The Sun. — 1857-02-07 (London, England)

THE ALLEGED POISONING OF MRS.] BACON AT STAMFORD.  The rea lees of The Sun are aware that, during the investigation incident to the murders at Walwortb, cir cumstanees transpired tending to excite suspicion that Ann Bacon (mother of the prisoner, Thomas Fuller Bacon), who died at Stamford in May, 1855, was poisoned by the administration of arsenic. In consequence of this, after communicating with the authorities of Stamford, the Home Secretary issued orders for the exhumation of the body of the deceased, who was interred at Great Casterton, a small village in the county of Rutland, about two miles from Stamford. Professor Taylor, who had been directed to superintend the exhumaticn, proceeded to Stamford for that purpose, and arrived there at 10 o'clock on Thursday night. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Taylor proceeded to Great Casterton, accompanied by Mr. M. W. Jackson, surgeon, of Stamford, by whom the body was to be opened under the Professor's supervision. Meanwhile a respectable jury, coninoßed principally of fartnerz. bad been empanelled at the Plough Inn, On the arrival of Dr. Taylor,  The c,roner (Mr. Hough, of Oakhan)) briefly charged the jury, an I at the close of the coroner's address, Dr. Taylor suggested that the jury should go to the grave where the body was interred, in order that they might see it taken up. The coroner, jury, and medical gentlemen then proceeded to the churchyard. In the meantime the grave had been opened and the coffin laid bare. At 12 o'clock the coffin was raised from the ground, and found to be in a perfectly sound condition. The lid of the coffin being removed, the corpse was exposed tovit? head and feet, which were uncovered, resembled discoloured by an Egyptian mummy, so much were they were so fa decomposition. The features, however, from those perfect as to elicit exclamations of recognitionthe wthose of deceased. The present mho were acquainted winth proved, the body was identity of the corpse having e conveyed to an adjacent barnbe for the removal of the  viscera. in of the evidence adduced : The foil )wing is a sun3kaarnY James Peat, parish der d sexton, of Casterton, who titsha d kofn tohwenbdo edcye.a se d from childhood, wh o had b deposedeent o the frequentlyi )denMary e nMary Scholes, washerwoman,at Mrs. Bacon'shouse during strongth e woman,last eighta years,nd severallystated that deceasedliwats a very health. On Sunday night, the 13th oefnj;iyaeyd, 11,75 en , two days before Mrs. Bacon died, Thos. Fuller Bacon came to my house, and said the old lady (meaning his mother) was very bad, and that she would die' and that I must go directly and remain with her all night, I followed him to his mother's house about five minutes afterwards. On arriving there I found Mrs. Bacon in bed. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon and Thomas Fuller Bacon were with her. William Bacon is another son of the deceased, and brother to T. F. Bacon. I asked deceased if she was ill—if her head was bad, and she replied that she was "had all over." I remained all night with tho deceased. She was sick twice—once shortly after I got there, and then again between 10 and 11 o'clock. During the night, while I was sitting up with her, deceased told me she had been to church in the morning, and that she had intended to go again in the afternoon, having left her Prayer-book for that purpose, but that she was taken suddenly ill after dining at her son Thomas's. She said they had a nice pudding and meat for dinner. Deceased told me she was put to-bed ill about 3 o'clock that afternoon. I think the dinner hour would be 1 o'elook. Deceased said it was not the pudding or broth meat that made her ill, but that they were making for T. F. Bacon's!) little boy, and she made her dinner