The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

Eliza Saxton, a respectably. dressed young woman,
was charged with having purchased a quantity of
oxalic acid, with intent to destroy herself. !'here was
also a charge contained in the police-sheet against
Charles Williams, for having attempted to destroy
his life by taking poison.
Sergeant Lister, 10, G, on the prisoner being
placed at the bar, said that the circumstances of the
case were very extraordinary. The young man Wil-
liams, who was 24 years of age, was in the Royal
Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane, in a dangerous state,
and unable to attend ; but he was there in custody of
the police until his fate was known. lie (Sergeant
Lister) produced a certificate, signed by Mr. Cooke,
the surgeon, stating that he was in danger, through
having taken a quantity of oxalic acid, and was un-
able to attend.
Mr. COMBE inquired whether there was any evi-
dence to produce :'—Sergeant Lister replied that Mr.
whow omfoarnmweralys
Davis, chymist, of Acton-place, Bagnigge• wells-road,
who sold the poison, was in court; but he (Lister)
had made himself acquainted with the whole of the
particulars.
Itappeared
servanthaadsome h
out of
place, o
and cabriolets of his own, was reduced, and his em-
ployment uncertain. For some time past he had paid
a d
Williams, that the
his addresses to the prisoner, and had promised her
marriage, but their union was postponed in conse-
quence of their not having work. On Saturday week
Williams saw her walking arm in arm with a young
man, which excited his jealousy, and he determined
to have no more to do with her, and kept her at
a distance until Saturday night last, when she
called upon him, and endeavoured to cause him
to make it up with her, as she meant no harm in
walking with the young man he had seen her
with. He, however, refused, and said he would
have nothing more to do with her. She said if that
was his determination she would go and destroy her-
self, and she left him. After doing so, it would ap-
pear that she proceeded to the shop of Mr. Davis in
Acton-place, Bagnig•
ge-wells-road, and asked for a
pennyworth of oxali▪ c acid. Mr. Davis, who knew her
as formerly being in the service of a family in the neigh-
bourhood, and having served her with it before, to be
used properly, served her without any suspicion of
anything wrong, and she left the shop. She returned
to her mother's house, where she found the young
man Williams, to whom she showed the poison, and
said she intended to take it, when he snatched it out
of her hand, and, chewing paper and all, swallowed
the whole of it, about half an ounce. The prisoner
was greatly alarmed, and called for assistance, when
he was conveyed to the hospital, labouring under the
symptoms of the poison, in great pain ; the stomach,
pump was immediately resorted to, and he was pu'
to bed.

Police-constable 128 G said, that on Saturday
night, about twelve o'clock, he received information
that a young man named Williams had taken poison
at a house in Lam-office-court; and on proceeding
thither he found Williams very ill. Witness asked if
he had taken it of his own accord ? The prisoner
said he snatched it out of the woman's hand and
took it. It was oxalic acid, and she bought it at Mr.
Davis's, in Acton-place. Witness took Williams to
the hospital, and the prisoner to Mr. Davis's, when
he identified her as having purchased a pennyworth
of oxalic acid. lle took the prisoner to the station-
house ; and she was locked up on the charge.
Mr. CO?alE asked Sergeant Lister if he had seen
Williams ?—Sergeant Lister said he had seen him that
morning, and his face was swollen dreadfully, and he
was in great pain.
Mr. CoMaE asked the prisoner if she wished to say
anything ?—The prisoner said she could not deny
having purchased the poison, or what had been stated.
She was very sorry for what had happened.
Mr. ComßE—l suppose you would have no objec-
tion to marry him now? Prisoner (smiling)—No, Sir.
Mr. Davis was in attendance to identify the pri-
soner, and gave evidence.
Mr. Comun ordered the prisoner to put in her re-
cognizance to appear on a future day, when the fate
of Williams may be made known.

THE ROYAL WORKS.—A quantity of plaster casts
have arrived from one of the French ports destined for
the New Houses of Parliament. Thry have been for-
warded from Paris to Mr. Barry, the architect, and con-
sist of casts as specimens of architectural ornaments to
be used in the erection and completion of the royal
works in progress at Westminster, and which are now
in a very advanced state.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received
from A. B. an order on the London and County Joint
Stock Bank for 784, " for the use of her Majesty's
Government." The amount will
,be paid into the re-
ceipt of the Exchequer.