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London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

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Tag SUN' LONDON
,FRIDAY_ EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1859.

CRIMINAL COURt-(THIS DAY).

(OLD COURT.)
(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Skir. Justice Williams.

THE ALLEGED POISONING AT POPLAR.
SECOND DAY.
The trial was resumed this morning by the examina•
tion of

Dr. Barker, one of the physicians of St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, who said he had heard the whole of the evidence,
and ho could not account for the death of the deceased by
any known disease.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—The pest mortem ap-
pearances, he should say, had not arisen from natural
causes. He did not mean to say they might not arise from
natural disease, but such would be quite opposed to his ex-
perience and professional knowledge. He did not believe
a poison could be generated in the system without the in•
troduction of an irritant from without to produce inflamma-
tion of the mucus membrane of the stomach. He had formed
no opinion with respect to the irritant taken from the
stomach of the deceased.
Dr. Garrard, physician to University Hospital, said—l
have heard all the evidence, and from the symptoms under
which the deceased was labouring, the post mortem appear-
ances, and the acrid matter found in the stomach, in
my medical judgment lam unable to explain the death. I
can only attribute it to the action of an irritant poison.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—l should not arrive at
that opinion taking the symptoms singly. In cases of pur-
pureal fever the whole body is in a poisonous state. Par-
pureal fever generally sets in within a fortnight or three
weeks from the time of confinement. The deceased had
been up four weeks. I never attended a post mortem ex-
amination where death was occasioned by croton oil.
Re-examined by the Solicitor-General—Taking the whole'
history of the case, I should have the greatest suspicion
that death was caused by an arritant poison. After attend-
ing a post-mortem, and there seeing the appearances de-
scribed by the witnesses, I should be strengthened in that
opinion. lam certainly of opinion that the poisonous sub-
stance found in the stomach of the deceased could not have
been generated in the body while living.
Mr. Thomas Clewlow said—l am a shoemaker, residing
at Upper Sydenham. I remember the prisoner coming to
my shop. I think it was on the 2d of June. It was on a
Thursday. He came to ask for work. I afterwards en-
gaged him as an out-door hand. He worked for roc for
about twelve weeks until he was apprehended. Ho went
by the name of Frederick Strange. I used to call him
Fred. •

John Hicks—l am a carpenter, living at Sydenham,
The prisoner lodged at my house. He came on Friday, the
3d of June. He remained at my house until within three
weeks of his apprehension, which took place on the 29th of
August. I merely knew him by the name of Fred. I
understood from Mr. Clewlow that his name was Frederick
Strange. I knew that he came from Poplar.
Police-constable Best—l apprehended the prisoner at
Sydenham on the 29th of August. A reward had
been offered for his apprehension. I found him at
Mr. Clewlow's. When I said, " Ah, Mr. Royal, how do
you do ?" he seemed agitated, and turned pale. I said,
" Don't you know me ?" He said "I do not." I said
"Didn't you know me atiPoplar ?" He answered, "Oh
yes, I know you quite well." I had never seen him at
Poplar—l had never seen him before to my knowledge. He
asked me to go upstairs, and then he said, "I knew you
directly I saw you." I was in private clothes. I said,
"Your name is Royal, is it not ?" Ho answered "Oh yes,
my name is Royal." I said, " With reference to my taking '
you into custody for poisoning a woman ; I suppose you un-
derstand that ?" He said, "Yes, I understood that as
soon as I saw you.:.' I said, "I suppose since you've
been living here you've been expecting some one would
come after you." He replied, "Yes, how could I be any
other way ?" I then took him to the police station at Syden-
ham, and from thence to London.:.:_
Cross-examined by Mr. Selfe—l did not represent my-
self as a friend of his, although I wished him to infer such,
as I was not sure he was tho person I wanted. I have
never been to Poplar in my life.
The Solicitor• General said that was the case for the
prosecution.
Mrs.] Stubbs recalled—and in answer to Mr. Sleigh said
the deceased was in the habit of putting common washing
soda in the tea pot.
Mr. Sleigh—How much did she put in?
Witness—l don't know, but I know I have been ill after
drinking the tea.
The Lord Chief Baron—How do you know she used to
put soda into the tea-pot ? •
Witness—She told mo so during the time I was attending
her in her confinement.
The Lord Chief Baron—Did you put it in during the
time you were with her
Witness—No.. I refused to do so.
The Lord Chief Baron—When did you last see the de-
ceased put the soda into the tea-pot ?
Witness—She made the tea the Friday before she was
taken ill. I partook of it, and I became very ill.
Mr. Sleigh—What sensation did it produce ?
Witness—lt gave me a pain in my stomach.
Mr. Sleigh—Were you not frightened to drink the tea ?
Witness—No. I was not frightened to drink that which
I saw another person drinking.
Mr. Sleigh—What kind of teapot did she use ?
Witness—lt was a common earthenware one.
The Lord Chief Baron—Did you ask her why she
used it ?
Witness—Yes. She said it was to make the tea look
strong.
The Lord Chief Baron—Did you ever know any other
person use it ?
Witness—No.
The Lord Chief Baron—What, not to make hard water
soft ?
Witness—No, not the common soda. I have known
peresns to use the ‘Leabinet" (carbonate) soda, not the
Common.
Dr. Letheby recalled.
Tho L.rd Chief Baron—Dr. Letheby, you have heard
what has been just said; does it in any way alter your
opinion ?
Dr. Letheby—Not in the least. Soda is commonly put
into the teapot by those who wish to have apparently a
strong cup of tea.
The Lord Chief Baron—There is a difference between
the two substances ?
Witness—Yes, one is a bicarbonate, the other a mineral.
There is very little impurity in the common soda used for
washing purposes.
Mr. Sleigh—Taken in large quantities, it would act in-
juriously ?
Witness--yes; passing down the throat it would be
accompanied by a burning sensation. Soda will not
dissolve in alcohol or other, so it could not affect what I
found in my analysis.
The Solicitor-General—What do you call a large quan-
tity ?
Witness—l think # oz. in solution a large quantity.
The Solicitor-General—What is your opinion with. re-
spect to the quantity used by the deceased ?
Witness—l don't think the quantity usually put into a
teapot could produce any very bad effect.
Lord Chief Baron—Would it have interfered with your
tests ?
Witness—No.
The other medical gentlemen examined were this morning
recalled by the Lord Chief Baron, and in answer to ques-
tions gave a similar opinion.
Mr. Sleigh then rose to address the jury for the prisoner,
and said he was fully sensible of the forbearing and con-
ciliating manner in which the learned gentlemen who
appeared on the part of the Crown had conducted the pro-
secution. The learned Solictor-General had under-
taken to prove that the death of the deceased was
cuused by poison, and that administered by the prisoner.
The jury would have to say whether--each separately and
then the whole collectively—they wore so certain that the
prisoner at the bar was guilty of the crime attributed to
him as to entertain no just or reasonable doubt. He felt
confidently that the medical evidence which had been ad-
duced had been of the most meagre and unsatisfactory na-
ture imaginable; and he felt, moreover, that there was not
a tittle of evidence with regard to the moral circumstances
of the case which implicated the prisoner participating in
any manner in the death of the unfortunate woman. It
was beyond all doubt she was a person of very careless
habits—that she went out in all kinds of weather very
shortly after her confinemen ; and it was proved in evi-
dence by Mrs. Allen that shortly before she was taken ill
she had to caution the deceased against putting On wet
stockings. Then, again, the circumstances of the prisoner
and the deceased were of the most straightened descrip-
tion, and they all knew upon what sort of food such
people had to exist—he could hardly say live—upon.
The beer that such persons could afford to purchase was
generally of the • most wretched description, and that
which, it was in evidence, had been obtained, he
doubted not, was such that either of the gentlemen
upon the jury would forbid any of their relatives, espe-
cially females, partaking. How different would have
been the case of the prisoner had he been in the pos-
session of pecuniary means to procure the attendance
of living testimony to refute the theories that had been
advanced by the medical evidence, who had disputed
many of the authorities he had advanced. For the
prisoner, it was unfortunate, because he felt certain that
had he been in more affluent circumstances, numbers of
scientific witnessess might have been obtained to contradict
that which had been stated in terms which were remarkable
for their similarity. Tie could not contradict it by books as
the law prevented him from using them. The learne'l
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tleman then proceeded to dwell withmuch force uponnd also
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upon the idosyncracies of the human system, pointing
out that that which was wholesome food to one person might
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uncertainties of pathological appearances,
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settled conclusion upon a certain point upon which the
greatest doubts existed.
[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]

The following is the conclusion of yesterday's evidence,
which appeared in our late edition,--
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 an 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 seu iation. 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 burniwg sensations in her throat. On the
afternoon of Wednesday the prisoner came to me
with Mrs. Allen, the landlady, and stated that he wished
to speak to me privately. I took him into the surgery ;
when lie 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
went 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 ordered calomel,
opium, and external applications of turpentine. She
was evidently sinking, and he 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 a post mortenz examination of the body on the Mon-
day morning in the deceased's room. The appearanv:s
were as follow :—The abdomen was much distended 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
set aside 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 Jiver and kidneys, and other organs, were healthy.
We found no trace of venereal disease. I set aside the
stomach and its contentslfor analysation a fortnight after
the body of the deceased was exhumed, and the whole was
sent to Dr. Letheby for analysis. I was present when Dr.
Letheby made his examination. I attribute the death of the
deceased to some irritant poison. Some of the poison ex-
tracted was applied to Dr. Letheby's lip, and produced in a
quarter of an hour asore with intense inflammation around
it. It was accompanied by a burning sensation. lam not
aware that any poison is used in the trade of a shoemaker
except oxalic acid. lam not able to pronounce positively
what the irritant was that was extracted. It might be ...An_
tharides or croton oil, or a combination of both.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—At the time I was first
called in diarrhoea was prevalent in the noi:ghbourhood of
Gough-street, and the description given b deceased induced
me to believe that her illness was an attack of English
cholera. I know the medicine Mr. Smith administered.
It was calomel and opiuna—..n proportions of three of calo-
mel and two of opium--which would not purge. I had
previously given so Le chalk mixture. Lam of opinion that
the death of the woman was caused by some vegetable irri-
tant. The time that ensues between the introduction of
poisonous matters and vomiting differs in many cases. I
feel certain death was not caused by mineral poison.
Croton oil will not dissolve in coffee--it will float on the
surface if mixed with it, being the lighter body; but it can
'be well mixed up. I mean the globules can be well sepa-
rated. That can be easily done by dropping it on sugar.
I have known a case of gastro entorytes. It resulted in ap-
pearances like that of the deceased.
Re 'examined by the Solicitor-General—It does not fol-
low, because some description of oil was discovered, that it
was administered in that form. Assuming death was the
result from gastro entorytes, I should not expect to see first
a sense of pain, then a cessation, then another return of the
attack.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DIY.)

The Sollcitor-General—From all that has come to your
knowledge in this case, what in your opinion is the cause of
death ?

Mr. Webb—l believe that the unfortunate woman died
from the introduction of an irritant poison.
Mr. It. Smith, surgeon, Cobham, Surrey, said—ln May
last I was in partnership with Mr. Webb, medical officer of
the Poplar Union. On the 31st May, between six and seven
in the evening I received an order to attend the deceased.
She was in bed, suffering extreme pain all over the bowels
and stomach, dryness in the throat and mouth, tongue
very -dry and red, with profuse diarrhoea and great
tendency to vomiting, which the people in the house
told me had ceased for a few hours. All the matter vomited
was thrown away. I asked to see it, and was told what had
been done with it. There was a great dryness about the
mouth, but not amounting to blistering. I gave her 2f grs.
of calomel, and l grain of opium to be taken immediately,
followed by a chalk mixture. The medicine was given to
Mrs. Stubbs. I supposed her to be suffering from a violent
attack of diarrhoea, which might have arisen from various
causes. I saw her again the same night, having heard as I
left the house that some unfair treatment had been used to-
wards her. That was mentioned by Mrs. Allen and Mrs.
Stubbs. When Mr. Webb and I called in the evening, Mr.
Webb aprroved my treatment of the case. The deceased
was then in great agony. There was perspiration on the
forehead, and her countenance denoted the greatest pain.
I saw her the next morning between 9 and 10, and found
her much relieved. The prisoner was present. Her tongue
and mouth were not so dry. Still she complained of great
pain in her throat right down to her stomach. There was
no sickness on the Wednesday. At that time the pain had
diminished. I saw her again on the next day On the pre-
vious day (Wednesday) when I saw her I thought she was
better. On Friday, the 3d of May, the day before she died,
I saw her with Mr. Webb. There was a great change in
her, and Mr. Webb thought she was dying. There were
symptoms of peritonitis on the Friday. I was present at
the post mortem examination of the body by Mr. Webb, and
agreed with him in the results. I saw no signs of any
venereal disease having existed. _ _

The Solicitor-Genei9l—To what do you attribute the
death of the unfortunate woman ?

Witness—l am of opinion that her death was caused by
the introduction of some irritant into the system.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—l have never made a
post-mortem examination of a person dying from poison.
Dr. Henry Letheby, Professor of Chemistry, Chemical
Lecturer at the London Hospital, and Medical Officer of
Health of the City of London, examined by the Solicitor-
General, said—On Wednesday, the Bth June, I received
from Mr. Webb four bottles. One had a human stomach
and two pieces of the small intestines. A second bottle had
a piece of liver, a
.piece of kidney, and a piece of lung. A
third bottle contained a liquid, and was marked " Matter
vomited by Zipporab. Royal." A fourth bottle contained a
_ .

liquid, the contents of th-e stomach, and two feet of the in-
testines. The stomach was open and emptied. I observed
that the inner coat of it was covered with a dark brown
liquid or mucus. The stomach was found to be inflamed
upon the mucus being removed and everywhere softened.
There was a spot where the mucus membrane was entirely
destroyed. A portion of the mucus was carefully examined
under the microscope without being able to discover any-
thing but altered blood. I then submitted the stomach to
analysis for mineral poisons, and found none. I searched
for some organic poison, and obtained from an alco-
holic solution of the stomach one drop of oily-
looking matter, which I found by experiment
was a very powerful irritant, for on applying it to
the corner of my mouth it produced intense burning pain
and great swelling of the lips. The irritation was followed
by the appearance of small vesicles, or something like a
blister. This irritation lasted for many days. I next exa-
mined the contents of the second bottle, which contained
pieces of the liver, kidney, and lungs. I did not find any
poison whatever in them. It was not tested for organic
poisons. I next examined the matter which had been
vomited. It amounted in quantity to 40z., and had the
appearance of curds and whey, stained with a greenish
yellow colour. I found it was coagulated milk, stained
with the colouring matter 'of bile. The curd and the clear
liquid had the same kind of acid matter in it as that which
prevailed in the stomach. I lastly examined the contents
of the stomach. The quantity was two fluid ounces. It
was of a dark red brown colour, and had the consistence of
thick gruel. It was very alkaline to the test paper, and
consisted almost entirely of altered blood. I searched care-
fully for solid matter, and found only small pieces of vege-
table tissue. I examined thew for an organic poison, and
obtained the same kind of acid matter which produced the
same irritating effect on the other side of my mouth. I
then searched for mineral poison, and found nothing but
mercury. My opinion from this examination was that
some irritant had been administered, the nature of which
I could not precisely identify. I therefore requested
the coroner to have an exhumation of the body for
the purpose of further examination. On Tuesday, the
21st of June, Mr. Webb brought to the laboratory a
large bottle containing portions of the intestines, the
spleen, and the bladder of the deceased. Another bottle I
also received, which contained portions of the liver and
lungs. I examined six pieces of intestines, the spleen,
bladder, uterus, and kidney. The intestines had been
opened along the whole length. They were covered with
the same kind of red brown mucus which I have taken from
the stomach. The intestines were much inflamed. I
searched carefully for solid particles, and found nothing
but black currant seed. I then analysed for organic poison,
and found the same kind of acrid mat ter as was found in the
stomach. I thought this acrid matter might have been
cantharides, but it produced a very different effect to that
when experimented upon. I tried the effect of all pure
acids, and found croton oil most resembled it in effect. Not
being able to identify the nature of it chemically, I tried
the effect of it on a guinea-pig. The coloured matter
amounted to four grains only. It killed the animal in ten
minutes, as I thought, by producing spasms at the entrance
of the windpipe. I then removed the stomach and oesopha-
gus from the guinea-pig, and again extracted the poison,
and tried its effects on three sparrows. The first was killed
in four minutes, the second between four and five minutes,
and the third, wnich I treated a little differently, died in
three days ; I treated it differently as an experiment. I
dropped the poison into the mouths of the first and second
birds, and added a little treacle and water to the
poison I gave the third bird. The total quantity extracted
from the stomach and intestines amounted to about four
drops. I have made a great many experiments with vege-
table matter in order to endeavour to arrive at the nature
of this matter, but have not succeeded. I have no doubt
it is capable of producing the effects mentioned in this case..
Having seen three birds killed by it, and a guinea-pig also
killed, and feeling myself the effects of it, I have no doubt
but that it is a poison, and that it would produce the
symptoms and the effects in the stomach that have been de-
scribed by Mr. Webb and Mr. Smith. It is like croton
oil, or white hellebore. It is different from cantharides.
A mixture of the two—l mean croton oil and white helle-
bore—would exactly produce the effect I have described.
From the symptoms before death, the appearances and the
results of the chemical analysis, and the experiments made
on myself and on-birds and animals, lam of opinion there
was present a powerful irritant taken by the deceased, and
that it was the cause of her death. That powerful irritant
must have been taken by the deceased, and could not have
been spontaneously generated in the system.
By the Solicitor-General—My opinion is not at all shaken
that death was caused by an irritant poison.
At the conclusion of Dr. Letheby's cross-examination,
the Court adjourned until this morning.

THAMES.
WIFE DESERTION.-A poor careworn looking woman
named Ann Dyer, who carried two infants (twins) in her
arms, came before Mr. Yardley, and stated that she was in
great want, and had made application to the relieving
officers of Mile-end Old Town for relief, or to be admitted
into the workhouse, but her request had been refused, and
she was told that she must find her husband, and their she
would be relieved.
Mr. Yardley--Where is your husband ?
Applicant—l don't know, sir.
Mr. Yardley—Oh yes, yofi. do.
Applieant, who sobbed loudly—l really do not know
where he is. He deserted me about two months ago, and
left me with these twins and another child three years old.
I am starving, sir, I have tasted only a bit of bread this
day, and had no food yesterday, and they won't relieve me,
sir. I have sold all my furniture a little at a time, and
don't know how to procure another meal or a morsel for my
children.

Mr. Yardley said if the woman's story was true, she was
very much to be pitied, but he did know that men left their
families with the connivance of their wives, who, knowing
where their husbands were at work, threw themselves on
the parishes in which they lived for relief, to the manifest
injury of the ratepayers. It was right that parish officers
should investigate such cases with great care, and prevent
imposition as much as possible. He thought if the woman
had given all the information in her power to the relieving-
officer, she and her children would have been taken into the
house.

The applicant said she was desirous of giving every in-
formation. Her husband formerly worked for Mr. Jones,
of Ratcliff-cross, and he stole his work, and abandoned her
and her family.
Mr. Yardley said that a communication should be for-
warded to Mr. Teaborne, the relieving officer of Mile-end
Old-town, to inquire about the case, and he had no doubt
whateeer that the poor woman and her children would be
taken into the workhouse and maintained there until her
husband could be found.

The applicant then put in a letter from Mr. Wilson, an
extensive boot and shoe manufacturer in the Whitechapel-
road, describing the woman's husband, who iormorly worked
for Mr. Wilson, as a most worthless fellow, and speaking in
the highest terms of the wife.

THIS DAYS MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

To-day's market was rather scantily supplied with Eng-
lish wheat, both old and new, and the general quality of the
sample: was rather inferior. Prime wheats were disposed
of at Monday's currency : but other kinds met a dull in-
quiry on former terms.
The show of foreign wheat was tolerably extensive. The
demand ruled very inactive, nevertheless importers were
firm, and prices were supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request.
The barley trade was firm at fully Monday's currency.
The transactions in malt were only moderate, yet fine
parcels were hold at very full currencies.
We had a steady consumptive demand for oats at extreme
quotations.
Both beans and peas wore a dull inquiry, at barely late
rates ; but the flour trade was tolerably firm.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK
Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 1,540 3,890 ; 2,410 150 1 1,080
Irish
Foreign 3,750 10,010 12,160 180 sks.
I 50 Ws.

NEW COURT.
(Before Baron Bramwell.)
INTENT TO MURDER.
James Turner and Edmund Keefe were indicted for
feloniously and unlawfully administering to llonora Turner
a large quantity of poison, called sugar of lead, with intent
to murder her.
The jury found Turner guilty and acquitted Keefe.
Sentence of death was recorded against Turner.
STARRING A POLICEMAN.
John Sylvester was found guilty on an indictmen
charging hint with feloniously wounding, with intent to
murder, Walter Soley, a constable in the R division of
police.
The learned judge sentenced him to 10 years penal
servitude.

CHAPLAINS TO THE SIIERIFFS OF LONDON.-
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Phillips has appointed as his
chaplain for the year of his shrievalty the Rev. Michael
Gibbs, M.A., prckndary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and rec-
tor of Christ Church, Newbcratc-street. Mr. Alderman and
Sheriff Gabriel has appointed the Rev. Mr, Buckmaster to
be his chaplain for the same period,