Glasgow Courier. — 1855-12-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE POISONING CASE AT RUGELEY.  Mr. William Palmer, surgeon, of Rageley, who was arrested on Saturday evening week on the verdict of the coroner's jury for the wilful murder of Mr. John Parsons Cook by poison, was removed to Stafford jail on Monday in a post-chaise, The accused, who has been anfferi.rg from illness for upwards of a week, was al' lowed to recline on pillows, and he was accompanied by John M. Hatton, E3q., the chief constable of the county, and Superintendent Wool:silo°. A large crowd of persons assembled round his house at Rugeley to see him leave, and numbers followed the chaise through the town. On arriving at Stafford the same anxiety was manifested to get a sight of the prisoner, but the greater number were disappointed, as the chaise drove rapidly th (nigh the town, and,. me £eaching the jail, passed through the large gates 11314 the yard, instead of 'stopping, as usual, at the lodge tostrance. The prisoner took but little notice of the spectators; and since his confinement in jail has persevered in the same determination to abstain almost entirely from food, as he did during the lengthened proceedings at the inquest. On Tuesday morning, at an early hoar, a solicitor of Birmingham arrived at Itngeley, arid demanded admittance into the house of the accused, in virtue Of a bill of sale for MOM*, given in the spring of the prevent year. The request was refused by Mr. Burgain, ruperintendent of police, n ho WAS in charge of the papers and other things ur the house, %Oren an entrance was effected by breaking a pane of glass and opening the window. The whole of the stud of race-horses and otter property is stated to be included in the bill of sale, which it is said wan negotiated to an assurance office. lo consequence of the suspicious deaths of the prisoner's wife and brother, and other individuals subsequently, the police authorities, in conjunction with the friends of the deceased Mr. Cook, deter mined to apply for an order to exhume the bodies. Since this determination, the churchyard at Rugeley, whore the bodies are lying, has been strictly snatched by police officers every night; and on Wednesday, J. H. Hatton, Esq., went to London for the put. pose of obtaining en Interview with Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State, and who, upon the representation made to biro, issued so order for the exhumation of the bodied of the prisoner's wife and of his brother, Walter Palmer. War ants have been since issued by the coroner for disinterment of the bedies—the fernier having been interred about two years, and the latter nearly six months ; and the remains of the stomach end intestines will be subjected to chemical analysis, for the purpose of ascertaining, if possible, whether death was caused from poison. The prisoner is stated to have received the surn of £13,000 frorn an insurance office on the proof of his wife's death; and a similar insurance was effected T 1 his brother's life—the policy before his death having been ta ansferred to tire prisoner for an alleged debt of £lOO. The bodies of Ann Palmer, wife of the prisoner, and of Walter, Iris brother, were exhumed on Friday, and conseyed to the Talbot Arms, Rugeley, where a jury bad assenibled to inquire into the cause of their death. A. post snortem examination was made of the intestines, sad forwarded to Professor Taylor for analysis.