The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-25 00:00:00

Atto to the house, and I assure you I was not there
more than two minutes.

Mr. RAWLINSON—What right had you in the area
at all ? Mr. Hooper—l merely went into the area,
sir, and said I'd have a kiss before I left.
Nothing more transpired, either with regard to the
name or occupation of the fair one upon whose lips
the kiss was or was intended to have been imprinted.
Mr. ItawraNsorz (to General Farrer)—Do you
wish to press this charge, General ? General Farrer
—No, I do not.

The "professional gentlemen " were, without any
further explanation of their very extraordinary con.-
duct being called for, set at liberty.
MARLBOROUGH—STREET.
Adele Dupierre was placed at the bar for the purpose
of having the usual formalities completed previously
to being sent for trial to the Central Criminal Court,
on a charge of having robbed her master, Mr. Van
Bever, of a large quantity of property.
The pawnbrokers produced the stolen property in
court. Mr. Young, of Princes-street, and Mr. Wood,
of High-street, were the holders of about 130 pairs of
boots and shoes, all of which large quantity was
pledged with them by the prisoner in somewhere
about one month. The pawnbrokers had lent but
about eighteenpence per pair on the shoes, which
were declared to be worth, on the average, about five
shillings per pair.
As soon as the witnesses were hound over, the soli-
citor for the prosecution said he now proposed to
charge the prisoner with having set fire to the pre-
mises in the Burlington-arcade on Monday week, or
at least with having wilfully destroyed property, as it
might appear from the evidence.

Mr. MALTBY* said the prisoner had already been
twice placed at the bar without way charge of this
nature having been preferred.
The solicitor said the reason was that he had no
wish to intricate the case. by mixing one charge with
another. He was now prepared with evidence, and if
the Court permitted, he would go at once into the
charge.

Mr. MALTBY was of opinion that the charge ought
to be deferred for the present. If the prisoner was
acquitted of the felony on which she had been just
committed, Mr. Van Bever could then proceed with
the other charge, or he might prefer a bill for the
offence at the same time when he preferred the bill
for the present case.

The Prisoner was then fully committed.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Tan LATE CASE or POISONING.—AIfred Edwards
was placed at the bar for re-examination before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having administered poison
to a young woman named Jane Gregory, with whom
he occasionally cohabited, and thereby caused her
death.

Serjeant Lambert notified to the magistrate that an
inquiry had been commenced before Mr. W. Baker,
the deputy coroner, on the preceding day, which had
been adjourned until Friday next, to enable the che-
mical professor, to whom the residue of the noxious
liquid had been submitted, to complete his analysis.
Mr. George Hill Smith, assistant to Mr. Wildbore,
the surgeon who attended the deceased, stated that he
had an interview that morning with Dr. Leeson, the
Professor of Chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, who
was engaged in the analysis, and had ascertained
from that gentleman that he had detected among the
contents of the bottle submitted to his inspection, a
quantity of vegetable poison, called colchicum, or
meadow saffron, sufficient to destroy life.
Sergeant Lambert then stated, that in conse-
quence of his having been informed by the prisoner's
father that he had in his possession some bottles con-
taining a similar liquid to that which the prisoner had
given to the deceased, he proceeded on Friday even-
ing to the residence of that person, but he was un-
able to find any. The prisoner's sister, however,
who resided in Whitechapel, had given him a bottle
containing a dark-coloured fluid, which she alleged
to be the same, and which was now under course of
analysis. On searching a cupboard in the kitchen at
the prisoner's residence, ho found a paper packet con-
taining some white substance, marked outside " sugar
of lead—poison," and also a small phial containing
apparently oil of almonds.
Caroline Watson, who had resided next door to
the deceased, stated that while the prisoner was stand-
ing at the death-bed of the deceased, the witness asked
him to drink some of the liquor, which he had given
her himself, whereupon the prisoner took up the
bottle and filled his mouth with the fluid, but in-
stantly spat it out into the fire• place, and carefully
wiped his mouth with a pocket handkerchief.
A solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner, said that
he had two witnesses in attendance who had drank
some of the liquor prior to the fatal occurrence, with-
out experiencing any ill effects from it.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that the defence had better
be reserved, as he should remand the prisoner until
Saturday next, to await the issue of a coroner's
inquest.