The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-04-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LANE CHAP4:L.  ping place for rich Dissenters who belonged to the City. "(impel services" are still held there on Sunday. I ut it ghry, like that of most of the City ed.fices, has detarted ; and no particular harm will be done by the demolition. Curiously enough, however, there is one meeting house in Fetter-lane which still flourishe,. This is the Positivists, of which the hi,torian, Mr. Frederic Benison, is leader. But the meetings are not held more ireq• ently than on, e a week, and Om are intervals in the summer.  Tim mystery regarding the death of an inmate of Leavesden Asylum after eatihg poisoned cake is die enine. The name of the victim was Caroline A' sell, a woman aged twenty-six. She behmged to a family is humble circumstance% and there was not the slightest motive that can be diicovered for the tragedy; certainly no Ana, cial one, as she was poor. The evidence that her death was due to eating the cake was multiplied by the fact that she divided the present which she received by post with several other patients with whom she was friendly, and after partaking of it they were all very ill, but ultimately recovered. Alter suffering great agony Caroline An sell died, and a post-mortem exan inafirm chewed her death to be due to an irritant. poison. While in the asylum the girl received a letter stating that her mother and lather were both dead. This was not true. Before the autopsy the doctor received a letter  purportit gto ome from the girl's mother fort hiding  this action, hut the mother upcu hang  applied -to. stated  that she did not write it. For a month the police  did not take public action. and then  they created a great TIie'LKASESDEN POISONING sensation by arrest- I'AsE.—PILISONEJt. jog the Meter Of the deceased, hy name Mary Ann Ansell, a general servant at a house in Bloomsbury. On Monday the police superintendent at the inquest at Watford explained the reason for this course. Be called an expert in writing who claimed to identify writing admitted by the prisoner as the same as the direction on the parcel. The accused after her apprehension told the police that her sister and her were not good friends, averring this in support of an assertion that she had not corresponded with the deceased. Evidence was called at the inquest to shew that the prisoner had bought rat poison; also that she had insured her sister's life, though, of course, such an insurance proved invalid, when it was km wn that the sister was a lunatic. The coroner's jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against Mary Ann Ansel]; but the whole matter has to be inveszigated by the magisterial cohrt.  The last few days have witnessed a succession of new productions at the theatre. The first place must be given to Mr. Pinero's comedy, "The Gay Lord Queux," Fre cited at the Globe, with Miss Irene Vanhrugh and Mr. John Bare as principal characters. Two of the scenes are laid at a pain ist's in Bondstnet, and truly it is a play of to-day, with much  sparkling conversation ahnut f aliionahle foibles. Next in importance c men Mr. Haddon Chambers'a producti n, "The Tyranny of Teas ," at the Criteria', with Miss Mary Moore, Miss MaudO Millett. an 4 Mr. Charles Wyndham in the principal parts. It concerns the f Ilv or npriisl woman who attempts to r le her hu,ha.l.l ty tear., to role him, that is to say, not only in affairs in which they are both interested, but in all the det i a of his life. The second lady is a type•ori er. win) excites the wife's annnyxnce fiom a ttivial cam's, and gives occasion to the climax.  ! 1 ....c. .. )4; ...,jr..A -. 1 I, . /7/7‘,.;;.11 *1; '4ll' t./ I 41 . No:4 4.4 cr 4, K# . 4/, A i1,,,',--7 t4i I ." t ~....:,- ii 1 .... .., • ,-,:z,i, ~, -'--: ' ri': . _...1.... , ii,..1...f -,• i ~:, . n 'ir if2ll.l,,Alllllilrf.:l4ilk I 11111 II • -ampoi - / i i  0rL4,,, rtA •010% \,, • dield . • 't : ~...i'y M. VINCRNT STCCILLRf LICAI,  ..., li Vs. 1 oi3\ 147.' ..-:,,;.:... ,___ -,-• - -NE CHAPEL - ER L ...... A _ --FE' T-- - __.....,, ;.--_-.;...m,=.z7. I, 1 r I 1 -__,..., 11111111k,l) 1 L. .- -----_,----:----„,r- . , , ---------- ,  7 S 11  _ 11' L 1 • - 01, • • '• itc, I 4 ' • _  SCENN IN "Tex