The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 7.

L MARYLEBONE.—Constance Wilson, aged 40,
a well dressed woman, who refused to give her ad-
• dress, was charged with administering poison to
Sarah Cornell, residing at 108, Crawford-street,
Marylebone.
The prosecutrix said—l live at 108, Crawford-
, street, and let out lodgiugs. Ido not live with my
husband. He has been away from me about nine
months. He introduced the prisoner to me by the
name of Taylor, and I have been in the habit of
visiting her since last July. Every time I visited
her and took dinner or tea with her I was taken
On Thursday, the 13th Feb. this year, the prisoner
came to my lodgings. I was ill all that day. I sent
her for a little brandy and an Abernethy biscuit,
thinking that it might do me good. The prisoner
pressed me to have fourpennyworth of tincture of
rhubarb, and I gave here the money and a bottle to
fetch it in. There was nothing in the bottle at the
time. She brought me what she called a "soothing
draught," andsaid that the doctor would net serve her
with the rhubarb. I was in bed at the time, and my
child came into the room, and she sent him out for
something before I took the draught. She gave me
the glass with part of the medicine which she had
fetched in it, and just as I had got it in my hand
she poured a little more into the glass which imme-
diately became hot. It was a little glass. I said,
"You have been warming the glass." She pretended
notito understand, and said, "Drink it up, the doc-
tor says it will warm you." I put it to my mouth,
but it burnt me, and I threw it at once from me.
' My son came into the room at the time, and I told
him to take the medicine to the chymist and tell
him he had given me poison. There was a little
milk at hand, which my son gave me, and which
relieved my pain. My lips and tongue were burnt
severely. None of the mixture went down my
throat. I spilt the stuff upon the sheets, as I was in
bed at the time. My son came back and said that
Mr. Beacham said the medicine was all right and I
had better take it. This I declined to do, and told
him to throw it away, and he accordingly put it in
the slop pail. The sheets were taken from me the
next day, Friday, by a Mr. Graves, who handed
them to the police.
William Robinson, an intelligent lad, son of the
prosecutrix by a former marriage, said—On the 3d
February the prisoner was in my mother's room.
Between 9 and 10 at night I noticed a small bottle
on the mantlepieee. I wanted to get a pen and ac-
cidentally knocked it over. The prisoner told me
to let it alone. The colour of what was in it was a
dirtyish white. The stuff came out of it, as the cork
was in the bottle. The prisoner said, "Don't knock
my smelling bottle over." Mother told me to take
the bottle and glass back to the chymist's, and I
took it to his assistant. He tested the contents of
the bottle, but not the glass, and said what was the
the bottle was all right. The glass felt rather warm.
Mr. Beacham, chemist, of 105, Crawford-street,
said,—On Thursday evening, the 13th of February,
the prisoner came to our shop and purchased a black
draught of me. I took it from a drawer where
there are bottles all ready. Soon afterwards the
son brought back half of the draught and a cup.
I did not taste what had been in the glass, only in
the bottle. I detected nothing more than is usual
in it when the boy brought it back.
Thomas Charles Kirby, surgeon to the police, re-
siding at 77, Connaught,terrace, Edgware-road,
assaid he
thoughta nd
said,—On the day mentioned Inspector Burrows
about
o rn eBl
with o'clock
hihim
n n the i
d evening, i n
cbarmoueghtto me,Mrs Cornell
I that she had taken something deleterious.
He
brought me some pieces of linen which appeared to
be rotten, and I tested them for acid. I placed them
in distilled
tained sulphuric acid. It was very
almost burned my tongue.
A sheet and night dress were here produced,and
seemed to be so rotten from the effects of the liquid
ejected upon them that care had to be taken in
handling them.
Dr. Kirby, after looking at them, said they sere
in a similar state to the piece which he received,
and they seemed to have been destroyed by strong
acid being thrown upon them. If the acid were
thrown upon a fender or fire-irons it would pro-
duce a greyish rust. He attended upon Mrs. Cor-
nell and thought she had taken some strong acid.
There were large scales about the mouth. Her
togue was very much swollen, with white patches
on it. He gave her medicine for the purpose of
allaying these symptom. Oil of vitriol poured into
a glass in which there was another liquid would
gradually make the glass grow warmer.
William Boden, detective officer, attached to the
D division, deposed,—On Sunday, 16thhofstyebt-
ruary, I went to No. 10, Loughborough-street,
Kenna: where the prisoner rem
several ii:nes, but received no answer. I got over
the garden wall at the back and found the house
since traced her from
evening p
place to lace,
empty. I kt• ae s
- stc7 on Saturday I was in
and about hall-ph.
'^mden-town, when I saw her
Randolph-street, .
;th Mr. r.Cornell. I stopped
walking arm-in-arm
them and said, " Good Ken g, Mrs. in Wilson." j
told her I was a police-officer, and what I charged •
her with, and gave her the usual caution. She
trembled very much, and seemeo agitated. I placed
her in a cab and conveyed her to the station.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner, but refused

WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday, Timothy
Santry and Francis Johnston, two powerful men of
30, were charged before Mr. D'.4l"yncourt with the
following outrage.
A cabinetmaker named Jones, who was so weak
from loss of blood that he was obliged to be seated
while giving his evidence, stated that ho had been
wounded while returning home through Commer-
cial-street, Spittalfields, about two o'clock on the
',receding morning. A man and woman were walk-
ing together before him, when in consequence of a
movement the woman made her cloak fall from her
shoulders aud dropped into the mud. The prisoner
Santry instantly picked it up, and was hastening
away with it, but the witness interposed and desired
him to restore it to the owner. The moment he
had said so, the prisoners made a simultaneous at-
tack upon him. One of them tried to strangle him,
but he succeeded in getting away. He ran off as
fast as he could, but the prisoners pursued him, and
ono of them, whom he could swear to be Santry,