The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,

The Earl of Shelburne is expected at Lansdowne
House at the close of the ensuing week.
The Earl of Liverpool left Fife House on Thurs-
day, for Pitchford Hall, near Shrewsbury. •
Lord Castlereagh has arrived in Chapel-street, over-
land from ➢Tarseilles.
Viscount Lowther left Carlton House-terrace on
SVednesday last, for Cottesmore, Rutlandshire.
Lord Brougham left Brougham Hall, Westmore-
land, on Wednesday, for London.

was very ill and not able to get up. I was called
into his room on the night-he died by Punster. - I
saw deceased lying on the floor. Deceased was about
29 years of age. . , •
Cross-examined—l have 'known thle.prisoner all her
life. Mrs. Parfitt brought her up and treated her as
her own child. Deceased and privoner lived rent
free to attend on the other lodgers: They married
young. ,Deceased was a man of,a gloomy disposition,
very retired in his habits. 'I do not know of any at-
tempt he made to destroy himself, but I have heard
of something of the sort.
Re-examined—l only heard of it last week.
Thomas Ledbitter-1- am a chairmaker in the Bo-
rough-road. Deceased was in my employment. He
last worked for me the Wednesday befOre he died.
He had been in my employ 18 or 20 months. He
had been an apprentice of mine. On one or two oc-
sions lately he has seemed rather dull.
Harriett Jones—l am the wife of Essex Jones, 9,
Borough -road. I knew deceased. On the Wednes-
day his wife told me he had been taken very ill with
retching after eating some apple-pudding. I saw de-
ceased after he died lifted off the floor. His forehead
was bruised and his nose bruised. Prisoner said she
wished to have him opened to satisfy the world, as he
had died so suddenly. This was on the night he died,
the Saturday.
Essex Jones—l am a chairmaker. I knewdeceased.
On the day before he died I saw the prisoner in the
Blackfriars-road, near a-chemist's shop. She said he
was very ill. On the Monday he died. I asked her
if she called at the chemist's to get anything to corn-
pose
him. She said, No, she had been in the road
to purchase some salt. She stated on that occasion
that she should -have no objection to have the.body of
her husband opened. She said afterwards she should
not like him• opened; in fact, he should not4he opened
unless she gave her consent. She asked me, in the
event of the body being opened, if the doctor could
• ascertain whether there was any poison in the stomach
or not ? I told her, decidedly he could. That was
the latter part of the conversation.
By the COURT—She did not ultimately. oltiect to
have him opened. She gave her permission;- she
not say she would refuse if she were asked, nor did
she object after. I had told, her about the doctor
being able to tell if there was poison or not.
Mary Musgrave—l was employed to nurse Mrs.
Bowler. On the day deceased died, I was in his house
I •
at one o'clock. Prisoner was there.' Deceased was
very ill, very low, and in great pain at the
pit of his stomach ; he. was sick.. I fetched .some
castor oil and peppermint, and gave it to Mrs. Bowler.
I saw her go into the bed-room with it. I saw de-
ceased- at half-past four. He was convulsed. ...Pri-
soner was there. I remaiogd in the hcuse until eight.,
I did not see him after. I asked prisoner how he was
at eight, and she said he was dozing. I went at
eleven. He was dead. Prisoner seemed very much
affected at the time. There was hardly ever any
words between deceased and Ms wife. They were
sulky like to one another. ,
Cross-examined—She had no means of support but
the earnings of her husband. She sent ,for. the castor
oil. The deceased and his wife lived comfortably to-
gether as far as I ob:erved. I lived in the same liouse
with them a month when prisoner was confined.
By the COURT—There were six lodgers in the
house, including the Bowlers. - •
Sarah Clarke—'—l am the wife of Henry Clarke. I
knew deceased. I saw prisoner the Monday week •
after he died. It was after the inquest had adjourned.
Mrs.- Parfitt was present. Mrs. Parfitt asael 'how

LAW INTELLIG ENCE

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE FRANCIS GAUTIER.

The bankrupt was described as a merchant, carry-
ing on business in Gould-square. He had also specu-
lated largely in buying up corn, and eventually tailed
in last February; shortly before which he offered a
compensation of 12-i per cent. to his creditors. All
agreed to accede to this proposition except Mr. Petitt,
the petitioning creditor, to whom a sum of 3,5001.
was due. Soon after the fiat was issued at the in-
stance of Mr. Petitt, the bankrupt left his place of
business, where he traded under the firm of Gautier,
Woods, and Company, and tidied to appear on his
last examination. In his schedule a number of debts
described as " Foreign debts," appeared, which
amounted in the aggregate to upwards of 15,0001.
This day was appointed for a proof of debts, in the
admisSion of which no point of general interest was
elicited.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COUR't.

(Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and Mr. Justice MAut.E.)
MURDER. —Jane Bowler, aged 26, was indicted for

the wilful murder of her husband, Joseph Bowler, by
administering a certain deadly poison called arsenic
to him. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The pri-
soner, who was attired in widow's weeds, and whose
appearance was anything but prepossessing, did not
appear at all affected by her situation.
Mr. Payne conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Bodkin defended the prisoner.

'A Ir. PAYNE, in opening the case, told the Jury that
with regard to the fact that the death of the deceased
had been occasioned by arsenic there could be no
doubt. The circumstances of the case all went to
show that he had not administered it to himself for
the purpose of self-destruction, and the Jury would
have to say whether the circumstances of the case
were such as to lead them to conclude that the pri-
soner must have been the person who administered
it to him. It might be asked what was her motive ?
She bad been married to her husband, who was 28
years of age, for about five years, and he should show
that she had long entertained a partiality for a young
man named Tunstall. Having shown that she had a
motive for poisoning her husband, he should show that
she had ample opportunity of administering the
poison, and that she had endeavoured, shortly befbre
the murder, to purchase arsenic—that the prisoner
had actually purchased arsenic. The Learned Coun-
sel then minutely detailed the facts of tir case as they
afterwards appeared in evidence, and called the fol-
lowing witnesses :
James Colthead—l am a surgeon. I attended the
deceased several times. I knew his wife. I was
called in on the 17th of September, at ten o'clock on
Saturday night. The man was then dead.
There were pieces of mucus on the floor. He was on the
bed. I had confined Mrs. Bowler three months before.
I opened the body of the deceased and found a portion
of white powder about two inches in length and an
inch in breadth in it. The intestines were empty, the
kidneys were larger then they should be. The rest
of the Viscera were healthy. I took home the con-
tents of the stomach, and on examination they turned
out to be arsenic. I should think there must have
been about 20 grains of white arsenic, commonly,
called arsenious acid. The deceased must have suf-
fered very much indeed. I should think the poison
must have been taken six or seven hours. It could
not have been taken more than 12 hours. I found
some castor oil in the stomach. I attripute the death
of the deceased to the arsenic. The prisoner ex-
pressed a wish to have the deceased opened. She said
he had been eating apple "pudding on the Wednesday
previous, and that he went to the yard and imme-
diately cast it up again. We analysed the rest of the
pudding. There was no arsenic in that. If there
had been arsenic in the pudding I should think it
must have been all cast up again. I was told he
was ill from the Wednesday to the Saturday. I was
in my shop on the Thursday morning at nine o'clock,
but did not see the prisoner, nor sell her any tincture
of rhubarb. I had not seen her from the time of her
confinement until after deceased died.

did you get-on to-night. I said it was postponed again.
Mrs. Bowler burst out laughing. I told her it was
no- laughing matter. She said, "If I cry it is not
right—:f I laugh it is not right, what am Itodo ?"
Dunster, who was present, said " It is wrong, Jane,you
ought to know better." She:said, "By G—d, Dunster,
you had better hold your tongue, or -else I'll open,
• and say something you won't like." Dunster re-
plied " Well, if you have anything to say, say it
openly." She said " I have trusted to one, and no
doubt I shall get over it. I am in it, and I must
get out of it how I can ; lam innocent. There is
one thing, they cannot hang me on account of my
children. This was said partly seriously and partly
jocularly. On the Tuesday morning, prisoner said,
" Well, ifhe has been poisoned, as it seems he has, he
must have'done it himself."• On the Wednesday after
deceased died I said to Mrs. Bowler, it was a shock-
ing thing; she said,. It was ; but, thank God, she
had not done it: Nothing had passed through his
body but what she had given him herself, but poison
she had not.

Cross-examined—She said,. in my hearing, she was
very willing his body should be opened. Dunster is
not married man. Ido not know myself that
Bowler once attempted to destroy himself. My hus-
band said he had: As I and my husband, and Mrs.
Bowler, were coming from Bowler's mother's,
at Lambeth, about three years ago, my hus-
band said that Bowler had attempted to throw
himself into the canal. Ido not know that he did.
I saw Bowler run down the street, and my husband
after him. Ido not know whether the street would
lead to water. Ido not know that there is a -canal
at Lambeth. I knoW there is some water near the
Bishop's Palace, but I do not know:what it is.
John Page—l am 'assistant to Lowe and Horn-
. blower, chemist,- Blackfriars••road. I remember that
about three weeks before I was. examined by the Co-
roner, a female asked me for arsenic. I did not give
it to her. - Mrs. Bowler has since been pointed out to
me. "My impression is that she was the person, but I
will not undertake to swear positively.
Cross-examined—There are people continually
coming in and out of our shop. Prisoner was brought
to me by an officer, who had been making inquiries
of me before about her. When she was brought I
said, " I have seen your face before." I will not
swear that the words were not " I think I have
seen your face before." Prisoner said she had never
been in the shop .before. She was not dressed in
mourning, when she was brought by. the officer. I
did not say, when before the Coroner,." I see she is in
mourning." I did not say "I cannot swear to
her, because her dress is different," or any
words to that :effect. •-I never said so at any time.
(The deposition of the witness before the Coroner was
then put in, and the concluding sentence of it was,
" I will not undertake to swear to her; I see, she is
in mourning ; her dress is different") I still say' I
will not undertake to swear to her; but I am still of
the same opinion she is the same person.
By the COURT—There was nothing remarkable
about the woman who asked for arsenic. She was in
the shop only a short time just to ask for arsenic. I.
said, "We do not sell it,"- She went away directly.
I should say nearly 100 customers come to our shop
in a dayAllingham
They:are perpetually coming in and out.
Joshua —I am the beadle of St George's
parish. I received information of deceased's death on
Sunday evening. I went to the house on Monday,
and saw Mrs. Bowler. She said he hind had a cold,
and likewise a pain in his bowels. She said he died
on Saturday night at ten o'clock. I asked why she had
no medical man. • She said he had an objec-
tion to see a medical man. She said that
when he died she was absent from the room, but heard
a fall, went up stairs, and. found him on the flour,
Shesaidshescreatned out, iindDlinster valile,rfnd after.
wards went for t
o.hpr assistanoe, • On the Tuesday
I asked her for what,purpose she went out on FridaY,
and where, she went to. She said she had been to
the Blackfriars road, for the purpose of getting
the rhubarb, and that she had got it at a
chemist's opposite Rowland 11111's
asked what they hoc hgisfQr on ednesday,
skit). 4pple *ding. r./' 'ere was some left, she gave
it to me, and I took it to Jr. Colthead. She went about
with me to different places. She changed her mourn-
ing-dress at my desire...
•Cros3 examined--I took her :to smval eUraists'
shops. Mr. Joust 00, liGeps tha shop, recognized
the pup as OW one brought for the rhubarb. All her
representations with regard to Jones turned out to be
correct. I took her to Lowe and Ilornblower's also.
I always found her ready to accompany •ine wherever
I suggested. I was at her house frequemly Nyaa
the inquest was sittipg: 4-t'and tier at home.
I inth-Ated to ifip`wisness Page that I should bring her
to Lowe's- shop. • She herself told Me how she had
been dressed on the Friday 'she took Off her widow's
dress and put that on. Page said he had no doubt
she was the woman who applied to him for araeniut
I cannot tell whether. she • Fl4de c4)l„rvation
i thinic
§9.1-006ff I think she
said Something about desiring him to look at
her accurately and. carefully. Ido not recollect whe•
ther she denied being the woman-Cr not.
Henry Clarke, called for the purpose of being cross,
examined—l remember Mr/. &Wier, tl-T
ceased, making •an • • attent •to cicsw,4 himself;
five years arrq, T T141111'41 11'411him my
wire— Bowler were. with us. He left
his Tnotber's ' house," at Lambeth, and • said, " I
shall throw myself into the Thames." He ran
towards the river, - and I ran after him.
I stopped him wheh he had got about 30 feet from
the. water. I asked hiiii what he was g6ing to do.
He said, "I will throw myself into the Thames, 4114
droWn myself." I do :pot f iln t rstterpt that
11P imu IT* since that:
By 4r. PATN—I-le:was YerytipsT at the time.
I3y Ur. BoDici—l think he \von d hare done it if
I had not stopped hint.
This was the case for 1113 prosecution.
Mr. BODKIN then proceeded to address the Jury i
for the defence, and had not concluded when our re-
porter left.

Cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN—I am not a mem-
ber of the Royal College of Surgeons. . I attended
the prisoner in both her confinements. She paid me
my
,fee. but she has not paid my bill for medicines. I
have sent it in. Ireduced the arsenic to. the metallic
form by the black flux and by Marsh's apparatus.
My assistant, Wheeler, assisted me ; he is not here;
he was examined before the. Coroner. He always at-
tends in my shop. The 'pudding that was given me
Was not given as a part of that which had been-re-
jeeted :from deceased's stomach. I had no •opportu-
nity of examining what had been rejected from de-
ceased's stomach. One of the first symptoms of
poison by: arsenic is sickness. Castor oil is a counter-
irritant. It would be likely, by its purgative quali- •
ties, to carry arsenic out of the system. Mrs. Bowler
never told me that my assistant had served her with
tincture of rhubarb on the. Thursday morning. . She
told me this at the time of the inquest.
Re-examined—They owed me about 31. If ar-
senic had been administered on Wednesday it would
have produced death earlier than the Saturday.
Sarah Mawle—l live at 22, Union, street, Borough,
in the same house with deceased. I had known him
17 weeks. I remember the Sunday before he died
Mrs. Bowler was in my room. I told her a lady and
gentleman and servant had been 'poisoned by arsenic.
She asked me if I knew how they sold it, whether in
liquid or powder. I saw deceased on the morning of
the day that he. died. He was sick and • vomiting
when 1 first went into the room. Mrs. Bowler was
there. She said he brought up everything she gave
him. I asked her why she did not have. a doctor..
She said they owed him money. I said there is a
parish doctor and a dispensary doctor, why not have one.
Deceased said, " Why not me have a doctor?" Pri-
soner said, " You don't want to be physicked and doc •
tored about.". Deceased at that time had his hands
upon his chest; I did not hear him complain of any
thing. On the Monday after deceased died, I was in
conversation with Mrs. Bowler's mother, in presence
of prisoner. I said, "Mr. Bowler said he wished to
have a doctor." Prisoner said, "He did not say so;
and if you say that you will hang me, for you will be
called upon the Jury." On the morning of
the day after his death. I found a long half-pint mug
in his room. I took it from the drawers of the room
where deceased died. I was cleaning the room. - I
took it to the kitchen. There was tea in it. I emptied
it in the yard. I saw a white sediment in the bottom
of the mug. It looked a dirty white, like magnesia.
I took the mug to the kitchen. I did not wash
it out. I did not see it after. I know a man
named Dunstor. - Mrs, Ilowlg said it would destroy
her happiness, if he got marriod'tn -the young woman
he was paying his addresses to: This was just before
Mr. Bowler's death. She had told me before, that
Dunster had told her he would wait five years for her.'
Dunster lodged in the house. I never saw him and
Mrs, Bowler go out together.
Crois-examinea,,,The prisoner is a woman of a
cheerful lively disposition, I did not attaeb any
portance to her observations about Dunster, when she
made them. It was part of the prisoner's duty to
attend to the lodgers in the, house. Dunster was
one of them. I-have had no conversation with any
person about this matter, When I told the prisoner
about the lady • and gentleman being poisnnte4 with
arsenic, she said it was a very shocking thing.
When deceased was ill on the Saturday, I recom-
mended a blister. The nurse who nursed Mrs.
Bowler was there at the time. On my mentioning
a blister, prisoner said, "1 wont have -him tortured
with a blister," He WO5 511111105P4 to be Ka:ging
under a bowel, complaint. Ido not hear very dis-
tinctly.. „ Prisoner denied that deceased had de-
sired to have a. doctor. I did not hear her
say, " I did not hear him ; •if you did, why did you
not fetch him ?" I did not hear her say You are
so spiteful, yon wonid beng me if Y 94 P. 904"
Parfitt was preient during the conversation, A.fter
the deceased's death I and Mrs. Jones were in the
room where deceased died alone. Mrs. Bowler was
in an adjoining room, leaving the mug and things
there.

lie- examined—l have no spite against prisoner.
John TiminefrA iiYP ip I:VOillgt•°P-place ; I knew
deceased. I last saw him dive the ViWnP4I.4Y
before he died. We worked together, lie seemed
then much as usual. I heard of his illness. His wife
told me he was very ill a-bed. On Saturday night I
was standing at the corner of Union-street. Mrs.
Bowler came to me and said, " Oh, John Thomas,
come to my place—Joe is dead." She seemed in great
aiStrgsg, went, and found him on the floor. There
was a sort of darii phfrain prntindips from. nil;4P
and mouth. 1 saw DO glass near birn, Mrs, Bowler.
said she had given him some brandy, and had bought
the pennyworth of tincture of rhubarb at Mr.
Colthead's, and had given it to him. She said she
ha I made a basin of gruel for Mr. Dunster, and she
was just going to make one for her husband.
Charlotte Nott—l live f.t 23, Union-street, next
door VI ayhpre decpsed liyp4. Deceased had been
married abont five yeps, I saw fl7s: P wlhr the Thursday before he died, and she said he was ill. I
met her in Union-street about four
.o'clock on the
Friday. She was coming from the direction of the
Blacktliaxs-road. She had a cup containing a liquid
that smelt like rhubarb. I asked if she was going to give
it to Ler husband, and he said, yes. I asked if Colt-
head bad said it was a good thing, and she said. yes.
On 01? Afternoon of that day he died, She said he

w an 71
(Befbre the .COmmor SEnuEANT.)
ADMISSION Or GUlLT.—William Edmunds, aged 22,
was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 18th of
September; in the dwelling,house of T. G. Phillips,
Esq., two gold rings and other articles of jewellery,
of the value of eighteen guineas, the property of
Frederick Daniel 13asire, Esq.
The prisoner, who was also chargedluvon two ettivr