Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-27

The Great PossonEug Case IN England
--sNfg,cr I'm eA since.

/ Diner Cases Sa1ces
Two rcrdicts have been returned sgainst Pal
| mer--one for the murder OF John Parsons Too't
his turf assoelate the olhes for the murder 81
his wifc--and the third Investigation. Oh which
he stands charged With de murder ofhis brother
| Il progressing, and sill doubtless find simiial
result. Tie r1ir1nr which attributed 70 Palmer
Lord George B4i.tick's death. has turned out. 3.
expected, Ehosig incorrect. Anosber exhama
| ton and inquest has. however, been ordered OF
The body Of i Mr. Baden, who died at Palmer.
house under rather mysterious circumstances
In the meantime Palmer i carefully watched IN
prison 10 prevent his antic pating nv suicide hi,
trial, which i likely to be removed froa, STAT
ford and TO take place IN London in the caris
part OF next sDoaih. No posons usually 80 cal
led, "a stryebnine or arsenic, have been foGHt
in the slomseh.. Or. TAYLOR, the celebrated
analyst, and DR.. Rees, the medical gentleman NJ
ISOLATED eith him in the examination, repoF
that they discovered in various, indeed in al
portions of the three bodies quantities Of anti
mony, which must have been administered al
intervals, either through ignorance or by de
sign, and which NAV have caused death or no
according 10 circumstances. Pratt, the eeebra
ted nSnrer Of Mayfair. will, we doubt not. unrare
many DARK circumstances connected with this ex
t,sordinary affair He is soon 10 be examined
The Postmaster of RageIey tempered in the
interest of Palmer with letters passing through
his Office, and Palmer attempted with iolersble
| success, with presents of game, to sednce the
virtue of the Coroner who conducted the Inquest
on the body of Cook The Postmaster has been
committed for trial Tor opening letter address
sed to Mr. Gardener, the Coroner, by Professor
Taylor. and the Coroner himself is shown to have
received a letter or two from Palmer of BY no
means creditable character 10 him. Other
startling Developments in this horrid series OF
crimes may be anticipated
The excitement of the people in regard to the
Prisoner and all that relates to him is extraordi.
nary. The auction sale Of his stud comprising
brood mares, horses in training, and yearngs,
took place at Tattersals, where the crowd and
many of the leading patrons of the turf we're
present. Competition was sustained with spirit
and high prices we're realized, many sportsnle1
seeming TO desire 10 possess something from the
stud of one whose name is henceforth to be i'm
mortal in crime. Even Major Grove, Her Maj
csty's ovcrseer at the royal paddocks Purchased
one of The borses-Trirketess-- bid hirl, 10
on several others. The Chicken started a.
300 guneas and was knocked down at 500 gum
cas-; Nette. the ilvoritc at the Gssf s last year
started at 100 and was knocked down at 43t
guneas and three year old fill, brought 59(
guneas The stud consisted o. seventeen ami
mails, which realized the gross sum of 1906 gum
cas-, or nearly S2h,bnp.
Il. is said he had many in surances upon tho
head OF other persons than t nose he had victim
lied: and that the companie refuse to disclose
them. II 1883
The monster Palmer is enlarged with murder
by the poisoning of his N other in-law; his wife;
five Children brother ar d various otherpcrsons,
npon whose lives he lad effected insurance. He
seeTr.,s to have made the nature and the effect o
the poiSons his VIII ole study In the scnliev OF
his house bottles 'of poison have been found, and
though regular physician he seems to have
dealt in no other medicines but poisons which
he was in the habit OF buying constantly at the
druggists without any attempt at CONSIGNMENT
4 corresp ouacn, of an English paper thus de-
scrbes Palmer
He went about crime in very English way;
metholicay; in business like manner; being
a punctual poisoner. 1t was very straight-tor-
ward, and the only wonder is that no one was
acute enough to detect so palpahlc murderer.
He was constantly buying poison-antimony
prussic acid and strychninc--in his neighbor-
hood, though he knew, and every one knew, that
he had no practice oft the regular kind. People
often remarked that they had felt sick after
drinking with him, for poison appeared his pas
time, and he practiced doses on his best friends.
Whenever any body staid day or two at his
mouse, Ilclr TplDONai WIS W ai'i'-
His father died suddcnly-hs wife died sudden
". OF six children he had by his wife, only one
lived. HIS mo;her-,n-law died suddenly. The
day before Cook died, Palmer brought strych'
nine from druggists, few doors from the inn
in which, an hour or two after Palmer lett tho
druggiSt Cook was in commissions. He named
one of his horses Strychnne.
| This strange man lived in Rugcey, in tho
County OF Stafford.
Treadng upon the heels of the above case
comes one from Manchester, England. In this
last case too a surgeon named Holland figures
and who WAS examining surgeon for the Diaden
| Insurance Company. Holland certified TO tht
case of Monaghan as 4 life fit to insure, which
was done; but the insured died soon by poison
and the son of the deceased and the surgeon
! Holland applied for the in! trance money. The
surgeon had made Il con:esson by which it ap
pears that two other persons had been thus poi
| sOncd.
| And still another case occurred in Manchcstc"
in which two children were poisoned to Obtain
from a burial club in which these children wcr,
enrolled the sum Of five pounds, to which Tho
parents were entitled on the death OF each child
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