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HUMS .CIRCUIT.—Lewes, March 20.
(6,.fore Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Sarah Anne French, agt,cl 27, was indicted for the wil-
ful murder of William French. The triel was commenced
on Friday and terminated on Saturday night.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Creasy conducted the prose-
cution. The prisoner would not have had any pro-
fessional assistance, but, at the request of the Learned
Judge, Mr. 'lndwell undertook to watch the evidence on
her behalf.

The Learned COUNSEL for the prosecution, in opening
the case, to the jury, said that the prisoner now blore
them stood charged with the dreadful offence of Wfifal
murder upon the person of her husband, and when they
considered the awful nature of the charge,. and also that
it was suag,iitiai by the. prosecution that the unfortunate
.deeeased had fallen a-victim to poison, he was sure they
would require "nnobser:vationa from him to induce them
to give the most .patient and careful attention to the
,'acs he should lay before them in support of the charge.
Lie then proceeded to give a short outline of the-facts of
the ease, and the following evidence was adduced:—
John French said—l am a labourer at ChiddinglAY,
in this county.' The' deceased was my brother. The
prisoner was his wife, and they lived together at Chid-
dingley. They had oae child. No one but themselves
lived in their cottage. My brother worked at the same
farm with me. The last time I saw him alive was last
Christmas-eve. He was then in very good health. On
the morning of the 7th of January I saw my brother
dead. I had never heard he had been ill, but I was
called up on the night of the 7th, and upon going
to his
cottage I foiled he was dead. The prisoner was sitting
by the fire in the kitchen with a neighbour named Mrs.
Pilling. I asked the prisoner how her husband went off,
and she said he " went off" very easy. I then wished to
know what he said to her, and she told me be said to her,
You be my wife—beant you?" and 'then turned round
and died: She told me at this time that her husband was
ruptured; and she likewise said that he had been very
sick, and kept constantly retching before ho died. MY
brother was a strong able bodied man, and I never heard
before that he was ruptured. I went up to see my
brother's body. He was lying on his right side, and I
thought his throat appeared to be swollen. I. felt his
hands snd face, and found they were cold, and the bed
appeared as though only one person had slept in it.
When I came down stairs I asked the prisoner why she
did not have a doctor to her husband, and she said that
Le told her he should get better without, and that he
had eaten a hearty supper and kept it duwn. My
brother was buried after en inquest was held upon him,
and he was taken up again alter that, and a second in-
quest held upon his body. My brother was 35 years
old when be died.

Cross-examined—I am not able to say on what terms
(he prisoner and my brother lived together. The pri-
.oner was crying when I got to the cottage, but I ex-
pected to have see❑ her hurt a good deal wore. I was
ch,tressed at se-ing my brother's dead body that I
hardly knew what I said myself, but I am quite sure the
prisoner said what I hare stated.

Mrs. Pilling eaid—l live at Cniddingley with my hus-
baud in a tenement under the same roof with the pri-
soner and her husband. We were on friendly terms,
And lof en sew the deceased. The last time I saw him
alive was thri e days before his death. H© was coming
up the road with the prisoner, and he looked as usual,
and there did not appear to be anything the matter with
him. On the morning before the deceased died I heard
Faunell, one of his fellow-labourers, go to the prisoner's
cottage, and I heard the prisoner tell him that her hus-
band was not well, and that he could not go to work
that day. I was away from my home nearly all the rest
of the day, and when I came home I went into the pri-
soner's iviuse, and I asked her how her husband was,
and sho told me that he was very sick. On the follow-
ing day I saw the prisoner again, and she said, in
answer to my inquiries, that her husband was better.
After this I heard the deceased retching in his bed-
room. 3 I went again to the cottage about five in the
afternoon, and the prisoner then told me her husband
was better. About ball-past eleven at night the pri-
soner rapped at my wall and told me to make as much
haste as I could to her, and I did so, anti upon
entering her cottage I found the prisoner down
stair,, and she told me she thought her husband was
lawcouthlde not
tell whether he was dead or I .
then went out to
ceaseddy lyinglVe boont ht
hteh then
dwaenndt upstairs,
very
pa
o ;a and
tI s
some newentve.
abs
ke
a ckd tmoethtoe
prisoner'
see the deceased on any previous occasion. I once
of ta hoe ontteaiggela.bour;Lapnrdis afterwards
heard the prisoner say that her husband bad bought a
e prisoner had
ddbouired
Examinationor
continued—The
Mr. Noakes's for the purpose of destroying mice. I
halfpennyworth of arsenic a little before Christmas at
don't know what led to her saying this to me. lam sure
I rid not ask her anything about arsenic. •
not. Mr.
NTohaekes
was coloured
thel JUDGE—She did not say whether the arsenic
c lug ey. wasarsehmoapikneeedpaetrthaet
cottage a little more than prisoner khus
band's
death, wee after her
death, and she went to live
in the adjoining parish of
[Tellingly, about a mile off
Cross-examined—I had had
mice with. . arsenic myself to kill

By tho COURT—My arsenic was white. It was no'
coloured in any way.

By Mr. RODWELL —I knew a person named James
Hickman. lie was at tho deceased's house on the night
boforo'he died, end I have teen him there on several
other occasions-.

Re-exttnined—Tho prisoner had a sister named Jane
Piper. See used sometimes to come and stop a few days
et the cottage of the prisoner. I have never seen Jane
Piper and Hickman in company together.
By the COURT—The prisoner was crying very much
when I wait into the cottage. She told me to go for a
surgeons and he came Boon afterwards. Hickman used
to come to the prisoner's cottage mostly of an evening.
Mary Funned said—l lived in a cottage near that oc-
cupid by Lhe deceased. I had known him for seven
year H m
He was not a very ailing an. The lest time I
s.
saW hiin alive was on the Sunday before he died, when
he was going to cbapek accompanied by the prisoner.
On the 7th of January T was called up, and went

to the deceasel's cottage, and found him lying dead
in bed. The iody was not cold, and I noticed that
his lips appoint' to be sore, and were covered with
little red spots. The prisoner came into the bed-
room while I vas there, and said, "Is ho gone ?"
and I replied, a Yes, he is gone, _ poor dear ;" and
the prisoner then said, " Lord have mercy upon me !"
and began to cry. She then said, a What shall I do ?" I
replied, " Mrs. French, what will you do ? you little
know what you vitt do. You never bad a doctor to your
husband." She answered that her husband would not
have a doctor; and I said I was sure they would not bury
hies without having an inquest upon him. The prisoner
,-aid then, " Are you sure they wont?" and .I said,
" Yes, lam sure they won't." The prisoner repeatedthe question, and I gave the same answer. Where. was
in the le
groom 1 noticed that the fl )or of the r&Where.by
the side of tho b.-d was very wet, as though son a hing
bad been wiped ap. I also saw a saucepan, and I asked
the prisoner whet was in it, and she said water, tied that
she had token :t up for her husband to drink. The
prisoner told me she had rapped at the wall for Ilre.
Polling, because she thought her husband was dying,
and that. she heard bim say, "Lord have mercy upon
me!" Oa the following morning I washed a sheet and
a shirt at the request of the prisoner. They were both
in a very dirty state. I first heard of the: deceased
being ill on Christmas-eve, and on the morning before
he ' died the prisoner told me that her husband was
vet/ poorly indeed. - I asked ber what was the
matter with him, and she said that he had got a
.rupture. On the morning of the day-the deceased
-died Pilaw the prisoner again, and she told me her hus-
band was very poorly, but he thought he could eat a
basin'of milk. I then said to, the prisoner; that if I had
known her husband was so ill I should have gone to see
have seen him if Vint all coons, Mrs. Vell_amell." On the
him; and the prisoder said in replye" You wotild not
Monday- before -ttitePaillOrtehuolthcr died I met the
prisoner and a little girl named Hannah 'tassell and my
daughter going in the direction of Horsebridge, and I
saw her again between 4 and 5 o'clock going towards
her own house. I know that Mr. Crowhurst, a veteri-
nary surgeon, lived at Horsebridge. On the following-
day,l 3MW her going in the same direction, and upon
meeting her in the afternoon I said "You are returned
agsio,' She made me no answer. On Wednesday, the
7th, the prisoner 'brought a flour-bag to ntYleoutie in the
,
evening, and I asked her how her husband Was, and she,
said be was a great dee! better, and thatrhe had eaten.
and drank. After the death of the *eased the prir,
goner told me that her husband bad taken onion pie on:
and that he was very sick after he hatLealete the onion
Chistmmade him ill,
as-eve, and that she thought it had
pie.
William Funnell, the husband of Mary Pannell, said—
I knew the deceased for seven years, and during that
time I lived at only a short distance from him, and we
used to work together for Mr. Reeves, at the Stream
Farm. The deceased appeared in very good health up
to Christmas, and he appeared to be a very strong man:
On Christmas-eve the workmen all assembled at Mr.
Reeves's house, and the deceased was there, and we went
away together about one o'clock. I left him at the gate
of his own cottage. He was then apparently in very gobd
health. During the day, while we were at work, he told
me be was going to
have a rarity for his supper. I
asked him what the rarity was, and he said, " An onion
Pie." On the day after Christmas-day the deceased came
into the barn where I was at work, and he appeared
very low; he said he had been very ill through eating the
onion pie, and he vomited a good deal. I told him ho
was not fit for work, and he bad better go home again,
and he did so. On the 29th of December the deceased
came to work again, and he kept at work till the end of
the week, and at that time he seemed in good health again.
On the Monday following
he appeared ill again, and
complained of his inside, all the day, but kept on at his
worts until five o'clock in the afternoon. On the morning
of the 6th of January I went to my work, and as I passed
French'scottagcottagerl asked the prisoner if he was going to
work, and she
put her head out of the window and said
her husband had been ill all night, and he oould not go
to work. We weat away without him; and I never saw
the deceased again alive.
Cross examined—l- never heard the deceased cone-
plain of illness until after he had eaten that onion pie.
I never saw the ' deceased rind his wife uncomfortable
together.
Dr. Taylor was then examined; he said—l examined
the stomach and intestines that were brought to me by
the last witueta, and subjected the contents to the usual
chemical analysis. I observed appearances of inflamma-
tion in patches, and the stomach was stained with yellow
marks; and I have no doubt those yellow stains were
occasioned by arsenic, which had been for some time in.
the body. Both ends of the stomach presented these
yellow patches. Upon a minute examination the in-
testines showed general inflammation extending through.
out the whole 'of them, and their contents contained ar-
senic. There were also appearances of violent purging,
and the lower bowel was completely empty: I analysed
the yellow patches on the stomaoh and produced the ar-
senic which I have now in my,,hand. The arsenic had
sunk into theasubstancsaf_the stomach,. and had dyed the
inner membrane of a yellow colour, and I am of opinion
that it was administered, in .the form of powders or
--
game liquid.. 'I alas analysed taportion of the stomach
that was not turned
yeii„Az-.. and IL found arsenic
absorbed into the very substance of it. The total amount
of arsenic I extracted from a portion of the stomach was
;--
two grains, and -I believe that a third grain existed in
the other part of the stomach which was not examined.
I found arsenic also• in every portion of the intestines
that I examined,- and there was arsenic in the very sub-
:taupe of the coat of the intestines. By different pro-'
cesses I procured two grains of arsenic, but a great deal
more, no doubt, remained; and I should say that the
whole length of the bowels would have curtained eight
grains, and that the stomach and bowels together must
have contained at least 11 grains. Three or four grains
of arsenic are quite sufficient to destroy life, and from
all the appearances presented in the organs that were
examined by me, lain certain that the death of the party
to whom they belonged was occasioned by arsenic. The
doses; but, administeredbmuta,yfr?Omevethbeesetnateoftopinion
10112:3 administration
faintness,ili i stra 100 rsls Cooffs smalltre strength,
that one large dose had, at all events, been administered
twenty-four hours before death.
he bow bowels
si
,n
I repeatedaai o f so a small
The immediate effect
beto
exertion.
A statement made by the prisoner when before the
magistrate on the 19th of January was then put in. It
was to the cif( et that on the night
the constable came
to her house James Hickman was there, and ho aid him-
aonfd arsenic
indispwo
indisposition
self in the pantry till the constable and then
was gone,
he let himself out. The next day she saw Hickman,
end he told her that he had put the poison into the
es turned
onion pie while her back •w - said that
she asked him whether he had ever • *l-,iShe
given em any poison
at any other time, and he said he had put some into
some milk. He then told her not so say anything about
what he had done, or else ho would
run quite away
from her. The statement then went on to say that after
this Hickman showed her a parcel of poison on several
occasions, and when she complained of her husband
stopping out late at night, Hickman said that he would
give him something soma day that should keep him out
a good deal later.
- -

Mary Bennett stated that when
the
ceased was taken up for examination, aid
that all she was afraid of was that
they
s:fouthiciefidned-
the prisoner s
poison in him.
James Hickman, a young man, shout
examined, and said he had been was then
inthet twenty,
habit.. of visit-
ing the deceive 1 and the prisoner. He had firit gone to
the house while he was courting the
He was often in the cottage was
absent, and the prisoner had more than deceased
him
that she loved him, and she had often
before
kissed once t
Alter
detailing many familiarities which had him.
be-
tween
while
tkporisoner'spdsister.
tuhresowitness t.aken place
the prisoner and himself,
acknow-
ledged having had guilty intereo
ceasedtthhhandethrb.eoupgHrhie:
denied ever having purchased arsenic, or having any in
his possession.
On cross-examination, the witness saidwi
Boner had told him that she had got as much'
himas 5001.,
with-
and if she were to marry him she could keep
sooUrat
eh iasnbeeninieg
toebkliiglei dmtieeeasc.oirtkb.
tTbehedadye
day. The night after the funeral OF
tkoChristmas-
witness was called out of his bed to go and deceased,
see the pri-
ner, and he went to the cottage and stayed the
remainder
of the night with her. They had some conversation
about the death of her husband, and the pri
Boner said
that if any poison was found in his body he
taken it himself. Enlist have
After some further evidence had been given,
Mr. RODWELL addressed the jury for the pris
ging that they would not find her guilty, unless they
beg-
of opinion that no other hand than hers had administeredey were
the poison, from which the deceased had evidently
died. lie then commented upon the conduct of
Hick-
man, who, he said, from the gross crirainalit
conduct, was as likely as the prisoner to have 1: of his
given the
poison.
Mr. Baron PARKE, in summing up, said that if the
jury thought the poison was administered by any other
' hand than that of the prisoner, still if they came to the
con-
clusion that she was cognisant of the fact, she was
equally guilty of the crime of murder.
The jury, after being absent about two hours, returned
into court with a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was then called upon in the usual form
to state whether she had anything to say why judgment
of death should not be passed upon her.
She made no reply.
The Learned JUDGE put on the black cap, and, ad-
dressing the prisoner, said she had been convicted upon
clearest the very evidence of the dreadful crime of mur-
dering by poison har husband, whom it was her duty to
have loved end chera,hed. It was a crime under all Cir-
cumstances of tha very blackest dye, and she appeared
to have committed it under circumstances of great ag-
gravation. She must, therefore, entertain no hope of
mercy in this world, and he exhorted her by a sincere
repentance to prepare for the tate which so shortly and
inevitably awaited her. lie then passed amitotic() of
death in the usual form.
The prisoner, who had been supported by the turn-
keys while the sentence was being deliverea,
was thin
carried out of th a dock. The young man Hickman was
in court when the sentence ras given, and he heard his
wretched paramour sentenced tor execution without tea-
tifying tha uliptest emotion.

The prosecution arose out of an accident that occurred
in the month of December last to a train belonging to
the Brighton Railway Company, at a bridge over the
River Arun. It appeared that upon this bridge there
Wl)4 only one line of rails, and that the last passenger
train at night and a goods train generally arrived at the
spot about the same time. The defendant was an en-
gine-driver upon the occasion, and it appeared that in-
steed of -his obeying the signal to stop, he drove on the
train, and the consequence was that n collision took
place, and the deceased, who was a stoker, was killed.
The prisoner, after the accident had happened, cut hi;
throat, and jumped into the river, with a view to destroy
himself, and it was, with some difficulty, that he
was saved. It appeared in the course of the
case that the bridge being one line of rails as not
the fault of the company, but that in consequence of
it being a navigable river the Admiraltj, interdicted
the company from making a wider bridge, which.
they were very ready to do if they had permission.
Itibehalf of the prisoner it was urged, that having' a
fresh fireman on the night in question he was compelled
to look after him to see that the steam was properly
kept up, and having looked at the fire just before lie
arrived at the spot in question the glare pfit dazzled his
eyes, and prevented him from seeing the signal, and that
the collision was the result of pure accident.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. '
Charlotte Larkin, 42, widow, was indicted for the
manslaughter of Thomas Larkin, a child 10 months old
Mr. nhnion prosecuted; Mr. Cobbett defended the
prisoner.
This was one of those cases,so frequently occurring in
the country, where-the deaths of children have been oc-
casioned by the administration of narcotics, sold under
different names to the poorer classes, for the purpose of
" soothing" their children. In the , present instance, it
appeared that the prisoner had been in the habit of
giving 'hdr child laudanum, and, upon the occasion in
question, finding the child more restless than usual, she
administered an increased dose; the cone,equences of
which was that it died shortly afterward*. The prisoner
was proved to have always previously exhibited great
fondness for.the child, and there was no ground f)r sup-
posing that she had any idea of the dangerous conse-
quences that were likely to ensue from her conduct.
She was found Guilty and sentenced to three months'
hard labour.