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London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

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appeared; and it will be remembered that a remaud toak
place in order to afford an opportunity for a strict and
careful analysis of the contents of a cup and a basin,
supposed to have in them opium, mixed by the prisoner
in some tea.
The following additional evidence was now adduced I--
Mr. Charles Heisch, lecturer on practical chemistry at
St. Thomas's Hospital, deposed that around the inside
of the cup there adhered something of a dark colour,
and in the basin there was about half a cup of tea. He
subjected the contents of both to a close analysis; and
on scraping the powder from the cup, he found that it
smelt of opium. He separated morphia, which is the
active principle of opium, and also meconia acid, which
was a substance peculiar to opium, and not met with in
anything else.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Then you mean to say, Sir, that
there was opium both in the cup and basin P Mr.
Heisch—l do, Sir.
Mr. BuougirroN—What quantity do you suppose yowl
detected ? Mr. Heisch—Perhaps not more than half a

grain.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Is it sold by chemists in a powder,
or otherwise? Mr. Heisch—Generally in a lump.
Mr. BRouGHToN—What effect would eight or ten
grains, which is the quantity supposed to have been pur-
chased by the accused, be likely to have upon a woman,
admitting that she was to partake of the whole of it in a
cup of tea ? Mr. Heisch—lt would be likely to cause
excessive drowsiness, and in some cases fatal conse-
quences might ensue; that would depend, however, upon
the constitution.
The prisoner, who had more than once interrupted the
proceedings, here said, " I wish to tell the truth, and
nothing inure. On Tuesday fortnight, I went into Mr.
Watt's, a chemist, in the Edgeware-road, feeling at the
time very unwell, and asked for two opium pills. lie
gave me the pills, and I went home. I'm innocent of
what my wife charges me with. I suffered through my
complaint nearly three years, but I have kept it secret
from my wife until now. I have always taken the pills
in tea."
Mr. BiIoUGLITON—This is a new story from you alto'
gother, and, as it appears to me, has suddenly arisen in
your mind. After hearing the evidence of this gen-
tleman (Mr. Heisch) when you were hero first, you
never mentioned a single word about your having ob-
tained any opium for yourself, and asserted that if there
was any in the tea, it must have been put in by your
wife for the purpose of destroying you. You also said
you had reason to believe that she endeavoured some
time ago to induce you to partake of a herring whin"
you believed had poison in it.
Prisoner—l said I could not tell how it was that the
cup got on her side of the table.
Some further evidence, principally corroborative of a
portion of the proceeding, was then gone into, when Mr'
Broughton asked the prisoner if he wished to say any'
thing more.
Prisoner—l'm as innocent as any baby that has never
seen the dawn of day.
The prisoner will be brought up again next Mond*
WESTMINSTER.
Ellen Mottram and Jane Ake, two women of the town,
were finally examined, charged with drugging a gentle.
man and robbing him of his gold watch and appen,:lageeg
and some money.
In consequence of the gentleman being at present the
inmate of a lunatic asylum from the effects of the drug
administered, and the police not having had the opPer.
tunity of any communication with him since the aPPre-
hension of the prisoners, considerable difficulty bits been
experienced in getting up the necessary evidence. The
facts as deposed to yesterday by the various witnesseis!
are briefly these.—On the 19th of last August, two s°l
diers named Stoddy and Darby, the former of the 2"
battalion of Grenadier Guards, offered a very handsome
gold watch and appendages in pledge at the shop of Mr'
Byas, 147, St. George's-iii-the• East, when the Paer,n-
broker, not being satisfied with their account of tne
means by which they became possessed of the property:
sent for a oliceman and gave them into custody for are',
and conviconvictedlawfully having it in their pOssession. They were tried
and the Central Criminal Court in the Sep-
tember session, and sentenced to six months'
imprison-
ment. Mr. J. Sercombe, the owner of the watch, havinX
the property restored to him, nothing more was beartt.
of the matter or those implicated in it of
October, the 30th ‘l,
October, when Christopher Lucas, acting sergeant 0"
the 2d battalion of Grenadier Guards, met the prison;r.
Mottram in Hen:lining's-row, Leicester-square, nearw
George's barracks, when she inquired whether he kne
a man named Stoddy, of his battalion, and, on his
plying in the affirmative, she inquired whether be as
not in prison. The sergeant having replied that the
was, she entered into conversation with him, is .
course of which she said, speaking cf Stoddy, 46 11,, is..
d—d f,ol, and if he had acted as I advised him hew would
not have been detected." She then said that she. I'll
the gentleman (fir. Sercombe) near the Neonn
Gallery one night, when she was out with e'
J
(the prisoner Mee), and he accompanied them wineannlee:
He then gave her half a sovereign to procure some
ith
and on her return she gave him some of it mixed wr, th
laudanum and sugar, and not being aware of its beins
drugged, on her telling him that it would do him gee
e
he drank it, and immediately afterwards fell asleep. 0",
then took the watch from his pocket, and her associal
took four sovereigns and three half.crowns from his
pocket, but "as she did not like to leave the poor
without a farthing she put half a-crown back into his
pocket." After making this statement she left thew ':
geant, who immediately acquainted the police t':
what had occurred, and on meeting her next night
near the barracks the sergeant gave her into CO"
tody. She was taken to the station-house of the
A division, when in the course of a statement coil'
firmatory of some portion of that made to the sergeant,
she informed Mr. John Lund, the inspector on dutit
that after they had taken the watch and money &on
the gentleman, a soldier, whom they knew, came in'
when they packed up their wearing apparel, gave it
the
the soldier to carry, and left the gentleman asleep in
room (in a den of infamy called the New Way, We"-
minster). The next day they met two soldiers, a Cold-
streamer and a Grenadier (Darby and Stoddy), and gave
them the watch and appendages to take to Ratcliffe
Highway to sell. In consequence of the description
given of Mottram's companion (Mee), Portsmouthoi7
constable of the B division, meeting her in the street,e
her she must aecOMpany him to the station. Shet
treated him not to take her, but upon his declaring the
he must, she said, without being told the nature 0,i,1t
charge, " I know it's about that gentleman's watch.
that
was in the course of the evidence distinctly shown .
Mr. Sercombe was the gentleman alluded to by theatptr4
soner Mottratn, in some observations made by t_.l
station, which did not escape the attention of Mre.rlti
The prisoners admitted, und.
n the first examination,.t
bthuattwthereesntaottemp
eernf
et se
tml
ya made
Th againsteyt hem
subsequently er e ternet
ypar
into a faint denial of the robbery, ester-
not drugged the gentleman. The prisoner 31 ,Yw„h
day entered into a long statement, in the course of n',‘.l2
she admitted being with the other wornan,Mottrm, w"
and declar_teh entered
the gentleman at said, lot
commit You for
Mr. BRODERip said, it is my duty to
trial, upon this very serious charge, at the next seartie
of the Central Criminal Court. In eonsequence_o
Qer_
lamentable affliction which had fallen upon Mr•__°,l
combe, this case has been beset by difficultiesoy,'..nd
cannot let it pass without observing that Inspect
foljufor
and the police are deserving of much commenda.i.ini,g
of
their diligence and astuteness in completing the 11'"
the necessary chain of evidence.
The prisoner Mee said, " Wt are innocent of aclLPinir
teri ng poison to him." deterinine
Mr. BRODERIP observed that a jury wow,.
upon their guilt or innocence.
CLERKENWELL. ly
Martin Bowman, a well-known thief, was final ton,
mined, charged by Mr. Gibbons, of No. 45, 115
garden, with having stolen a quantity of silver plate ed
other property, and James Townsend was also charg
with having aided and abetted him in the robbery. ,_z‘„
The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and We/
were fully committed for trial.

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