The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-TCESDAY, AuG.2B.

(Before Mr. Justice Bosanquet.)
. THE CASE OF MYERS AND POW. •
Angeline Pow, a female dressed in widow's weeds, was in-
dicted, with one Henry Myers, for the murder of Thomas
Davison Pow, by administering to him while in a weak and
distempered
state of body, certain large quantities of a
spirituous liquor called gin, and also by causing to be taken
from him divers excessive quantities of blood.
Myers did not surrender. The case appeared to excite the
most intense interest. Mr. Prendergast applied to have the
trial postponed until Myers should surrender, but the court
declined to accede to the request.
Mr. Prendergast then addressed the jury. He said, the
case which he was about to lay before them was one of consider-
able importauce—the indictment imputed to the. prisoner the
murder of her husband ; be was certain therefore, that the
jury would give the case the calmest consideration, and that
they would dismiss from their minds all prejudice that might
arise from reports upon the subject that they had heard out of
doors. It would appear that the prisoner and the deceased
had been living in a very unhappy manner for some time be-
fore the occurrence took place that would be brought before
their notice. The deceased had been in the habit of drinking
ardent spirits to excess; and he had been attacked with a
disorder called delirium tremens, and had been treated forth at
disorder at the Middlesex Hospital, but ho was discharged
from that establishment in the month of July in a tolerably
good state of health. About this time it would appear that
the other person (Myers) had taken a house in London-street,
FitzrOy-square, and thither he, the deceased and the prisoner
went together to live. Soon afterwards it was observed that
considerable quantities of gin were brought into the house;
so much so as to attract attention. The deceased was soon
afterwards again taken ill, and a nurse was hired to attend
upon him ; he rallied a little, but ultimately died, and the
jury would have to consider under what circumstances that
death had taken place.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet, after consulting with Mr. Justice
Coleridge, expressed an opinion that upon the statement of
the counsel for the prosecution, the case could not stand.
Mr. Prendergast said that he felt the difficulty of the case.
Mr. Justice Bosauquet then told the jury that the prisoner.
could not be convicted upon the indictment preferred against
her.

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A verdict of not guilty was accordingly returned.
The prisoner was again arrainged upon the coroner's in.
quisition, and a verdict of not guilty was recorded.

MARCH OF MIND.—An honest farmer in the state of
Pennsylvania married a Miss from a fashionable boarding
school-for his second wife. He was strack dumb with her
eloquence, and gaped wonders at his wife's learning. " You
must," said he, bore a hole through the solid airth, and chuck
in a mill stone, and she'll tell you to a shaving how long the
stone wilt be going, clean threw. She has larnt kimistry and
Fockneyology, and talks a heap about ox bides and comical
infinities. I used to think that it was air that 1 sucked in
every time that I expired; howsomdevar, she" Celled me that
she knowed better—she told me that I had been sucking in
two kinds of yin! ox gin and high gin ! My stars! I'm a
tumbledown tee towtal temperance man, and yet have been
drinking ox gin and high gin all my life."