The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-03 00:00:00

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POLICE COURT.

-YESTEBDAY.

(Before Mr. P.J. Smith.)

GERNIA.N9 IN TROUBLE.—Conrad Ponlus and Annetta
Ponlus, respectably-dressed Germans, were charged with
stealing a large quantity of bed-clothes and a gold-mounted
stick, the property of Bernard Nelson, a Jew, living in
Waterloo-road, with whoralhemale prisoner was employed.
The stick was subsequently found in the prisoners' house,
in Sherwood-street, by police-constable 340, to whom the
male prisoner stated that he had bought it. The prose-
cutor being unable to attend, owing to yesterday being
the Jews' Passover, the prisoners were remanded.
CAUGHT IN A. CAB.—.Tales Came and Bridget Carne
were brought up on suspicion of stealing a large quantity
of wearing apparel, of every description, which were found
in their possession under the following circumstances :
On Saturday night the attention of police-constables 569
and 700 was drawn to a cab in Pall-mall, in which the
prisoners were seated, having with them a box, which was
subsequently ascertained to contain the wearing apparel.
Officer 569 got on the box, and ordered the cabman to
drive to the main bridwell. On arriving there the pri-
soners gave several accounts of the property, stating at
one time that it was not theirs, and afterwards that they
had purchased with a view of emigrating to America. Re-
manded to endeavour to find an owner.
DRIPPING WITH ROGUERY.—Wm. Granning, a black-
visaged-stable boy, was charged with stealing is. 48. from
a little girl, named Mary Renner, living in Sawney Pope-
street. On Saturday morning the girl's mother sent her
to fetch a quantity of dripping, and the prisoner, who was
present, volunteered to accompany her, stating that he
knew a shop where she would get it good. He took the
girl to the Bull Hotel, in Dale-street, and having got the
money from her, he put her against the wall, and told her
to remain there until he fetched the dripping. She waited
from 11. until 2 o'clock, but the prisoner did not return,
and she then went home and told her mother. Informa-
tion was given to the police, and the prisoner was appre-
hended at Lucas's stables, where he was employed.—
Remanded. _

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A SYMPATHISING THlHP.—Jonathan Williamson was
charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Hughes, of Mill-
street, druggist, of a gold watch and chain, value £2O.
The prosecutor stated that about seven o'clock on Satur-
day evening he was in Mack's public-house, in College-
lane,when a man asked him if he would give him sovereigns
for a£s note. He said he could, if the person would
endorse the note. This he declined to do •, and a short
time afterwards, when leaving the house, the same man
met him in the passage, and, without saying a word, he
struck him a blow on the side of the head, knocked him
down, and ran away. While still in the passage, the
prisoner came, and began to condole with him, telling him
to take no notice of the affair, when he suddenly struck
him a blow on the breast, and snatched at the watch-
guard, which gave way. and the prisoner escaped with the
watch and broken chain. He raised an alarm, and police-
constable 106, of the county force, pursued the prisoner,
and succeeded in capturing him with the stolen property
in his possession. A sharp Irish boy deposed to the
prisoner leaving the passage of the public-house with the
watch in his hand, and to the guard striking him in the
face as he passed. Mr. Bluck, who attended for the
prisoner, asked if the bench thought there was a case
against his client. (A laugh.) The magistrate : Certainly.
Mr. Bluck : Then I decline to say a word. The prisoner
was committed for trial.

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STEALING CATTLE.—John Latham, John Atherton,
and Henry James, were brought up under remand,
charged, the two latter with receiving, and the former
with stealing two cows, the property of Mr. Farrell,
butcher, London-road. On the 18th of September, the
four cows were taken from a field on Low-hill, Liverpool ;
and, it subsequently transpired that they were taken by
the prisoner James, who rejoices in the sobriquet of
" Toffey Harry," and Atherton, to Wolverhampton,
where they sold them to the prisoner Latham, who is a
master-drover and cattle-dealer. Latham offered the
cattle to another dealer in Wolverhamton, for £l5
a-head ; but the man knowing that this was a very
small price, and having heard of the robbery at Liverpool,
gave information to the police, which led to the apprehen-
sion of Latham, in whose field the cows were found. The
prisoners were apprehended on the following day at the
cattle-market in Liverpool. They were committed for
trial.

MYSTERIOUS CASE AT NEW BRIGHTON

A SHORT time since an inquest was held at New Brighton,
before Mr. Churton, the coroner, to inquire into the cause
of death of Mrs. Emily Watts, wife of Mr. William
Watts, surgeon, Nottingham. Some mystery appeared to
hang over the case, and from the evidence it transpired that
the deceased had had an injection of tobacco decoction
administered to her, and that she soon afterwards died,
but no charge was preferred against the husband. After
the interment of the body, which took place in Lincoln-
shire, rumours got abroad tending to implicate Mr.
Watts in having administered the injection of tobacco, or,
at all events, of having been cognizant that his wife had
been subject to such treatment, the result of which was
that, at the instigation of the brother of the deceased,
Mr. Thomas Barkworth, residing near Hull, informations
were laid against Mr. Watts, for having made false state-
ments to the registrar of deaths for the district of Wal-
lasey, touching the death of Mrs. Watts.
The case was heard on Wednesday last, at the Sessions-
house, Liscard, before Major-General Sir Edward Cust,
Bart., and Daniel Neilson, Esq., magistrates. Mr. Snow-
ball, Mr. Banning, and Mr. Phillips, of Hull, solicitors,
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Conway, barrister,
instructed by Mr. Townsend, solicitor, conducted the case
for the defendant, who was present. The informations
were laid under the act for regulating births, deaths, and
marriages, 6 and 7 William IV., c. 86, sec. 41 and 43. The
first information charged the defendant with having, on
the 6th instant, made a false statement to James Cross,
registrar of the district, that Mrs. Watts had died from
constipation of the bowels and effusion into the abdomen,
which statement amounted to perjury ' • and the second
information charged him with having wilfully inserted, or
caused to be inserted, on the registrar's book a false entry,
that the deceased had died from constipation of the bowels
and effusion into the abdomen, of a month's duration,
whereas he knew that such was not the case, thereby com-
mitting a felony.
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Mr. §nowball, in opening the case, said the accused
married the deceased lady on the bth of April this year,
and on their marriage a very large property was settled
upon her, which she had it in her power to dispose of by
will. After the marriage they lived in London, Chelten-
ham, and other places, and at last, about three months
previous to the 4th of September, they came to Liverpool
and went to New Brighton. On Friday, the first day of
September, the defendant and his wife went into the shop
of Mr. Albright, druggist, at that place, and she there
executed a will by which the defendant obtained a benefit
of £14,000. On that day she was in good health, having
been at the Assembly Rooms at New Brighton, where she
walked about for a period of two hours. On Saturday she
was playing at backgammon with her husband. On
Sunday she remained in bed all day, hut there was
nothing material the matter with her, for at six o'clock in
the evening she dined off lamb, and had some porter. The
defendant was a surgeon, and was in practice many years ;
he was 61 years of age, and his wife was 56. On Monday,
the 4th, she was ill in the morning, but not remarkably
so. On that day one of the servants went to a shop in
New Brighton, and purchased half an ounce of tobacco,
which she said was by her mistress's orders. She took
it to the kitchen, boiled it in a saucepan, strained
it, so as to separate the fibres from the decoction,
and then took it to her mistress, who told her she
was going to use it as an enema. The door was then
closed ; and there was evidence to show that the deceased
had taken the injection. Shortly afterwards the lady
became extremely faint, from the effects of the decoction.
The accused went into the room, and was with her for
some time. After a while he gave her some brandy and
water—a proper thing if affected with faintness, but an
improper thing if he thought she was suffering from
constipation of the bowels. He also gave her some
ether. She was sensible at that time, and did not appear
to think herself in danger. Shortly afterwards her whole
body semed to be convulsed, and she screamed in a
dreadful manner. No surgeon, however, was sent for,
although Mr. Watts knew that Mr. Parker and Mr. Parr
were in the neighbourhood. The will was made on the
Ist of September, and the lady was a corpse at four o'clock
on the 4th. On Wednesday the defendant took Miss
Wade, his granddaughter, to the registrar's office, and
there he gave a surgical certificate stating that death was
caused by constipation of the bowels and effusion into the
abdomen. He said the evidence would prove that the
cause of death was not constipation of the bowels.

Mr. James Cross, registrar of deaths in Wallasey, pro-
duced his book, showing that the defendant had, on the
sth September, certified that the deceased had died from
constipation—one month, and effusion into the abdomen.
The entry was signed by Sophia Wade, but in the pre-
sence of, and with the knowledge of, the defendant.
Dr. Parr, upon being examined, said he had made a post
mortem examination of the body on Sunday, the 10th ult.,
and found the stomach and bowels in a healthy state ;
they were empty, and there were no signs of constipation.
Witness overheard, in conversation, about the enema of
tobacco water a day or two previous to the examination,
and he had heard it from Esther Winn, the servant, the
day after the examination, when she told him all the par-
ticulars. He was satisfied that the tobacco water was the
cause of death. _ _ _ .

Mr. Wm. Mint, solicitor, Nottingham, deposed that he
had been an attesting witness to the marriage deed of set-
tlement, which was executed on the 27th March last, by
Emily Egremont (deceased), and Wm. Watts, the defend-
ant. (The deed was produced.)
Mr. Thomas Barkworth, brother of the deceased, stated
that he received, at Hull, a letter signed by Laura Watts,
on the 7th September, informing him of the death of his
sister. He arrived at New Brighton at five or six o'clock
on Sunday evening. Witness then entered into particulars
of the interview he had with the defendant, stating that
the latter never told him death was produced from tobacco
until the Monday evening after the funeral. Defendant
had told him previously that constipation of the bowels
had produced death.
Mr. Henry Churton, coroner, deposed to holding the
inquest upon the body of the deceased. The defendant
had told him that the deceased was troubled with consti-
pation, but said nothing about the tobacco water.
Esther Winn said she was a native of Newark, in the
county of Nottingham, and had been in the service of the
defendant and the deceased from the sth of April last up
to the time of the death of Mrs. Watts. After having
breakfast, witness went to the bedroom of Mrs. Watts on
the Sunday in question, when she gave her 6d., and told.
her to purchase half an ounce of tobacco. Witness pur-
chased the tobacco at a grocer's shop, for which she paid
lid., and returned the change to Mrs. Watts. The de-
ceased told her to boil it in a pint of water, strain it
)ugh a cloth, as she was going to use it as an enema.
ess accordingly boiled the tobacco in the presence of

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vant girl, and afterwards took it to her mistress in an open
pint jug. On witness leaving the apartment, Mrs. Watts
shut the door. In about a quarter of an
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