The Poole Telegram. — 1886-02-26 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TIM PRISONER. At Warminster on Monday, Edwin Burt Pearce was charged on remand with the murder of his wife, by poisoning her with strychnine and arsenic, on 30th Jannary. Mr. Cobb, Salisbury,_presecuted on behalf o' the Treasury, and Mr. J. K. Rutter, Shaftesbury, (Wended. Half a dozen witnesses were called for the defanoe, with a view of showing that deceased had been tampering with herself for the purpose of prof, win abortion, and that her death was the result of misadventure. The witnesses stated that the deceased told them that she knew " what to take " Ina there were white powders and other things—that she knew better than to have children, and that she 'had not lived at a chemist's without knowing what to take and what to do." An old woman named Whatley was called, and questioned as to whether pregnant girls had not been in the habit of consulting lin. This she denied, and gravely stated that she hid had 13 children, and her eldest daughter 12. Bhe admitted having a white powder in the house for the purpose of worms, but could not tell the name of it. It might be calomel. She did not remember having seen the deceased. F. Cane, postman, said he had very frequently delivered letters, bearing the London post-mark, to the deceased, who would of ten meet him 200 yards away from her home to receive them. Her husband (the prisoner) had asked witness to give the letters to him, as he believed there was some "hokey-pokey" work going on between his wife and others. The Bench committed the prisoner for trial on the capital charge. Throughout the proeeedings he bore himself with every light demeanour, and often joined heartily in the merriment caused by the drollery of some of the witnesses.  The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the unemployed in London on Monday amounted to £60,000. The committee on Monday made further grants amounting to £8,500. The market gardeners of Penzance and neighbourhood decided on Thursday to forward all their produce to the great markets of England per steamer to Plymouth, and thence by the South-Western Railway. They were supported in the action by the representatives of the fish traffic of Mount's Bay. The charges If the Great Western 'Railway were considered excessive, and the representation made to the company on lie subject had had no practical result. The London Christian Globs refers editorially to the introduction into England of a new remedial agent, which has brought about wonderful results in curing certain dieease!ts, hitherto deemed incurable, the statements as to its officacy being so strongly authenticated that thei, absolute truthfulness is assured. Dr. T. Waraker, L.L.D., Intercollegiate Law Lecturer at Cambridge University, writes that he has used the remedy successfully in his family for neuralgia and rheumatism ; Mr. R. Butler, M.A., also of Cambridge, says that it cured his rheumatism, and bestowed wonderful benefit oil many of his friends, and one of the officials of the Yorkshire Nonconformist College, Leeds, says he found it he a sure healer of sprains and bru seq. The name of this wonderful preparation is St. Jacobs Oil, and the proprietors, the Charles A. Voelger Company, have established a Great Britain branch of their house at 45, Parringdon-road, London. St. Jacobs Oil is sold by Chemists at 2s. 6d. a bottle, or by poet 2.1.9 d., from the Charles 4. Voelger Company, sole proprietor, 45, Farringdon-road, Lendon,