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chiefly of that. She said she beeline s 4 44iii • .:
purged. She told me she Wl3 lad on e,e. , •• -Nese;
bed, and that Mr. Barber, a medicel aP 7 ..; : sese, -- eeee
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lord, was sent for about 5 o.el -c.c. SI, • , dt -15;ii-it""-f: i
was removed to her own hou-e in a e;
and a o'clock the same evening. ) eArti
very thirsty during the night, and vits'Latiff ss-a
over, Whenever I asked her where her hurtDiaas s• r 7
repeated that she was iii all over. I a‘ked her if she
had ever been taken so before, and she said she had
not. She complained of her feet being cold, and I applied
warm water in bottles. She did not complain of cramp.
Her son Thomas had a key of the outer door, and came
in three times in the course of the night. He asked how
his mother was, and appeared very anxious. I remained
with Mrs. Bacon until 9 o'clock on Monday night. She
was a great deal better during the day, and her son
William and his wife had tea with her up stairs.
The nas Bacon and his wife also were backwards and
forwards at the house several times during the day, and
he seemed aextuus and always inquired about his mother.
I left deceased about 9 o'clock on Monday night in the
care of Mrs. Blake. Between 5 and 6 o'clock on the
following morning (Tnesdae)T. F. Bacon came and called
the up. He said, " The of i lady's worse, and She'll die
now." He waited unt 1 I got down, and then went for
Dr. Barber. Bacon ha I been backwards and forwards at
his mother's house on the Monday night, as he had ore
the previous night. I found Mrs. Bacon in bed, and
very ill. She said she was a great deal worse. Mrs.
Blake was the only other person in the room when I got
there. Mrs. Bacon desired me to ask Mr. B irber if
he teought she would die, as sha thought she should.
She said she wanted to knees in order that her daughter
might be sent fur from Titchinarsh, Mr. Barber carne
about 7 o'clock. I asked him if ho thought there was
any danger, and he said, "No, it was not necessary to •
send for the daughter." I thought all day that Mrs.
Bacon would die. She was very feverish after Mr. Bar-
ber's visit, and about 11 o'clock was delirious. She was
alternately cold and hot. Mr. Barber was again sent for
between 10 and 11. He recommended a warm bath,
which she had. Deceased was at that time so stiff
that we could scarcely get her clothes off and get her
into the bath. The bath seemed temporarily to revive
her. I again asked Mr. Barber as to the propriety
of Mrs. Bacon's daughter beiug sent fur, and he then
,motntnended that course, "Mr. Barber came again
g*; li„ ','lock that night. Lid said she was -sink-
'
,4,ir ..71- fer want, and ordered her some port
's ' ''.
.i., -0 -.- eas delirious both before,4hd:afier taki.g ' --
he Wine, -and died about eleien o'clock. Her
son Thomas was continually in the house during the
Tuesday, and was present when she died. Her son,
William Bacon, his wife, and Mrs. Bcl:wive were. also
present. There was a little dispute between the two
brothers about deceased's rent-book. This took place
while the mother was dying. Mrs. Scholes " hushed "
them, and said their mother could hear if she could not
speak. Thomas had taken the rent-book out of the
house. I heard William Bacon's wife tell Thomas that
his mother had made a will. Thomas toll me that his
brothers had had their fortune. Hs did not ki o v that
his mother had mode a widow's will, and Boerne I surprised
that she had done so. He told me he expected he whou'd
get the property at his mother's death. My husband
was a tenant of Mrs. Bacon and I always paid her the
rent during her lifetime. Upon her death I paid it to
To mas Fuller Bacon. I had always understood that
he would become possessed of his mother's property at
her death.
Mark William Jackson, surgeon, of Stamford, was
the next witness. He said-1 have bees in practice as
a surgeon in the Own of Stamford for upwards of 30
years. I was present this morning when a coffin con-
taiteng a corpse, represented to be the body of Mrs.
Aen Ba.c _in, was taken out of the ground in Great Ceti-
terton churchyard. I have since made a post mortent,
examination of the abdomen, and removed the whole o
the conlents. I also removed the heart, the blood, and
such other parts of the chest as Dr. Taylor, who was
present with me, thought requisite for his guidance in
making his analysis. These various portions of the
body were delivered to Dr. Taylor. lam unable to ex.,
press any opinion on them at present.
Alfred Swaine Taylor was then sworn and examined.
He deposed as follows :—I am a Fellow of the Royal
C.nlege of Physicians, and have been lecturer on medi-
cal jurisprudence and chemistry at Guy's Hospital, Lon-
don, for 26 years. I was present this morning at the
e xhumation of the body of a person represented to be
Ann Bacon. I was also present at the Inspection of Us
body made by Mr. Jackson, who removed in my pre-
sence, ana delivered to me, those parts of the body
which I considered necessary for making a complete
chemical analysis for the detection of poison, I placed
these parts in a perfectly clean jar, and well secured the
jar, sealed it with my seal, and delivered it to Superin-
tendent Mitchell. The blood removed from the chest by
Mr. Jackson was placed in a clean bottle, which was
also sealed and delivered to Superintendent Mitchell. A
portion of the earth taken from under the coffin and the
sides of the grave has also been removed for analysis. I
am unable at present to say, front the appearance of the
viscera, whether they do or do not contain poison. This
cart only be determined by a complete chemical analysis.
Elizabeth slake, who attended deceased, said she ob-
served that h r hands were continually "twitching,"
and that after this she began to " twitch" all over. Dc-
c-ased said she felt as if paralysed from head to foot.
Witness added—Mrs. Bacon told the she went to dine
with her son Thomas on the Sunday, and that she had
scarcely done dinner when she was taken ill. Two or
three times during the night that I slept with her deceased
clasped her hands together, and appeared strongly con-
vu l- ed.
Wm. Mayes Hibbing examined—l was formerly an
apprentice to Thos. Fuller Bacon. About a week before
Mrs. Bacon died I was working in the shop after tea,
when Bacon came in and told me to go to the shop of
Mr. Wilford, druggist, for six pennyworth of arsenic.
Ho gave me the money to pay for it, and said, "If they
ask you what it is for, you must tell them it is for hard-
ening iron." I went to Mr. Wilford's in High-street,
Stamford, and asked the assistant for six pennyworth of
arsenic, and I'e said I could not have it without a wit-
ness. There was also an apprentice in the shop at the
time. Upon this I went back to the workshop, where
I found Bacon standing against a vice in the position I
had left him. Ile said, " Where is it ?" I told him
they would not let me have it without a witnees. He
laughed it off, and said, " Oh, never mind ; I'll get it
myself."
Coroner—ls it a common thing to use arsenic for
hardening iron ?
Witness—No, we never used anything but prussiate
of potash. At the time I was sent for arsenic we had
no iron to harden, as Bacon's business was principally
mending locks and grates and bellbanging. I never knew
of arsenic being used for hardening iron. I remember
hearing of Mrs. Bacon's death, which took place al-out
a fortnight before I left. It occurred to me as very
strange that she should go off in the manner she did,
especialy in connection with the fact of my being sent
for arsenic. On the Thursday and Friday after Mrs.
Bacon's death I was at work with my master ; he seemed
in a very queer temper, and struck me on each of those
days—a thing he had never done before. During the
f irtnight I remained with Bacon he did very little work
himself, and gave me little to do. As he would not set
nio to work I asked him for my indentures, and he gave
them up to me. He was not addicted to drinking, but
on the day after his mother's death he sent me for a gal-
lon of beer. Shortly after leaving Bacon's service I
mentioned to my father about being sent for the six-
penny worth of arsenic, and afterwards to a lad named
Wright, in the employ of Mr. Johnson, printer. Dur-
ing the time I was in Bacon's employment I never saw
any rats about the premises. It was quite a new shop.
He lived across the way in Broad-street. He told me
he had once caught a rat at his dwelling-house, and that
he killed it by pouring boiling water on it. Bacon never
sent me- for arsenic except on the occasion named.
Wheiiever there was iron to harden I went for potash,
Mr. George Patterean, druggist, of Stamford, proved
that on the Bth of May, 1855, Thomas Fuller Bacon
pie chased an ounce of arsenic, stating that he wanted it
fur the purpose of killing rats.
Other witnesses deposed to a conversation in which it
was stated that arsenic was put into the broth of which
Mrs. Bacon partook at her son's house on the Sunday.
At a late hour in the evening the inquest
Barber,
journthe ad-
ed to Wednesday, the 18th inst., whenill Mr.
e eXiamieed,
the surgeon who attended deceased,
:and Professor Taylor will report use. his analysis of the
viscera.n hi
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after noon.
The remains of Mrs. Bacon were reinterred yesterday

Sporting Intelligence.

NG" AT
that MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
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eAap Y .s
Notwithstanding a
aNliCHthEaSaTpErilta
are
now fairly before the public an unaccountable dullneEs
pervades the betting. The Liverpool Steeplechase en-
grosses the most attention, and many books are opened
upon it. To-day Emigrant, without any outlay, receded
to 100 to 7 offered ; that price during the early' part of
the day was offered against Minos, but subsequently a
BErTI
commission to back him was executed, 'commencing at
500 to 40, and afterwards 100 to 8, several times the
Dyers tiring out the taker at that price. 1,000 to 20
was taken about Dangerous. The investments that
were made on the Chester Cup call for no remarks. So
great is the inclination to bet against Blink Bonny for
the Derby that we cannot tell what would be her taking
price. The following are the closing quotations :
Two THOUSAND.
sto 1 aget Schiedam (offered)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 8 agst Minos (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Emigrant (offered)
100 to 6 agst Omar Pacha (taken)
20 to 1 agst Escape (offered)
20 to 1 agst Teddesley (taken)
25 to 1 agst Jean du Quesne (taken)
100 to 3 agst Forest Queen (offered)
100 to 3 aget First of May (offered)
40 to 1 agst Little Charley (taken)
50 to 1 agst Dangerous (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst Leamington (take 15 to 1)
20 to 1 aget Mincepie (offered)
30 to 1 aget Claret (taken and offered)
100 to 3 not Sir Colin (taken)
40 to 1 aget Early Bird (offered)
40 to 1 agst Vengeance (take 50 to 1)
42 to 1 agst St. Domingo (taken)
50 to 1 Alice Wentworth (taken and offered)
DERBY..
100 to 6 agst Blink Bonny (offered)
100 to 6 aget Tournament (wanted)

ASSOCIATED SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.
—The election of an honorary president for these so-
cieties took place on Wednesday, when Sir John
was elected by a majority over Lord John Russell. The
numbers were not declared.