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to the deceased's cottage, and found him lying dead
in bed. The body was not cold, and I noticed that
his lips appeared to be sore, and were ,covered with
little red spots. The prisoner came iirto the bed-
room while I was there, and said, "lei he gone ?"
,
and I replied, " Yes, he is gone, pt 4 dear ;" and
the prisoner then said, " Lord have met)* upon me !"
and began to cry. She then said
What a ll I do ?" I
replied, " Mrs. French, what will yon ? you little
" bit
know what you will do. You never had adoctor to your
husband." She answered that her husband would not
have a doctor; and I said I was sure they would not bury'
him without having an inquest upon him. The prisoner
said then, " Are you sure they wont?" and I said,
".Yes, lam sure they won't." The prisoner repeated
the question, and I gave the same answer. When I was
in, the bedroom I noticed that the .Thor of the room by
the side of the bed was very wet, as though something
had been wiped up. I also saw a saucepan, and I asked
the prisoner what was its it, and she saidwater, and that
she had taken it up for her husband to drink. The
prisoner told me she had rapped at the wall for Mrs.
Pilling, because she thought her husband was dying,
and that' she heard him say, "Lord hoe mercy upon
me!" On the following morning I washed a sheet and
a shirt at the request of the ptisoner. 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
very poorly indeed. I asked her what Was the
matter with him, and she said that ha had got
rupture. On the morning of the day the deceased
died I saw 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
him; and the prisoner said in reply, "you would not
havealeen him if you had come, Mrs. Fannew, On the
Monday before the prisoner's husband Ad I met the
prisoner toed a4ittle-gtrfallsandlkdwahlituasell
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 saw her going in the same direction, and upon
meeting her in the afternoon I said "You are returned
again.' She made me no answer. On Wednesday, the
7th, the prisoner brought a flour-bag to my house in the
evening, and I asked her how her husband was, and she
said be was a great deal better, and that he had eaten
and drank. After the death of the deceased the pri-
soner told me that her husband bad taken onion pie on
Chistmas-eve, and that she thought it had made him ill,
and that he was very sick after he had eaten the onion
pie.
' William Fennell, the husband of Mary Funnel!, 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. Tne 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 good
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; be said he had been very ill through eating the
onion pie, and he vomited a good deal. I told him he
was not fit for work, and he had 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
work 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's cottage I asked the prisoner if he was going to
work, and she put her heed out of the window and said
her husband had been ill all night, and he could not go
to work. We went away without him; and I never saw
the deceased again alive.
Cross•examined—l never heard the deceased com-
plain of illness until after be had eaten that onion pie.
I never saw the deceased and 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 witness, 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 stomach and produced the ar-
senic which I have now in my hand. The arsenic had
sunk into the substance of the stomach, and had dyed the
_inner membrane of a ellow coiour, WWI of
opinion
thirfe *Fs' m nts e Off erers or
some liquid. I also analysed a portion of the stomach
that was not turned yellow, and I 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 wAt arsenic in the very sub-
stance 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 contained eight
grains, and that the
of arsenic are,quite sufficient to destroy kifea
stomach and bowels together must
have contained at least 11 grains. Three or four grains
and from
all the appearances priuented
eine the organs that were
examined by me, I are certain that the death of the party
to whom they belonged was occasioned by arsenic. The
poison may have been 'administered in repeated small
doses; but, from the state of the bowels, I am of opinion
that one large dose had, at all events, been administered
twenty-four hours before death. The immediate effect
of the administration of small doses of arsenic would be
nausea, faintness, loss' of strength, and indisposition to
exertion.

(Before Mr. •Justice COLERIDGE.)
John Pemberton, 28, engine-driver, was indicted for
the manslaughter of James Martin.
Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Hawkins prosecuted; Mr. Creasy
defended the prisoner.
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
was 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-
stead of his obeying the signal to stop, he drove on the
train, and the consequence was that a collision took
place, and the deceased, who was a stoker, was killed.
The prisoner, after the accident had happened, cut his
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 was not
the fault of the company, but that in consequence of
it being a navigable river the Admiralty interdicted
the company from making a wider bridge, which
they were very ready to do if they had permission.
In behalf 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 he.
arrived at the spot in question the, glare of it 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
manshiughter of Thomas Larkin, a child 10 months old.
Mr. Johnson 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-
-esasioned by the idiainistratkon of nvcotics, sold under
different names to the poorer classes, Tiir the purpose of
" soothing" their children. In the present instance, it
appeared that the prisoner had been in the habit of
giving her child laudanum, and, upon the occasion in
question, finding the child more restless than usual, she
administered an increased dose; the consequences of
which was that it died shortly afterwards. The prisoner
was proved to have always previously exhibited great
fondness for the child, and there was no ground for 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.

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A statement made by the prisoner when before the
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magistrate on the 19. h of January was thee put in. It
was to the cli,ct that on the night the constable came
to her house James Hickman Was there, and he hid him
self in the pantry till the constable was gone, and then
he let himself out. The next day: she 82. V Hickman,
end he told her that he had pt the poison into the
onion pie while her back was turned. She seid that
she asked him whether he had ever given him
any poison
at any other time, and he said he had put some into
some milk. Ile then told her not so say
anything about
what he had done, or else he would run quite away
from her. The statement then went on to say that after
this llicl:man ehowed her a Parcel of poison on several
occasions, and when she complained of her husband
stopping night, Hout late at ni
ckman said that he would
give him something &mho day that should keep him cut
a good deal later,

Mary Bennett stated that when the body of the de-
ceased was taken up for examination, the prisoner said
that all she was afraid of was that they should find
poison in him.
James liickroan, a young man,
shout twenty, was then
examined, and said he had been in the habit of visit-
ing the deceakei and the prisoner. He had first gone to
the house while he was courting the prisoner's sister.
Ile was often in the cottage while the deceased was
absent, and the prisoner had more than once told him
that she loved him, and she had often kissed him. After
detailing many familiarities which had taken place be-
tween the prisoner and himself, the witness acknow-
ledged having had guilty intercourse with her. He
denied ever having purchased arsenic, or having any in
his possession.

On cross-examination, the witness said that the pri-
soner had told him that she bad got as much as 5001,
and if she were to marry him she could keep him with-
out his being obliged to work. The deceased bad bought
some arsenic to kill mice with the day before Christmas-
day. The night after the funeral of the deceased,
witness was called out of his bed to go and see the pri-
ner, and he went to the cottsge and stayed the remainder
of the night with her. Thay had some conversation
about the death of her husband, and the prisoner said
that if any poison was found in his body he must have
taken it himself.

Mr. RODWELL addressed the jury for thuonri
eer t conductcl3adv e
After some further evidence had been given,
soner, bog-
gingof opinion that no other hand than hers'hadess
that they would not find her guilty,
wase theaas
likelycomm eanstetdhouppornisotnh
Hick-
man, who, he said, from the gross criminality the poison, from which the deceased h administered
.
they were
gevividenentthlye
of
.de
conduct,il of his
poison.
Mr. Baron PARKE, in summing up, said that if the
jury thought the poison was administered by
hand than that of the prisoner, still it they came toany other
the con-
elusion 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 ma :
y 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
the very clearest evidence of the dreadful crime of mur-
dering by poison her husband, whom it was her duty to
have loved and cherished. It was a crime under all cir-
cumstances of this 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 wo.:1(1, and be exhorted her by a sincere
repentance to prepare for the tate which 50 shortly and
inevitably awaited her. ile then passed sentence of
death in the usual farm.
The prisoner, who had been suppc:.t.cd by the turn-
ke) s while the sentence was being (it iiverel, was then
carried cut of the dal:. The young men Hickman was
in court when the sentence was given, and he heard his
wretched paramour sentenced for exee,tition without tea
tlf,ying Ow 6ligbtQiit elnotwa•

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