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

POLICE iNTELLIGENCE.-April 7.

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 lodgings. 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 ill.
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," and said 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
notlto understand, and said, "Drink it up, the doc-
tor says it will warm you." I put it to my month,
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 mantlepieco. 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,
said,— On the day mentioned Inspector Burrows
came to me, about 8 o'clock in the evening, and
brought Mrs. Cornell with him,and said he thought
that she had taken something deleterious. He
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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 per©
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, the 16th of Feb-
ruary, I went to No. 10, Loughborough-street,
Kennington, where the prisoner resided ; I knocked
several times, but received no answer. I got over
the garden wall at the back and found the house
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walking arm-in-arm with Mr. Cornell. I stopped
them and said, " Good evening, Mrs. 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 seemed 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
before Mr. D'l4.lyucourt with the
followingcharged outrage.
A cabinetmaker named Jones,
who was so weak
from loss of blood that ho was obliged to be seated
while giving his evidence, stated that he had been
wounded while returning
home through Commer-
cial-street, Spittalfields, about two o'clock on the
preceding morning. A man and woman were walk-
ing together before him, when in consequence of a
movement the woman made her cloak fail from her
shoulders and 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 so, the prisoners made a simultaneous at-
tack upon rim One of them tried to strangle him,
but he succeeded in getting away. Ile ran 011: as
fast as he could, but the prisoners pursued him, and
one of
them, whom he could wear to be Santry,

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struck him a violent Now on the back, the . 'titer
prisoner inciting him :tnd calling out, " Give .hial
another, the -- ." He did not know at the n 1 r"
113 L. n `-. that he had been, seriously injured, but- Ite,
0 irer`,ly tj'ter felt an }mule pain in his side, and on
pitting his hand there found that he had been
stabbed, and that blood was flowing from the
wound down his toTusers to the pavement.
Sharp, a constab.te of the H division, deposed to
"Police," and on hastening up
hearing load cries of '
found the prosecutor and prisoners engaged in an
The form er charged the prisoners with
altercation. Om, and drew his attention
striking and stabbing
n. the wound in his back.
to the blood running froL
Both prisoners denied the , charge, but he took them
and on the .`Ol--"I
to the station he
into custody,
lh;d been flung away'
was inflitched
cted. picked up a etas knife which
about 30 yards from where the inju he was fe
Mr. Gayton, a surgeon, stated thel
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on the preceding afternoon to the ' heuse of the pro-
secutor, whom he found suffering . from a wound in
the back, near the spine, and in ,1 state of great
exhaustion. The wound was three in ches in length,
more like a slantivg cut than a stab, but he could
not specify its depth. It was just sut n a wound as
might be inflicted by the knife prod aced by the
police. Aithough he (lid not apprehert d dangerous
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consequences from the vvcond itself, thou, gh a severe
one, it was wholly against
his wishes tin it the pro-
secutor was in attendance, as he had given
that he was not to be moved. directions
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Mr.D'Eyncourt ordered both men to be ren,,anded,
and agreed to accept ball for Johnson, but poititively
refused it for Santry.
Another powerful fellow was directly after this'
case charged with a brutal garotte robbery, and-svas
also remanded, Mr. Safford, ,the clerk, drawing Mr.
D'Eyncourt's attention to the fearful increase of
robberies of this: class in that district.

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SOUTHWARD.--Sarah Beech, a mascplitio.
looking woman, with an infant in her arms, was
charged with malicio
her husband, with a kl
Indy wounding Edw and Beech,
and nearly severing the
nose om his face.
The following medical t.ertificate was put in :--
" This is to certify that
a
`l,4lward Beech has a 'very
severe cut across the nose; in fact, it is nearly
severed from the face. Er) -tipelas may follow*,
,
which would be dangerous. ND Surgeon."
" W. TOWNSIT.,
Edwin Coleman, 53 M, said th'at on Sunday
forenoon, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he was en
duty in Newington-causeway, when a
)'oung man
came running up to him and told him he believed
a woman had murdered her husband in 'Overton'
street, close by. The witness proceeded there,
and on entering No. 11 in that street he saw the'
prisoner in a very excited state. He was shown into
a room, where he saw the injured man under the
treatment of a surgeon. He was covered with
blood_ His nose had been cut so deep' down fronif
the bridge that it actually hung from a piece?,
skin above the upper lip., The doctor Bh-el:veal"
up as well as he could, and stopped the ho3morrh,gge'
when the prisoner was pointed out as the perooll
who inflicted the wound, and he then took her
ins a
custody. Witness understood that they (the prai:'
soner and her husband) had beet quarrelling l'
the morning, and that in her passioo she snatchhe
ed
up the knife, rushed at him, and cut h
nose with it. t
The prisoner hero said that the man was not bee'
husband, but that she lived with him as his wifim over t
He struck her first, and in a state of irritation she
snatched up the knife to defend herself.
Mr. Burcham observed that according to the.,
medical certificate erysipelas was apprehended, an
it that took place death might soon follow. Under
those circumstances he should remand her for a week'
The Rev. Mr. Tugwell, the incumbent of St.
Andrew's District Church, Stara ford-street, attended'
before Mr. Burcham to complain of the annoyance
caused by a large number of lads assembling on
Sunday to gamble under the arches of the Charing'
cross Railway, in the vicinity of his church. Their
kept quarrelling and swearing all day.
The nut'
sance at last got so intolerable that he commut
cated with Sir George Grey on the subject's
result of which was that the police had odo:rs,;„°
interfere and take into custody all offending.
Sunday! during Divine service, there was a eOll-
,
plete riot, and one of the constables was yet',-
roughly handled by the mob.
Mr. Burcham said there had been cases of the
same kind before but that he had been compelled t°
dismiss the prisoners, as no one really annoyed Ns'
prosecuted.
Benjamin Smith, 35, a labourer, was chargecl
with inciting a mob to assault the police, throwing
stones, and causing the rescue of a prisoner.
Police-constable 52 L said that on Sunday no
°ll'
he saw several lads tossing under the railway arellt
in Brad-street. They were throwing up copPeL
money, and swearing dreadfully. One of the lady
was taken into custody by a constable, but 300 Oil
400 ruffianly fellows surrounded him and resale'
him. The witness went to the officer's assistance'
when he was attacked with stones and brickbats*
One of the latter struck him on the head, cutting
large hole in his hat and injuring him severely. 0
saw the prisoner throw something at that time'
and, with the assistance of a railway constable)
took him into custody.
Stone, an officer employed by the Charing.eresps
Railway Company, corroborated the constable
statement.
Mr. Burcham fined the prisoner 205., with the
alternative of 14 days' hard labour.