Widnes Examiner. — 1903-02-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE LONDON POISONING MYSTERY.  Evidence of the Exhumation at Lymm.  The Southwark poisoning case was again investigated at Southwark on Wednesday, when Severino Klosowski, alias George Chapman, who is charged with the murder of three women, made his sixteenth appearance. Chapman was again seated in the dock between two warders. Inspector Godley told of the exhumation of the body of Bessie Taylor (the second Mrs. Chapman), at Lymm, Cheshire, on December 22 last. William Taylor, salesman, Bessie Taylor's brother. said she was a very careful and saving woman. He first met prisoner four years ago, when his sister broughthim to Hornsey, and introduced him as her husband. Witness told of the illness and death of his sister, and the burial at Lymm, which prisoner attended. Chapman said he had no money, so witness paid all the funeral expenses. A cheque for £5O, payable .to Bessie Chapman, and which was. paid into Chapman's banking account, was recognised by witness as having been drawn by his father, but witness declared that the endorsement was not in his sister's handwriting. Both witness's father and mother were well-to-do people, and Bessie was a great favourite with her father. After her death the father made another will.  In crfiss-examination witness said he knew his sister was mefftioned in his father's first will, and she must have knomp it. Frederick Richard Sanderson, County Court bailiff, said he knew Chapman and his wife very well when they were at the Grapes, Bishop Stortford,. in 1898. On one occasion, when Mrs. Chapman was ill, prisoner said he wanted his wife to make a will; and asked witness where he could get a will form. Witness told him, and Chapman fetched two forms at once. Dr. Stoker was called to prove attending Bessie Taylor. She was, according to Chapman, suffering from dyspepsia. The doctor described the patients symptoms, which were identical with those of Miss Marsh. He had great difficulty in diagnosing the case, and had three consultations with other medical men. Dr. Stevenson, the Home Office expert, was then called, and gave evidence as to the analysis of the organs of Bessie Taylor, which he said contained a large amount of antimony. ' The hearing was then adjourned.  P irrs's ILLUSTRATED FURNISH ENG Gui DE.—Those who are thinking of furnishing would do well to write for a copy of Pitt S's Furnishing Guide for 1903. The founder and head of this renowned firm, with its extensive business premises in London-road and Gaythorn, i Manchester, is Mr. Samuel Pitts, who is the doyen of the furnishing trade, with a record of 57 years' expertenoe behind him. The quality of the goods supplied by the firm may be judged from the fact that the customers include His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., mid other distinguished personages. The guide is not a complete catalogue of the firms' goods but gives in a handy form the utmost information in the smallest compass of a few of the innumerable bargains which the firm, can offer in new and second-hand furniture. so that something like a fair idea may be formed of their merits. The guide is copiously illustrated, and one page of great artistic merit is a chromo-lithographed plate showing a suite which formed a portion of one of the orders Pitts's had the honour of executing for his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco. Those who are desirous of viewing the premises can do so and will find every convenience for doing so. The premises are heated and electrically lighted and there are hydraulic passenger and good lifts to all floors.  In the Connty Court at Newport, Isle of Wight, on Wednesday, Jude Gye angrily rebuked anunwilling wit-ness. and at a later stage apologised to the witness in the suit and to the people in the court for losing his temper..  Tliere has just died near Melbourne a retired stipendiary magistrate named Graham Webster, who is locally described as " the last direct descendant of John Graham of Claverhouse, the Bonnie Dundee of Jacobite song and storv."