The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

THE STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, OCT. 25.—The market continues
to wear the same quiet appearance that has charac-
terised it for the past few weeks. Buyers keep
aloof from all business, except to supply passing
requirements, and sellers do not seem willing to
lower their prices at present, especially in the face
of a firm cotton market. On the whole the home
demand is more active than the export.

LEICESTER, Oct. 26th.—The wintry weather has
caused considerable briskness in the demand for'
goods suitable for the season, and all hands are well
employed, manufacturers being engaged working
to order. The whole trade is in a very healthy
and satisfactory state, their being no stockin hand,
and plenty of orders to execute in the market. In
the country hosiery districts trade is also brisk.
Wools keep up their high price, and are in fair de-
mand. Spinners are.busy, and the yarn-markets
remain firm.
NOTTINGHAM, 26th.—There is no improvement
to report in the lace trade, most of the houses doing
very little in any department. The articles most
in request continue principally of a plain descrip-
tion, the orders for fancies being very limited. In
all probability there will not be any real revival
until Christmas, and manufacturers are taking care
only to produce for present requirements. In hosiery
the cold weather has given an impetus to the
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A WHERRYMAN'S CHURCH.—The Norfolk Chro-
nicle says a wherryman's church will, in the course of a
short time, be commenced in Yarmouth.

Margaret Allen, who was examined by Mr. Welsby, and
said—l resided at 44, Gough-street, Popiar. The prisoner
and the deceased woman came to lodge with me in Novem-
ber last. The deceased took the lodging, and they gave the
name of Mr. and Mrs. Royal. The deceased was in good
health. She told me she was in the family way, and I saw
it was so. A child was born on the 28th of April. There
was a midwife present. Her name was Medway. Deceased
got through her confinement very well, and she was able to
go about again in about a fortnight. They appeared to be
in straightened circumstances, but were on tolerably good
terms, and did not quarrel much, and were very sober. The
, health of the deceased, for a woman in her condition, was par-
ticularly good, and she got through her confinement nicely.
1. I particularly recollect Tuesday, the 31st May. I heard
deceased moaning in her room. On knocking at the door
to inquire the cause, the prisoner told me his wife (the de.
ceased) had been seized with cramp, upon which I told him
to fetch some brandy. A little later the same morning I
wont into deceased's room, and found her in bed retching
violently. Deceased, on being questioned, said she had
taken nothing except a little beer the day before, when out
with the prisoner, who drank the remainder of it. I applied
hot fermentations to her stomach, as deceased complained
of pains in her stomach and of burning sensation in the
throat, I also made her some tea, and when deceased
drank it she vomited, After deceased had taken
the tea, she told me, in reply to a question,
that she had had nothing but a little coffee, which
prisoner gave her, since her dinner of the day before, I
also made her some gruel and arrowroot and toast-water,
but vomiting immediately followed aftor eating the arrow-
root gruel. Deceased sent for me on the same day again
after dinner, and said she was much worse. I then went
out and fetched deceased's mother and sister, and on my
return found the prisoner in deceased's room. I then went
to a doctor and procured a slate-coloured powder from Mr.
Smith, the assistant of Dr. Webb, which I administered
to the poor woman in some sugar and water. Oa the
following day, the Ist of June, I accompanied the pri-
soner, who said he had a statement to make, to Dr.
Webb's, and on that occasion I asked the prisoner if the
deceased had not taken something to hurt herself,
and he said, "I am sure she has not." Prisoner also
denied using anything injurious in his trade which she
could take, and when I said the dying woman had every
symptom of poison about her, he asked me what made me
say that, and added, " I am innocent, I am sure I have not
given her anything." On Wednesday night and Thursday
morning she appeared to be getting better. The deceased's
mother left her daughter for a few hours on the Thursday,
and asked me to look after her. The mother was absent
from seven o'clock until after dinner. The prisoner was at
home on the Thursday in the forenoon, and he gave the
deceased some milk. In the afternoon he went out. I saw
him again at about 11 o'clock, when I called him out of the
room and said to him " The doctor tells me your wife won't
get over it, and won't live more than 30 hours," to which
he made no answer. Prisoner went out early next morning
(Friday) and I have not seen him since.
A question was here put by Mr. Wakley as to a conver-
sation which the witness had with the deceased, which im-
plicated the prisoner.
Mr. Sleigh objected to the question on legal grounds.
The Lord Chief Baron said ho thought the learned coun-
sel was justified in objecting to the question, as it had not
been shown that the woman was in a dying condition.
After a short discussion, Mr. Welsby said he would settle
the point by calling sn one of the medical gentlemen, who
would at once inform the jury that the woman was in a
dying state.
Dr. Webb was then sworn, and said—l attended the de •
ceased from the Tuesday bight up to the time of her death
in company with my partner, Mr. Smith. She died about
2 o'clock on Saturday morning. I did not see the woman
on the Wednesday. I saw her on her Thursday
and Friday two or three times. On Friday
morning she was in a dying condition. I told the deceased
she could not live—that she was dying. I told Mrs. Allen
so on Thursday. The poor woman was conscious when I
told her so.

By Mr. Sleigh—That recovery was out of the question?
Witness—Quite so.

The examination of Mrs. Allen was then continued—
The poor woman was very bad all day on Friday, and died
on the next day (Saturday). I never saw the prisoner give
the deceased anything during her confinement or in the
course of her illness. I heard he had given her milk, and
also water. On the forenoon of Friday, the day before
deceased died, witness asked her if she had ever taken any-
thing to hurt her, to which she replied, " No, not anything."
I asked her if any one had given her anything she thought
might have hurt her? Deceased said, " George (the pri-
soner) gave me some coffee ; it was very bitter, and he made
me take it, because there was nothing else in the room." I
said, "Be sure you are right, because the innocent might
be blamed. if anything was wrong." She said many times,
"May God forgive him." The deceased suckled her own
child up to the time she was ill. After that she suckled it
twice in my presence. For two or three days after the
child was very ill, and continued so until its death. It was
a fine healthy child from its birth.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Deceased was careless

in her habits. On one occasion I thought she was about to
put on wet stockings, and I cautioned her against such
a dangerous act. I thought the prisoner and the woman
were man and wife. The prisoner, generally speaking, was
a well-conducted person. I have got the deceased ginger-
tea, but that is nothing uncommon for persons in the c in-
dition. the deceased then was. I know sonic ginger-tea was
made a few nights before her confinement by my grand-
daughter. I have made ginger-tea for her twice myself.
On the Sunday evening previous to her confinement Mrs.
Royal went out to go to church. It was a wet night. I
asked her if her feet were wet, but she said no, as her boots
were very thick. I don't recollect the prisoner telling Mrs.
Royal to take off her wet boots as she might have an at-
tack of spasms if she did not. He might have said so, but
I don't recollect it. The deceased never told me that she

drank some coffee, which was very bitter, because she had
nothing else in the house. The cause of the illness of Mrs.
Royal was talked about in the kitchen of my house on the
Sunday previous to the death of the deceased. It was
thought to be poison. The prisoner read to us that morning
a portion of the proceedings at Smethurst's trial, but that
did not fix our minds with the idea that Mrs. Royal was
suffering from poison. I have before seen a person suffer-
ing from poison, and it made a great impression on me.
By the Solicitor-General—The symptoms under which
the deceased laboured were different from those she had
ever seen in a person either before or after confinement.
Eleanor Stubbs, a charwoman, residing at 19, Duke-
street, Poplar, examined by Mr. Clarke, said—l knew the
deceased and attended her in her confinement. She got well
over it, but about the last Tuesday in May she (deceased)
was Taken ill and the prisoner remarked to me that he did
not know what to make of his wife, she was so curious.
Between four and five o'clock the same evening a Mrs.
Allen came to me and requested me to go and
see deceased, who was very ill. I went and
found her complaining of pains in her stomach and
a burning sensation in her throat, but without vomiting.
I procured the attendance of Dr. Webb, who come between
seven and eight o'clock, with Mr. Smith, his partner, and
sent witness for some medicine. Prisoner came home just
before eight o'clock, and, although nothing had been said
to him about his wife's illness, he asked me " whether the
doctor said that he (prisoner) had poisoned her." I told
him "No." Tho next morning I again saw deceased,
who said she was a little better. On Thursday morning
between ten and eleven o'clock, I went again and saw the
prisoner in the room with deceased. The deceased asked
the prisoner to give her someting to drink, observing that
she was very thirsty. The prisoner upon this gave her
some milk which was in a cup on a chair by her bedside.
She still complained of thirst, when the pi isoner gave her
two cups of water. The remark made by the deceased was
"Give me more, as it does not quench my thirst." The
prisoner afterwards washed himself, dressed, and went out.
Soon after the deceased became worse. Mr. Webb subse-
quently called, and applied turpentine to the deceased's
stomach. About four o'clock I went to the surgeon for
some powders. They were mixed and given to her by Mrs.
Allen. After the took them she exclaimed, " Oh, I shall
be sick !" and then vomited. After that she got greatly
worse. The last time I saw the deceased was on the Thurs-
day, when she was much worse.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—l never heard the
deceased's mother say she was sorry she was so hasty as to
accuse the prisoner with poisoning her daughter.
Mrs. Jane Wright, the mother of the deceased, examined
by the Solicitor-General—My daughter was 21 years of
age. On the 30th of May I was sent for to see my daugh-
ter in George-street. She was very ill. (The prisoner here
stared impudently at the witness, who instantly turned

Elizabeth Fyfe, wife of John Fyfe, a baker, said—On
Tuesday, the last day of May, about 12 o'clock at noon, I
went to seek my husband at the dwelling-house of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen, in Gough-street, Poplar. I found the deceased
very ill, and the prisoner said, " I must make her some
gruel," and he made her some in a basin. Ho took the
gruel to her himself, I cannot say whether she partook of
it. Ho went into the room and came out again. I took
her three or four cups of tea, which she drank, and said,
" God bless you I that stops on my stomach, but what
he gives me I bring up again directly." She had a mo-
tion, which was of a greenish colour. I noticed some
gruel which was of a greenish colour. I put it in the hog-
tub. In the afternoon the prisoner came in, and I said to
him, "Your wife is very ill, and the second relapse is worse
than the first." His answer was that it was "a d— bad
job it did not happen at the time," by which I understood
him to mean the time of his wife's confinement. I said
nothing in reply, but held the baby to deceased to have it
dressed, and the deceased said she had no milk for it. She
also observed that "her sufferings were very great, and
that her throat burnt her." The prisoner- heard that re-
mark. The vomit was of a greenish colour, like the gruel.
George Carter, of Silver-street, Notting-hill, said—l
know the prisoner. He is a married man.
Mr. Sleigh—Were you present at the wedding ?
Witness—No.
Examination continued—He married my wife's daughter.
He (prisoner) had had four children, two of whom were
still alive.
The Court here adjourned for a short time for refresh-
ment.

Upon the return of the Judge,
Mr. Robert Webb, of No. 1, Manor-place, East India-
road, surgeon, was examined by Mr. Welsby. He said he
first saw deceased on the night of Tuesday, the 31st April,
in consequence of au 'order from Mr. Jeffrey. Mr. Smith
accompanied him. The deceased had cold perspirations,
and the abdomen was very tender on pressure. She stated
that she was perfectly well up to the previous evening,
when soon after partaking of some coffee she felt great pain
and heat in her throat, and a burning sensation in her sto-
mach. After some time she vomited and was purged,
which continued up to the middle of the day. Mr. Smith
told me what he had prescribed for her. I desired it to be
continued. I thought at the time that it might be a bad
case of English cholera. On the Thursday I again
saw the patient, and found her much worse. She then
said she had taken -some milk, and that she afterwards
had the burning sensactions in her throat. On the
afternoon of Wednesday the prisoner came to me
with Mrs, Men, the landlady, and stated that he wished
to speak to me privately. I took him into the surgery ;
when he told me his wife has been suffering from the ve-
nereal disease for about two years, and observed that I
could not account for the symptoms, and that they were
either the result of cold or some irritant. He then said she
wont out on Monday; and put on a pair of wet stockings.
On the Thursday the deceased's mother brought me. some
vomited matter. I put it in a cupboard and locked it.
I found on the Thursday that all the burning symp-

toms had returned, and then added calomel,
opium, and external applications of turpentine. She
was evidently sinking, and ho told the persons
in the room she would not live. Witness asked her after
she was in danger why she took the' coffee on Monday
night. She replied, " He gave it me and it was very bitter."
I made apost mortem examination of the body on the Mon-
day morning in the deceased's room. The appearances
were as follow ;—The abdomen was much disturbed with
gas. A quantity of coloured fluid was escaping from the
mouth and nostrils. The rigidity of the muscles had
passed away. The stomach was much disturbed, and
in it was a reddish fluid. The contents witness
sot asiie in a bottle from four to six ounces in size.
The lining membrane was highly congested. The
small intestines were much inflamed, and a portion about
two feet from the stomach more intensely so than else-
where. Several parts of the lining membrane had blistered.
The liver and kidney, and other organs, were healthy.
[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]