The Sun. — 1862-03-19 (London, England)

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORK.  (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Richard Buckle, 35, was charged with feloniously administering one ounce of laudanum to Jane Buckle, his wife, with intent to murder her, at Middlesborough, on the 26th of June last. Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Serle prosecuted ; Mr. Maule defended the prisoner. On the 26th June last the prisoner was a police officer in the Middlesborough force. His wife had been subject to pains, and on the above day he gave her a dark brown liquid, which he said she was to take just before getting into bed, and to say nothing to her sister, who was in the house, about it. This latter precaution excited Mrs. Buckle's suspicions, and she therefore confided what had transpired to her sister. Upon going to bed Mrs. Buckle took half of the liquid, instead of the whole as she had been instructed, and at an early hour on the following morning she became dangerously ill, vomited seven or eight times, and had to keep her bed the whole of the day. The matter, howevet, passed over until a fortnight after, when the prisoner brought home a powder which he said he had got for her from a person named Hopper. This, whilst her husband slept, she took from his coat pocket, and substituting in its place a similar looking powder, composed of sugar and flour, she took the former to Mr. Dickenson for analysation, when it was discovered to be strychnine. His wife then, in fear of her life, took her child away from the house, and gave inforI mation to the police. The prisoner was then apprehended, and tried at the last York summer assizes on the charge of attempting to administer strychnine. He was, however, found. not guilty, and therefore the present charge was instituted. It was shown that the prisoner possessed himself of the laudanum under the pretence that his wife wanted it for the toothache, and the strychnine for a friend to kill a dog. Guilty. Sentence of death was recorded, which the learned judge said he should recommend her Majesty to commute to penal servitude for life.  Z er'--/ ____ ' NEWSPAPER •' cr - ~ , / c....,__ ~,:, e>, to c---,- ~.-,t• - • ; / -11•---.. ~" •p ,(r:,.s. i..,,!..- 7 -4 were undamaged, and the ?Loa 'weia.4 '...', ' ---tiefi-theme-the-naeraing. Imi 111 V 1' ' A :.:4 desk containing money and paper 1:0 -: -7142, and a variety a articles of wearing papers were to me invaluable. The otITOr a‘Naele ' were worth from £2O to £25. The seal, pencils, aid other articles produced are my property:, and. were in the desk when it was stolen. I never saw the prisoner before. Police-constable Ball, 64 E, said—On the eN'aning of the 3d inst. I received the prisoner into custody in South-square on another charge. I found on llim 23 skeleton keys, a picklock, a chisel, and sorile other articles used by housebreakers, which I pro duce. Last Friday, from what I heard, I went to 3;;, Brewer-street, Pimlico, and in the secondlloor back re:: m I found the seal and other articles which. have been itlentified by Mr. Manham. I also found a quantity of files which v.-Teie used i for making skeleton keys, and some used for pickldeks. Mr. William Roach—l keep the Louse, 33, Brewer-street, Pimlico. lam a servant. The prisoner was my lodger in the second-floor back room. He described himself as a cigar dealer, and I have seen a note in which he represented he had d ealings in the cigar trade. Mr. Beattie ,said he had gone out, and had loaf: d up his chambers. A clerk v4as coming down stair,. and saw the prisoner, who had on an Inverness cape, at the door. As the chambers had 11,--_,n entered about oix moths before, the clerk's suspicions were arouse i. and he watched the prisoner. From his movements .fic was induced to give him in charge, and then it was than other articles used by hooset... the skeleton keys, and upon him. The prisoner, reakers, were found station, gave a fah.c, Police-constable Ball said the chis:t. address. ' - -am, ~,,d on the "`".1.0r all the prisoner fitted the marksatonthtelbie igings he chambers that had been forced. In his 10. had found some other articles which had beam. iden" • tified as belonging to gentlemen in Gray's-inn, • , Mr. Barker fully committed the prisoner '." trial, but he will be brought up again, when PoiiCo Sergeant Joy, of the C division, will Prove a former' conviction for a similar offence against him.