The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-07 00:00:00

CHARGE OF POISONING.

Yesterday George Frederick Royal, aged 27, a
shoemaker, who is also known by the name of Fred
Reynolds and Rynold, was brought before Mr.
Seife, at the Thames Police-court, Stepney, 2n re-
mand, chargnd with poisoning Zipporah -Wright,
by administering to her a quantity of canthArides.
The antecedents of the prisoner are anything but
good He deserted his wife and two children about
18 months ago, in Kensington, and a reward was
offered for his apprehension by the parochial autho-
rities. About the same time he seduced the de-
ceased, Zipporah Wright, a young woman of re-
spectable family and connexions, and they cohabited
together as man and wife until the day preceding
her death. Since he has been at Upper Sydenham
he has been paying his addresses to a young woman
to whom he represented that he was a single man,
and once took her to the Surrey Theatre, and on
another occasion to the British Museum.

The first witness called was Eleanor Stubbs, who
dliosed that she had known the prisoner and the
deceased since November last up to the day when
deceased died. The prisoner and the deceased, who
passed as his wife, lived on tolerably good terms,
although now and then they qaarrelled. On the
27th of last April the deceased was confined and
got well over her confinement, but about the last
Tuesday in May deceased was taken ill, and the
prisoner remarked to witness that he did not know
what to make of his wife, she was so curious. Be-
tween 4 and 5 o'clock the same evening a Mrs. Allen
came to witness and requested her to go and see
deceased, who was very ill. Witness went and
found her complaining of pains in her stomach and
a burning sensation in her throat, but without
vomiting. Witness procured the attendance of
Dr. Webb, who came between 7 and 8 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 witness
" whether the doctor said that he (prisoner) had
poisoned her." Witness told him "No." The next
morning witness again saw deceased, w,ho said she
was a little better. On Thursday morning between
10 and 11 o'clock witness went again and saw the
prisoner in the room with deceased. The deceased
asked the prisoner to give her something 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 prisoner gave her two cups of water.
The remark made by th 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
subsequently called and applied turpentine to the
deceased's stomach. About four o'clock witness
went to the surgeon for some powders. They were
mixed and given to her by Mr. Allen. After she
took them she exclaimed, " Oh, I shall be sick !"
and then vomited. After that she got, greatly
worse. The last time witness saw the deceased was
on the Thursday, when she was much worse.
Margaret Allen, of No. 44, Gough-street, Poplar,
said that the deceased and the prisoner hired an
apartment in her house in November last, and gave
their names as Mr. and Mrs. Royal. 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 particularly
good, and she got through her confinement very
nicely indeed, and became quite well after it. Wit-
ness's attention was particularly called to the de-
ceased on Tuesday, the 31st May, when she heard
her moaning in her room. On knocking at the door
to inquire the cause the prisoner told witness that
his wife (the deceased) had been seized with cramp,
upon which witness told him to fetch some brandy.
A little later the same morning she went into
-deceased's room, and found her in bed retching
violently. Deceased, on being questioned, said-she
hae: taken nothing' except a little beer the day be-
fore, when out with the prisoner, who drank the
remainder of it. Witness applied hot fomentations
to her stomach, as deceased complained of pains in
her stomach and of burning sensation in the throat.
Witness also made her some tea, and when deceased
drank it she vomited. After deceased had taken
the tea she told witness, 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.
Witness also made her some gruel and arrowroot
and toast-water, but vomiting immediately followed
after eating the arrowroot gruel. Deceased sent for
her on the same day again after dinner, and said she
NI as much worse. Witness then went out and fetched
deceased's mother and sister, and on her return found
the prisonerin deceased's room. Witness then went
to a doctor and procured a slate-coloured powder
from Mr. Smith, the assistant of Dr. Webb,
which she administered to the poor woman in
some sugar and water. On the following day
June 1. e accompanied the prisoner, who said he
ha.l a statement to make, to Dr. Webb's, and on
that occasion she 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 witness said' that the dying
woman had every symptom of poison about her,
he asked what made her say that, and added, " I
am innocent, I am sure I have not given her any-
thing." 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 witness 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 after-
noon he went out. Witness saw him • again
at about 11 o'clock, when she 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 what-
ever. Prisoner went out early next'morning (Fri-
day), and witness had not since seen him until to-
day. The poor woman was very bad all day on
Fridiy, and died on the next day (Saturday).
Witness further deposed that she never saw the pri-
soner give the deceased anything during her con-
finement or in the course of her last illness. She
had heard that 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 anything to hurt her? to which she replied,
" No, riot anything." 4 Witness then asked her if
any one lied-given her anything that she thought
might have hurt her? Deceased said, "George
(die prisoner) gave me some coffee, it was very
bit ter ; and he made me take it, became there was
nothing else in the room." Witness then 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 hey own child up to the time she was ill.'
After that she suckled it twice in her presence.'
Witness did not knew if she did so any more. 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., •

Mr. Webb, medical officer of the Poplar Union,

stated that on the 31st of May he received the
relieving officer's order to attend on the deceased.
His partner, Mr. Smith, went to the house and
prescribei for her. In the course of the even-
ing Mrs. Wright called. She stated that her
daughter was very ill, and that she thought she
had been poisoned. In the evening he accom-
panied Mr. Smith to see the deceased, when
he found her in great pain, with an anxious
countenance, and all the symptoms of obsteric
inflammation. She stated that some coffee had
been given to her the previous evening. The
deceased was prescribed for, and on the next day
was better. In the afternoon of that day the pri-
soner came to him with Mrs. Wright, and observed
to witness that his wife had been suffering froth
venereal disease, which he remarked might account
for the symptoms. Witness said no, that the symp-
toms were either the effect of cold or the adminis-
tration of some irritant medicine. The prisoner
then observed that his wife went out with a pair of
wet stockings on a few days previously. On the
Thursday, the 2d of June, the deceased's mother
brought to him some vomiting matter deceased had
brought up after having drank some milk, and
which was attended with some pain in the stomach.
Witness saw the deceased afterwards, and then told
her mother that she would not live 30 hours. The
deceased expired early in the morning of Saturday,
the 4th of June. He afterwards made a post ?nor-
tem examination of the body.
At 7 o'clock Mr. Selfe again adjourned the in-
quiry until Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the
prisoner was remanded.

THE LEEDS .IIURDER.

APPREHENSION OF ONE OF THE SUP.-
POSED MURDERERS. ,

Matters have been brought to the state described
in the account published in The Sun of yesterday,
Mr. English, the chief constable of Leeds, took im-
mediate action, and by some means he was induced
to direct his steps to Sheffield, in the hope of find-
ing the man Normington in some of the collieries
in that neighbourhood. Accompanied by the
man Smales, who could identify the accused, 'Mr.
English arrived in Sheffield by the mail train at
midnight on Sunday, and yesterday morning
placards were distributed in the town offering a
reward for the production of Normington. Mr.
English also took steps for making a personal
search. for the man, and resolved first to visit the
different collieries, and for the purpose of appearing
incog. went to the establishment of Mr. Levy, in
High•street, and obtained a dress in which he well
represented a collier in his Sunday attire, which
consisted of velveteen jacket, light trousers, showy
red scarf, and cap. Thus dressed, he engaged a
cab, and started for Tinsley, to make inquiries in
the collieries there. They proceeded down the
Wicker, one of the principal thoroughfares in
Sheffield, and when near the viaduct the witness
who accompanied Mr. English saw, coming along
the street, the very man they were in search of.
He immediately exclaimed, " Here he is," and
jumping out of the cab, seized the man, and held
him until Mr. English came up. Normington at
once admitted dealing with the pawn ticket, but
said he had had it given to him. He had disposed
of the dress he wore when Smales first met with him,
but there was no difficulty in his identification.
Mr. English put him into the cab and took him to
the Sheffield Town Hall, where he was detained
until four o'clock, at which time he was conveyed
to the Midland station, and thence by train to
Leeds, in the custody of Mr. English. Mr. Jack-
son, chief constable of Sheffield, recognised the man
as one who had been convicted of some small felony
at Oldham, but beyond that there does not appear
to be anything in his antecedents which would tell
against him.
Yesterday morning both Norm in gton and Bearder
were examined at the Leeds Town-hall before the
mayor (Sir P. Fairbairn) and other magistrates.
The evidence given principally affected Norming-
ton, and constituted a very strong case against him,
but during the whole examination he displayed the
utmost indifference. The court was crowded.

John Fawcett, the witness, a collier at Whit-
wood, near Castleford, proved that he met Nor-
mington at the latter place the Monday after the
murder. He agreed to go with witness to Whit-
wood and work as his hurrier, and did so till
Thursday, when he suddenly disappeared. On the
Monday, at Castleford, the prisoner produced the
pawn-ticket for a watch, which he endeavoured to
sell, but did not succeed. He said he had pawned
the watch.

Betsy Fawcett, wife of the previous witness,
proved that she saw Normington wash a handker-
chief, upon which there were marks resembling
blood-stains. On the Monday night that the pri-
soner returned with her husband, the former said
he had a pawn-ticket for a watch, which he had
pledged for 4s. He said he had either pledged it
at Richard Topham's, in Leeds, or had been there
with it. Witness believed he said he had pledged
it on Saturday.
The prisoner Normington denied that he said he
had pawned the watch, but that he had bought the
ticket as he was coming through to Wakefield.
Mrs. Jane Dixon, of Whitwood, at whose house
both the Fawcetts and the prisoner lodged, also
spoke to seeing Normington wash a pocket-handker-
chief which bore reddish stains. He put the hand-
kerchief in his breast in its wet state. The pri-
soner, when he disappeared, left a shirt, which wit-
ness subsequently washed. Upon one of the sleeves
she noticed two stains, apparently of blood. That
portion of the sleeve had also been rinsed out pre-
viously in dirty water.
James Worsman, a collier at Whitwood, proved
that on the Tuesday after the murder Normington
offered him a pawn ticket for a watch, which he
said he had 4' popped" for 4s. on the previous Satur-
day. He also said the watch had been " popped"
before for 265., and it was a good one. The pawn
ticket produced was the same.
George Watkinson; engineman rto Mr. Bower,
Hunslet, deposed to Normington having remained
in the engine-house at Mr. Bower's works during
Saturday night, the 6th ult. During the evening
he produced a pawn ticket for a watch, which he
said he had pledged. There was nothing particular
in his dress or conversation.

Frank Magee, who assists the last witness, said
the prisoner told him he had " popped" the watch
that day.
Thomas Dufton, a boy 13 years of age, wbo works
at Messrs. Lassey and Wilcox's colliery, Stoney-
rock, near Harehills-lane, stated that between six
and seven o'clock on the morning of the murder
Normington and another man went to the pit.
Normington had a thick stick with him, which he
said would do to hit any man on the way. The
stick produced, and which was found in a ploughed
field close to the spot where Mr. Broughton was
attacked, was, witness was almost sure, the same
stick that Normington had that morning.
Maria Whiteley, of Marsh-lane, Leeds, stated
that Normington and another man came to her
house together on the Saturday morning, between
seven and eight o'clock, and left their bundles.
Normington's companion returned for his bundle
after 11 o'clock, and Normington came again about
six in the evening, and washed himself and put on
a clean shirt.

Mr. English, the chief constable, stated that he
apprehended the prisoner at Sheffield on the pre-
vious day. He at first denied that he had been at
Leeds for the last four months, but at the Masbro'
station he acknowledged that he was at Leeds on
the day of the murder, and stated that he had pur-
chased the pawn ticket from an Irish lad whom he
knew for 6d.

After the examination of one or two unimportant
witnesses, the prisoner was remanded until Friday
next.

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