The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-07 00:00:00

LiINCASTZR 151 SIZES.

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SEPTEMBER 3.
TPLE TRIAL QE. CHALLES ANGUS, Eg„?, Oisl A
CHARGE OF MURDERING MISS BUicNS.
(Continued.) •

George Glover was well aCquainted with the .pri=
soner'i he h:id calledupOn the prisoner a short time.
pieibus to the dea' t,ti of the deceased,, when the
conVersation... turned .a -young I.Ady who had
proved pfegnant, and was obliged, in consequence,.
to leave- Liverpool, •an.l to :go !o the Isle or Alan- to
lie-tn. 'rhe prioner made very light of such
lansinesS., and said, it she had come to him The would
have kissed her, and caused: her soon to- get rid of
her btirden. by which he (the Witness) tvodentood,
he would cause her to thiScarry.; A short. time pre;

vioits.-to. die death of the deceased, as he was rettini-

ing 'hOnie late one be parsed the priscrner's
house,' when the blincs )1 the parlour be,ing open,
he slw the prisoner and the deceased sitting close
together, With his right: aria over her neck,. his
hand Upon.her bosom, and; he believed, in the ad
of 'kissing her: The latter end .61' last Febrtiary.he
was at the prisoiler's hone, when he Saw the de-

ceased, and i)e had no doubt, from her appearance,
burstce she appeared chew iti. good

health and

Petet-Chal6y4iti,:-.sed, that be was in company
with the prisoner a shoft timeyrevious to the death

of the decesed, when -a conversation respeaing
women" being with child took
pLee. The-prisoner said, he I;new haw to prevent
it;, he Kaa an instrument, and b; introducing it Into
the mairix, and leitirif; in'the nir, it would prevent
chihrcdAling terwarZ; and the prisoner shoved
him that instrument.

Ali instrumela found in• the prisoner's house \vas
::0 w.tuess, c.‘[:iirch he recognized-,to be the
5..,.:,e the :s .e!er shewn isifu. It
,consisted of
a sik.er 5,•;.. a slide, at the end of which was
a Criir; 'or ftve pointi. The wituess'was ext6quely
asto4,jhe.:i" at s etug snail an instrnthent; and ob-
serve:l; thenghi" it Wiould he a great sM to a& to
tice WT.iy the prisoner had described. prisoner,
in. reply, Said, he thou-nt 'it a great 'sin to
,take away,
Lie, but nOn in.preventing it. - •
Thoinis Richardson, a sitt-ical.-itistruntent maker;
of depOsed, that about a fortught Lfore
deata Of the deceased, the prisoner besought the
i',!ritio,.nt to him to. be'repaired.' Heneverhaving
s.lcn an instrument,' asked him the use of it ?
pi:soner told hitia u was to bore-. his. children's
'.vas satisfied it was not for that' purpose,
b6t undqrmok to repair, it, and the i*isorier fetched
isa,+ay th:!,;:o.ving day. ,
Tiie Wit, Ls, asked what, sort of instruments
were Use,i for boring t2l-titlren'i. eats ? He Produced
onc, which rGaembled' a cons nu a knifting-needie„
only one point.
John Steel diToSed, that about six' weeks previous
to the priSoner being taken into e,istody, ho came to
his shod, and asked for half an ounce of the.Wof
Savigne. On his being told the price, he said he
Would have but a quarter of an ounce, as that would
'answer his purpose. The witness did not know
whether this oil would cause an abortion or not; but
considered it of a poisonous nature, and .should not
have sold -it to the pri,oncr, had he not considered
him a respectable man.
• John Upton deposed, that on the 28th of March
he was- sent by the Coronet', alter the prisothq-
-INas in custody, to search the house, particularly
for a child ; he searched the privy, and every other
place, bit coald not ti:ct any. found in the
cellar, in company with one of the servants, some
clothes; apparently .concealed, which 'she told him
were those' the deceased -died in'. They were'in a
state not tO be described. In the prisoner's wardrobe,
in the bed-rooM, he found three bottles, marked
poison-water, Jacoh's-water, and Sarigne Oil also
a case of surgeon's instruments. -
Thomas Hay, a surgeon, deposed that he went
with several medical • gentlemen to the -prisoner's
to examine the.- body of the deceased; be
'found, no external marks of violence.; On opening
the body, he found a green fluid on the stotuach,
a'so on• the outside and inside of the. intestines,
which was:not natural, or what is generally found its
dead bodies ; be turned up the end of
,the stomach;
-and found. it much intlatned. The Jaer us was -So
large, that he had not the 'least doubt brit that a
foetus had lately been excluded from it. and that:it
was at, or 'near its lull,growth ; .on examining the
stomach, be found holes in it, and it was-so ex-
tremely. soft, that the slightest touch with his. finger
made more holes; he thought.that some drUg, or
something improper, had been cotn'eyed into it, to
cause it to be in that state, and sufficient to be the
Cause of death. He underwent a very ..long and
Earned cross-examination, the general tendency of
which went' to endeayour to prove that the stomach
night have been made in that bad state aftedeath ;
is corroboration of which, the writings of.:John
Hunter, and other celebrated writers upon desirOyed
snmachs, were quoted if the Witness acknowledged'
he DeVer saw- a more healthy, body, except the
spmach.

.D.o6tor Gerard confirmed the above statement.;
he was present at the opening of the body; and
considered the inflammation •ot the:stomach to ,arise •
from a preternatural cause, which was ;the cause of
death ; he could not attribute, it to any internal or
external violence.; the-stomach was much corroded,
and the acrid Must havearisen front some poisonous
matter ; he was asked if a quarter of an ounce of the
Oil of Savigne would produce that efieet ? on which
he could not give an opinion, but had known it tried
on a dog; in• to minutes after the animal fell down,
and vomitted blood, •Stc. ; hal fan ounce of it had:killed
a dog; .and on its being opened, the stomach was
meth corroded ; he said; • that vot niting, pain, • and a
'disorder. in the bowels, -always attenk.:ed the taking
of poison ; he had no doubt but a child. hadia tely.bcen
expelled ft om the body. ire gave a 'learned.evi-
dence, and underwent a cross examination by Mr.
'Cross, during which, he stated, they only examined
the body in search of poison on the stomach, and to
see if a child had been expelled from It; neither the
head noethorax had been opened; he said he had
seen only twenty human stornachs, and that the in-
flamed state might have•arisen from her violent va-
suiting i and did not consider it so much itifiathed as
to cause her inunediate.4ath. Hc had heard. of an