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MURDER AT WHAPLODE.

Janie. CalaMarne, aged 21, late of 111isplude, labourer,
was tadicied fur the wilful murder of Mary his wife, at
Whsplode, ow the 23d of March last, and the indictment
charged that lie wilfully, feloniuwaly, and of malice afore-
thought, did serretely mix sad mingle with milk, Auer, and
sugar, a certain tlendly peewit, viz. mar drachm of arsenic,
which he, knowieg it to be pilau, did give to his wife on
the 19th of March, intending that she sbesJd take, drink,
and swallow it, whereof she died us the 234, aril that lie
thereby wilfully and of malice aforethought did kill and
murder her. A second comet charged that he, at the place
aforesaid, on the 23d of March, did violently make a as-
mak on the ...kid Mary Cawthorn', and with bath his hands
did press, mom ze, and gripe the reek and threat of his said
wife, wsereby he, feloniously and of malice afterthought,
did choke and strangle her.
Mr. Faanwun, fur t►e Primmer, took as uhjeceitte to
the indieterus, and maintained that the Counsel ter tie
Prosecution was bound to make his selectioe of the rogue on
which he would proceed, and to call evidetice to tat count
only.
After some distuesion of the point between Mr. Rallgrit
(for the Prosecution), APT. Fnankt.in, and the JUDGIc, his
Lordship decided that it was competent to the Provo-12'ov
In call evidence to both charges and that after the evidruce
had bees gone into, lie should make his selection of the
Camel which he wolfed have go to the Jury.
Mr. Rca was abaudourd the second motet, and proceeded
on the charge of p.iseuiug wily. lie then stated the ease to
the Jury as detailed by ilw following witaemes:
Julia Smith hers at Si/Implode, close to the Prisoaer"a
hunter ; has brown hint for several years; he had beets mac_
vied to the deceased &bowl two years; their family consisted
of the beoband and wife and owe child. Saw the deceased un
Monday, the 19th March, is a yard dove to witness's house;
had some conversatiou with bee, sail .he apiu seed is good
health. Witness saw her again ma Thursday the 22d, in his
house, whew alit seemed very ill; her face eras much swollen,
and her eyes farmed ready to start Ifenas her head. Never
saw her alive afterwards, mid st siz •clock the mitt worm
lug heard slue was deed.
Cross-azunsiaeif—Did not see her between Monday and
7lsiolay; on the latter day he inquired how she was, and
she said she was very bad, but better than she had been.
Elizabeth Biggadike, mother of the deceased, lived at
Wkaplude,•boat 200 yards from the Primmer 's hutise; her
daughter mud tier husband did not live very ceirifintahly to-
gether fur the ■ix mow+. preceding her death. Saw her
daughter every day from Sunday the 18th of March to Thurs-
day the 21d; slue was wet taken ill till Moeda), night. She
cowplaiaed of being very ill eat Tuesday and Weilneaday, and
also on Thursday utoruiug, after which time the wises",
never saw her alive. thi this occasiou deceased said,
i• her husband V/JS gone to Hullo-itch for more drags, what
avast she do about salting she also complained of
being in violrot psis, sod sale, .1 shall Never get ever it."
On bring further questitiord, the witatee said ►lre did nut
remember any 'Mug wore.
J vims—Were yew Nut rzainiaad Wore the Comfort's
inquest ?—A. Yrs.

lad dot yea mean ea separates yea have tad us owe-

twentieth part of what you thee said?—A. Did nut suppose
she had, bat she coal/ not recollect any more.
Elisabeth Biggadike the younger insister to the deceased;
she went to her horse at eight o'clock on Tuesday t►e 101 h;
detensed was very full of pain in her stomach, was very sick,
and continued vomiting at intervals during the whole of the
Joy ; she became somewhat bolter In the afternoon, and
about live o'clock witness left her : was with her ou the fol-
lowing day, when she was still very unwell ; went to deceased
its Thursday at in the morning and said till eight at
night; her sister was worm than on the preceding day, com-
plained of being very full of pain, and did not get up till
eleven o'clock.

Crowassosiisod..—Her sister only vomited csiee ova Md.
sesday, and that was after she had eaten ; never WSW her go
oat of oh* house os Thursday, but would sot swear she did
mot go to Smith's,

Margaret Smith, wife of Joke Smith, lives about • down
yards from the Prisoner'. bootee; deceased came to her house
at three o'clock is the afternoon on Thursday, came into her
bedroom where witness was toothed by illness; deceased
looked very HI, sal her eye. appeared black. She observed
to witness that witness's husband looked at her, as
though he supposed her husband bad been beating
her. Witness asked if it was so; she replied, s' No, he
halo not give* Mt • black eye; bat he has dune fur
me, and I shall never °street it." She said this with a seri-
ous air, as if impressed with an idea that she should shortly
die. She afterwards said, "If I live two or three days, I
will lake some antimony wise." She declared that un the
Monday afternoon her husband on coming house complained
of being unwell, and desired her to make him some thicken-
ed milk; she did so, and her hneband having sates pert of
it, desired her to go to the public•huuee and get him* pint
of ale; eke weal accordingly, and he was left alone in the
bowie. Ow her reborn her bookend said he did not feel in-
chimed to eat may 'sore of the milk, and lobe bad better eat
the remainder. She did eat the remainder, and shortly after
was taken excessively sick and ill.
Mr. FILMIILLIN objected to the deceased's declaration
being rveeived as evidence, inasmuch as it was not proved
that she bad made it under the conviction of immediate
death; sad Ike Judge decided that it could not.

!Award illytk Vise, sergeant, of Holheach, has been in
practice for nine years ; opened the body of the deceased
OR the Friday on which she died, at the Prisoner's house.
The external appearances of it were, a slight purplish hue
on the face; purple and livid spots on the steak, thrums,
bins, shoulders, and bark ; also a small wound on the
left kg ; the appearances about the throat were not such au
induced him to suppose the deceased had been strangled.
The osmium, which covers the bowels, was inflame./
throughout ; and the pereloneum, or covering of the internal
part of the body, slightly inflamed ; thesatall inteitiae• were
highly inflamed, nearly in a state of mortification. His fa-
ther opened the stomach, and witness was present at the ex-
amiaatios of it : the stomach was highly istflamed and ul-
cerated; the liver, heart, lungs, and spleen were in a
healthy state ; and he considered the deceased to have been
a very healthy subject. The stomach contained as ounce soil
a half of thick mucilaginous yellow liquid; tl was put in a
phial, and the next day as attempt was made to analyse
the contests ; but *talkie( deleterious se poltroon's' could be
extracted. Is of opinius that the inflamed slate of the sto-
mach and iutentisrs had been produced by something dele-
terioss or poisonous having been taken into them. The
effects be believed might bare bees produced, although the
penmen had been throw, tip by sickness; and although there
was *whist: poisonous found in analyzing She eositeutts of
the stomach, yet suffaciest might have adhered to the coats
of the stomach to produce Inflammation and death.

Crem-exanthsed.—Wituess would not swear that poison
was the cause of be► death, although it was his• brie hefief;
yet he would set say t►at itiliasiniation, cording un with •
rest degree of violence, and speedily termiusling iu mufti.
betties, weight sot have produced similar appearances.

Wm. ♦ise, father of tie last willies., agreed with his SON
as to the external appearances, and that death had not been
produced by strangula:km; be rlco corroborated his state.
meal respecting the stomach and inte=tines being nearly in
a state of mortification, and firmly believes that poison
having been taken had produced that mortification. which
terminated to her death. Is decidedly of opinion that su-
lking taken into the stomach but mineral wispu could have
acted so upon a healthy subject, as the deceased was. Be-
lieves ulcer* may exist without being produced by poison,
and also that they may destroy life; but then the general
Israkhy state of the subject is to be taken into consideration.
Geoid's@ the 1111111111116911 in this case to have been produced
by sodden and violent inflammation, and as not being an in.
dependent disease; if the ulceration had been an independent
disease,,the ether ports of the body could not have been its so
healthy a state; mad if 04 disease hail beer natural ■lcera-
ties, the patient would have been suffering under it for
weeks, or mantis, or perhaps year., before it had reached
such a height as in the present installer; and it certainly
would sot have come on in a day or two.

Mary Simian was called in at Sere* eeloek oa Friday
sestraing to lay ow* Me deceased. The Prisoner followed her
M stairs, and Istria; hold of the hoed of the corpse, said,
" Less you! 1 littk thought your death so sigh.'

tisane! Edwarda,.the Coroner before wbuos the inquest on
lha dammed own take*, after the Jury had by their verdict
charged the Primmer with the asiirder of his wife, acqastaied
him with the verdict, sad raid lie must commit Ana to Lin-
cola Castle. The Prisoner said his wife was taken ill in the
sight of Thursday the nil, and he got up and fetched her
bolllle rum avid water : he &so said he hoped the laws of his
cough, would protect the poor as well as She rich.

Mr. Vise was smealled by the ledge, and asked, whether,
auppusing a glass of rum and water to basic here drank by
the deceased on the Thursday eight, it could have produced
such appearances 1 Witness replied, it certainly would not,
as the iiithammatiou must at that time have doer its work.

Robert Collins, constable of Whaploile, received the
Prisoner into his custody to take him to Lincoln um the Corn
nee, warraut. Jest before setting out from Whaplode on the
81ooday inoroing the Prisoner desired tosee bra child; it was
brought to him, and be took it in his arms and burst into
learn. Witness said to him, "Oh? James, how came you to
derive that poor child of its mother r. Prisoner replied,
" Its dune now, and 1 cannot help it :" he then fainted
away, and the child fell front his arms, and witness caught
it. On their arrival at Spalding, at the White Lion, the Pri-
soner requested permission to write • letter, which was
granted Imo, and be wrote one accordingly (the first of
the two beetroots), and addressed it to " Charlotte Tom.
Whaplude, Lincolnshire ;" the constable was to
Ireton, Mat night i Whiphole, and to rejoin the Pri-
soner at Spattliag the seat moraine; and Carrilsorne re-
quested him to deliver the letter to Charlotte Tomlinson.
Witness took the letter, but did 00i deliver it. He told the
Prisoner next monism that he did nut dsliser it; notsrith-
stimsding thts, what They reached the IVliite Hart, Boston,
Ire wrote another to Charlotte Tomlinson (the mewl.' one
beneath), and gave it to the constable. Prisoner tequesisd
that they might be given to the Magistrate, and that the
Magistrate wusild force bee to. come. In his way Irmo
Spalding to Bailors Prisoner held conversatiou with witness
respecting Tomlinson; be said " I wish to God I had gime
•way with Charlotte Tomlinson—the fault was mine—the
girl' was willing, but I was not." Winless went on the Wed.
Deathly by the Ismael from Boston to Lincoln, •nil delivered
up his Prisoner. The leiteis were given to • Magistrate,
sod by him opened and read.
Char-Copping, mostable, assisted in taking Prisoner to
Lincoln Iu their way from Spalding to Boston the Pri-
soner said, " The gentlemen of the inquest sat a lung while
over the body;" witnees said, " they had, and he thought
they bad taken great pains:" Prisoner ub dt " ICI had
spoken nee word, 1 could have made her lappet" as bad as
myseW;" witness asked who be meant? be replied, " Char.
Moue Tontlinsurs." Prisoner also observed that " his clock
hail attack 28 instead of 12 ;" witness said," lames, was
that when you were doing the horrid deed?" Prieuiler re-
plied, " I did not say so; but Ray No wieve—l'll pay the
debt for bee." He MIS very much agitated on the whole
joeruey.

The following Is the letter written at Spalding—
" March SS, 1101.
Dear Charlotte—l for the love of you a desolate death
roust go through. I hope you w►II have • good Christian
helot iu you for to coos up this afserooos, toy dear, and
let sae hid you adieu. Love, doa't feel yourself unhappy, I


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