The Sun. — 1825-08-25 (London, England)

NSLA LIGHTER. Robert _Mato was indicted for killing and slaying William Lupton ; the prisoner was tried upon the Coroner's Inquistionf the Grand Jury having thrown out the Bill preferred against him.  Mr. STAIME stated that this was a case of a very peculiar nature, and called fir their 'most serious attention. It would be proved to them, that the prisoner at the bar had administered poison to the deceased. It would be for them to cirarmstaness-, and with what modes it was so administered ; they would weigh all the faCts of the case, in order to decide whether the deleterious drug was administered 'for the purpose of producing a ,beneficial and salutary effect, or fin- other more dangerous purposes. In the one case they must find the prisoner guilty of murder; in the other it would amount only to manslaughter. He hoped that this trial would prove a salutary warning to those individuals, who, tampered with the lives of their fellow-creatures, without possessing the slightest knowledge of medicine. . Wm. Lupton, a boy of six years old, son of the deceased, was called and examined its to his knowledge of the obligations of an oath. Having been found to understand it perfectly, he was examined, and went on to state that he remembered when his father died; he died on a Sunday; he went to bed about eight o'clock on the evening before ,•- Nuttall was in the house on that evening. Witness was then in bed in a room on the same floor with his father ; he could clearly see what was passing in his father's room ; he saw Nuttall holding a paper of pills in his hand; the paper also contained some white powders i • he did not hear the prisoner say any thing to his father, On the following morning his father mixed one of the powders in a cup and took it. There were pills and arsenic mixed up in the cup ; his father did not take the pills.— Cross-examined : He knew it to be arsenic, because his mother told him so. •  John Bowett said, he saw the prisoner at Coke Fair on the Bth of %larch ; he told witness that Lupton was very ill, and troubled with worms, and that if he cured him, he was to have Iss. for the job. lie called upon witness in about a week, and asked him if he had not got some pills from John Blakey for the worms ? Witness said he had. Prisoner, upon looking upon them, Mid he could make pills like them. He did not say why lie wished to look at the Two druggists deposed, that a day or two before the death of the deceased the prisoner bought two pennyworth of white mercury, which he was told was poison, and which he desired to have wrapt up in three separate papers; he got in another paper two pennyworth of jalap. Nancy Brown and Sarah Lupton were called. They proved that the prisoner and the deceased were seen together on the night in question, and that the deceased had taken the powders, which the prisoner had brought him ; that he became violentl? ill in consequence of taking them, and that he died on the following day. Mr. Petty, a surgeon, said he opened the body; he found in the stomach a quantity of brown liquid, weighing nearly a pound and a half ; the coats of the stomath were much injured by it. Another surgeon had analyzed the liquid, and had dis. covered a quantity of arsenic in it. The stomach was in a situation which indicated the reception of mineral or vegetable poison._ .  Dr. Lester was called, but did not appear. 31r. Justice BAYLEY, in summing up, dwelt upon the very tender age of the witness upon whose testimony the case rested.  The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Justice BAYLEY told the prisoner he had had a narrow escape, and cautioned him against meddling with medicines in Future.—The prisoner said he would take his Lordship's advice, and was discharged.