The Sun. — 1857-01-21 (London, England)

MURDER OF A WIFE BY POISONING,  WESTMINSTER. Robert Kay Butler, a welldressed and respectable-looking man, appeared to his recognisances to undergo a final examination, charged with a series of offences. Mr. Bodkin appeared, as before, on behalf of Mr. Loxdale, proprietor and printer of a local paper called the West MT:idles= Advertiser. The circumstances which gave rise to the present proceedings are briefly thee :—On the first publication of the paper in question, early in Nov. last, the prisoner offered his services to obtain advertisements, and was to receive 20 per cent. upon all the money he brought in. Shortly after this, and at a time when his commission only amounted to I/. 10s., be obtained a cheque from Mr. Lozdale for 10/. oe account. It was subsequently ascertained that he had not only brought a number of sham advertisements, but in his capacity of collector had embezzled divers sums received for the insertion of genuine advertisements.  Mr. Bodkin was not disposed to occupy the time of the court with respect to the false advertisements which he declared prisoner had never any authority to insert, and which had been produced, to colour his claim for commission but determined to shape the charges into five cases Of embezzlement, and one of obtaining the 101. above alluded to under false pretences. Five tradesmen were then examined, who proved that they had paid the prisoner divers small sums, amounting in all to 2/. 2s. Mr. and Mrs. Loxdale stated that the whole money accounted for by the prisoner was 31. lb., having reference to other advertisers, and 11, 104. for which he never gave a list. He had never accounted for the money received from any of the five tradesmen above mentioned, and two of them had sent their advertisements to the office without any solicitations from, or knowledge of the prisoner. The accused declared that the 11. 10s. paid to Mrs. Loxdale without any names was from those very individuals, as would be seen by the dates of the receipts. Mr. Paynkr considered it his duty to send the above charges for trial at the Central Criminal Court, with a view to their fall investigation by a competent tribunal, and took small bail for prisoner's appearance there. In the autumn of last year, owing to a complaint signed by a number of inhabitants of Ebury-street and its neighbourhood, directed to the Sanitary Board of St. the district, visited the extensive cow-yard George's, Hanover-square, Dr. Aldis, the medical officer ofof Charleshealt health of in the rear of the houses in Ebury. street, and upon that gentleman reporting that it was a nuisance and injurious to health, proceedings were taken at this court, under the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, against the proprietor of the offensive place in question. Mr, Paynter, after a very lengthened review of the case, made an order against defendant as follows :—That the number of cows should be reduced to 90 ; that the district surveyor of St. George's and one appointed by defendant should consider what alterations could be made in the sheds, subject to his (Mr. Paynter's) appro. val, regular whitewashing, and the pavement constructed with such an inclination as to allow the slop to run off more readily, and the grain reservoir to be emptied and cleansed. It was then determined that the surveyors should inspect the sheds as early as possible, in order to give defendant time to appeal against the decision, if dissatisfied with the results.