The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Jim. 20.

WESTMINSTER, Robert Kay Butler, a well-
dressed and respectable-looking man, appeared to his
recognisances to undergo a final examination, charged
with a series of ofTencee.
Mr. Bodkin appeared, as before, on behalf of Mr.
Loxdale, proprietor and printer of a local paper called
the West Middlesex Advertiser.
The circumstances which gave rise to the present pro-
ceedings are briefly these :—On the first publication of
the paper in question, early in Nov. last, the prisoner
offered his services to obtain advertisements, and was to
receive 20 per cent, upon all the money be brought in.
Shortly after this, and at a time when his commission
only amounted to 1/. 100., he obtained a cheque from
Mr. Lindale for ill. on account. It was subsequently
ascertained that he had not only brought a number of
sham advertisements, but in his capacity of collector had
embezzled divers sums received for the insertion of
genuine advertisements.
Mr. bodkin was not disposed to occupy the time of
the court with respect to the false advertisements which
he declared prisoner had nevor any authority to insert,
and which had been produced, to colour his claim for
commission, but determined to shape the charges into
five oases of embezzlement, and one of obtaining the
10/. above alluded to under false pretences.
Five tradesmen were then examined, who proved that
they had paid the prisoner divers small sums, amounting
in all to 2/. 24.

Mr. and Mrs. Loxdale stated that the whole money
accounted for by the prisoner was 31. 18s., having refe-
renoe to other advertisers, and 1/. lei. fur which he
never gave a list. He had never accounted for the
money received from any of the five tradesmen above
mentioned, and two of them had sent their advertise-
ments to the office without any solicitations from, or
knowledge of the prisoner.

The aocused deolared that the 11. 10g. paid to Mrs.
Loxdale without any names was from those very indi-
viduals, as would be seen by the dates of the receipts.
Mr. Paynter considered it his duty to send the above
charges for trial at the Central Criminal Court, with a
view to their full investigation by a competent tribunal,
and took small bail for prisoner's appearance there.
In the autumn of last year, owing. to a complaint
signed• by a number of inhabitants of Ebury-street and
its neighbourhood, directed to the Sanitary Board of St.
George's, Hanover-sqnare, Dr. Addis, the medical officer
of health of the district, visited the extensive cow-yard
of Charles Hatt, in the rear of the houses in Ebury.
street, and upon that gentleman reporting that it was a
nuisance and injurious to health, proceedings were taken
at this court, under the Nuisances Removal and Diseases
Prevention Act, against the proprietor of the offensive
place in question.
Mr. Paynter, after a very lengthened review of the
case, made an order against defendant as follows :—That
the number of cows should be reduced to 90 ; that the
district surveyor of St. George's and one appointed by
defendant should consider what alterations could be
wmiatdherseiegnouthlhaarenw6hhildtilwhing, and the pavement constructed
sheds, to his (Mr. Poynter's) appro-
val,nation as to allow the slop to run off
more readily, and the grain reservoir t 9 be emptied and
cleansed.
_ .

It was then determined that the surveyors should
inspect the sheds as early as possible, in order to give
defendant time to appeal against the decision, if dissatis-
fied with the results.

LAMBETH.—A SPORTING- MAN.—Richard Mom',
who was de-scribed as a blacksmith, but on whose person
was found a betting book, containing several entries of
bets at long odds on the Derby and other forthcoming
races, was charged before Mr. Elliott with being con-
cerned with his wife in the commission of two robberies.
Mr. John James Wells, a corn chandler, residing at
No. 17, Palace New-road, deposed that the prisoner's
wife had been in his service as cook on the first of last
month, and on that day absconded, taking with her three
valuable shawls, yards of silk, and other property.
On the same morning the prisoner, as he (Mr. Welk)
should be able to prove, was seen loitering about his
house, and one person heard him say he was " tired wait-
ing." He gave information of the robbery to the po-
lice, but nothing was heard of the prisoner until the
present time.

Mrs. Jane Weaver, the wife of a blacksmith, residing
at No. 3, Great Suffolk street, Borough, said she knew
the prisoner from his having worked in the country with
her husband, and also knew the wife. On the 221 of
October last the latter came to her house, and said her
husband was working m Birmingham, and that knowing
that witness had some friends there she called to ask for
a letter to them. She went away, however, without
waiting for any letter, and immediately after she (wit-
ness) missed her gold watch, which had been safe hang-
ing up a few minutes before.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of either robbery,
and said he had not seen his wife for a length of time.
Mrs. Weaver said she should bring proof on a future
day that the prisoner and his wife were together on box-
ing day last.
This was denied by the prisoner, and, at the request
of the ()Mears engaged in the case, the prisoner was
remanded to a future day.

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charged on a suitunons with violently assaulting his wife
and breaking her arm.
The complainant, who had her left arm bound up,
said that she resided in Margaret-street, and that on
fChristmas-eve
rhk.er husband brought home a pint of rim
arm. She went to
bed some time after, and was not
which he seized hold Soomf ethweortodnsgasroasendilrtubleohuerrseleoftt
aware that it was broken till the following morning,
whea she found that it was.
Mr. Yardley—l see that this summons was not taken
out till the 16th inst., 22 days after the occurrence.
How was it that you did not take it out before !
The complainant replied that she was a monthly
nurse, and had been engaged about her business.
Mr. Yardley (to the defendant)—What have you to
say?
have ie
- The defendant stated that he took up the tongs in self-
defence, and that he had no intention to break her
arm. She was about to stab him with a table-knife,
when he struck her arm with the tongs to knock it out
of her wand.
A few weeks ago she stabbed his nose on
the
was in oonsequence obliged to go to the endon Hos-
pital btroi bridge with
the a
woundkilf
several times at that court, charged with, and it:anti-
coned for, assaults on him. She pawned all his things
for drink. and cut same of the veins. Me
L. His wife had been

The Defendant said he.had a witness to show what
took place on Christmas-eve.
Johanna Griffiths stated that she was in the room on

the evening in question, when the defendant brought in
a pint of rum. The complainant, who was the worse
for liquor, took a large portion of it, when the defendant
observed, " that was not the way to pass Cbri,,trna—eve "
She then took the change out of the money paid by the
defendant for the rum. He asked for it, on which
complainant took np a knife to strike her husband.
He told her to put it down. She would not, when he
struck her. Defendant bad been drinking.
Mr. Yardley—With what did he strike her
Witness—With the tongs. She immediately called
out, " You have broken my arm."
Mr. Yardley remarked that the complainant, it would
appear, was consotous she had no strong case against
her husband, as she had not applied for the summons
till 22 days after the accident. It was very clear how
this assault happened, and it was a matter of surprise
to him how any one could employ the complainant as a
monthly nursd.
The defendant was discharged.

SOUTHWARK.—CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.—,Tames
Kirby, a powerful-looking coal-porter, was charged with
assaulting Mr. Thomas Robert Elt, the landlord of the
Feathers Tavern, Waterloo and Commercial-roads,
Lambeth.

Mr. Eft, whose clothes were covered with mud, stated
that about dinner-time there was a fight near his house
in the Commercia!-road, between the prisoner and
another man. The former was the worse of liquor, and
acting in a very cowardly manner towards his opponent,
and witness give directions previous to going to dinner
not to allow any of them to enter the house. Just as
he had sat down to his dinner he heard a disturbance
inside the house, and was called down, whe❑ he saw
the prisoner acting in a violent manner. Witness told
him to leave, when he took out some money and de-
manded to be served, saying he dared not refuse while
he had money to pay. Witness, perceiving that he
was under the influence of liquor, refused to serve him,
and on his refusing to leave the house he ejected
him, and when in the street the prisoner attacked
him. He (Mr. Ea) had no wish to punish the prisoner
with any severity ; but he wished him and his compa-
nions to know that although they bad money he was not
compelled to serve them while under the influence of
liquor. They had an idea that he was, and he wished
his worship to disabuse their minds.
Mr. Combe said that it was contrary to the tenour of
their licences for publicans to serve customers under the
influence of liquor, although they might exhibit their
Looney to pay for it. The prisoner must be imprisoned
until he was in a sufficient state to enter into his re-
cognisances to keep the peace for twelve months.

310 RDER OF A WIFE BY POISONING.

On Monday night an inquest, held at Chesham, before
Mr. F. Charmley, one of the coroners for the county of
Bucks, resulting in a verdict of " Wilful murder" again,t
Philip White, a shoemaker of that town, for poisoning
his wife, was brought to a conclusion. The inquest,
which was opened on the 30th ult., was twice adjourned.
On the two former oocasions a number of witnesses
were examined, including two little girls, the prisoner's
daughters by a former wife, of the ages of 13 and 8.
The substance of the evidence on those occasions was
as follows :—The prisoner, whose first wife died some
time ago of consumption, leaving four children, one son
now married, a boy of 14, and the two girls above
alluded to, had been married to the deceased only nine
months, she being at the time of her marriage the mother
of three illegitimate children, one of whom her hus-
band had to maintain. It appears that during this period
and for some months previously Ann Seaward had been
living in the prisoner's house, apparently assisting in the
domestic work. Between this woman and White an
illicit intercourse had been carried on previous to his
second marriage, and subsequently during the temporary
absence of his wife. Her evidence, most reluctantly
given, further went to show that he had administered to
her a drug called hiera-picra to procure abortion, she
being in the family way during his wife's absence. It
appeared that the deceased had been for five weeks nurs-
ing a woman at Chesham-common, when she was re-
called by
,her husband, Ann Seaward having declined
to remain any longer in the house if his wife was away,
in consequence of the ill-natured remarks of the neigh-
bours. She accordingly returned home on the 14th of
December, and she died on the Sunday following Christ-
mas day, having been confined to her bed for a week
with erysipelas. During this period the prisoner called
in no medical aid, stating he owed the doctor money for
11;_e previous wife. She was attended by her mother and
sister and also by Ann Seaward, and when Mr. Dews•
nap, a surgeen, was called in by the mother the day
before the deceased died he found her fast sinking and in
a most neglected state, though the mother and sister
appear to have done all they could for her. A witness
named Mitchell swore that the prisoner on the 23d said
to the deceased she ought to have a doctor, and that she
replied, "Pooh ! what good could he do?" and another
woman, who had taken work to the prisoner while his
wife was dying, proved he had said he wished he was a
single man, as he was the Christmas before. In conse-
quence of the neglected state of the deceased an inquest
was held, when the testimony of Surgeons Fathoms and
Dewsnap, of Chesham, having shown the existence of
arsenic, the case assumed a more serious complexion,
and the prisoner was taken into custody immediately
after the first day's proceedings on a charge of poisoning
his wife.
On the inquiry being reopened yesterday, Mr. Joseph
Heath, a chemist in the town, deposed that on the 4th
of December the deceased, who was a customer of his,
had purchased half an ounce of arsenic, alleging it was
to poison mica. She had signed the entry required by
the act, and he gave her two packages of arsenic coloured
with soot, in the proportion of one•sixteenth, cautioning
her to be careful as to its use. It was quite usual to
supply arsenic for killing rats and mice to persons who
were known.
Professor Taylor was next examined—He deposed
that he had received for analysis a jar containing the
stomach of the deceased and its contents, the intestines,
a portion of the liver, one kidney, the spleen, and part
of the heart. From a chemical analysis he had come to
the following conclusions ; —First, that the contents of
the stomach of the deceased contained arsenic, chiefly
the blood and mucus ; second, that there was arsenic
in the coats of the stomach ; third, that the appearances
presented by the stomach were such as usually attended
poisoning by arsenic ; fourth, that taking these appear-
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destroy life had been taken by the deceased. The body
removed by
might have been taken some period before death, and
the throwing of the poison out of ctahlelebdoedlyim. elimination, or
per-
sonsor lived more than three days after taking arsenic,
and the appearances presented in this case were such as
were commonly seen when the poison has proved fatal in
two or three days. There was no arsenic dissolved in the
stomach. The appearances were consistent either with
a recent administration of arsenic in a large dose, or an
old administration in several small doses.
Philip White, a son of the prisoner, aged 14, who
cried a good deal while he was giving his evidence, de-
posed that one evening, a month before his stepmother's
death, he asked her if she had the face ache, and she
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his father, who was drunk at the time, said to him,
,
" Your mother is a ; she is no mother to you.,
His mother was down stairs, and might have heard the
remark. He never heard his father wish hiss mother
deal, or knew them to quarrel. She was in bed about
a week before she died. She was
headed before
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seen her." He never beard his mother comp
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father's attentions to Ann Seaward.
Superintending constable Wootton deposed that on
his taking the prisoner into custody after the first day's
adjournment he Raid he would go and tell the jury all
about it. Witness said, "You are too late ; the jury
have left." The prisoner, turning to the witness, Mrs.
Mitchell, said, "I wish had told the jury all about it ;
if it had not been for you I would, but, as we are all
married, I'll tell you what it was. About three weeks
ago my wife went to Mr. Heath's and bought Rome
arsenic, She used the arsenic occasionally to get rid of
, a child. The last time she took it was on Monday last,"
Witness tuok him to the lock-up, when the prisoner, in
the presence of Bunker, the lock-up keeper, said, "Ah !
well ; she's dead and gone. I suppose I shall swing
next March for her." On being taken to Aylesbury
Gaol the prisoner said, " I am innocent of the crime; if
they were to hang me at once, I'll never confess to it ;
for I know no one can prove that I ever bought any
arsensic, or ever gave her any." The prisoner several
times requested witness to make inquiries at Mr.
Heath's, which he had done.
Ann Seaward was then recalled. She is rather good-
looking, but very deaf, and many years the prisoner's
junior, he being about 50. She shed tears while under
examination, and the prisoner watched her intently. 81:0
said that before the prisoner had married hie last wife
he had asked her to merry him, and she had refused b
cause he was so much older than herself. During -
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wife's illness lie asked her would she marry h•
if hie
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wife died, and she replied she would. S' • in'
cause he had said that on the Wednesday, the hec;
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She had been out that evening
man, and the prisoner had followed
her for it on the Thursday, and said,
one else any more," which she re.
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won't go with any
pasted. The prisoner had givenfo her money to buy
hiecra-picra. He mixed 'a dose
her very sick. He afterwards gayer hheerr'anotherand oasdee.
One night while his wife was away she was in the pri-
soner 's house, when he took her from his own bed to his.
This the prisoner denied, and asked the witness if she
had not kept company with a young man from Michael.
maR to Chrittma, to which ebe replied is the affirmative.
The coroner having summed up,
The jury, after being absent about an hour and three.
quarters, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder."
who d
The prisoner,
not exhibit greater emotion
than was observable duriidng the inquiry, was then c nn-
rnitted on the capital charge to stand his trial at the
assizes.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. IA.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. E. B.
Neill as Consul-General in London for the Republic of
Honduras.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Jay. 17.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Martial
Cloquet as Consul-General in Australia for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
DDWNING-STREET, JAN. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. George
Melrvine to be Minister of the church of Scotland, in the
Island of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint William Allen,
Esq., to be Chief Clerk in the Colonial Treasurer's Office in
that island.