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If she did not, inasmuch as it was taken in that room, in
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-
minster it to herself, where is the little phial? It is not to
be found. Bat 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. He 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 verdict will be
given agreeably to your own conscientious feeling, and satis-
factorily to public justice.
The address of the Learned Sergeant was listened to with
breathless interest throughout.
Mr. F. KELLY requested that the prisoner might be ac-
commodated with a seat.
Mr. Baron PARKE—Prisoner, do you wish to sit down?
Prisoner—Yes ; I should be much obliged, as I have long
had a varicose affection.
A chair was then placed in the dock for his accommodation.
The following witnesses were then called for the prose-
cution :
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 had 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 I
went in.
By Baron PARKE—I saw his face. I had the light in my
hand. I held the candle over. I can say the prisoner 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, " I 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 same 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 Mrs. 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. Burrett. 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. 1 sent one
of Mrs. Burrett's apprentices for Dr. Champneys. The de-
ceased's name was Sarah Hart. I saw no phial about as big
as a thimble. We searched the whole house carefully for
anything, thinking she had taken something that killed her.
I 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 door for fear. When I first found Mrs. Hart, she was
breathing by fits, crying " Oh, 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.
Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY, Q.C.—I never saw the
prisoner before that day. I think it was near five o'olock
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 1 saw Tawell
going out. I think it was then part 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.
Burrett, after she saw Mrs. Hart. The apprentice's name is
Lovegrove. She is not here. The doctor's is about a quarter
of a mile from the house of Mrs. Hart. Dr. Chainpneys
arrived in a few minutes. I cannot say how soon I heard
Mrs. Hart speak before the stifled moaning. 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 be 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 had 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 heard 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, and bleed her." He
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 ont in consequence of leaving I
her two children alone. do not know of her going out that
evening after Mr. Tawell had arrived.

MURDER AT SALT-HILL.

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AYLESBURY; WEDNESDAY, Mallen 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 crash and rush at the hustings of a contested election
than the opening of a Court of criminal justice. After a
struggle of more than half an hour's duration, destructive cf
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 Court-house
could scarcely have been adopted. A small band of police-
men were ranged along the top of the steps, and their conduct
was most proper. Mr. Tindall, the sub-sheriff, also showed
every disposition to manage affairs with a due consideration
for the public convenience and the nature of the solemn
business of the day. But there were three or four officials in
the hall 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 before 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 Byles 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 Ist 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."
Haying 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 prosecus
tion said, the prisoner at the bar formerlycarried 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
show 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 for 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 Berkhamstead 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-
Lion. 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 find
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 his connexion with this person. On
the Ist of January, in the present year, the prisoner was at
the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill, London, the waitsr 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 short 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 she was 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 fife-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 had apparently
been sitting. In one of these tumblers there was soma frotli,
in the other there was porter or porter and water, it is not
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, and raised her
head up, but the deceased was unable to speak. Mrs. Ashley
called in two neighbours, and 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 ho 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 instead of 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 same direction. What became of
him in the interval *e 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
a person was in the first-class carriages who ought to, be
watched. Quick as the train went, the signal was there
long before the train arrived at the London terminus.
The Learned Counsel then stated at length other particulars,
which have already appeared in the newspapers, respecting the
movements of the prisoner, his pursuit by the policeman, his
statements about the deceased and her pouring something
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 herself. 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 deadly poison ? 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 shall 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 he have done that if she had taken the poison her-
Reif? I feel, gentlemen, that it is very invidious and painful
for a person in my situation to make these observations ; but
it is my duty to call your attention to these things. I ask
you, whether, no evidence being given to that effect, you will
be of opinion that she administered the poison to herself?

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Chappell, 201, Rtgent-strect ; and Messrs. Addison and Hodson, 210,
Regent-street. Tickets to be had at all the principal music ware.
houses, and at the Box Office, where places only can be secured.

The caution koney, or Deposit, of £2 per Share (or so 11 further
sum as may be required by the French Government by the law which
has been recently presented to the Chamber), will be returned without
any.deduction, but without interest, on production of the Bankers'
receipt, in case the Company shall not become Lessees of the Line.

7, Lothbury, March 12, 1845,

RITISH . INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL
The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the
WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS is OPEN DAILY, from Ten in
th 4 Morning till Five in the Evening.
.Admission, ls.—Catalogue, Is.
WILLIAM BARNARD,. Keeper.

ROYAL. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A Curious Piece of MECHANISM to supply the LOSS of the
HAND, is daily exhibited on a person, who, having lost his own hand,
is enabled to perform many of the ordinary functions of the natural
one. PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated
by Dr. Ryan in his daily Chemical Lecture on the Mornings and Eve-
nhigs of MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY.—A Series of
LECTURES on ASTRONOMY by Professor Bachheffnex, on the
Mornings and Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
during Lent, accompanied by Dr. Wallis en BRABY'S CALOTONE.
Working Models of New Inventions, are daily explained. NEW
DISSOLVING VIEWS, including the SHRINE of the NATIVITY.
CHILDE'S CHROMATROPE. THE PROTEOSCOPE. The
PHYSIOSCOPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER, &e. &C.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

CILARA SEYTON'S NEW ENTERTAIN
MENT.
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Miss CLARA SEYTON will giveher ILLUSTRATIONS of the
DRAMA and the OPERA, received with the most enthusiastic ap-
plause, at CROSBY HALL, BISHOPSGATE-STREET, en TUES-
DAY Evenings, and on THURSDAYS, at the MUSIC HALL,
STORE-STREET,

Miss CLARA SEYTON will sing admired compositions of Schubert,
Weber, Mozart, Pacini, Sze. Three new ones, by Mr. T. Cooke ; and
the e:ntertainment will conclude each evening with Albert Smith's
brilliantly successful Comic Medley Scena, "A Musical Scamper over
Europe.,'

Doors open at Half-past Seven, to commence at Eight.
Tickets 2s. and 2s. 6d. each, to be had of all Music-sellers ; at the
Hall ; and of Miss Clara Seyton, 47, Condult-strect, Regent-street,
of whom alone Private Boxes for Store-street (One Guinea each) may
be obtained.

Re-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAsT—The whole affair
before my discovering the state of Mrs. 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 bad 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 Ist of January. She said to me,
" Ah, Barlow, is it you?" I said, " Why, Mrs. Hart, what
are you running for P" She replied—
Mr. KELLY objected.
Mr. Sergeant KYLES contended for its admissibility.
Mr. Baron PARKE 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. Burrett—l live in Bath-place, Salt-bill. 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 hard, and her eyes
appearing fixed. I fetched some water from a large yellow
dug, which stood full in the kitchen. I helped to put her
ead 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 fire-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. He lives on the oppo-
site side of the road, about two hundred yards from Mrs.
Hart's. He bled her when he came. On the table I saw,
besides the bottle and glasses, a part of the beer. I saw no
money. I saw no phial about the size of a thimble.
Cross-examined by Mr. Kruiy—lily clock was just upon