The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

. one of our most
The connexions of

ing a wool n erchant doing a large businesS
dir ctor. The Imir fugitive, we understand, is nineteen
years of age, and Mr. Burton is some few years her
senior. It is supposed that the young lady escaped from
her father's hou.e very scot' after midnight. accompanied
by a female artecdont. Mr. Burton was of course near at
hand, and a c.rriage being in waiting in an adjacent road.
the parry walked crer one or two fields ml then reached
the vehicle. By means of this conveys-nee th, y travelled
rapidly to York, where they arrive:( sufficiently in time to
proceed northwards by a train to Newens le, which leaves

and a bank

the York station about five o'clock in the morning ; from
Newcastle, it i, pre,umed, to Greti.a Green, the place so
privileged in the speedy consummation of matrimonial
alliances. The occurr, nce was not discovered by the
family of the young lady until a few hours aft, r her de-
pariure, so that all chance of cipturinst her in the course
of her precipitate iou►ney was at an end. Ingairi. s were
instituted in the locality, from which it was ascertained
that a party had ,gone in a carriage at an eally hour in the
direction o' York ; and on the :tam,- day they were married
a Clretna Green —Leeds Inbilio•ncee.

EXTRAORDINARY CASF: OF POISONING.—Dnring the
I,ist week the inhabitants of Happi•burkh, a village on the

Norfolk coast. have been in a state of great excitement, in
consequence of the exhuma,inti of a numt.er of bodies be-
I►eved to be poisrined. including those of a man named
Jonathan Balls, his wife, and four grand children, all of
whom recently (lied under very suspicious circumstances.
Information of the deaths having beer. given to Mr. Pil-
grim, the_county coroner, be, after some delay, i-sued his

warrant for the exhumation of the bodies, which, when that be had only taken them a few days v
taken up, were placed in a tent at the back of the pat ish qu.te another man; his breath was ea-V If
church. On Monday last, an inquest was held at the he was increasirg daily in strength•" mhos,
Hill House, FlapPisborgh. A post mo, tem examination Pills cure any cough, cold, or asthma. ,` se, girt ''o
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having been made, the surgeons stated that they had NAVIGATION —To the inhabitants of a -
strong suspicions that the parties had been to ironed. like unto Great Britain, and indeed to every,_v,ece Y
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fat l
Alter the examination of Ann Pestle, who identified the time nation, every instance of valour or t'
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bodies of Jonathan Balls, her father, and Elizibeth Pestle, those devoted to navigation ,Ilier flj a
is justly and hoe of beyond
her daughter, their. uest was adjourned to Thnrsday. On teemed. The deed of Grace Darling wa.s Of
Thursday, at the adjourned iliqu..st, the evidence of the and benevolence; and recently the affair' 00_0,,,,,(1, ii od
surgeons was proceeded with, Mr. Clowes, a surgeon, •• Whim." which 1188 been navigate t• ":11 hat u 0.1)0,
deposed that on the 20th April last, he vas called in to by Captain Kerridge and only e 170"'''oe ettterstor a'
attend Mr. Balls, whom he found vomiting and fetching board having died, with the exception of
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violently. He died soon alter. He thought his death had was incapacitated. No sic+ other insi... tix i-„c tyw,
been caused by eating some improper kind of food. He skill and indefatigable exet,tion is knostle_!"o,ore is'itscll
had analysed the contents of the stomachs of Jonathan of naval history ; from ,their continual
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Balls and Elizabeth Pestle, and found that they contained atmosphere, they were in hourly clang! ih,,, (att.."' t
a quantity of arsenic sufficient to cause death. Messrs. of Rheumatism, whith, had it occur c_ol,.ren Feali ''d IVA
liewitt and Frith. surgeons, corroborated thiz, last state- that of the shii, an cargo, would Intc,",eoo,o ti.. 4. io',
we swan. ,
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ment. Phoebe Neave deposed, that some years since she guard against such a calamity, Mau '. 0 stl'"
refused the request of Jonathan Balla to write a note to all persons should be provided with
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Mr. Saddler, chemist, for arsenic, with which the deceased Rheumatic Pills, which may be taken at Li:
said he was going to poison rats ; but she had written a restraint of employment.

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