EXTRAORDINARY POISONING.-...
The Times, 1824-08-07T00:00:00

EXTRAOaLDINARY POISONING.-On Saturday last a action was done, which,were it not for Its tragical catastrophe. mig be the saubject of ridicule, on account ot' tbe extreme folly which displayed. A girl had found in the ruin of an old house, a srni parcel wrapprd in paper, which she brought home to her mother the Saltuariket. This wa. aDout five or Sir weeks ago. The m thier seems to have been one of those whose maxim it is never throw any thing awray, as it will always be found to be one day other for some use. This package contatned a whitish powvde which the mother thought to be starch, and which she proposed use the next washing dey. A ueighbour woman, wno was consu ed, thought it was a penny-worth of cream of' tartar. and ths it w determined iL shouldi be. The mother of the finder having kept all the while in her ptocket, thought that she and three of her clb; dren needed physic on Saturday; she theretere einptied the pap into a jug, poared water otn it, and sweetening the mixture vi sugar, stirring it well, that the strength of it might not fall to t bottom, she took some of it herselt', and gave it to three of i ciiildren. They werc tl instantly seized with violent heat in t stomach, and soon aster with violent vomiting. About ni o'clock, when tl:e tather came to his brealkfast, he lound his dly in this situation, and immediately procared medical a Tute appropriate remedies were used, Dout the eldest child, gitl fiticeit years of age, died about two o'clock, and anot? three years old died on Sunday morning.' The medih gentlenian who attended, hinted to the father on Saturday aftersto the wisiL to open the eldest girl's body; but this was denied wi oaths and imprecations, and with threaty of violence if it shot be attempted. The nature of' the substante was ascerair in the me.atime; particles of it were found inl the miother's pock and the jug fromt whici they drank contained rome portions of These were submitted to clymical experiments, asod it was disevOre unequivocably that the poison was arsenie. .5thi it was thought i cessary to trace its presence and operation in the stomach and ir. tines. It was recollected that the first account of such events is , al]ways the truth, and tthlat farther investigation totaly alters aspect It was, therefore, thought proper that an official iuspec- should be ordered, that the clain of legal rnedical evidence in ca of poiLeoning should be comupleted, ready prepared to be called i: use, should any future discinstre render critinal procedure nec sary. A warrant for inspection was given by une of the magistrat but when this was intinated to the tether, he burst into the tlu ungovernable tury, and threatetied violence against thtien to wlhoml the mandate of the magistrates was cirected. ttn Si day morning he was still determined to resist authority, a7d gan to use violence ag-ainst the pulice-offimers, who had co along with the superintendant to ree that the magistrate's w rant was complied with. It was therefore necessary to ca him to the police-ofice, which could not be done but mere force. The bo&y of the oldest was inspected, there was tond in the stomach and the intestiles a considers quantity of the same substance, wbich was afterwards reducec its metallic state-the surest test of arsenic. (n the whole of S day, there were imimense crowds otf peeple about the CiosC when atlair tooik place. Irn the evcning as plan of finance was had recot to. In the entry to the hou.e a pewter plate was placnO upon a st. and tiiere stood beside it a grave4looking person, no doubt the mat her of sutue agency or otl.er. HaIf-pmice, pennies, sixpences, sntlii'i.,b irstc th1rown iii, amid a gotod deal d i mo0ney was collec. YesterdaFy boys and girls were admitt id otr a penny each into house us look on the poisoned children in their shrouds, and to the unfortunate womrtan wshose muistake had occasioned their deati an exhibition, one would think, not very contolsiory to her feejix and certainlv not tavourable t. her recovery. Still, however, sh now out of imnicdiate datnger, and the t hirdachildhas not suff mnuch. No criminality, upon investigation, can be attache to person, and the futher returned yeterdity aterfoOw tO IS lan having expressed himself sorry for the threats and violence wi he used.-Giegowr Clhronicle. About halt-past 9 o'clock on Sunday night a von was observed in Aain.street, Caiton. with a child about tlvo -y and a lialf' old, whch v.was crying bitterly, and led to the suspi that it was not her own. Shse was Closely questititcd, but, g4ve sive answers; and atter putting dow.n the Child, atin1pted to tr her cscape. Se was, however, seized by the people, and, a with the child, taken to thie Calton police office. About nne vesterday nertn6ig the distracted parents arrived Drom PArlJ and cluinmed their child. T'e woman wan yeStedy examssine.i tore the sitting magistrAte, but there being no lirect evideLe.: hle liad stolen the child, atnd she mNaintarinlig she hbd fond it t dering, and was only taking it home tor Isuamanity, t'e *ase was missed. Several hundreds of wonle were collected before the of and when aheaunearedI Ehe wyas so roughlyised, that she liitii-to I shelter in the olice until they were dispersmaL-(W?gJW CJlrtsta -;