Star.
London, England, 1828-08-02 00:00:00

. -

twentpeipht•yeau.s..in business. in -Jime• last. • Oa the
she 15th of January he had been out to
_speed. tbe.evening, and did not return till three o'clock
the next morning. He arose about ten o'clock, and
.called Selina Hopkins to get .his breakfast: and
:thee. wens Into tl:e surgery. While he was there,
.his .daughter Lavinia brought him the tea-pot to
.look at.. The. contents of it appeared like soap suds,
only there "vas no bubble on it. He took the teapot
,from kis daughter, and called for Selina Hopkins and
,Ann Jones. They both Came, and he asked them who
hid put the water in the kettle? They both denied it.
He told them he would make them tell, and reached
down a hand whip. and gave each of them a couple of
stripes with it. At that time Mrs. Jackson came in and
interfered, and begged him to let them alone till his
servant Redles n cans,. in. When Redtern came in 4 wit-
ness called hien, and asked him whether they made the
tea .with clean wale' ? Redfern replied—" Surely with
clean water; surely they did not put that water for you ;
surely it is not poison." Witness said, be was afraid it
wasdend then took it into the surgery, and put a spa-
tula into the teapot, and the liquid turned it black.
Itonsediately. Witness's son was going to London
that morning to attend some lectures, and witness
put part of the contents into a half-pint bottle, to
take with him to Mr. Barry, of Guy's Hospital, to be
examined. Witness -then tried pan of the test of the
liquid with a solution of nitrate of silver and nitrate
of potash, and it gave a yellow precipitate. Witness
thought it was arsenic. He had some arsenic in a
chewer in the surgery, and the corrosive sublimate in
the bottle now produced. He examined the drawer,
and could nrt discover that there was any missing. He
die not examine the contents r f the bottle till he had a
communication from Mr, Barry, and he then found a
sensible diminution in the conter.ts. The label on the
bottle now produced wa3 hydragunt oxidant. Prisoner
had been appient'ed to him for three years. He had
timplained to a Magistrate of her five weeks before,
and she was imprisoned in consequence for one month
An Stafford gaol. She then requested to return to her
service, but, instead of stopping at his house, went to
Birmingham to see her friends, and did not return till
next day. Witness threatened to have her sent to gaol
for three months longer.
Cross-examined by Mr.Wntrootaa.—l had the tea-
pot in any hands all the time I was chastising the girl.
The spatula was quite clean when I put it into the tea-
r*.
. Mr. Baron VA UGH AN—Had you any reason to know
that the girl was acquainted with the contents of the
bottle now produced?
Witness—No, my Lord, except that she had seen my
servant, when I lived at Oldbury, sell it to the farmers
to kill the fly on sheep.
Cross-examinati resumed.—l was not present when
the prisoner saw my servant sell it; I never sold any at
West Bromwich, except a few grains. I don't remem-
ber fur what I ed it. . _ _

Mrs: aelison was then examined, and confirmed the
testimony of the for Mer witnesses, adding, that when
inquiry was made about who filled the tea kettle? Ann
Jones emptied it and filled it from the. pump with fresh
water, and there was always a boiler on the kitchen fire,
from which it should have been filled.
Segna Hopkins, the other set rant apprenticed to the
prosecutor, said, that abut 18 monthi ago, her master
threat,ned to put Ann Jones in gaol, fur setting fire to
his• curtains, at Oldbury. Jones then said, that she
would . put some poison in his ale when he was drunk,
and then he could not say any thing abaft it.
On cross-examination, it aplyeared the witness had
bad some difference with the prisoner about a gown.
fart of the contents of the teapot, the spatula, and
the teapot, which had all been seated up before the
Makistrate, were now produced.
Mr. Barry. .lecturer on chymistry at Guy's Hospital,
said be could detect the *presence of a very small
citraniiii •of corrosive subliTate dissolved in water.
Ili cold water it would reinern , suspended; hot water
would assist the solution, buts these would be no change
ni ale' constitution of it. The witOeis then proceeded to
eihitit the effect of the following different tests on the
ltgard now' produced iii part of the contents of the tea-
pot.* adding at solution of,potath to any acid, if mer-
ettiy be pteient;it will become a deep yellow. Hydriate
4 potash, Mixed with a solution of corrosive subli.
slate; instantly produces a deep scarlet ; that merely
imairiates the presence of poisonous mercury, and might
lit iiiiinti•as well as oxyrnutiate of mercury. fly add-
hilititrite of silver to the *onion, a white sediment
;Vadat:ed. The firit experiment shows the mer.
base, the second the oxide. Those three esperi-
ataiits coireinced the Witness, that the liquid contained
citioSiiresoblinsaie. A saturated solution of corrosive
sisistimitte, on being disturbed, would ,retain a Aiilky
4.` ~/••
allowance all night, and putting the spatula into such
is:sOlittinti would produce the effect described by Mr.
JOCatin, '
ajdi,Viatdraiity,. with whom was Mr. WHITCOMB.
thei addve.sed the Jou for the prisoner.
*eft Samuel Bruerton la's then called, and stated that
**Was [lilt Governor of the BirminghaM Orphan Asy.
oe
lien: : the/triage , II 4 years under his cam,"
titsie:kitras apprenti out to the opiecutor. She had,
atiliqi, heirs a *vitt, ' nest, and i4OrestriOus girl, which
inds*l hisq, to ret'oroiriend her tir Mr. Jackson. The
irplititareallfief oft pitiless ,sis aprodu alter. and *rid
the.,*orpsnendatfori. he bad Orli was correct, and she
bfbaiiedso wells 1114 bel. was induced to have the second
,„ V4von gi!),fr ; the establishment.
M, -
4
air baling summed up the evi-
de 'tiejury bind the prisoner Gaiky, . and the
dJo e Sentenced, her to be imprisoned f..ir two
ylitYs in th °use of Correction.
The'As &Tor Staffordshire closed this afternoon.

• -
TnesdsrsAtt ens 6fteen.eonvicts were shipped at
Leith on board. *e Royal Sovereign, London smack,
for tuusijsortutien. . • -
The.sbissulerfishings on the Forth have for some time
been moritAlsn usually abundant, and promise to repay
the tacking/1k for the•deficiency• experienced during the
melons put of Ilse:emit). By tha recent enactments
regarding salmon fisheries, close time does not com-
mence tsd the 14tb. of September, while by the old law
it.cornmenctd so early as the 27th of August. • •
Richard Brtrlch. aged 23; whale Orderedfor eleeution
on Wednesday next, was convicted at the last Old Bailey
Sessions of robbery, under the following circumstances:
The prosecutor, J4rnes ;Sla: et , was carrying a basket of
linen through North.street, Limehouse, in the evening
of the 19th January, when he was knocked down by
two men, who filled his mouth .with mud, and seising
the basket, ran away with it. The prisoner was appre-
hended by Charles Freeman, and in his flight was seen
to throw .away the basket; and on exaMination
hands liege found to be rely muddy. He iratcommittrd •
front Lambeth-street .Office for trial. butottifected his
escape ft outstint ksak.up we 0110.• wiWitlwiwever, te-
vac" at Lansis4.lsillissiolk ssitere he was in custody en
mother charge. - •