Star.
London, England, 1826-09-01 00:00:00

ill ItY. LA•DONNE.

Wednesday evering, if,. Cu, of flomer-strert, was charged
with attempting to poison Sarah, his wife, Sr.d Mary Anti Cio:ier,
at altar boas".

Mr:. Coe depoctd, that she was nriri;ecl. to the prisoner last
January; she had known hint 25 years; his brother ntarried her
sister 50 years ago ; she !.as a llfe interest in doe house; ..n.l :here
other houses, which at her decease will become the property o: h-r
humsaiht; she also possesses money and furniture. IL; bu•baod,
before be n 3 d her, wu a p'.uniber and glaXitt, at Ki.lderinit:::cr,
they now are out of business. Ile represented himself to be ware.,
I,ooof. but his property only amounted to 260 f. Tin first
after they were married he proposed to have the leases transferre;'
to his own name, and has owned since that he minted her for bet'
property. lie has behaved so ill to her that hers-health is men
impaired, and, under the advice of Dr. Russell, Golden-squarer
she begun about a week ago to take bark and port wine ; it stood
on a shelf in the kitchen. On Monday night he asked to taste it,
and she took it on Tuesday as usual. IVednesday moniingshetold
him she really could not live with him, as her health was so injured
in consequence of hi, threats and bad language ; but it he would
leave her, be should have as much money as be brotqlit. Ile said
if he left her he would have more than that. Ile said afterwards
he would not leave at all ;.s long as there was a penny in the house.
Mr. RAWLINSON asked her what she meant by threats and had
language.— Ma s. Cox. Ile said, if be had a wife like one of Env
lodgers, he would kill her. I said, do you knew what you ure
speaking of? Ile replied, what he said he meant.. I then said, you
had better leave me. Ile said, no ;he would poison me. If I d:i
not live with him, I should not live with any one else. Last
Saturday, he said he would part, but he would take pretty good
care, helore that, he would do something. On Thursday last, I had
a woman to wash. I looked in a cupboard for a bottle, to send for
some gin. In a corner, where I sellout look, I found a Femur
parcel. I said to Mary Anne, here is a paper, do you know anything
of it? She aside no. We tasted its contents. She said, i. was
ordic aci 1. W setit iiiece to a chemist's in Crawford-street, for
we suspected something wrong. After breakfast, I went into the
parlour, and remained thri c.c.timers of an boar. My husband
came up afterward.; and I went down. Mary Anne then examined
the cupboard, seed tke parcel we.s goal.. I then said. we must i.e
careful what we eat. I esan.intel the port wine and hark ;it was
different. I took a little, and it made my throat smart. She fur.
ther stated, that Mary Anne lived .r-niaid with her when for.
merly she kept a public-house, and her husband did not like tier
living with her now.
Mr. liswaiNsoN asked if her husband could not have admiui,..
tered the poison in another w::y, alai she replied that her medicine
was the only thing of which lie did not himself partake. May
Anne drank nothing but water. A jut was ;ilways kept to the
area to be cool. We examined the an•i that a:co had carne
of the acid in it. IVe took some of the wile and some the water,
in separate bottles, to a chemist in Crawford-street, to be analysed,
and he sent us to Mr. Garden, of Osfordsstreet. lie set's !e has lb,
doubt each contains oxalic acid, and he will utterht if sent for.

Mary Anne Croke' corroborated this testimony.
Mr. Itawkr.ssoN to Mr. Cox—Have you ally question to put to
your wile ? Mr. Cux—l do nut know what to say ; lam as in.
'went as a child in the womb. The differences between me and
my wife were in consequence of her keeping Mary Anne ; and
when he remonstrated, his wile told Mot she was eating and drink-
ing norhing of his.
Mr. Ilawcissom to Mr. Cox—Are you prepared with any bail?
Mr. Cox—l have no friend or acquaintance in London.
Mr. RAWLINSON—This is a very serious charge. If you cannot
find bail I must commit you ; you shall go to rh. watch-bouse, in-
stead of going to prison; if you prefer it. Mr. Cox—l am obliged
to you, Sir ; I a.n innocent.
Mr. IlAwLiNsou—lt is for you to show how the parcel contain-
ing the oxalic acid cam.- into the cupboard. Mr. Cox—l never
brought a parcel into the house in my life., nor did I say I would
kill her, if I bad a wife like the lodger. I only said I would zive
her a d—d good hiding.
He was then sent to the watch•house.

Yesterday h:• was agoin brought up ; when Mr. Squire's 3 cslstart
stated, that he had examined the wines and the wazer brought to
him by Mrs. Cox and Miss Croker, and he firmly believed tliar.
there was oxalic acid in both. Ile was titit prt•p.tred to say its what
quantity, as it would take anothsr d .y to perfect the analyz Won.
Miss Croker asked Mr. Squires, whether it did not require warm
water to dissolve oxalic acid.—Mr. Squires replied, that it would
dissolve quicker in warm water, but in the COUNK of an hour it
would dissolve in cold.

Miss Croktr to Mr. Ilawunsmi—You last night, Sir, asked Mrs.
Cox, whether it was not possible for me to have put the oritid :cid
into the wine, and to the water; and although I acknowledge that
the question was very proper on your part, some person. have wig.:
understood its intentim, and have expressed an opinion that I
really did do it. Now, Sir, I can grove Cu the contrary. I went up
in the parlour with Mrs. Cox, and at the time we left the kitchen,
the water in the kettle was cold ; I was not out of her s'ght ; and
when we examined the liquids, the wine was warns, and the water
was warns ; there had evidently been warm water put into them,
and it was impossible I could have il,•ise it.
Mr. liawc.tstson said, lie was sorry any suspicion had attached
to her; for he felt satisfied she had nothing to do with it.
. .

Mr. Cox declared himself innocent. fie said. he never brought
anything of the kind into the house, excepting an ounce of salts,
which he bau,;ht of a respectable pasoti be could name. Ile again
solemnly dcclare.l himself innocent.

11r. itatwaittzsost—l 'must co:nmit you to prison for another ex •
amination; and according to the view we now take of the mattil,
you must then be conitaiited for trial: and the final caanunation i.
appointed to tJt. place at nue o'clock to-morrows

The East India Company's ship Mo-chi,ire,s of Eiv
was all well on the 27th of Jnue, in lat. 12." S. tog. 32. W. 04:-
ward-bound.
The poet" woman who was so ferociously stabbed by
her husband, Burt, last week, is out of dahger.
KI.KENNY, /loc. 25.—Considerable quantities of
rain have fallen during the last fortnight in this part of
the country ; and a Gentleman, who has l repelty 'tear
kells, informed us en Wedneslay, t! at it h,d yene-
trated full eight inches iota the ground. Such of the
late potatoes whose sterns have escaped destruction by
the grub, niay now, we presume, be considered as safe,
and will probably yield an abundant crop.
The Ladies wale to be admittei to the cricket- groun
Leicester, on Monday, free Of expense; the first instance,
we believe, of their being engaged in matches that cost
nothing, and does gi eat credit to the g the
Leicester Gentlerez..n. We would suggest :Le p;opric.:y
of their being engaged to keep :he ring.
Monday, a poor man named Rich.od Kcinick, fir-
merly belonging to the 92J Regiment, sat himself down
in Cie yard of Mr. J. Minter, coach-proprietor, of Can-
ter bury, and in a short time fell forward from his seat-
After the neighbouis had bated his forehead with vi.
negar, he somewhat recovered, and stated his name as
above; and again relapsing into his former insensible
state, he expired almost immediately.