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EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
PARRICIDE.
TAUNTON. JAN. 26.—1 n consequence of a variety of in-
formation furnished to the Magistrates here respecting the
death of a man named William Sealey, which appeared to im-
plicate the two daughters of the deceased in having poisoned
him, the body was exhumed on Thursday last, after having
been buried since April, 1843, and an inquest upon it was com-
menced before Mr. R. P. Caines, one of the Coroners for the
county of Somerset. The deceased, between 40 and 50 years
of age, was taken ill on the 21st of April last. His general
health was not good, but he was competent to do the work of
a husbandry labourer, and resided with his two daughters,
Mary and Faith Sealey, besides some younger branches of the
family. He was a man of good character, and attended the
Independent Chapel at Kingston. Upon being taken ill,
Mr. Mortimer, surgeon, of Kingston, was called in,
and found him labouring, a s he supposed, under in-
flammation of the bowels, for which he treated him;
he, however, rapidly grew worse, and in forty-eight hours
he died. On the murder of an old woman, Betty Sealey, aunt
to these young women, and the committal of 11Iary Sealey for
that offence, the circumstances attending the death of her
father were brought to remembrance, and suspicion arose that
death had also been brought about by unfair means. Faith
Sealey, the other daughter, was also taken into custody. The
body having been exhumed, and a post ntortem examination
ordered, the inquest was adjourned until yesterday at ten
o'clock, at which hour it was held, and continued sitting until
seven in the evening.
The prisoners are two young women. Mary Sealey, who is
about 22 years of age, was very decently attired in half-mourn.
ing, and appeared very much agitated. Faith Sealey, the
younger prisoner, is about 18 years of age, and of a rather pre-
possessing appearance. She did not appear so much agitated as
her sister.
William Weston, carpenter, identified the body exhumed,
which he had buried. When the body was exhumed it was
removed into the belfry, the keys of which were delivered
to John Burford, a policeman. *The expenses of the funeral
were '2l. 1 s. 6d., which were paid by the prisoner Mary Sealey.
instant,
taken Burford deposed to having, on the 18th
taken possession of the keys of the belfry in which the body
was, and had kept possession of them ever finee. Witness saw
Mr. Welch, surgeon, accompanied by other medical gentlemen,
make a post trzortem examination of the body.
Francis Webb sworn—Am a surgeon residing at Taunton.
Knew the deceased many years. He has frequently . been af-
flirted with inflammation of the bowels, which was quite amen-
abled to medical treatment. The family were paupers. I did
net see the deceased in his last illness. I saw the body when
it was exhumed. I opened and took out the whole of the con-
tents of the chest and abdomen, except the bladder. I placed
them in a jar, and tied them down, and sealed them in three
places, so that they could nut be opened without breaking the
seals. I conveyed them to Bristol on Monday, and delivered
them to Mr. nerapath, the analytical chemist, now present.
We opened them together. The result of the experiments
showed the stomach to contain arsenic. Mr. Herapath's expe-
riments fully satisfied me of that.
Mr. William Herepath, analytical chemist of Bristol, de-
posed—On Monday last, the 22d instant, the last witness
brought me a jar containing the viscera of a human being ;
there were ligatures round the oesophagus and duodennm—
those are the ducts leading into and out of the stomach. Mr.
Welch dissected out part of the esophagus, the entire stomach,
duodenum, and jejunum. We opened them, the stomach in
one or two parts was as highly inflamed as I ever saw a sto-
mach after poison, and so were the surfaces of the twe intes-
tines before mentioned. The Interior was covered with a
yellow pasty matter, upon removing which there were several
large spots having
a similar appearance to what I have seen in
bodies that have been long buried after taking arsenic. There
were yellow patches, more or less circular, penetrating the tex-
ture of the stomach, and apraring on the outside of a fine
bright yellow colour. ( ibis gentleman then more
minutely described the appearances which denoted,
in this body, the presence of arsenic.) The
conclusion I arrive at from these experiments and the
state of the animal matter is, that a large quantity of soluble
salt of arsenic must have been taken into the stomach of the
deceased, which, being decomposed by the sulphuretted hydro.
gen given off during putrefaction, had produced orpiment or
yellow arsenic, as found and that such arsenical matter, from
the state of the stomach and intestines, had been the cause of
death. Judging from the quantity found in the stomach I
should say that at least a drachm had been given, and there
may have been much more, as I cannot tell how much may have
passed off.
Mr. Mortimer, surgeon, deposed to the fact of his attendance
on the deceased in his last illness. Ile was taken ill on the
Thursday, and died on the Sunday morning. I will under-
take to swear that no medicine which I furnished him with
contained arsenic. 1 saw no one in attendance on him but his
daughter.
Thomas Sealey, son of the deceased, twelve years of age,
deposed as follows :-1 remember my father being taken ill on
a Thursday. He was working at Piekney, near our house, and
I was with him. We went home together to dinner about one
o'clock. The prisoners, my two sisters, were then living at home,
but I cannot recollect whether they were at home when we went
home to dinner. They generally got the dinner. We had some
potatoes for dinner that
.day, but I can't remember if we had
any meat. We had no fried potatoes or broth that day. We
had some cider to drink, which we carried home from the field
in the firkin, out of which we both drank. After dinner we
went out to set the drags in the field. John Tucker was in the
field. We then went up towards yarf, rd with the drags. My
father was pretty well before dinner, bat when we were
in the field at Piekney my father was taken ill; he was
taken sick and cast his stomach once or twice, and he

brought up blood; he continued, however, to work until
about five o'clock, when he went home, and I went up to Yar-
ford. When I went home my father was ill in bed. On
that morning we had some fried potatoes for breakfast.
I remember being at a public-house called the Prudent
Widow one night with my sisters ; it was shortly before my
father's death. There was dancing there. My father came
after us, and ordered us home, but my sisters did not go
home. I went home and went to bed, and then my father
went up to fetch my sisters, but he came home again with-
out them. He was angry when he went for them. I know
a person of the name of James Bond. I saw him come to our
house once before my father's death, but he came very often
after his death. I did not hear my lathe' say that he should
not come. A man named Craddick also came once before my
father's death. After my father was dead Bond used to sleep
at our house sometimes; he slept in the same bed with my sister
Mary. My sister Faith went to service after my father's death.
I have seen him in bed with my sister Mary.
John Sealey, another son, gave similar testimony.
Sarah Sealey, an interesting little girl, nine years of age,
said, I lived at home when my father died. About a month be-
fore my father's death I heard my sister Faith say to Mary that
they should do better without father than with him, and Mary
replied, " Yes, we should." Faith said she should then be
able to stay at home dress-making. I told them that I
would tell father what they said, and they said they would
heat me if I did. 1 never told father, because I was afraid
they would beat ma if I did. I heard them talk thus
more than once. I remember the day that father was taken
ill. It was en the Thursday. I came home from school
about fire o'clock in the evening, and father was laying his
head upon the table, and I said. " Mary, what, is father bad ?"
and she said, " Yes." He then went to bed, and Mary at-
tended on him. Ile was sick before he went to bed. I think
Mary sat up with him that night. Mary made him gruel. I
know it b• cause I went up to Mary Fudge's for some sugar.
On one of the days that my father was ill try sister Faith
and Anne Fudge went into Taunton. I think it was on the
Friday. They went at dinner time and came b..ck in the
evening. I did not see whether she brought anything home
with her. While father was ill he had gruel and broth,
which Mary made for him. Faith also made some for him
once. I saw my sister taste the gruel to see if it was too hot.
This witness also deposed to having seen the man Bond in bed
with her sisters. After they made the gruel they always
washed out the saucepan and threw the water away.
William Bolt deposed, that he is clerk of a club held at the
King's Arms, Taunton ; the deceased was a member. On
his death his nearest relative was entitled by the rules to
receive 81. as funeral money; that sum was paid to the pri-
soner Mary Sealey. Witness gay: her a note to enable her
to receive it. Considers the eldest child as the nearest rela-
tive. The son James, who lives as groom with Mr. Esdaile,
is the eldest child, and yet the money was paid to Mary, be-
cause she lived at home with her father, and it was intended for
the burying of the dead.

It being now seven o'clock the Court adjourned till this day.
TAUNTON, SATURDAY.
Yesterday morning the inquest on the body of William
Seeley was resumed. The two prisoners, Mary Sealey and
Faith Sealey, being present.
The CORONER intimated that during the examination of the
two or three next witnesses, the room must be cleared. The
reporters were, however, permitted to remain, on their pro-
mising only to publish the substance of the evidence.
Jane Woodlands deposed to having been confined a prisoner
in Wilton gaol, on a charge of felony, of which she was ac-
quitted. Witness remembered when the prisoner Mary Sealey
was brought into the gaol, charged with the murder of her
aunt ; and one day, when witness and Mary Sealey were walk-
ing in the yard, she said to her, "Jane, I have something to
say to you." Mary Sealey then said, she did not mind the
charge upon which she was then confined, provided they did
not take up the body of her father. Wi;ness said, " Why ?"
and the prisoner replied, " Because he was poisoned." Wit-
ness said, " With what ?" and the prisoner re-klied, " With
arsenic., bought at Mr. Joyce's;" and, on being asked by wit-
ness who did it, she said, •‘ Not me only, but my sister likewise."
Harris Moreland deposed—•l am a servant at the Half-
Moon public-house in Taunton. I saw the prisoner, Faith
Sealey, in Mr. Green's yard some months since, and after-
wards in the tap-room with a fellow-servant, Ann- Richards.
Richards sid to me that Sealey wanted to get some arsenic, and
asked me to go with the prisoner. I went with her to Mr.
I3eadon's, a druggist, next door. He refused to sell any.
I aftei wards saw the prisoner with Anne Richards,and she said
she had got it at Air. Joyce's, and that he told her it was
enough to poison 1,000 men. She showed me the packet.
Mr. Joyce, druggist, and his assistant were called, but
could not recollect selling arsenic to either of the prisoners.
The assistant, a young boy, stated, that if any two persons
came together to purchase arsenic, he should sell it them, but
he always labelled it "poison.''
Anne Fudge said—l remember the illness of the deceased
William Sealey. He was taken ill on a Thursday. I was at
his house when he came home about five o'clock. Ile
said he had a very bad pain, and asked for a cup of tea.
Mary and Faith Sealey were at home. They had finished
drinking tea. Mary Sealey then poured out some tea from the
teapot they had been drinking out of, and asked
him if he would have some sugar ? Ile said " Yes." She
did not give him any from the table, but went to a drawer, and
brought a basin in which was some whitey-brown paper. I
did not see if any sugar was put into the cup. After the basin
was carried back to the drawer, the cup was handed to him, and
when he drank, 1 saw them look and laugh. The Light WO-
Hare Sealey was ill and ti ok the tea he did not eat anything,
but I heard him sick as soon as he went up stairs.
John Barford sworn.— I am a police officer. About the
middle of December I had a conversation with the prisoner
Faith Sealey. I asked her if she had ever gone with another
person to Mr. Beadon's to try to purchase some arsenic? She
hesitataci far a scan._ sn A then rnilikd, Not, E. of."
I then said, did ever afterwards go to Alr. Joyce's, where
you did get it, and she replied, " No, I did not."
W. Brown sworn.-1 am a police•orficer. lam going to
state a conversation that occurred to-day. I had the prisoner,
Faith Sealey in my custody during a temporary adjournment
of this Court. I was alone with her in a room up stairs. She
said, "My father was very fond of salt-fish, and my sister
sent me to Taunton for some arsenic one day for the purpose
of killing some of the rats that were at home about the
house. My sister had bought several pennyworths
before, and told me, if I could not get it without a second per-
son, I must have one, but that she used to pick up some per-
son in the street." I cautioned her, and she replied, " Oh, it
is no difference, for there is only you and me here." I asked
her if she had seen the Governor of the gaol to-day? She re-
plied, " Yes, this morning." I said, did lie say anything to
you ? She said, " Yes ; he asked rue if I was going to men-
tion what I talked to him about yesterday, and I said yes 1
shall ; I think it is my place to do so. The Governor said, 1
should if I was in your place, it I was not minded to be
punished for what other people haddone.' " Then the pri-
soner said, " I lr.d a pennyworth of arsenic, and I carried it
home and gave it to my sister, and on Friday my father had
some salt fish for dinner, which he was very fend of ; it was
cooked before he came home. My sister took it up on the
plate, and took out the melt, and I saw her shake some of the
arsenic on it, and put it in the fish again. My father came
home to dinner and ate the fish, and shortly afterwards he was
taken ill, and he became worse and worse, until he died."
She said she afterwards saw Mary making him some gruel, and
she had the packet of arsenic in her hand. Sho said, 1 did
no' hing in it from first to last. She said she should state it to
the jury herself when she was examined.
By the prisoner Faith—Was it not Thursday I said my father
was taken ill ?

Vs itness-T-It might have been.
Keziah Green—l live at Mr. Clarke's. The prisoner Faith
was lately in his service. I heard her say, if her father was
poisoned it was her sister Mary that did it. When her sister
was took up first she began to talk about her father, and said,
that Mary made her father some gruel, and he asked what was
that white stuff upon the top of it, and Mary said that it was
nothing but white sauce ; •that her father took it, and fell
sick after he took it, and then she said her father said, " It
was something else to make me sick : it is not the gruel
only. I shall make some myself when some more it made,
and then I shall see whether I shall feel the same as I did
when I took that which Mary made." On the Friday morn-
ing he made ri me himself, and took it, and did not feel a
bit like the same. Then she said if her father was poisoned,
it was her sister Mary that d.d it. She said it was on
a Thursday that Miry made the gruel, and on Friday that
her father made some himself.

This being the whole of the evidence, the court was or-
dered to be cleared, and the prisoner Faith Sealey having
been duly cautioned, was asked if she had any statement to
make.

The prisoner Faith Seale', then made the following most im-
portant statement :—" I have to say that my sister Mary
asked me, on the Monday night in the same week my father
was taken ill, if I had made up my mind about going to Taun-
ton on the Tuesday. I told her I had. She said she wanted
me to buy something for her. She said she would not tell
me what until 1 was going away. When I was going away,
which was on the Tuesday morning, she asked me if I would
bring her a pennyworth of arsenic. I asked her where I could
get it. She said at Mr. Joyce's, where she had got it several
times before. She said, You mind, you must have some one
to go with you.' 1 said, Who can I get ? I don't know any
one in the town but Mr. Green's servant.' She asked me
who she was, and I said, ' Ann Richards, that lived at Mr.
Woolcott's, at Bishop's Lydyard.' She said, Why don't you
ask her to go with you ?' I said, I won't promise you whe-
ther I shall buy it not.' She said, ' Why can't you get it as well
as 1 could ?' 1 said, ' If it is strong poison, they won't let me have
it without I carry an order.' Then she said, ' If they ask you
what it is for, it is to poison rats.' I said, ' Rats, I don't hear any
rats here about the house.' She replied, ' No, if there was a
waggon and horses went through the bedroom you would not
hear it.' Then I went away to Taunton, 1 went into the
Half Moon, saw Anne Richards, and asked her if she would go
into the next shop with me. She could not. Her fellow-servant
came in, and Tasked her to go with me, and she said she would.
When I asked Mr. Reader), he said he would not let me have it
without I had a note or a proper witness from the house, or a
person he knew. Then, alter that, he asked me what it was
for. I told him it was not fur myself, but for some one I knew
that I was to bring it for. He said he would not let me have
it, and I went therefrom up to Mr. Joyce's, and his little boy
was serving in the shop, and there was no one else in. Then I
wanted ever so many little things else, and I had them first, and
then I asked for it ; and he asked me what it was for, and 1 told
him it was to poison rats, as the person told me. I said it was
not for myself; then he let me have it. I paid him for it and
came away. When I got home I gave it to my sister, and she put
it in her pocket, and I saw no more of it tili Thursday at dinner
time. My father was very fond of salt fish, and generally had
one for his breakfast and dinner, with the melt if he could get it.
my sister dressed it. I was up stairs cleaning the room. When
I came down I saw my sister with the melt of the fish out of
the plate. She had got that same parcel that I took from
Taunton, shaking come of it in the middle of the melt of the
fish. I went cut of doors. I did not say anything to her. My
father came into dinner a few minutes ai terwards,ane my sister
placed it for him on the table. He took out the melt, and ate
it. He said it did not taste as a good many that he had eaten
before. After he had been to dinner, he sat down and had a
pipe of tobacco, and then went out to work. lie made no
complaint until he came home in the evening. He came in
and sat down, and rested his elbow o❑ the table, and asked my
sister for a cup of tea. She gave it to him. I went up stairs
then. He drank his tea and he went to bed. We stopped up
with him until between 10 and 11 o'clock. My sister asked him
whether he would take anyth.ng before we went to bed. He
asked her whether she had got any grits or arrow-root. She
said she had some of each. He said he would have a little drop

of arrow-root. She made him a little drop of arrow-root, and
he ate it, and he seemed better after that fur about an hour.
We both went to bed then. We were in bed about half an
hour before he was taken worse. Then he was taken very
sick. My sister asked if he would have a light struck, and he
said he would not. We left him all the night, and he did not
say anything till the next morning about six o'clock, when my
st,ter got up and got him a cup of tea, and he asked her to go
down to Mr. Mortimer's, at Bishop's Lydyard, for him, and she
went. Mr. Mortimer came up and saw him, and he told my
sister she was to come home with him, and be would put up
some stuff for him when he got back. Charlotte llayes's mo-
ther was going down to Bishop's Lydyard, and to save my sister
the journey, she said she would bring it. She brought it home,
and father still continued worse after that, and on Saturday
morning she went to Mr. Mortimer's again, and he let her
have some powders, and a bottle of something else. She was
to have a glass to give it in, and to put one of those powders in
the glass, and some of that in the bottle to it, and father was
to drink it while it was boiling up. After he took that, my
sister took three of the powders and went down stairs. She
was down there about five minutes. Father asked me the
reason she slid not come up stairs and sit down sewing with
me, and told me to go down and see what she was about,
I pulled off my shoes and went down. When I came down she
was back by the dresser, with these three powders, They
were open, and she had the parcel I brought from Mr. Joyce's
by the side of them. She had a spoon in her hand mixing
them. I asked her what she was about, and she said she
should be up directly. I told her her father felt quite angry
that she was not up there, and said he did'nt think she had
anything to do down stairs. She came up stairs with the
three powders, and put them down a little way from the
others, and when he came to take them again the other did
not boil at all, and after he took that one he felt a great deal
worse, and so he was after the next again. Between five and
six o'clock he took another, and that osie was about three parts
as large again as either of the others. Father said he could
compare that one to nothing but flour and water ; that was the
last he took of them, and that made him so ill he would not
take any more. He still continued worse and worse, until he
died. He did not take anything else after that last medicine
but three or four cups of tea. That is all 1 know about it."
Mary Sealey declined mixing any statement.
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and at four
o'clock this morning (Saturday), the jury returned a verdict of
t. Wilful murder" against both the prisoners, Mary Scaley and
Faith Sealey.