mark corresponds w.th that in your note?
You will understand that when 1 say No. 75, it is not a ,number that
yea know anything about, but is mo"ely a number in the inventory ?
This is one of the letters. How do you know ? By the number 31,
and my initials on it. I recognise it as one of those of which I had
a note, and then I put my initials to it. Is the word " desk" on it ?
It is ; and was written on by me. I found it in the office. Shown
No. 93. That is another of them. It is also marked "desk" by me,
and indicates the same thing. What is the ntur,ber ? No. 45 of my
marking. Shown No. 97. This has No. 3 on it. It is one of tho
letters in the list, and marked by me. Shown No. Ib7. This was also
in the list. It was No. 54, and is one of those I gave up to the
Fiscal. Shown No. 169. This is one also ; it is marked No 5'3, end
marked by me as being In the desk. Shown No. 71. Mat
was not in my list. Iu regard to those letters which you gave up
on the Wednesday, had you read them? li;read portions of them.
Did you again kok into them? Did you when you afterwards
marked them? No, I did not read them afterwards. I. first com-
municated to the fiscal on this su j3ct on Tuesday afternoon;
that was after the doctors had made their post na)rtem examMa

tion. Did you, on that Tuesday or Wednesday, ens:xtain any ap-
prehension of a criminal charge? Not on the Tuesday; on the
Wednesday I was kept uncomfortable about it; but noticing fur-
ther; Wednesday was the 25th Ma:ch.—Did your feelings of dis-
comfort, as you call them, point to any eartiosular person at that
time? They potatoc to e pAittettla quest= where it was lit' 01y
to have been, but nothing more. Cross-examination by the Dean
of Faculty: I made a list of six oreeeven letters I gave to the
fiscal. I made no other memorandum of letters. There were in
all about 300 letters. Tee deceased had many correspondents
France and England. Hs was veto of his parsoaal ap-
pearance. He was excitable and changeable. After some other
questions the examination of this witness was concluded.
Dr. IMO Thomsen - knew the deceased. Ho consulted me
professsionally. lie co .salted M 3 a year ago. Neat on the
3 d Februery last. He was feverish tub had a boil on his neck. He
had a dry eisugh. I SAT him aeatri on the 23rd. On the 23rd he was
better of tie cold, but he complained of feverishness. His Meese was
furred. He complained of naitsee, and said he had vomited, and been
purged. I took his complaint to be blioas. Visited him on the 24th,
25th, and 26th. Oa the 2ith ho was feeling considerably better, and
cooler, and I did not consider it necessary to repeat my visits, unless
I happened to be in the neighbourhood. It did not °czar to me at the
time that these symptoms arose from the action of any irritant poison.
The symptoms wore such as might follow the action of au irritant
poison. I did not ask him when he was first taken 111. I had not seen
him for some little time before this illness, but he certainly booked
dejected and ill-like. His colour wee darker and jaundiced. There
was a black ring round his eyes. After the let March, I saw hee
again, about eight or ten days after. 113 was thou mach the same as
when I saw him last. He told me he was thinking to going to the
country, but did not say when. A message cams to me on the
morning of the 23rd Marsh. Mr. Stevenson and a gentleman (Mr.
Thuau) called on one, and mentioned that H L'Angelier was
deal, and that they wished me to go and see the body, and
give an opinion as to what was the cause of his death.
They did not kaow that I had not seen him alive during
his last ieness. I went to the house. The body, laid out on a
stretcher, and dressed in the best clothes of deceased, was lying on a
table. The skin had a slightly jaundiced hue. I took a note of the
appeaaance of the body immediately after visiting the house. I
examined what he vomited. Dr. Steven arrived; but no resolution
was taken as to a post mortem examination on that day. That
examination was made next day, at the request of Messrs. Huggins.
In the detailed report of that examination wa concluded as follows :
The appearance of the mucous membrane, taken in connection
with the history s related t us by witnesses, being such as is, in our
opinion, justified a suspicion of death having resulted from poison, we
considered it proper to preserve the stomach and its contents in a
sealed bottle for rurther investigation by chemical analysis, shooed
such be determmed on. We, however, do not imply that, In our
opinion, death nosy not have resulted from natural causes ; es, for
example, severe iuternal congestion, the effect of exposure to cold
after much bodily fatigue, which we understand the de' eased to have
undergone Before closing this report, which we make at the request,
of the pr marator-fiscal for the county of Lanark, we bog to state th at
having had nu legal authority for making the post mortem examinee.
tfon above el, tailed, we rnstrieted cur examination to the organs in
which we thought we were likely t find something to account for
the death. Given under our hands at Glasgow, the 28th day of
Mach, 1857, on soul an it conseienee.
(S Riled) Hus" THOMSON, M.D. ; M.D.
I was summoned to attend at the procarator-fiscal's ortise, not after,
but before I had writtea the report. That was on the 27th. The
contents of the stomach, and the stomach itself, I handed over to Dr.
Penny on the 27th. Dr. Penny is a chemist. The stomach. and con-
tents were in one bottle, which was sealed. I received lasatructione
from the fiscal on the 31tt. On that day 1 was requested to attend at
the Remsheru Church to make an inspection of this body of
Laengelier, which was to be exliumei. Taere ware present, Dr.
Steven, Pr. Corbett, and Dr. Penny.—ln w eat state aed yell inn, the
body ; did you recognise it to to the boey of H. Lakeigelier ?
What appearance did it present generally ? Much the same as When
we left ita—Was it well preserved? Considering the tixae that had
elapsed, it was.—Was it particularly en ? Yes.--Did you, on that occa-
sion remove other parts of the holy for anelatth ? o did. (Shown
No. 15si of inventory, and identified it tee s, report of that second
examination.) Having read the report of this essaminatioa, the
witness was r e-ex mined —D d anything deenote the action of
an irritant poison? The on nous membrane of the ditode-
001m.—Anything else? The patellae of vas.ealarity In the rectum'
might also he considered as effects of, an irritant polscra.
Were they characteristic of an irritant prelson? Not very.—There
were. ulcers there? Yes.—Vag there earthing in their appearance
winch led you to form any opinion as to tee length of their dresauee
—No; we could not form an omission as to the time. Thee, all these
substances removed from tee body me e left in the eier„4,
of Dr
Penne ?—Trsey were. Wore MOM ulcers a probable result of un
produced
tent polsol ?—They mien hsve resulted from ale irritant Poison, but I
am sot aware that they are ca. oraete ristics. They roi4ht have been
produced by,other causes, bat they tr'ght nave b.ea
by an irritant poison ?—They might hlv,o 105011 produced by say cease
which might h ove produced ineee„,
netion. Cross-examined by the
Deal of Faculty: I see you 111_2:lin:a:: of the stem tch
athlialle°Ubte:t.ttL ; you mean the
sore poured, on the 26th M 4
Contained?—Yes, What sort of bottle
liquid which the stomach
was ti—lt Was a Pickl.o bottle, which Dr. Ste'ren went out of the
room and brought, And the stomach itself, what did you do with it ?
We pat it moos the same hotde. Did you take any part of the
intestines oat the body on that Oecasiea, or wrs that not done
till thy heoasiO!, in kamshorn Churchyard ? —Oaly then, When
pu,t UPI 'Romani' and contents Into this bottle, what did you do
%744 t We secured it welt with oilskin, ted Cart, anti tlss-ead, in the

lodgings. Was the of skin tied over the cork ? There was a piece of
oilskin tied over the cork to make it fit, and make it more secure; and
over the whole a doable piece of oilskin was fixed. What was done
with the bottle when it was tons secured ? Ws wished to seal it, but
not flndingit convenient in Mrs. Jenkins's, we adjourned to Dr. Ste-
ven's house, whee Dr. Steven affixed his seal to it. I took the bottle
with me, and after that it remained in my possession. It was
In my consulting table. Dr. James Steven, physic's:set in Glasgow,
was next examined b, the Solicitor-General—l was applied to by Mrs.
Jenkino early on the morningof the 23rd March. Sine asked me toga
to a lodger who was ill. I did not know her before, nor her lodger.
It was named to me as a severe bilious attack, and I nought from the
• symptoms that it was so. I desired her to give him laudanum, and to
a•,ply hot waterexternally tehis stomach. She came again the same
morning about seven o'clock. I then went to the lodgings, as it was
represented to me that he was a Frenchman, and I was afrail that
I might not ba understood. He was depressed, his features were
pinched, and also his hands. Hes complained of chillness and palm
over the region of the stomach. The fingers were shrunk. His face
and hands were and. He was physically and mentelly depressed. Z•
spoke to linn but I observed notir ng-psnutiar In his voice. The pulse
was very wean. but the action of the heart did not seem particularly
weak. The symptoms imported that there was a week circulation at
the extremities. The feet were net cold as hot bottles" dad been
applied to them. He complained of .hirst, and asked for cold' water,
being evidently afraid of hot water making Into vomit mere. He
said he had beet, vomiting and purging. I saw a chamber-pet tilled
with the combined matter. 1 ordered it to be removed because it
was offensiverand I did not afterwards see It. it was thrown away.
He said e Tette is the third attack. The landlady sail it was bile, but
I never thought it was that." By the Solicitor-General : I called
again a quarter to eleven o'clock, and went intethe bedroom, and
found he was dead. He was lying en-sight out, his right arm
out of the bed. He was in &comfortable position for lying. His lees-
were not unnaturally drawn. up. I was sent for al oat mid-day. Dr.
Thoms:n was there at that time. I asked hini if there h.d teen any'
previous which amnia account fcr death. He gveme no =
information as to any serious illness, so that I couldnot account for
the death upon any r•ateral sepoosition. I declined giving a certifi-
cate-of death unless •I.was allowed to satisfy myself o. the toiet. We
had then a post nioram. iSh ,wn report of first post-mortem exami-
re net by Dr. Steven, mad identified it as the report which h 3 signed
along with Dr. Thermion.] I was subsequently present at the
exhumation of el. L'lngelier'e body, and we made a seeond post-
mortems exesnination. Identified the second' report real by Dr.
Steen. The first rep ,rt boars that The .tomeeh and its contents were
pat into a pickle bottle. I washed it myself, and f 'am noisffed that
it was quite clean. It was taken tie ray house-and there sealed. By
the Gwen: You tested the water whiteh came et tee b tits after
it was cleaned, to see thetit was quite. clean ? No ; bat I weshol it
myself, art it. was (mite clean. Frederick Penny: professor of che-
mistry, Andereenian Un vereity. Glas row : I recollect, on the 27th
March lest, teeing communicated with by Dr. I hemson, He
carne to the Uraversity, and delivered a bottle to me. The battle
was eesnrely closed and sealed. I broke. the seal and made as exa-
mination of the contents, which were a stomach and a reddish-
coloured fluid. I was requested to melee that examination for the
purpose of making an amaysis. I commenced my analysis on the
day following the 28th. Professor Penny- then real his report, stating
the various treatment to which- he had steljeated the 'contents; and
expressing his opinion that the matters sub mined to hire for analysis
contained. arsenic; and, secondly, that the enantineof arsenic shown
to be in the body was more than eufficimet to destroy life. It is not
meant to say how much arsenic will desno life. Cans a, eon record
where lire in .s been destroyed by twa or tin ee grains, but four or six
grains is the amount genera,ly considers d enough to destroy life.
The amount I determined as existing in tb e stomach was eighty-two
grains.. cn the 31st Manna 1 with Dr 3. Steven, Thompson, and
Corbett, at tins exhumation of L'Ansrelier'a body, aul sew the coffin
opened. I did not see the coffin taken out of the grace. I saw the
body taken oat of the conin, and the portion s taken removed from the
body. These portions of the body ware event 11y preserved for the, teat
analysis by myself. Thee were placed in jars . I did not see the jars se-
cured ; but ! never lost sight &them till are ived at my laboratory. Dr.
Penny then road the analysis which he ms 4 e f tee portions of the
dy.. The conclusions he drew from the an, elysie were that the body
of tine deceased contained arsenic, and that ti le arseme must Wive been
administered to him while living. The actual qnantity ceZ arsenic-
in those portions was not ascertained. it was unnecescary alt r the
previous process. By the Court: How do you account for- the larger
intestine yl-•1 ling less arsenic.than the smaller. Weeald opurging and
vomiting have the effect?—Purging would lewd to th..t result...
Examisiation continued: After your analysis was corn pissed, dia you
remove any portion of these substances to Bdinberegh? did, on the.
llth of April. i delivered them to Dr. Chrlstison. Teem ;art cles have
been eetirely in say custody till delicery to Dr. C nristisr n. They were
portions of the body of InAngelier.—Were y on, in the course of
tie investigation in this. case, directed 1;o me re inquiry at
the shop of Mr. Currie, Druggist,, Slur. Mahal' _street, aid at
Mr. alueloch'e, in the same street?. I v eas, I made a
report on that subject. The object I had i e vie w in making that
inquiry was to ascertain if the substance sold by these parties as
arsenic, ieally did contain arsenic, and in what, proportion. On the
18th I purchased, at Murdoch's shop, an o slice and a half of arsenic,
said to be mixed with soot, and in the eta' Ain
which it is sold retail
at that establishment. On the same day I
PJ rchatel, at Mr. Carne's
shop, an mine.: of arsenic, sand to be mix ed sal indigo. I found these
two quantities of arsenic to contain reap ectiv sly the followieg portions
p2r cent. of arsenious acid ; that is, the. paw s white arsenic—Murdoch,
9b.1 per cent ; Carrie, 54.4 per cent. the rest of the substance coa-
sts' ed of inorganic matter. In the s tbste nos got from Murdoch I
fund particles of carbenaceou3 unseen,. nn iu sea,, „en,
Voles of indigo, and also of cat-bona-smut is matter, ash or inorganic
matter. What you purchased from Cur rie, was it mixed with indigo?
It contained an extremely small prof ,ortion of coloured matter of
indigo. Could the coloured matter. be separated by washing? A great
part of it might, by a peculiar •xr id dexterous manipulation, be
removed, and the arsenic would: I afterwards apeear white to the
an of that arsenic were adminis-
tered eye. If a suffinent pand
tered so as to cause death, andew a knew that violent vomiting had
taken place prior to death, would/ you expect to find, on an analysis
in solution ? Blue. By the Court
Jr? Not if it were indigo. What
at
of the body, the colouring resit
kind of colour would indigehef
—lf arsenic, mixed with lea go, were administered in port wine,
would it colour the wine?' ir se portion of Mae colouring matter in
arsenic would net colour will aof any sort. Examinat on continued.—
The arsenic I purchased at tar. Murdoch's esti mined with carbona_
ceous particles. If s rich f ,rsenic had been administered, would you
expect to find in the hod y traces of that ca bonaceous matter on a
post mortem analysis? If any of the matter had settled down from
thetcentents of the stoat utch, as in this case, I should have suspected
it. Suppose there hte i been a prior administration of ar,entc for
some months pn rrior rs'y, and the arsenic had been similar to what
you purchased at. Me rdoch's, would you have expected to have found
traces of these car •bona eons particles in it? Certainly. These
reports I have read . are true reports. After the last report I made
o further examen alien of the substances removed from the body.

ELEQ TION COMMITTEES -YESTL RDA

British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

PONTEFRACT.
The whr )18 of the morning was occupied with rebutting
evidenee'orought, forward on behalf of the sitting Members.

MAYO.
Mae} I excitement was occasioned by the announcement,
that A rchbishop Mac Hale would be examined, bn the was
not ci died at the oornmencament of the pecceedings, though
here mained within the precinteof the Roues; and, in order
to timid the gaze of the crowd, was conducted to the
De ,ptity-Sergsruit's room. Sir Richard 0 D onnell was
examined. Fie canvassed the connty for Colonel Higgins.
Ln many pares the Colonel was prevented canvassing from
fear of personal violence. Oa arriving at Belleyhawley, he
saw a pleelfortu. on which seven or eight Roma Catholic
Pi iests were standing, one of whom was addressing the
mob,.--eoesisting of, at least, 2,030 person,. The Priest
said, that if they voted for Higgins, they would vote against
their religion, and in, the name of their religion he called
upon them to vote for Moore. Colonel Higgins in vain
endeavoured to address the people, and the whole affair
ended in a frightful row. At Castlebar a priest named
Cilriey went among the mob. with a breviary in his hand,
encouraging them all to all antes of violence. Every man
in the mob was armed. Curley led them. He was not
in the committee room. The learned counsel read from a
Mile newspaper a series of resolutions signed by John,
ter:hbishop of Tuatn, and other ecclesiastics, urging
members of the Roman Catholic Church to oppose Higgins
and support Moore, and endeavoured to establieh agency
on the part of the priests alluded to, and to implicate Mr.
M oore with them, as the placard, it was alleged, was posted
at Mr. Moore's committee room. This latter fare was
proved by Sir Richard O'Donnell in his cross-examina-
tion, sud by Mr. G. iffia, who was examined on a previous
day. Archbishop Mac Hale was called and examined by
Itir. James. He said he was Archbishop of Tnam in the
Roman Catholic Church. The chairman said he could not
recognise him as Archbishop Mac Hale. The Archbishop
said he was certain:he was Archbishop of Tuam, but that
was not hie legal designation there ; he we., quite car-
tented being called Archbishop Mulltie. He proceeded
to say that he appointed the parish priests and curates in
the diocese of Tnam. The Archbishop was asked at
length about all the priests whose names had been
all of whom he said were
men-
tioned during the inquiry,
appointed by him in September. Was present at the
laying of the foundation of a Roman Catholic chapel
in Louisberg, 32nd performed the ceremony. A.
meeting of bishops and clergy connected with
the County of Mayo was held at Tuam on a Sunday in
March at St. Jarlath. It was a council of some of the
bishops and clergy, who had assembled to aseiit at; the
consecration of the Bishop of Galway. A. resolution was
passed, declaring that all the energies of the people should
be directed to the rejection of Colonel Higgins, and to
vote for Mr. Moore. He declined to say whether or not
he had signed that resolution. If the writing was pro-
duced ha would admit or deny it as the case might be,
He signed a resolution at this meeting, but he
caald riot say whether that was the proceeding referred to,