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No. 16,697. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN, FEBRUARY 19, 1846.

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PRICE SD.

CASE of POISONING at BROMLEY
The further inquiry into the above mysterious affair
was again renewed yesterday, at the Swan Inn, Bromley,
by Mr. Carter, the coroner.
Since the last adjournment Superintendent Pearse
and Inspector Field of the metropolitan police have
been actively engaged in making inquiries, and have
been in constant communication with the coroner, and
Mr. Field was present during the whole of the pro-
ceedings yes- erday.
Before any evidence was adduced, a gentleman named
Rose addressed the coroner, and said he attended as the
professional adviser of the Rev. Mr. Verrall, to watch
the case on his behalf. He at the same time said that
that gentleman was ready and anxious to give all the
information in his power, but from some circumstances
of misrepresentation that had transpired, tending to pre-
judice his character, he requested permission to attend
on the present occasion as his legal adviser.
The CORONER said he was not aware of any evidence
having been adduced tending to throw suspicion upon
any party. The Court was an open Court, and had been
so all along, and the gentleman was at liberty to be pre
sent if he pleased.
The inquiry was then proceeded with.
Mr. H. Beaumont Leeson, physician of St. Thomas's
Hospital, and lecturer on chemistry and forensic medi-
cine, was the first witness examined, and his evidence
was of an important character, as tending to show the
impossibility of the deceased having destroyed herself
It will be remembered that a small phial was found in
the soil of the water• closet where-the deceasedwas ft:m.ld
dead, and it was supposed by some persons that this
had contained the poison, and that it had dropped from
the deceased's hand. This supposition, however, was
negatived to a considerable extent by the evidence of M. r.
Holt, the surgeon, of Bromley, who was first called in,
and his evidence was entirely confirmed by Dr. Leeson,
who stated that, in his opinion, the phial had been in the
place where it was found for a considerable time, and
that it had originally been used as a smelling-
bottle, and that it had never contained prussic acid. Dr.
Leeson detailed a variety of experiments he bad tried
with the sal-ammonia that was contained in the phial
when it was found, and said that, by adding a small
quantity of lime-water to it, the pungency of the salts
was immediately restored, and for want of this he said
he had no doubt the bottle had been thrown away. The
witness then explained that the effect of adding lime-
water to the sal-ammonia. when it had lost its power,
was immediately to refresh it, as it were, and restore the
smell.

In answer to a question from the Coroner, Dr. Leeson
said that the effect of mixing prussic acid with sal-am-
monia would be like giviag the poison and the antidote ;
and he considered that the effect would be to entirely
neutralise the effect of the prussic acid. He was not
prepared to say that the mixture would be perfectly
harmless, but certainly the power of the poison would
be to a great extent destroyed.
The CORONER: I believe, Dr. Leeson, it is pretty well
understood that smelling salts, or sal-ammonia, is an
antidote to prussic acid?—llr. Leeson: So much so, that
a gentleman I know took a large dose of prussic acid on
purpose to try the experiment. He had a person stand-
ing by him when he took the poison, with some strong
smelling salts, which were immediately applied to him,
and he found no ill effects from the poison. I have net
tried the same experiment upon myself, but I have upon
dogs.
CORONER.—And always with the same result? —Wit-
ness.—Certainly. He then proceeded• to state that from
an analysis of the contents of the stomach of the deceased,
a portion of which had been shown to him, he had no
doubt they contained prussic acid, and that in consider-
able quantity. He should state, however, that prussic
acid was a poison of such a diffusable character, that it
entered the blood and moved through the whole system,
and in order to ascertain the actual quantity that had
been administered, it would be necessary to distil the
entire body.
The CORONER remarked, that in the evidence pre-
viously given by Dr. Stott, he stated that he distinctly
discovered the smell of prussic acid in the brain of the
deceased.
In answer to further questions put by the CORONER,
Dr. Leeson said that the result of his investigation was
an opinion that a large quantity of prussic acid had been
taken by the deceased, and that the bottle which was
found in the water-closet had never contained prussic
acid.

A juror said he should be glad if Dr. Leeson would
inform him whether, supposing the deceased had taken
the poison herself, it was likely she would have been
found in the easy recumbent position in which the wit-
nesses proved she had been discovered? Dr. Leeson
said, he could only inform the jury that in all the cases
here he had administered the poison to animals, the
effect was to cause them to fall in, tantly to the ground,
as though shot. He had never seen the effect upon a
human being, but he should imagine it would be some-
thing similar.
In answer to another question put by the Coroner,
Dr. Leeson' said that Scheel's prussic acid contained
tour per cent. of the real acid, and the prussic acid of
the Pharmacopmia only two per cent. The real prussic
acid was seldom seen except by the chemist, who might
he willing to produce it ; in fact it only existed in the
form of gas.
The CORONER here remarked, that in consequence of
what had occurred at the form( r inquiry, he felt it to be
his duty to have the contents of the stomach of the de-
ceased, and likewise the phial and the matter it con-
tained, submitted to Dr. Leeson, in order that the jury
might have the benefit of his scientific knowledge upon
the subject.
The jury expressed their satisfaction at the course
adopted by the coroner, and said that they considered
the evidence given by Dr. Leeson was very important.
Mrs. Martha Coste, the wife of a labouring man, near
Bromley, was next examined. She deposed, that on
Monday night, the 6th of November, 1843, which was
the day on which the deceased met her 'death, she was
coming to Bromley, at twelve o'clock at night, to fetch
her husband home from a club meeting, and as she was
passing by the chapel, a man ran by her very fast. He
appeared to have come in a direction leading to the
chapel, and when she bade him good night, he made no
answer. Her brother-in-law was with her at the time.
By the JURY.—She was induced to pay particular at-
tention to the circumstance from the speed at which
the man was running, and his not making any answer,
when they wished him good night. He appeared to
have the flaps of his coat under his arm when he ran
by them.
James William Churcher, one of the members of the
Dissenting congregation, of which the deceased was also
a member, was the next witness. He was asked by the
Coroner, to state particularly when he first heard of the
deceased being missing ? and he stated that so long a
time had elapsed, that it was impossible for him to re-
collect all that occurred. He added, "We all have a
clear conscience, and are ready to answer any questions
you please."
The Coroner replied that there was no desire to at-
tack his conscience or any other person's. All they
wanted was to get to the facts of the case.
Mr. Verrall was then re called, and the Coroner said,
that on a previous occasion he had stated, that when be
saw the deceased in the chapel after the morning service,
on the Sunday he referred to, she did not ask him for a
testimonial to her character to enable her to get the situ-
ation at Arundel, but *
that h
eone
addressed to the committee at
to know now whether this was still his impression ?
Mr Verrall said it was still his opinion that he had
not given her any testimonial for the parties at Arundel.
The Coroner then read a testimonial addressed to the
thatdid place.not
give He her
wished
to
Managing Committee of the School at Arundel, men-
tioning the deceased, signed " George Verrall." The
testimonial, he said, was not in his (Mr. Verrall's) hand-
writing, but appeared to be a copy, and he wished to
know whether he had ever given the deceased such a
testimonial.
Mr. Verrall said he was almost certain he did not.
He did write a testimonial for the deceased to St. Albans,
where she had been before trying to obtain a situation,
and he thought it very likely the one now read by the
coroner was merely a copy of that testimonial.
CORONER—Did the deceased, or did she not, in point
of fact, on that Sunday apply to you for a testimonial
to her character to be sent to Arundel.
Mr. Verrall—l think I must have made a mistake on
the former occasion, and that she did not apply to me
for a testimonial.
Thomas Churcher, a relative of the former witness,
here addressed the coroner, and with some warmth com-
plained that Mr. Pearce and Mr. Field had charged him
with endeavouring to frustrate the ends of justice by re-
fusing to state all he knew. He denied that there was
any foundation for such a charge, and said that it
was one calculated to do him great injury in the town;
he hoped the jury would express their opinion whether
there was any foundation for the charge.
The CORONER said that the officers had been spe-
cially employed by the Government to make inqui-
ries, and it was his duty to give all the information in
his power, and he understood that he had refused to
answer some inquiry that was made of him.
Inspector Field said that when he applied to Mr.
Churcher, he told him that he had made one statement
to Mr. Pearse, and he should not make another.
The CORONER said they were pursuing a very im
portant inquiry, and it was the duty of ail honest men
to give every assistance in their power further the
ends of justice.
The inquiry was then again adjourned.

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DECLINE OF THE DRAMA, OR THE DRAMA 11l A pi:-
cuss.—Last night, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean concluded their en-
gagement at the Park Theatre, having. played sixteen nights conse-
cutively, representing Riehnni the Third every night—unparalleled
in the history of the stage. The first ten nights' receipts averaged
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—nearly eleven hundred per night, fir sixteen consecutive ones, and
that, too, in January, and sleighing during part of the time in full
swing. A sad decline of the drama !—Yew York Atlas.

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