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SELF-PRESE EITATION ; a Medical Treatise
on the Physiology e: Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, and the Secret Infirmities yid Disorders of Youth and Ma-
turity, usually acquired at an early neriod of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, .iminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice:
Observations in the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness. SyAilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engraviings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the 'Reproductive Organs,
explaining their stractures. uses, and fUnctions, and the various
injuries that are produced uscAedmilrEn solitarytlL,emLAymEnT.
m.hpa.b.lta, excesses, and
infection.
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
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and its true source is every instance
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used in moderation is fraught with advarta,e,
greater or less injury
disap-
pointments. Excesses are always injurious; then gift, which
when
abased. the nroliflc source of mischief aid of
professes to dilate,
the nature and conscauence of which this Treatise
to the constitutional nnd vital powers.
are productive of greater severity o: misery to the kuman frame,
The particular excesses, on
than any other to which it is subject.
Anatomy Tblav‘irk
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their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest atter:ion and study, for whet subject can
be o, more Importance than the preservation the health
and of the physical capabilities of which every men should
be possessed. it urrertunately happens th the unhappy
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in early life or from the folios of advanced age, wane suffering
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WS:llg to a qualified phys4c:an for relie;. Shame end tile dreat so
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disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, c'bove all, secrecy, inva-
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Cheansford, July 24.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
At the sitting of the court, the prisoners Gould,
Bryant, Edwards, and Goodey, who were convicted on
Thursday of burglary and feloniously receiving stolen
property, were brought up for judgment, and sentenced
to be transported for ten years.
Mary May, 28, a repulsive-looking woman, was in-
dicted for the wilful murder of William Constable, by
administering to him a large quantity of arsenic.
In other counts of the indictment the deceased was
described as Spratty Watts, and in others as William
Watts.

The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Ryland and
Mr. Rodwell. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Ser-
geant Chadwick Jones and Mr. T. Chambers.
The circumstances under which this charge'was pre-
ferred appeared to be of a most appalling and atrocious
character. From the testimony of numerous witnesses,
it appeared that the prisoner lived with her husband
at a small village called Wix, a few miles from Har-
wich, where she kept a little grocer's or chandler's
shop, her family consisting of herself and husband, two
children, and a half-brother, the unfortunate de-
ceased. It seemed that he got his living by doing
any little jobs he could get in the village, and be
occupied one of the rooms in the prisoner's house jointly
with another man named Simpson, and he was generally
called in the village by the nickname of Spratty Watts.
The day upon which the poison was supposed to have
been administered was on the Bth of June, and it ap-
peared that up to that day the deceased had been follow-
ing his usual avocations, and there did not appear to be
anything the matter with him, neither had he complained
of any ailment. He returned home to the prisoner's
house about five o'clock in the afternoon ; and when
Simpson came in, about an hour afterwards, he found the
deceased sitting by the fire, and he complained of exces-
sive pain in the stomach, and was very sick and retched
most violently. He continued in this state the whole
night, and the next morning a medical man was sent
for, who gave him some rhubarb powder and a sedative
draught, and the deceased afterwards appeared to be
somewhat relieved, but he speedily became worse, and
another medical gentleman was sent for, who prescribed
for him, and on his leaving the house he told the priso-
ner that her brother was very ill, and if he got worse
she must send for him. It appeared that the deceased
did continue to get worse, but the prisoner did not send
for any medical man, and on Sunday, the 11th of June,
at a quarter to eleven o'clock, the deceased died. The
evidence against the prisoner was, as usual in cases of
this kind, purely of a circumstantial character, but it
was of a most cogent description. It was proved that
when the deceased came home on the Thursday prior to
his death, that the prisoner sent one of her children to
fetch some porter, and when it was brought the prisoner
was seen to unlock a drawer and take from it a screwed
up piece of paper, and shake some powder from it into
the beer, which she then warmed in a saucepan and gave
it to the deceased, who drank it, and almost immediately
afterwards he was attacked by the illness of which he
died. Shortly after the deceased was buried it appeared
that various alarming and painful rumours were in cir-
culation. and at length the authorities considered it ad-
visable to have the body exhumed. This was accord-
ingly done. The stomach was removed, and sub-
mitted to the examination of Professor Taylor and other
scientific gentlemen, and the result of that examination
showed most clearly that the death of the deceased was
occasioned by arsenic, eight grains of that poison, a
quantity sufficient to destroy two grown-up persons,
being found in different parts of the stomach. It
seemed that some time before the Bth of June the pri-
soner had gone to the secretary of a sort of benefit or
burial society, at Harwich, and had insured the life of
the deceased, whom she made her nominee, and upon
his death she would have been entitled to a sum of 91. or
101., and it appeared that she had falsely represented his
age to be thirty-eight, when in point of fact he was
nearly fifty, an age which would have disentitled him to
be admitted into the society, and she also described him
by the false name of William Constable. There were
two clubs of a similar description, much nearer to Wix
than Harwich, but it appeared that the prisoner pre-
ferred going to the more distant one evidently to prevent
inquiry, and nothing whatever was known of her having
insured the life of the deceased until he was attacked
with the malady of which he died, and it ap-
peared that from the very first moment of
his being so attacked, the prisoner anticipated
that he would be sure to die, making statements to that
effect to several persons, and at the same time informing
them of her expectations of receiving a sum of money,
when that event took place, from the society referred to.
To one person she also said that if she got the
money she should buy a horse and cart, and turn hig-
gler, and to another neighbour she said that, when she
was paid the money, she would spend it in mourning,
and should take care that her poor brother was buried
decently; and the subject of the money appeared to be
uppermost in her mind, and there was every reason
to believe that the prospect of obtaining possession of
the paltry sum in question was the motive for the
commission of the dreadful crime imputed to her.
It appears that almost immediately after the death
of the deceased, the prisoner requested one of her
neighbours to write to the society and inform
them of her brother's death, and request them to
take the necessary steps to hand her over the money
to which she was entitled ; but it seems that their
suspicions had been excited, and the money never was
paid to the prisoner. She was exceedingly anxious that
the deceased should be buried as speedily as possible
after he died; and, upon her representation so to his state,
he was .buried in three or four days, but was exhumed
on the 304th June, when the medical examination, as
before stated, left no doubt that arsenic was the cause of
death. There was no direct testimony that the prisoner
had purchased or had had in her possession any poison
of this description; but it was proved that when the stir
was made upon the subject of the deceased, and the
rumour prevailed that he had been poisoned, the pri-
soner made some very extraordinary statements. Upon
one occasion, she remarked that people were saying that
her brother died of arsenic, but she bad never had any
arsenic, and if he was poisoned he must have taken it
himself. At another time, she said that she had pur-
chased some arsenic of a chemist at Manningtree, to
kill rats.
These and other facts having been deposed to by the
witnesses,
Mr. Sergeant JONES made a most earnest and elo-
quent appeal to the juryhoonleboefhtahlfeoefvtihdeenpereiswonitehr.greHae
commented upon the wt
minuteness, and submitted
with the pri.
the cause of such a msoingehrt,sbienvneoreyence,
strong suspicion, yet that all the suspi-
cious circumstances were not incompatible
upon the subject.
and the jury at half-
The CHIEF BARON summed up,
dread-
tug character, she was entitled to the benefit of any rea-
sonable doubt they might entertain
and that in
past eight o'clock returned a verdict of Guilty.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
MANSION-110 USE.
Charles Wilma, a carman in the employment of
Reddin and Co., dust contractors for the City, was
charged with having driven a poor horse which had a
large sore upon its shoulder and lumps upon its legs,
and was so exhausted as to be unable to rise after a fall
in the street.

The policeman who brought the case before the ma-
gistrate, said he had seen the horse a day or two be-
fore tumble in the street from mere exhaustion. The
poor animal made a great many struggles to rise, but
could not.

The defendant said the horse had by a fall the day .be-
fore hurt its shoulder, but instead of being exhausted,
was a most spirited animal, or how could it have strug-
gled so hard to got up?—(Laughter.)
Alderman MusosovE having ascertained that the
horse had been taken to the greenyard, the expenses of
which are considerable, sentenced the prisoner to pay a
flue of ten shillings, or the alternative of Bridewell far
fourteen days.

William Wilks, l LAMBETH.
mSoyerr.
Rupert-street, ,
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Haymarket,
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was
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act the employ ptlhoeyboafr7beesfsorrse.
and Elliott,
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pertylninegeta27la4neu.,fatchteurers
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thehis
statements employers.
of Messrs. Piper and Gibbs, the
partners of M. Soyer, it appeared that the prisoner had
a been
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kemployment,e,.nenectar
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t o take akt
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and
to their ei
rcustomers,
cetve the money for all he sold, account for the re-
mainder when he brought it back. Aboutthree weeks
ago, however, he was discharged from his situation, and
it has been since discovered that he had remis,'ed money on
recount of his employers while in their service,
since been supplying these customers with a spuriousbuthad
article, having no claim to the much-approved mixture
of M. Soyer.
Elizabeth Hawkes, servant to Mr. Wolfe, the pur-
veyor at the Surrey-gardens, deposed to having paid the
prisoner 21. 145., which he had not accounted for; and
Mr. Gibbs produced a bottle of the spurious mixture
latterly vended by Wilks, and though in a bottle bear-
ing the stamp of M. Soyer, bore no comparison to it.
The prisoner was remanded, but admitted to bail,

LYCEUM THEATRE.—That old public favourite,
Mr. Harley, took his benefit last evening ; and, as he
deserved, was welcomed by a bumper audience. The
performances consisted of the amusing drama, Not a
Bad Judge, A Speaking Likeness, the extravaganza of
Blue Beard, and that most comic little affair, Box and
Cox.