Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-25
The Norwich Poisoning Case.


 husband of the former, last month, began be- fore Judge Kellogg of of the Norwich city court on Monday of last week. Hon. John T. Wait appeared in behalf of Mrs. Cobb and 1 s. B. Thresher for Bishop.
 1 The father of the deceased was the first 1 witness called He testified that hls sons health had always been good previous to the attacks of numbness and the burning sensations 1 in the stomach in his last sickness. He also 1 swore to facts showing the improper inter course between the prisoners.
 The next day was chiefly occupied with the medical testimony. Dr. Carleton testified to the symptoms of poison by arsenic. Dr. Doremus then took the stand and ex- plained the methods by which he detected the presenco of arsenic in the organs of the de- ceased. He was afterwards asked concerning op, who died last winter. Objection was made and the decision reserved On We'd nesday, however, when the same question was again raised, the court decided to admit the testimony.
 Prof. Doremus swore that he was present when her remains were exhuned. They were found in a remarkable state of preserva- tion. The stomach, intestines brain, liver, kidney and spleen were taken out and placed in clean glass jars, sealed up and taken to New York for analysis He gave a minute history of bis analysis and statedthat he found arsenic and Paris green, which in the absence of other poisons was in sufficient quantity to produce death.
 On Wednesday, druggist testified to hav7 ing sold Bishop arsenic, last winter.
 Mr. Brewer, prominent Mason, of which order Bishop is member, testified to queer statement which Bishop made to certain mem- bers of the lodge just before Cobbs funeral Bishop said that he knew there were unfavor- able rumors afoat about him, and went on to declare that six weeks before that time he lad bought arsenic for Cobb and had handed it to him on the street, Cobb having requested him to get it for him. Bishop says, ''Not for your self, is it Charlie?" ard Cobb said ''no." Bish- op alse told witness that they would find poi son in Cobb's body, as he had been taking strychnine and phosphoric acid on prescrip- tions from his physicians.
 The physician who attended Cobb in one of his attacks swore that he gave him no pois- on.
 Thursdays testimony began with the evil dence of another of the Masonic friends to whom Bishop made his disclosure It fully corroborated the statement made by MT. Brew CT the day before.
 Mrs. c. H. Cobb, mother of the deceased, then testified that in February last her son had violent attack of sickness immediately after drinking his tea, complained of burning sen- sations in his throat and stomach and sense of numbness in his limbs; he took large dose of ipecac and some tobacco to cause vomiting, and felt better after it; in March he had sim liar attack and went to a physician who told him the symptoms were that of poison and gave him. a prescription. She also swore to having seen very suspicious conduct on tf 9 part of the prisoners She warned her son of his wifes misconduct and of the rumors of her trying to poison him.
 Further testimony was offered to Bishop having been formerly employed in a drug store and to bis improper intimacy with Mrs. Cobb .#t
 The accused offered no testimony and were both committed for trial before the Superior Court next September,
 Local feeling is strongly against the prison CTS and their conviction is expected with con fidence. Norwich has had four murder cases during the past year, and is fast encroaehing on the peculiar glory of Bridgeport.
 Beaconsfeld finds his political opponents willing to join issue on the Treaty of Berlin. On Thursday he made his long expected speech in the House of Lords. Cnriously enough he claims that the Treaty strengthens the Otto- man power, and preserves Turkey in Europe from destruction. His speech was evidently intended to reassure the foreign powers wbo are provoked by British aggressions in the East During the session sharp personal controversy arose between Lord Salisbury and Lord Derby, the latter averring that he left the Cabinet because Beaconsfield was proposing to seize Cyprus whether Turkey consented o1 not. Mir. Gladstone declares the protectorate over Asiatic Turkey an insane project, and Lord Huntington, the regular leader of the Op- position, has moved the following resolution, which will be debated in the House of Con- mons next week:
 ResoEged, That while the House has learned with satisfaction that the troubles in the East have been terminated by the Treaty of Berlin, without further recourse to arms, and rejoices 1 in the extension of liberty and self-government to some populations of European Turkey, it l regrets that it has not been found practicable to deal more satisfactorily with the claims of the | Greeks; that in regard to Asiatio Turkey, the military liabilities of this country have been unnecessarily extended that underlined en- agreements relative to better administration of the Asiatic provinces have imposed many responsibilities on the State, while no sufficient means are indcatedi for securing their fulfil ment: and that these responsibilities have been incurred without the previous knowledge l of Parliament.
 1 The dreaded heat wave struck us on Thurs: day of last week, and during three days, in cluding Thursday, thermometers ranged from I ninety to one hundred all over the Eastern States The papers were full of reports of sun- stroke, many of the cases fatal. Saturday was an improvement on the two days previ- ous Sunday was better yet; and Monday and Tuesday have been decidedly cool. In New York there.were 139 cases of suu-stroke 29 oi them, fatal
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