The Sun. — 1845-01-07 (London, England)

LAMBETH. with stealing r geAI a asan,ali basketas oFfewwl eva,,raing yaiun of 61., on the 9th of November. Susan Lowe, a laundress, stated that on the evening in question she employed the prisoner to go with her to carry a basket of clothes to St. Martin's-lane. The in•isoner walked exceedingly fast, and Mrs. Lowe desired him to go slower ; but when opposite the Marsh-gate he young apparel,w an of the value was charged contrived to give witness the slip, there being a great crowd, and she never Saw the prisoner Or the clothes again. James Brooks, an active constable of the L division, appreapprehended the prisoner in Chelsea workhouse. hended Lowe said she was very poor, and had to support her aged mother. She bad been compelled to make good the loss. . The • prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery. The prisoner was then remanded, to give the constable time to find where the clothes had been pledged.  A t the close of the evidence, Ann Simpson, after the usual caution, was asked if she bad any statement to make; but, acting under the advice of Mr. Hi ham, solictor, who watched the case for her, and of William Illingworth, the husband of the deceased, she declined saying anything. The CORONER, in summing up the case for the consideration (ff the jury, said there could be no doubt that the deceased had died from the effects of arsenic; but the natural question was, whether it had been administered by herself or by the woman Ann Simpson, or the latter in conjunction with some other person. The evidence was altogether of a circumstantial character. It was calculated to create strong suspicion against Ann Simpson; but he doubted whether it was so conclusive as to warrant them in finding a verdict of wilful murder against her; and he did not like to encourage juries to find verdicts which were not likely to be sustained before the tribunal where the case must be finally investigated and decided. He then recapitulated the evidence with a good deal of minuteness, and particularly pointed out those parts of it which appeared to bear upon the conduct of Ann Simpson. He referred to the fact of the druggist's assistant having deposed that, as the woman who asked for the arsenic left the shop, she entered into conversation with another woman, which seemed to coincide so exactly with the evidence of Mary Catherall, as to leave little doubt that the woman who applied for the arsenic was Ann Simpson. That portion of the evidence also suggested another important consideration. The druggist's assistant had stated that ho told the woman that he never sold arsenic unless the applicant was accompanied by a witness, or was personally known. Now, Ann Simpson had known Mary Catherall for a long time, and supposing Ann Simpson to have been the applicant, a suspicious circumstance was, that after what she had been told in the shop, she did not ask Mrs. Catherall to go in with her to enable her to procure the arsenic, if as she said, she wanted it to kill vermin. After pointing out some of the portions of the evidence, the Coroner concluded by requesting the jury to give the ease tbeir most careful and impartial consideration. The jury, after consulting together for about half an hour, returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Ann Simpson," who, on the coroner's warraiA, was committed to York Castle, for trial at the next assizes.  F I THE LATE IRE N GHiLDFOgD-