The Express. — 1849-07-23 (London, England)

DEATH 01, MR. DROUET, OF TOOTING.—Mr. Proust died on Thursday last. at hie residence at Margate, after s vent months' revere illness. It will be remembered that a few months ago Mr. Drouet's life wits in imminent danger from divase of the heart; and the panful situation in which he has been placed since the death of Mrs. Drouet, which occurred in September last, and the subsequent breaking up o' his establishment, hove not, of cuuue, tended t) slleviate the disorder. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT THE SUNDERLAND Doses.—Oa Tuesday morning, as two of the horses belonging to Messrs. Hunter end Thompson, contractors fir the dock entrance, were employed in dragging the engine chain down the platform of the east inclined plane one of the horses slipped his loot and fell ever the platform, dragging over. board the other horse also. The collar of the srczrld horse caught a hook in one of the posts, where the poor animal hung for some time until he was rescued by ropes being mused round his body. The first hors, bad fallen from a height of 30 feet on to the rock below, and completely broke his neck, which killed him instantly.—Senderland Herald. ALLEGED MCRDER BY POISONING AT CRICKnowaL.—A coroner's jury at Beaufort, in Monmouthshire, have returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against a woman named Margaret Michael, who is suspected ef having caused the death of her husband and three of her children under the following circumstances :—Abut ten months ago the husband was suddenly seized with violent sickness of the stomach, and also with violent purging, but no suspicion of anything unfair being then entertained, he was supposed to have died from natural causes, and the interment of his body, without an inquest, took place as a matter of course. At that time a man of the name of Ebenezer Jones lodged with the deceased and his wife, and from what has been stated in evidence, there is reason for supposing that the husband had cause for inferring the existence of a criminal intimacy between his wife ant the lodger, and this ef course led to great unpleasantness between the parties. Shortly after the interment of the deceased, Jones and the widow were lodging together, as man and wife, and soon after two of the children died, after labouring under similar symptoms to those from which the father suffered. About three weeks back the only surviving son, William Michael, aged twelve years, also died suddenly, and suspicions having arisen in the minds of the neighbours, the coroner for the district was applied to, and, after preliminary enquiries, he issued his warren for the apprehension of Jones and the woman, and directed the body ef the boy, William Michael, to be disinterred. This having been done, the stomach, with its contents, wss carefully taken out and forwarded to Mr. Herapath, the celebrated analytical chemist at Bristol. That gentleman attended at Beaufort, where the prisoners resided, on Tuesday last, and produced proofs, before the jury there assembled at the adjourned inquest, of arsenic having been found in the body of the boy. Evidence belly then rendered necessary to ascertain by whom it was administered, Mr. Day, superintendent of police, succeeded in tracing out where poison had been purchased by Margaret Michael, and produced "the .party who sold it, and who at once identified the pritioner. The woman has been fully committed to take her trial on the charge of wilful murder. —lVekh Paper.