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IV IL S N'S SCOTTISHO • ENTERTAIN-
At the MUSIC-lIALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE,
On MONDAY EVENING, March 17, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will repent for the Fourth time
-his Entertainment of

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SONGS.

Parr I.—The Minstrel—My the bonny breast-knots—The Cove-
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bloomest fair—John Grumlie.
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my hame ?-3l'Leod of Dunvegan, a curse lies upon thee—l gaed a
waefu' gate yestreen—Hersel be Highland Shentleman—Watty cam'
out on a moonshiny night—Gude night and joy he with you a'.

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The Chair will be taken at Six o'clock precisely.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
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HENRY ANCELL, Secretaries
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MURDER AT SALT-HILL

which she and he were alone, the consequence is obvious. But
I have said she might not have known the nature of this
poison. The prisoner, however, had been a chemist and
druggist, and he knew it perfectly well. Probably no evi-
dence will be adduced to show that the poor woman bought
the poison. But we shall show you that the prisoner had
that very morning bought poison. If the deceased did ad-
minstcr it to herself, where is the little phial? It is not to
be found. But I shall show you that the prisoner himself
had such a phial that morning. Where is it ? I shall
prove to you that the prisoner went back again to the
chemist in Bishopsgate-street, and stated that he had lost
that bottle. Where is it ? You will. find the prisoner
coming out of the house at the time the woman must have
been in a dying condition. He is asked what is the matter,
but makes no observation. lie leaves the woman to
herself; and then the next thing that he states is, that
he never was there. I trust that you will give these ob-
servations no more weight than they deserve, but still as
much as they deserve. This is an issue not only important
to the public, but to the prisoner. The prisoner has a right
to have the benefit of any doubt, not of any capricious doubt,
but of any well-founded doubt, and the public have a right
to expect, if you have no reasonable doubt, that you will pro-
tect them from crimes of this nature, so that they may sit
down to their daily meals in peace and safety. Gentlemen,
the issue is with you. I need not trouble you with a single
observation more, satisfied as I am that your venlict will be
given agreeably to your own conscientious feeling, and satis-
fsctorily to public justice.
The address of the Learned Sergeant was listened to with
breathless interest throughout.
Mr. F. KELLY requested that -the iiriSPtier might be ac-
commodated wi'h a seat. _ _ _

RIAL OF JOHN TAWELL.
AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12
The scene at Aylesbury this morning, at half-past eight
o'clock, in the Market-place, and at the entrance to the
Court, was one of the most animated and eminently dis-
orderly that could possibly be imagined. It more resembled
the crush and rush at the hustings of a contested election
than the opening of a Court of criminal justice. After a
struggle ofmore than half an hour's duratiOn, destructive o
clothes and almost fatal to life or limb, the reporters fought
their way to a miserable little corner of one of the galleries,
totally insufficient in space, and destitute of any accommoda-
tion, the front seat being too far from the rail to allow of
writing, and the back seat too high to be available as a seat,
and twice as many reporters present as could be supplied with
even standing room. But the scene within the Court beg-
gars all description.. The opening of a minor London
theatre for the first night of the Christmas pantomime is the
only scene to which it could be compared—crushing, yelling,
jesting, shouting, and making every sort of noise. A worse
arrangement for regulating admission to the Courtsheuse
could scarca.-y have beeit adopted. A small band of police-
men were ranged along the top ofihe steps, and their conduct
was most proper. Mr. Tindall, the sub-sheriff, also showed
.every disposition to manage affairs with a due consideration
fir the public convenience and the nature of the solemn
business of the day. But there were three or four officials in
the ball leading to the staircase who seemed to take delight
in obstructing the passage of those whom the under-sheriff
had already permitted to pass. So great was the confusion
occasioned by the mismanagement of the inferior officers of
.the Court that it was along time,heford the proceedings could
be carried on.
Mr. Baron Parke entered the Court about nine o'clock.
A large attendance of the local magistracy thronged the
bench.
Mr. Sergeant Ryles and Mr. Prendergast. conducted the
prosecution ; and Mr. F. Kelly, with whom were Mr. O'Malley
and Mr. Gunning, the defence.
The prisoner, who was attired in a suit of black, made
after the fashion generally adopted by the Society of Friends,
of which he was a member, was then placed at the bar. As
already known, he is about 60 years of age. His appearance
is respectable, and the expression of his countenance intelli-
gent, although rendered somewhat disagreeable by a squint.
When he approached the bar he was very pale, and looked
anxious, but betrayed no timidity of nervousness, and on
being asked by the clerk of the assize (after the reading of
the indictment, which contained but one count, charging him
with having caused the death of Sarah Hart on the lr t of
January, by giving her poison). " How say you, are you
guilty with respect to that murder or not guilty ?" he re--
plied in a firm and audible tone, " Not guilty."
Having also pleaded "Not guilty" to the same charge upon
the coroner's inquisition,
The jury was sworn after a challenge by Mr. O'Malley, on
behalf of the prisoner, of 13 names.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES, in opening the case for the prosecu •
tion said, the prisoner at the bar formerly carried on the busi-
ness of a chemist and druggist. He had the misfortune seve-
ral years ago to lose his first wife. Shortly before her death
the deceased, Sarah Hart, then a young woman somewhere
about thirty years of age, entered into his service, and I shall
sheer you by evidence, which I need not open in detail, the
nature of the acquaintance which subsisted between her and
the prisoner, and that when she left his service she was in
the familyway. She lived first after quitting his service at
a place called Crawford-street, London, where the prisoner
was in the habit of visiting her. She lived afterwards at
Paddington-green, thence removed to Slough, and fur some
time previous to her death was living at Bath-place, which
consists of four small cottages, forming one detached building.
Bath-place stands upon the Great Western-road, about a
quarter of a mile beyond the Windmill public-house, which is
kept by a person named Botham. In the end house, towards
London, lived Mrs. Ashley ; in the next the deceased, Sarah
Hart., the mother of two children, who was living there with
them, and who, as it will appear to you in the course of the
case, was entirely dependent on the prisoner for her
support, and whom he was in the habit of visiting,
at Bath-place, and supplying with money. The pri-
soner himself has recently resided at Berkliamstead in
circumstances of apparent ease and affluence. He married
no long time since a second wife—a lady to whose deep mis-
fortune no man could allude without feelings of commissera-
tion. I shall show you that, notwithstanding the apparent
ease and respectability, of his circumstances, he was at the
time this occurrence took place by. no means in such circum-
stances. I shall call his banker's clerk to show you that at
this moment he had overdrawn his account. You will fir.d
that he was in the constant habit of visiting Sarah Hart, that
she was dependent upon him for money, and that he found
himself in this position—that money must be supplied, or
that what would otherwise be secret must become apparent,
namely, the nature of hts connexion with this person. Oa
the Ist of January, in the present year, the prisoner was . at
the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cunha', London, the waiter of
which he told, about the middle of the day, that he was go-
ing to dine at the west end of the town, and desired that his
great-coat should be left for him on his return about nine
o'clock. He did not proceed to the west end of the town,
but to the station of the Great Western Railway, by the
four o'clock train of which railway he proceeded to Slough.
On arriving at Slough, he went to the residence of Sarah
Hart, at Bath-place; and 'it will appear that after he had
been a shut time with her she went, by his direction, to the
Windmill public-house for a bottle of porter. It is im-
portant to bear in mind that she was at that moment per-
fectly well and in very good spirits. Having bought the
porter, she borrowed a corkscrew, and brought both home
with her to Bath-place. I shall call a person who spoke to
her on her way back, from whose testimony you will learn
that shewas then perfectly well. Very shortly after her re-
turn Mrs. Ashley, the person who resided in the next house,
being seated at work before a candle, heard -a noise in the
room of Sarah Hart. I should. observe to you that these
cottages consist each of two very small rooms on the ground
floor. Mrs. Ashley heard in her neighbour's apartment a
moan or stifled scream. She laid down her work ; the noise
continued ; she became very much alarmed, and, taking up
the candle, went to the door, and proceeded down the path
leading from the cottage to the road ; but before she reached
the gate she saw the prisoner approaching the gate which
terminated a similar path from the cottage of Sarah Hart.
Mrs. Ashley will tell you that at this -moment the moans of
the deceased were distinctly audible. The prisoner went to
the gate ; he, trembled, appeared greatly agitated, and had
much difficulty in opening the gate, which, I believe, Mrs.
Ashley, who had reached it by this time, assisted him in
opening, saying, "What is the matter with my neighbour;
I'm afraid she is ill?" The prisoner made no answer, but
passed out of the gate, and proceeded towards Slough. Mrs.
Ashley, in consequence of the noise, went up to Sarah
Hart's house, and turning round, saw the prisoner going
down the road. She then Went into the house, and observed
in Sarah Hart's room,
just before the fire-place, a small
table, and on it a bottle of porter open, and partly drunk,
also two tumblers, one of which was next the window and
towards the chair upon which Sarah Hart bad apparently
been sitting. In one of these tumblers there was some froth,
in the other there was porter or porter and water, it is rot
quite certain which. The deceased, Sarah Hart, was lying
on the floor ;her cap was off, and her hair hanging down.
Her clothes were up to her knees; one stocking was down,
and one shoe off. She was still continuing the, moaning
noise which I have described to you. Mrs. Ashley went up
to her and asked her what was the matter, arid raised her
head up, but the deceased was unable to speak. Mrs. Ashley
called in two
.neighbours, arid some water was brought.
Eventually, Mr. Champneys, a surgeon, was sent for. He
felt her pulse, and said he thought he could discover one
or two beats She moved her tongue, or jaw, a little.
Mr. Champneys put his hand under her clothes to feel
her heart, but he could discover no pulsation. She was
clearly dead. In the meantime, -I shall show you, gen-
tlemen, that the prisoner, who had gone out of the house,
was going on quickly towards the railway station. He
came that day from London, and was about to re -
turn, and did return; but insteadof staying at the station
then, he got into an omnibus to go to Eton, Eton being in a
direction away from the station. He was asked by the driver
where he desired to be set down in 'Eton. He replied, " At
Herschell-house." " Oh," said the driver, " Herschell-house
is a long way this side of Eton." It appears that it is in
Slough, a few hundred yards from the station. He, how-
ever, rode a short distance, and was set down at Herschell-
house, where it appeared he had no business, for on getting
up to the door he proceeded to walk on towards Eton. The
omnibus went on in the seine direction. What became of
him in the interval we do not know, but he certainly went
back to the station, and took a place in a first-class carriage
for London. At that time suspicion became attached to the
prisoner. Another gentleman of the name of Champneys—
the Rev. Mr. Champneys—was there, and suffered him to
depart. But as soon as he was gone Mr. Champneys commu-
nicated his suspicions to the person who conducts the electric
telegraph. A signal was made to the station in London that
the signal was there
a person was in the first-class carriages who ought to be
went,aaiinetdheaantthe London terminus.
length other particulars,
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papers,
whichTiwo
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watched. c
Learned
ebhdea
before
Quick
Counsel thek a
appeared
the e
eanr arrivede tsdrtn respecting the
movements of -the prisoner, his pursuit by the policeman, his
statements about the deceased and her pouring something
already ic
train itpnh
out of a phial into the glass of porter, and his arrest at the Jeru-
salem Coffee-house. The following are his concluding re-
marks :—lt will be too clear that deceased died by poison, and
that the poison is prussic acid. Prussic acid, particularly such
a dose as this, is most rapid in its effects. Now this is a case
in which the time when the prussic acid was taken, if taken
at all, is placed beyond a doubt, because she could not have
taken it when she went out to the Windmill and bought the
bottle of porter, for she was then in good health. It will be
clear to you from Mrs. Ashley's statement that it must have
been taken when she was in that room with the prisoner
alone, as well as from his own statement. The poison, if
poison it was, was administered in that little room when they
were together alone. If so, she must either have administered
it to herself, or he to her. Now let me ask your kind atten-
tion—and do net give more weight to my observations than
you think they deserve—to the first supposition, that she ad-
ministered the poison to h:rself. She was in good health
and spirits immediately' before; she was the mother of two
children who were living with her in that house. Did she
know the nature of this deatAY poimois ? if she had it,
where did she get, it? She lived in Bath-place; she must
either have bought it in the vicinity, or she mast have sent
somebody for it. You will expect, therefore, some evidence
of the mode in which she obtained it. The prisoner says
• she poured it out of a small phial. Where is that phial?
The house has been searched. I elan give you a great deal
of evidence with respect to the bottles found in the house.
The result is, that no such phial can be found. It is quite
clear that the prisoner left the deceased moaning and dying ;
would lie have done that if she had taken the poison her-
self? I feel, gentlemen, that it is very invidious and painful
for a person in my situation to make:these observations; hut
it is my duty to call your attention to these things. I ask
von, whether, no evidence being given to that effect, von will
lie of opinion that she administered the poison to herself?
I If she dicl not, inasmuch as it was taken in that room, in

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The Board of Trade having given notice of its intention to
report to Parliament against the London and York Railway, the
Committee or Direction deem it right at once to inform the Share-
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their Bill, which has been read a second time, immediately on the
meeting of the Parliamentary Committee after Easter.
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and unanimous, and capitalists have subscribed the money for its
construction, Parliament will not refuse the requisite sanction, for
the sake of protecting exieing.Railways, which neither afford the
sane local accommodation, nor are so direct in their course.
J. R. MOWATT, Secretary.
7, Lothbury, March 12, 1845.

NOTICE.
FRANCE, STRASBOURG, and PARIS
RAILWAY.
Capital 60,000,000 francs, or 2,400,000/. in 120,000 Shares of 500
francs, or 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. par Share.
No APPLICATION for SHARES in the English Subscription List
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that time applications for Shares may be addressed to the Provisional
Committee, at the office of their.solicitor, George Ogle, Esq., No. 4,
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...... _
Mr. Baron PAnKel—Prisoner, do `•ou wish to sit down?
Prisoner—Yes; I should be much obliged, as I have long
had a varicose affection. _

PARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY.
(C. LAFFITTE'S ORIGINAL COMPANY.)

DIRECTOItg.
Monsieur Charles Lattitte, Paris.
James H. Attwood, Esq., 13, 'Upper Seymour-street, Portman-

A chair was them placed in the (lock for his secommcdation.
The following witnesses were then called for the prose-
outien

Mary Ann Ashley, examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST.—I
live in Bath-place, Salt-hill. On the Ist of January, Sarah
Hart was living next door to me. I saw the prisoner that
day going to her house, between four and five in the even-
ing. He went in. I saw no more until I heard a stifled 'sort
of scream in the house. That was between six and seven
o'clock. I was then in my house at the fire in the lower
room. The stifled scream appeared to come from Mrs. Hart's.
I took the candle and opened the door. (The noise in Court
here was so great that the proceedings were for some time
suspended totally ; at length they were resumed.) I saw the
prisoner coming out of Mrs. Hart's house. There is a little
garden in front of each house, seven yards long. The
houses are in a small row, consisting of four. My house is
nearer to London, and her's next. They have two rooms
each on each floor, two storeys high. On opening the door
I saw the person I bad let out at the gate. I went to Mrs.
Hart's gate before the prisoner got out. He appeared agitated
and could not open the gate. There was a small button, which
was hard to open. I said nothing to him about what I heard when
I was opening the gate for him. I had made a remark before.
Directly I went out I said" I am.afraid my neighbour is ill."
I should think I spoke loud enough to be heard by the pri-
soner. He was in the pathway, coming down, about six or
seven yards from me. No reply was made; not a word.
When I got to Mrs. Hart's gate I could hear her still, whilst
I was opening the gate. It was the same stifled sort of
scream still. When I opened the gate I merely said to the
prisoner, " There is a little button, sir; allow me to open it."
He made no reply. He appeared hurried in his manner and
motions. He was agitated. He tried hurriedly to open the
gate, •in an agitated manner. He went out first and
went in.

square, London.
Comte d'Alton Shee Pair de France, Parla.
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool.
The Right Hon. G B. Dawson, 15, Upper Grosvenor-street, London.
Wrn. J. Chaplin, Esq., Adelphi-terrace, London.
Monsieur E. Simons, Administrateur des Messageries Boyales, Paris.
Monsieur Alexandre Berig,nieres, Administrateur des Mcssagcrles

By Baron PARKE—I saw his face. I had the light in my
hand: I held the candle over. I can say the pri,oner is the
same man.

By Baron PARKE—I had never until the afternoon of that
day seen the prisoner. I chanced to go into Mrs. Hart's
that day, about two o'clock, and she said to me, " 1 expect
my old master down to-day, but, perhaps, he won't come till
to• morrow." _ _

Mrs. Hart's door was shut when I got to it. I opened it.
I am positive the prisoner is the man who passed me out.
I opened the door and went in. I saw Mrs. Hart lying near
the door, with her head not a great way from the door. Her
dress was disordered. Her petticoats nearly up to her knees,
and one of her stockings (the left) down and torn, and her
left shoe off. Her cap was a little distance from her. She
was making a noise, and her eyes were fixed. Her limbs
were not moving. I took her hand and raised her, and said,
" Oh, Mrs. Hart, what is the matter ?" She made no re-
ply. Froth came from the corners of her mouth. Her eyes
being fixed I thought she was dying. I put down my
candle and went into the landlady's (Mrs. Wheeler's) the
last house of the row. When I first went in I saw on the
table in Mrs. Hart's a bottle and a glass with some porter,
little more than half full. There was a glass at each side of
the table. In one glass there was porter (half full). There
was only a little froth in the other. There was a chair beside
where Mrs. Hart lay. Another chair was on the other side of
the fire.
Mr. KELLY thought all this very immaterial.
Examination resumed—l returned with Mrs. Burrett, a
relative of Mr;. Wheeler. We placed a pillow on the child's
chair, and put Mrs. Hart's head on it. I saw one of the
glasses used by Mrs. Buffett. She used the empty one to
get some Water from a jug to give to Mrs. Hart. The jug
was in Mrs. Hart's kitchen. She could not drink any. I
said " Don't give her any, 'twill choke her." Mrs. Burrett
rinsed the glass before putting the water in it. I sent one
of Mrs. Burrett's apprentices for .Dr. Champneys. The de-
ceased's name was Sarah Hart. I saw no phial abeut as big
as a thimble. We searched the whole house carefully for
anything, thinking she had taken something that killed her.
1 found no very small phial at all. Before I went into Mrs.
Hart's I saw the prisoner turn and look at me, and I locked
the do,sr for fear. When I first found Mrs. Hart, she was
breathing by fits, crying " Olt, oh, oh," convulsively, for
three or four minutes after I got into her house. It was the
same sort of noise I had heard before I went in There was
no motion of her limbs that I saw.

Generale., Paris.
Charles Deraux, Esq., 62, King William-street, London.
_ .

Hardman Earle, Esq., Liverpool

Monsieur Eel. Blount, Paris.

Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P., London.
John Masterman, jun., Esq., Nicholas-lane, London.

Monsieur Moreau Chalons, Paris.
Matthew Elsielll, Esq., 62, King William-street, London.
The Provisional Committee of the Paris and Lyons Railway Com-
pany having ascertained that it is the intention of the French Govern-
ment to lease the line to a company able and willing to reimburse the
State for all expenditure hitherto incurred, and to undertake all fur-
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necessary for this purpose. In conformity with the terms of sub-
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to the Shareholders. Two New Shares for every Old Share, sub-
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Notice is hereby given, that all parties not applying within the pre-
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By order,

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Hart the water, and seat for Mr. Charnpneys. It may have
been about two minutes. My apprentice is about seventeen
years of age. I returned to Mrs. Hart's directly after I sent
for the doctor. There are gardens behind and before the
house. I went by the back way. The gardens behind are
longer than those in front ; about twice as long. It was the
longer way, but we generally go that way. When I got back
a second time to Mrs. Hart's, Dr. Champneys was in the act
of bleeding her. I fancied at the time I poured the water
down her throat that it made her foam.
By Mr. Baron PARKE—I saw no foam until I had tried to
pour the water down.
John Kendall—l am waiter at the Jerusalem Coffee-house,
Cornhill. Mr. Tawell, the prisoner, is a subscriber to our
house. It is a subscription coffee-house. On Wednesday,
the Ist of January, lie came to our house about three o'clock,
and asked me what time we closed the house at night. I said
eight o'clock, and asked him " why ?" He Said he could not
get back till half-past nine, as he was going to the West-end.
lie had a great coat and a parcel, which he wanted to leave.
He said he should call for them, and I made an arrangement
that he should have them at half-past nine. I saw him again
between half-past nine and a quarter to ten. He called for
the coat and parcel, and took them, but left his umbrella with
me. I did not see him next day.
Henry Gratten-1 am one of the clerks at the Paddington
terminus of the Great Western Railway. On the Ist January
I gave a ticket for the four o'clock train down to Slough to
the prisoner. He returned again by the half-past eight
o'clock train from Slough.
George Lewis—l am a post-boy at Salt-hill. I know the
prisoner these two years or thereabouts, coming down that
way. I saw him on the Ist of January, at seven o'clock in
the evening, at the Windmill. I was standing at the door,
and he was running towards Slough from the direction of
Bath-place. There was light from the house lamp. I have
no doubt about his being the man. I said, " How are you,
Sir?" He turned his bead, but made no answer. I saw his
face clearly then.
Robert Roberts—l am an innkeeper at Eton. I went
from London to Slough on the Ist of .ianuary. I got there
at teat minutes past seven o'clock. There was an omnibus
which I went by. The prisoner came up and asked, was
.the driver going to Eton._ He replied, "Yes." The prisoner
got in and sat next me. The driver asked, " Where shall I
put you down, Sir?" The prisoner replied, " Put me down
at Sir John Herschell's house." The driver said, "That is a
long way this side of Eton, Sir." The prisoner said, '• Put
me down there."
Charles Wilmot, the guard, confirmed this evidence.
Ephraim Weymouth—l am a plasterer, and live in the
New-road, Marylebone, London. On the Ist of January I
was at Slough. Saw a railway omnibus. A person got down
at Herschel!. house. I was standing on the steps. I had
rang the bel. I rang a second and a third time. The man
stood for a while after getting out of the omnibus, and then
followed t he same way the omnibus went.
Henry John Howell—l am superintendent of the railway
at Slough. I remember on the evening of the Ist of January
the prisoner came to me and asked the way to the train.
did not serve him with the ticket. It was forty minutes past
seven. I saw him go off by the train. A person coming
from Bath-place would be turning his face to the rcilway if
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Cross examined by Mr. KELLY—Mr. Champneys, the
surgeon, is my cousin. I went down in a pony carriage to
the railway station, in consequence of what I had been told.
The prisoner entered the carriage immediately the whistle
'was blown.

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Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY, Q.C.—I never saw the
prisoner before that day. I think it was near 'Ave o'clock
when I saw him first go in. Mrs. Hart had not been out.
I saw her washing at two o'clock, and she did not go out
afterwards, I think. It was about six when I saw Tawell
going out. I think it was then past the half hour, and
nearer seven o'clock. I remained in Mrs. Hart's house after
I found her, and before I went for help, not many seconds.
The apprentice was sent for the surgeon directly, by Mrs.
Barrett, after she saw Mrs. Hart. The apprentice's name is
Lovegrove. She is not hero. The doctor's is about a quarter
of a mile from the house of Mrs. Hart. Dr. Champneys
arrived in a few minutes. I cannot say how soon I heard
Mrs. Hart speak before the stifled meaning. I heard her
voice in a rather loud tone; but only a few words—not
for many minutes. I did not think they were quarrelling
about money matters. There was not enough said for me
to think so. There were only a few words. I thought she
might've in hysterics, merely because I knew she was in
distress about money matters. She was not hysterical.
She was not passionate that I ever saw. I have never said
that she was subject to violent fits of passion.. I never
knew or heard from her that she and Mr. Tawell bad had
differences about the children. I heard her say she had
been advised to put the children out to be taken care of ;
that was all. It was some time, but not a great while,
before I beard the screams that I heard the high
voice. I did not think they were quarrelling, because I
heard no voice but Mrs. Hart's own. It is not true that I
ever said they were first quarrelling about money matters
before I heard the scream. The screams were repeated se-
veral times before I went in. I did not address the remark
about fearing that my neighbour was ill to any one, and. I
cannot tell whether they first heard it. Mrs. hart's cap was.
only about a foot from her, on the floor. When I first en-
tered the house I looked back and saw the prisoner looking
at me. When I found Mrs. Hart made no reply to my in-
quiry, I left her and went for help. When Mr. Champneys
came, he said he " should try the means, end bleed her.' Ile
tried to do so. He first put his hand under her clothes, and
felt her heart. I held a basin whilst Mr. Champneys bled her.
A little blood came ; probably as much as would cover a plate,
but I cannot tell how much. She was dead before she was
bled. Mr. Champneys said she was gone. I believe she was
dead before Mr. Champneys bled her. I always thought so.
I never said anything else. I believed it at the time. I
was examined on oath before the Coroner, and what I
said was taken down in writing. I swear that I never be-
lieved that after she was bled she expired almost immediately.
I knew that Mrs. Hart had received a present of a basket of
apples about Christmas ; some of them were left at the time
of her death. I saw some of them in a box shortly before.
' There may have been about a peck. Mrs. Hart had not
been out. anywhere, either to London or 'elsewhere, from
October. She could not go out in consequence of leaving
her two children alone. I do not know of her going out that
evening after Mr. Tawell had arrived.
Re-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—The whole affair
before my discovering the, state of Ks. Hart, from the time
I heard the stifled screams, was not above a minute. Mr.
Champneys arrived very soon afterwards. I saw ten or
eleven of those apples alluded to after the deceased's death.
There may have been twenty or two dozen when I first saw
them about a fortnight before Mrs. Hart's death.
Catherine Whiter, examined by Sergeant BYLES—I am
barmaid at the Windmill, at Salt-hill. I knew Sarah Hart.
She came to our house on Wednesday, the first day of this
year, about half-past six, for a bottle of Guiness's stout. She
borrowed a corkscrew also. It was rather bent. This is the
screw (produced), and this is the sort of bottle, with that sort
of label on it. She stayed about ten minutes, and was.in
conversation with me. Nothing was the matter with her at
all. She was neither agitated nor ill. The bottle and screw
were to have been returned in the morning.
Cross-examined by Mr KELLY—It was half-past six when
she came. I looked at the clock, and when she had been
gone a few moments it wanted twenty minutes to seven.
William Barlow—l am gardener to Mr. Stewart, at Salt-
hill. I met Sarah Hart between her house and the Wind-
mill on the evening of the let of January. She said to me,
" Ah, Barlow, is it N ou ?" I said, " Why, Mrs. Hart, what
are you running for," She replied—
Mr. KELLY objected.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES contended for its admissibility.
Mr. Baron Panes: ruled in favour of the objection,
Witness—She appeared in good spirits—quite cheerful.
She was going towards home. It was a quarter past six by
my watch. I had looked at it before leaving my house, which
was 250 yards from where I met her, and it was then thirteen
minutes past six.
Mrs. Barrett—l live in Bath-place, Salt-hill. I knew
Sarah Hart. She had lived there one year and three-
quarters. I remember Mrs. Ashley coming to my house,
near seven o'clock. I went with her to Sarah Hart's. I saw
Mrs. Hart lying on the floor, breathing bard, and her eyes
appearing fixed. I fetched some water from a large yellow
jug, which stood full in the kitchen. I helped to put her
head on the pillow. I fetched the jug. I put some of the
water into one of the tumblers on the table, the one that
had only froth in it. I rinsed it first, and threw the rinsing
into the tire-place. I thought she was too far gone to drink.
I put some of the water to her mouth, but I do not think she
swallowed any. I applied some vinegar to her face, and sent
a young person for Mr. Champneys. lie lives on the oppo-
site side of the road, about two hundred yards from Mrs.
Hart's. -He bled-her-when he enme. - On the table I sires,
besides the bottle and glasses, a part of the beer. I saw no
money. I taw no phial about the sizs of a thimble.
Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY-31y cluck was lust upon
seven when Mrs. Ashley came for me. My clock was about
a quarter faq, I returned directly after I had given airs.

William Williams. examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—I
was, on the Ist of January,sergeant of police at the rail-
way station, Paddington. In consequence of information I
received, I watched the up-train passengers, and saw the
prisoner get out of a first-class 'carriage and get into a
New-road omnibus. I got up behind, and acted as conductor.
Witness repeated his evidence given before the Coroner, and
how he arrested the prisoner at the Jerusalem Coffee-houge:
William Wiggins—l am inspector of the metropolitan po-
lice. I went with the last witness, on the 2d of January, to
the Jerusalem Coffee-house. I saw the prisoner there. I
said, "Is your name Tawell ?" He said " Yes." I brought
him out, and said, "You came from Slough by the railway
last night." He said, "No ; I did not leave town all day
yesterday." I then opened my coat to show my uniform,
and said, " I want you on account of a woman you were
with, who was found dead last night at Slough." He did
not appear disturbed. He replied, " No, I don't know any
one there." I said, " There's a woman found dead there,
and you are supposed to be the last person that saw her
alive." He said, "If it be, it must be a mistake in my iden
tity ; my station in society places me above any suspicion."
I took him down to Salt-hill, • where the coroner was then
sitting.
Samuel Perkins—l am an inspector of the Eaton po-
lice. On the 2d of January I went to Mts. Hart's house
and got two or three papers. Some others were taken
possession of by another officer. I took charge of the
prisoner on the first day of the inquest. I took him
to Eton to my own house. Mr. Williams, his counsel,
saw him on the following day about one o'clock. The in-
quest was resumed on Saturday. After the interview with
Mr. Williams, on Friday, the prisoner spoke to me, He said
"This poor, unfortunate woman once lived in my service
about two years and a half, or nearly so; perhaps you know
that." I said I did not know it, but I had heard so. The
other constable then came in, and the prisoner went on to sly
that she had left his service about five years ago. The other
constable told him that whatever he said would be reported
to the coroner to-morrow. He said he did not mind that.
He then said he had been in the habit of allowing her
moray, and that she used to pester him, writing letters for
money; that she had been a very good servant, but a very
bad principled woman ; that she had written to him that if he
did not send her some she would do something—she would
make away with herself. He said he came down to her house
and told her that he would noliallow her any more money.
She then asked him if he would give her a drop of porter.
He said he sent her for a bottle of stout, and he had a glass
and she had a glass; that she held her hand over a glass, and
said "I will, I will." She poured something into the glass
out of a small phial, not much blgier than a thimble; that
she drank a part, and the remainder was thrown into the fire.
She then began to throw herself about as if in convulsions,
and then lay down upon the hearth- rug. He then went out.
He did not believe she was in earnest, or he would have called
some person.
The Court adjourned at three o'clock for a few minutes for
refreshment; on resuming business,
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When she was with him it was some time before she could
speak. At length she said—" My dear, what have you been
doing?" Ho said, "Nothing; but I hope you will forgive
me." She made some reply, but that was all I heard.

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Cross-examined by Mr. K ELL] —The lady stayed there
about an hour. When the prisoner was conversing with
Perkins, and when I came in, the first thing I heard him say
was about there being porter, and a battle and two glasses. I
said nothing to the coroner about this.
Mr. Champneys, examined by Sergeant BYLus—l am a
surgeon at Salt-hill. I was sent for to attend Mrs.. Hart
a few minutes before seven o'clock on the Ist -of January. I
ran all the way. I saw Sarah Hart lying on the floor. I
felt her pulse at the wrist. I was not certain there was any
pulsation. I put my hand under her clothes to feel her
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dead before I opened the vein. I saw the bottle, glasses, and
beer on the table. I put them in the recess by the fire-place.:
About nine o'clock the same evening I returned and took
possession of them, and carried them all away home with
me, and locked them up. On the following day I inspected
the body, assisted by Mr. Norblad, Mr. Pickering, and
another .surgeon. By direction of the coroner I afterwards
made a post mortem examination. I dissected the body in
the presence of Mr. Norblad and Mr. Pickering. I smelt the
odour of prussic acid the moment I opened the body. I made
a remark. I examined the heart. It was perfectly healthy.
I examined the lungs. The lung itself was healthy, but the
coverings had the remains of old inflammation, old standing
adhesion. There was nothing to account for death in the
lungs. The abdominal viscera were healthy. I examined
the stomach. The internal surface had more mucus
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the purpose of analysis. I placed them in a bottle which
I took home and kept until I took it to London next
day (Friday, the 3d.) I went to London accompanied by
Mr. Norblad, and Mr. Pickering oined us in London. 'We
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Mr. Cooper ; and added, prussic acid was found. During the
experiment we found no smell of prussic acid. lam of opi-
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have no doubt about it. I saw Mr. Cooper after the ad-
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bottle, in the glass, and the bun. No prussic acid was dis-
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solution only
o ladtaken contain
§COMSCII. I put some prussic acid in porter on the evening of
the Thursday. I put half a drachm in a tumbler, and the
than
Scheele'sa grain could
tumbler was filled with Guinness's stout. The smell of the
acid was then scarcely perceptible. Ido not think a person,
after taking enough to cause death, would walk more than a
few yards from the house.
Cross-examined—l have been four years in practice. I
never examined a person before who had died from prussic
acid. My authority for the case I have cited, in which no
odour was perceptible, is in Taylor. The body was examined
thirty hours after death. 1 apprehend that in that case the
contents of the stomach were tested by the smell. The odour
may have passed into the blood after thirty hours.
Mr. KEt.rx—Do you, Sir, really believe that enough
prussic acid to cause death may be swallowed, diluted in por-
-ter or otherwisi., without !taring any odour from the mouth ?
Witness—l should certainly always expect to find the odour,
but I cannot cay that it would be impossible that it would
be absent.
Mr. li.Eur--Did you not boil down tho contents of the
.
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r. Baron PAnKE decided that
Sergeant Byles should resume the direct. examination.
Witness examined by Mr. Sergeant KYLES—The contents
of the stomach were first exposed to evaporation. The re-
tort was placed in a sand bath, and the sulphate of iron was
applied to the. distilled portion of what came off; and.the
sulphate of potassum and muriatic acid were subsequently
added, and the result was Prussian blue. The production of
Prussian blue is considered an infallible test of the presence of
hydrocyanic acid. Mr. Cooper then placed the retort in a
water bath to obtain a lower temperature. The distillation
was again tested. Mr. Cooper regulated the temperature by
a thermometer. It would be impossible, in my opinion, to
produce prussic acid from the decomposed contents of the
stomach. Thenitrate of silver was applied to the second dis-
tillation, and cyanide of silver was the result deposited on the
glass. All the tests for prussic acid produced it.
Cross examination resumed by Mr. KELLl—Prussic acid
s highly volatile, and of peculiar odour. Whilst it is vola-
Iming, a strong odour perceptible to any one is emitted. The
contents of Sarah Hart's stomach were exposed to a boiling
heat of 212 for several minutes. During that time we all
tried to catch the odour, without discovering it. I don't
know that I ever saw prussic acid distilled before. There
was no odour from the few drops of blood I drew from the
daceased. I don't feel competent to say that epileptic
patients would be more easily acted on by prussic acid than
others not so afflicted. The case to which I have alluded, in
which 7-10 the of a grain was fatal in Paris, was that of seven
epileptic patients, to whom by mistake a dose containing
7-10ths of a grain was administered to each, and they all
died, some within a few minutes, others after three-quarters
of an hour.

. ,
(A. debate here arose as to this case, it being reported dif-
ferently in different books. Mr. Baron Parke referred to
the original book, in which it was found that one died within
15 minutes, and the rest at different periods to the last, who
lived three-quarters of an hour.)
Cross-examination resumed—The odour was, in some
cases, found eight days after death. After the froth had
subsided from the porter I poured on the drachm of. acid,
I perceived the smell strongly. Hydrocyanic acid exists
in many substances—in apples, and many fruits,, for in-
stance. I agree with Christison, who says, at page 756,
that hydrocyanic acid is formed in numerous substances,
where it was not previously supposed to exist. The prussic
blue of commerce is obtained from the blood and horns of
animals. The chief components of prussic acid are 62.12
carbon, 12 of nitrogen. and lof hydrogen. It is said to exist
in the human saliva; but not. as pussic acid. It is called the
sulph. cyanide. It exists as hydrocyanic in cherry stones
and other fruit kernels. There was no smell at all during
the teats of the deceased's stomach for the other poisons, and
we then came to the conclusion that there must be prussic
acid. The process through which the stomach and contents
were then put would produce prussic acid from apple pips or
other fruit kernels. When we obtained the prussic acid it
had no smell. Down to the last experiment, in which we
obtained a certain large quantity of pi ussic acid, I perceived
no smell at all, after the firSt odour I perceived on opening
the body. We did not burn any of the substances produced.
By Mr. Baron PARKE—We did not try to burn the cyanide
of silver.
Cross-examination continued—The first thing I did when
called in to Sarah hart was to feel her lathe. I thought at
first I perceived a slight pulsation—a throb or two; but
now I imagine I did net feel any. When I put my hand
upon the region of the heart there was no pulsation at all.
I felt satisfied the deceased was dead when I tried to bled
her. I thought it better to do so, as one of the usual means,
merely in order to leave no means untried, as in cases of con-
gestion of the head.
Mr. KELLY—Do you mean to say that you did not open
the vein for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death ?
IVitness—l may have tried to see whether the blood con-
tained anything to account for death, and I wished to satisfy
the persons present that nothing was left undone. I took
out the contents of the stomach eighteen hours after death.
The vessel into which I put them was perfectly clean. It
was a broad mouthed pickle bottle. I did not wash it out,
but I held it up, and locked through it, and saw it was clean
and quite clear. That is the bottle (produced).
The witness was re-examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES, at
very considerable length, upon the subject of the quallties,
&c., of prussic acid, and with regard to the cases of the seven
epileptic patients in Paris.
Th c Court adjourned at saven o'clock, till Thursday at nine.

AYLESBURY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

• (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
The Court resumed this morning at a few minutes before
nine o'clock. The entrance to the Court-house was crowded
-to a dense degree, and it was with considerable difficulty
an entrance could be effected.
The prisoner when placed in the dock seemed particularly
nervous. He paid maiked attention to the evidence, and
particularly to the cross-examination cf the witnesses by
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly.
Mr. Cooper, the chemist of London, was the first witness
called, and he was examined at considerable length by Mr.
Sergeant Bylee, with reference to his experiments on the
contents of the deceased's stomach, which had been sub-
mited to him in order to test the existence of poison.
He found in the stomach of deceased the pips of some
apples. He discovered in the seeds of those apples a
quantity of prussic acid. He did not think that any balance
could measure the quantity of the poison. There was just
as much as would colour the bottom of the phial. To the
best of his ability the bottle originally contained
more than a grain of prussic acid (the bottle con-
tained the contents of.. the stomach). . The quantity
was a grain at the time'llf -the second examination
of the bottle—there might have been more at first. The pro-
bability was, that it would be so. The bottle was tested for
the second time on the Bth of February, about four weeks
after the first. He was not enabled to say how much
prussic acid had been originally introduced into the stomach
before the contents were removed. A variety of circum-
stances might tend to decrease this quantity, as absorption
by the system, &c.
Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—He had never before that
time examined the contents of the human stomach where a
person had been killed, or where prussic acid had been taken.
He had had a good deal of experience of the chemical proper-
ties of prussic acid. It had a peculiar smell, whether in its
strongest state as concentrated acid, or in its weakest form.
It affected the back of the throat in a peculiar manner. He
had met it more frequently in a diluted form, when combined
with water, than in its concentrated state. Ile had no per,
sonal experience of the quantity that would kill. His know-
ledge was drawn from books.
Baron PARKE—The least quantity that would kill was
that he thought mentioned yesterday in the case in the
French hospital.
By Mr. KELLY—He began his investigation with the
view of ascertaining the presence of oxalic acid. When he
tested the contents of the stomach he took various portions
for the purpose of discovering the presence of various -poisons.
The witness then detailed his mode of testing it.) He did not
discover the smell of prussic acid en first testing the con-
tents of the stomach. The smell of beer was the most pre-
dominant. 'When his experiments had failed to discover the
other forms of poison, he directed all his skill to discover the
existence of prussic acid. On the second examination, on
the Bth of February, he took a great deal more care than on
the previous examination. This was a test of quantity, not
of quality. The quantity actually obtained was one grain
and forty-three huildredtbs of a grain of prussic acid. One
hundred and thirty. six grains of cyanite of silver was
equivalent to twenty-seven grains of hydrocyanic acid. The
stomach of deceased contained some undigested flesh, the
apples he had already mentioned, and a pulpy mass, of which
he could make nothing. He did not see the apple pips, but
knowing that that tribe would yield prussic acid, lie after-
wards tested them. He was not aware that sweet almonds
would yield prussic acid ; the bitter almond certainly
would. He made an experiment, on two separate
occasions, on different kinds of apples, and ex-
tracted a little prussic acid from both. The test was
simply placing the pips in a retort with water, and
distilling it. lie then added to the distilled liquor a little
sulphate of iron, and the contents of the other phial on the
table was the result. Ile did not think it necessary to crush
the pips; the distillation was the only test. He thought that
no substance contained pure prussic acid.
Mr. KELLY—How do you reconcile that with your
former statement respecting bitter almonds? Witness—
His opinion was that prussic acid was so extremely
volatile, that if it existed in a free state it must be cents-
Eually evaporating, and it could not therefore exist unless
combined with some other substances. Animal substances
contained prussic acid. He would not say that it was likely
to be produced by a change in organic matter. As far as he
was aware of, he was himself the first discoverer of prussic
acid in apple-pips. He was not aware that if apple-pips were
macerated, that they would Yield more hydrocyanic acid.
Mr. KELLY quoted from "Taylor on P.oisons," to-the effect
that the odour of prussic acid was present when the poison
itself was not existent. Did Mr. Cooper agree in that opinion ?
Witness—l do not.
By Mr. Byrass—Before the trial he communicated to the
prisoner's solicitor what his evidence would be.
By Mr. Baron PARKE—After all the experiments he
had made, lie had no doubt of the presence of prussic
acid in the stomach. The absence of smell might be
accounted for by its dilution, or by its odour being
covered by that of other substances. It did net
follow that-the prussic acid should be in the form of salt. He
had never stated that it was in the form of salt. In his
opinion it could not exist in the stomach as a cyanite of
potassium, where another and more powerful acid, as muri-
atic acid, was present in the stomach in considerable quan-
tities. He was not of opinion that prussic acid could be
formed in the contents of the stomach by putrefaction.
Joseph Cooper, jun., was son of last witness, and had been
his assistant for four years. He smelt the prosaic acid in
the course of these experiments at the time his father did.
Charlotte Howard—Was servant with Mrs. Gilbert at
Streatham. She was at Salt-hill on the 26th December,
1843, and became acquainted with deceased. Witness was in
the family-way, and had a child at her house. Daring the
time she remained there (four months) Tawell came there
twice. At the end of September in the following year she
was there to see herchild, and Mr. Tawell came there. Mrs.
Hart let him in. She did not see him. She knew his voice. He
remained about ten minutes. She was told by Mrs. Hart to
go and get a bottle of stout. She brought it and Mrs. Hart
afterwards came out of the room and told her to go for a
sheet of paper. She went and returned with the sheet of
paper. Mrs. Hart was then in the back room and Mr.
Tawell was in the front room. She went then into the room
where he was. He went away in about a quarter of an hour
afterwards. She saw Mrs. Hart again soon afterwards. She
was very ill, and said, " Oh, I'm so ill. I was obliged
to tell my master to go, for I can scarce stand." She looked
very pale and sick. She looked dreadfully ill. She was
very well all day before witness went for the paper. She
retched very much, and went up stairs to bed. She retched
there very much. She said "she had drank only a little glass
of porter and it made her very sick." Witness then went to
in below and found 13 sovereigns, which she took
care of. She saw on the table some of the porter s h
had fetched ;it was not quite gone. She and the children
drank the porter that was left in the bottle, and it did not
injure them ix the least. She (Mrs. Hart) remained in bed
and complained of her head.
By Mr. KELLY--There were three children in the horse.
two of Mrs. Hart's and witness's child. Mrs. Hart was not
receiving medical advice at the time.
Edward Weston Norblad, surgeon at Stroud.—He had
practised for ten years. On Thursday, the 2d of January,
he went with Mr. Chamfmeys to Mrs. Hart's house. He
saw the body of the deceased there. He had heard the evi-
dence of Mr. Champneys, and he would infer the existence of
poison if death had suddenly followed the matter taken into
the stomach. He would attribute the very sudden death of
this person to one of two poisons—either prussic acid or oxalic
acid. He was present at the two first examinations of the
contents of the stomach. Mr. Cooper had correctly
stated the tests he had applied, and he (witness)
agreed with him in the inference he drew there-
from. Oxalic acid must have been detected if it contained that
acid. lie had no doubt that prussic acid was in the stomach,
and he attributed the death of deceased to that cause. Ile
had heard the accutuit of the last witness of what took place
in October, and the spiptoins were such as would be
on the whole of the annual creation. It, destroys lite in
the earns!" mantier in all. He had himself tried experiments
upon animale. He had seen goats, cats, and dogs poisoned.
I ; lie had especielly tiled experiments upon do;'. Hs had
administered to two dolts, some hours after feeding them--to
one of them beer containing -half an ounce of Scheelea, and
to the other one drachm of prude acid. He•gaVe it them eft