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London, England, 1820-08-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

CORNWALL AS'SIZES, Aug. 10.

Mvaveß.—Sarah Polgreate, aged 37, was arraigned on
an indictment charging her with having administered
arsenic to her husband, Henry Poigrean, on the loch July
Last, of which he died ou the 18th. The prisoner braid
the indictment, and pleaded Nut tittilty with a consider-
able degree of omitidettre.
Elizabeth Martin knew the prisoner and the deceased
for the last six yea's. Ileaad her say she would be d—4
W she would not poison the d—d villain. She at reek her
hand on the table as she spoke; this was in her own lion4e„
On the 9th of July last, the prisoner, the deceased, and a
111:111 named James Tremarilien, were at witise—'s house,
file deceased went out, amt refused to lemur; and she
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said she should never be rid of the,jealos I.llow until
she had given hint a pennyworth ot poison. ice deceased
was buried on the 20th of last mouth. On the 21st, wit-
ness said to the prisoner, she supposed she sunlit be
married again ; she replied if she did marry it should be
for love, for that she had not loved the deceased usiire
than she loved a dog.—The prisoner here became so timeis
affected that she could not stand, and a chair was ordered
for her. As the trial proceeded, she tainted several times,
and was obliged to lie *typo' fed.
Jamey Ti emarthen knows the pi hammer. Saw her about
two months before the di ath of her husband. She was
standing near her own door. Site said she wished her
husband was dead, and then site should he married again
n three weeks.

Richard Doyle, jail. is a surzcon, and livesalPCllZllllCP.
He was at Crowlas, in the parish of Laulgvan, on the lath
of last ..... nth, and stopped at a 411111i1., shop. The deceased
came to bum, and v.csisplaineil of u giddiness in his head
and pain in Isis stomach. Witness went to his house and
ibled the deceased. The prisoner was present. Witsses•
(tusked that if the deceased was 110 t better lie might bear
from him next ills'irning. Prisoner said she hail a dose of
medicine in the house, and asked if she should give it him.
NViiiirsis smiles stood ber It, mean a dose of opening medi-
cine, and said she might. He did nut hear from the
deceased next morning, and 'sever saw him after alive.
W1111(.41 is in partnership Wills Isis father, who resides at
31arazion. Penzance is between two and three miles
fr Crowlas ; Alarazion is iv-arer. On the 31st of last
month the body of the deceased was disinterred. Wit-
ness opened the body, and look oilL the stomach, which
lie secured, and carried I . TUe stomach and it, oa-
frilfll examined by witness and his fillies. 'llse coat
of the stomach was moll. scl, and in the state that might
be expected if the deceased had taken virulent poison. On
the emit lie found some small white particles, which
he eoilected and subjected to a test, by mixing thesis w ith
lamp-black iii a glass tube, closed at out end. The Bisellit!
Was dl.l/Osiit'd in a chrystalline state in the tube after the
experiment He has 110 doubt it was arsenie ; and lie
also found arsenic in the liquid contents of the stomach.
on which be made more than ten experiments, :loin all of
which lie found a precipitate of arsenic. lie has nu doubt
;he death of the deceased was occasioned by ais taking
arsenic. into his stomach. He did not believe the deceased
had taken what was found in his stomach when witness
saw I on the 13th of last annals ; as, it Ise bad, he would
be worse than he was.

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John liarve is a druggist, and resides with his mother
at Penzance; ite recollects selling one or two pennyworth
of arsenic to the in isoner, who caiuu to hia shop ill coin-
µany with Mr. 'tounkin.

Jost. Minuet lives at Crowlas. Saw the prisoner on the
30th of July last, and *sled how she could du what she
had done. She did not answer for a short time, and then
said she had done no Mum to her busbaud. ISitsress
asked if she had bought the poismi. She said ' yes—but
who can testify that I gave it him.' The day atter the
body was taken up, witness was with the prirouer, who
appeared to be in great distress, and cried out, • Tonkin,
Tonkin, what least thou done with me now? If I am
handed, and can come again, I will tear thee to pieces.'
Pearce Itogers is coroner for the county. Searched
the prisoner'.. house with the Jury who vat on the body,
but could find 110 rat-holes, nor the appearance of any.
The Jodge recapitulated the evidence with great pre,
cision; and the Jury without hesitation pronounced a
verdict of Ouilty. His Lot dship then proceeded to pass
the axial seateuce of the law, and ordered the pi lac ner to
be executed on Saturday morning, and her body to be
given fur dissec • . . _

Tile wretched prisoner was so ;neatly overwhelmed by
her dreadful fate, that she wits obliged to be supported
during the tulle scuituttee was pasriiug, and was brought
back to prison in a state of insensibility.