The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-20 00:00:00

NOVEItBER 30,

1862.

her on the 14th of October, and witness wished to
have Dr. Roberts to form his opinion of the case.
Dr, Roberts went to the patient on the 14th, and
afterwards had a consultation with him (Dr.
Shettle). Dr. Roberta said he saw no cause to ap-
prehend an irritant being administered. On the
Bth the medicine was left off, and on the 22d she
died. The prisoner bore a good character for kind-
ness and attention to people generally, The certi-
ficate of death was given after the post-mortem
examination.

The certificate was as follows:
" Cann, Shaftesbury, Oct. 26, 1862.
"I certify that I attended Ann Riddle, aged 44, residing
at Bird Bush ; that I saw her last on October 22, 1862
that she died on October 22, 1862 ; and that a post• mortem
examination proved the existence of a scirrhous tumour the
size of a small walnut encircling the lower part of the
nisophagus, and great irritation and inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels, the latter in
my opinion being the cause of death.
(Signed) " RICHD. F. SISETTLE, M.D."
After some further cross-examination,
Mr. Wm. Bird Herapath was called and exa-
mined by Mr. Swyer, and said—l am a physician,
a doctor of medicine, M.R.C.S., &c. After describ-
ing the contents of the parcel sent to him by Dr.
Shettle, he said that he examined them and found
the stomach all in one Mass. He found intense in-
flammation of the intestine. There was a small
phtch in the duodenum which did not show any
trace of arsenic. The stornath *as free from can-
cer, the mucous membrane being Veil muoh in-
flamed. The contents of the stomach escaped.
He sought for solid *titles, but could not find
any._ He dissolved a portion of the stomach
and intestines, and discovered the existence of
several metallic substances—arsenic, bismuth, and
copper. He subsequently found antimony in
the same fluid, Arsenic predominated consider-
ably. Copper was a mere trace, and so was anti-
mony ; bismuth large in proportion. He adopted
several processes to detect arsenic, and found 81-
100ths of a grain. He wrote to Dr. Shettle to ask
him what he had administered, and he (Dr. Shettle)
accounted for bismuth, but not for copper, arsenic,
or antimony. Arsenic was in the viscera, the
purity of the vessels having been previously estab-
lished. He found two large gall-stones in the blad-
der and found traces of arsenic. On examining
the liver, he found a very large quantity of a white
metal deposit, composed of silver, mercury, and ar-
senic. He suggested the possibility of poison being
found in Dr. Shettle's drugs, but found none in .21
out of 23 sorts. He examined the paper in the
room and found arsenic there, but it could not have
got into the deceased woman's system.
The inquiry was proceeding when our parcel left.

711 E FA7AL ACCIDENT ON THE HAM-
MERSMITH AND CITY RAILWAY.

ADIOURNED INQUEST.

Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middle-
sex, and the jury previously empannelled in this
case, re-assembled at the Bank of England Tavern,
Cambridge. place, Paddington, yesterday, to pro-
ceed with the inquiry as to the death of Jame■
Hall, Richard Cookson, William Ogden, Henry
Macey, Alfred l3eeby, and Thomas Nicholls
the six unfortunate men killed by the falling
of several arches of the viaduct on this railway
on the morning of the 6th instant. The inquest
was adjourned to the present occasion in order
that the jury might satisfy themselves as to the cha-
racter of the soil on which the foundation was built.
The coroner and jury, after having again care-
fully viewed the fatal spot, returned to the above
taverns when
John Smith, civil engineer and railway contrac-
tor, of Tavistock-square,Was called to give evidence
on the quality of the concrete and materials used
for the arches. He deposed that he made the Me-
tropolitan (Underground) Railway, and was a judge
of concrete. He had closely examined the concrete,
and believed it to be composed of such materials as
made good concrete. He believed the disintegration
of the concrete was attributable to the movement of
a pier, and began to disintegrate with the move-
ment. The concrete, however, had nothing to do
with the accident, which was solely caused by the
giving way of the clay soil on which the pier rested.
If the arches had sunk perpendicularly the men
would not have lost their lives, but they slipped
sideways, and the cause of the slipping was from
laminated clay. He had never seen such slipping
before with London clay, but he had in Lancashire.
A viaduct fell on the East Lancashire Railway just
in the same manner. The London clay ordinarily
did not require any precaution on account of its la-
minated nature. This clay, however, had become
very porous and unsound by the percolation of water
containing vegetable matter, which unsoundness
could not well be detected in summer or dry weather,
but might be in winter.
The Coroner remarked that it appeared that the
cause of our land slips on the sea coasts was pre-
cisely the same as this.
After some desultory discussion,

The jury unanimously determined to again ad-
journ on the following conditions, executed by the
contractor of the works (Mr. Rummins) :-
Ist. To clear away the brick-work above the con-
crete of the damaged pier.
2d. To cut a horizontal trench on the west side
similar to the one which now exists on the east side
of the damaged pier.
3d. That Mr. Rummins be permitted to fill up the
trenches which now exist, and to remove the debris.

THE BUAGLAR SHOT BY A LADY IN
DERBYSHIRE.

We are glad to announce that the efforts of
Mr. Fox and his staff have been partially suc-
cessful. They were enabled, from information
gleaned with much trouble, to arrest two men on
Sunday night, and on Monday morning the pri-
soners were taken before Mr. Nield and Mr. Slack,
two of the county justices.
The only evidence taken was that of Mrs. Mary
Norman, who said—l am the wife of Cecil George
Norman, and reside at Whaley. At about a quarter
past three o'clock in the morning of the 12th inst.,
while I was feeding the baby in bed, I heard a
crash of glass in the window of the room on the
ground floor, under our bedroom. My husband was
in bed asleep. I did not awake him because he was
ill. I got out of bed, and took a revolver off a table
in the room and went downstairs. I did not take a
light, as I could not find the matches. On opening
the door of the front sitting-room I saw a man
standing beside the cupboard near the window. He
was looking in the direction of the door where I
stood. He had what appeared to be a short iron
bar in his hand. He had also a lighted candle in
the other hand. I tried to discharge the pistol at
him, but the cap missed fire, and I immediately
fired the next barrel. All the barrels were loaded
with ball. The man clapped his hand to his
shoulder, and in a tone of pain exclaimed, " 0 God
—Bill—Dick." The lower sash of the window was
up, and he threw one leg out of the window, and a
man seized him by the collar and dragged him out.
It was a fine moonlight night. There were a man
and a lad, apparently 17 or 18 years of age, outside
the window. The man who was in the room had a
red handkerchief, with a very white small check on
it, over his face, with holes in it to see through.
He had no cap on, or it was concealed by the hand-
kerchief. He had a dark velveteen coat on, with
large pockets in it, which seemed to be very full of
something. Ho wore blue stockings with white tops,
which were drawn above his knees and covered his
feet. I cannot say whether they were drawn over
his trousers, or whether he wore breeches. He was
a middle-sized man—rather stout. The man who
pulled him out of the indow was taller, and wore
a dark-blue handkerchief, with a large white
flower pattern on it, over his face. When we retired
to rest I left upon the window-sill some unbleached
holland for making childrens' pinafores and some
newspapers, and after the men were gone we found
those articles outside the window, in the lane, and
brought them in again. We also found that a cup-
board in the room which had been entered, and
which I had seen locked before we went to bed, had
been forced open, and the cupboard was broken, as
if it had been wrenched open with the bar which
the man had in his hand. The shutters on the out-
side of the window had been forced, and the
mark of the instrument used in forcing them open

was upon the shutters. I can't identify the faces I
of any of the prisoners, because the men who com-
mitted the burglary were covered with handker-
chiefs, and the youngest, who had no handkerchief
over his face, had his back turned to me. The
youngest prisoner seems to be of the same size as
one of the men who stood outside the window, and
the colour of his coat corresponds with that of the
same man. The other men who broke into the house
wore coats of a similar colour and material to those
now worn by the other prisoners. The cap worn
by the youngest of the men who committed the
burglary was similar to the cap now produced. The
prisoners were then remanded.— Nanchester Ex-
aminer.

AN ANTICIPATED .RlO7 IN WOLVER-
HIINIPTON-7HE MILITARY IN IHE 10117 N.

Gavazzi lectured last night in Wolverhampton on
Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, and the Pope;
Italy, her Present and her Future." Remember-
ing the excesses that have been occasioned in other
towns, and especially in Birkenhead, by Irish mobs,
the mayor and magistrates took steps to ascertain
if there was any reason to expect that such pro-
ceedings would be repeated in Wolverhampton.
They received information to the effect that a riot
might be feared on the part of the Irish; and they
ascertained that the returned convicts at large in
the district were being organised by a ringleader
of their number to avail themselves of the occasion
to make a foray upon the most vulnerable parts of
the town ; and that the respective depots of the
ar►Ls of the volunteer companies in the town would
be sacked.
The mayor and the magistrates, supported by the
leading ratepayers, thereupon determined to take
prompt steps to summarily suppress such violence
if it should be attempted. They forwarded a re-
(oiliest to Birmingham for a troop of Dragoons, in-
structed Captain Thorneycroft to be in readi-
ness with his troop of Yeomanry, and desired the
assistance of Col. Hogg, the chief constable of the
county, and a body of his men, removed the arms of
the volunteers into safe custody, and swore in a
body of special constables to secure the safe keeping
of the arms. Yesterday afternoon the Dragoons
rode into the town ; subsequently a force of 120 of
the county constabulary, headed by Colonel Hogg,
Major M'Knight (the deputy chief constable), and
Chief Superintendent S weeting, and flanked by
three superintendents, all upon horseback, entered
the town, and were met by the stipendiary of the
district, all mounted. All the constables wore their
sabres, but the weapons were hidden by the long
cloaks which the men wore. Capt. Segrave, the
chief constable of the town, had his own force
ready, and placed them in picquets in different parts
of the town, so that if any attempt should be made
to disturb the peace elsewhere than at the place of
the meeting he might be prepared to quell it.
The promptitude which the Mayor and the ma-
gistracy have displayed has reassured the confidence
which was beginning to waver in the town in anti-
cipation of the night's disturbance ; and, excepting
among certain of the Roman Catholic population,
this promptitude is spoken of with admiration. Up
to 7 o'clock, when our report was despatched, it
was expected that the measures which had been
taken would secure the preservation of the peace
without any outbreak. With reference to the Irish,
information had been received that they had aban-
doned their intention of creating a disturbance;
and Capt. Segrave had notified to the leader of the
ticket-of-leave men that he was known, and his pro-
ceedings were being watched.

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WOLVERHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

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The preparations have secured peace ; vast num-
bers of " roughs" assembled, but were kept moving.
Gavazzi received an enthusiastic reception, and the
Mayor was cheered.