Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-07-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LONDON POISONING CASE.  NEILL CHARGED WITH MURDER. Thomas Neill, who has been ceargel at Bow. street with blackmailing, was charged them a Monday with tha wilful murder of MAti.da Clover. Mr Gill, on behalf of the Treasury, said it would be necessary for him to bring evidence touching the deaths of three other women under almost similar circumstance. The pa:Boners reel name was Thos. Neill Cream. He was born in Glasgow in DLO, and was taken when very y.iung to America by his pareuta He was ultimately sent to Mr Gill's college in Montreal, sad be.; twee° 1372 and 187 b he took a degree there. Ha seemed then to have come to Eneand, and to have atteaded St. Thomas's Hoe. . pital with a view to tak ug M.R.C.S. degree, but failed. At Edinburgh, however, he took two degrees, mei became a thoroughly qualified medical man. He thou went to Ontario, but left there under circumstances which would not now be discussed. Ile next preetlsed in Chicago, up to 131, and in the &um= of last year he came again to Englend. Mr Gill j added that he had complete evidence to show , that Neill was responslble for the death j of Matilda Clover, at 20, Lambeth-read, j in October last, and was closely con- I nected with the deaths of Ellen Donworth,l Alice Marsh, and Emma Shri., ell. In stating his case, Mr Gill said ho would show that Neill knew Clover, and that he was seen to go in the direction of her house, and after her death was in possession of information that could only be known 1.. the man who poisoned her. Mx Gill then dealt with the deaths of the other womea. When all the evidence was on the depositions he should sek Sir .lohn to commit the pram:lei on such charges as he was disposed to think were disclosed by those depositions. Mr Water, intimated he should oksi.'t to eeideurell which did not relate to Clover being given.— The first witness was Lucy Rose, who said in September of last year she was • domestic servant at 27, Lambeth-road. Matilda Clover lodged there. On the evening of October the ?Atli witness let her in. Sl'e was accompanied b4T • men, who .vas dierribed. Early next morning witness heard Clover screaming, and went down to her, with the landlady. Clover was in great pain, and the doctor was seat tar. Clover said she had been poisoned by pilla given to her "by that wretch Fred." Witneu saw a letter signed "Fred" in Clover'. room the day before she died, but she (witness) did not know him. Cross-examined: Several men visited Clover. Witness did not remember having seen a man, whom she described, before the 20th of october.—Emina Vowlee, landlady of 27, LlMbeth-road, said she remembered Clover's death. She registered it. She did not hear soggestiens of poison till several months later. Cross-examined: Clover had given way to drink. She drank eleven shillings worth of brandy in one day a few days before she died, and on the night of the 20th of October she was very drunk. —Mr Coppin, assistant to Dr. M'Carthy, of West. minsier Bridge-road, said he attended Clover, and that her death was due to delirium tremens.—Dr. Ora/tam, of Upper Kenning. ton-lane, said he had treated Clover for alcohol for genie weeks. He gave a certificate of death at that time. He had baud no suggestion of poisoning, In the certificate he stated that he last saw Clover on October 21st. He mead by that he saw her body, although he now said be supposed it meant he saw her dive.—Mr Gift: Murder made easy ! Piv Aimee of burial and exhumation of body having been given, the prisoner was remanded for , a week.  Snursark Ilatrau, Passanis or Oo