The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND • ATTEMPTING SISTERS.—On culprito naFvor iavows sa Tys Do socialist last,.l POISON bts hoe enf 0 or fault i al s respectablenafpph ries h education de n farmer,inenet inholnafe ptjf'oet adia. srlontgoloneowensr. hire elotdylgu'aatrY‘ebßB.lsgtilr' i iir'railifil2ehol 'Er: se Bh°. 11:°'' age t potchargewick, stated,b rourgelni td ue rendered atd still the Police more court,•horrible that he considers it no crime to commit murder, 'e &Is Prestwich, robbed her given iri ciearlf tody on that charge ; but the facts were "t disel°' brought home to him, and the following horribleisoner'S sure was made by members of his family. The Prstances• father died in April 1840 under suspicious circuina_ti et Very early one morning in that month the decet:e7. oso li.cwse3 nlott principles,taaonp hpdei savvrmse:tinhid; basrs "I is°t ou sei etu isittup, and went to work in the garden. The al hini,' got up at the same hour, which was unusuai %choose tu About seven o'clock the father went into t'l°thef be breakfast, no one else of the family but the ie 13!0 up. The prisoner looked through the wirill°w• ten rl3l- was getting his breakfast and the latter litlich eon' w 1 niornil3.,s flutes after was seized wish violent vomiting. ' tinued almost incessantly until the followingaorrliniq less that the son had caused his death."' extarned_o, when he died. Though the symptoms were recollected that he had had a quarrel witiht no suspicion was entertained that he 1::). isafterwardS ~.; a bTrelling wit, had beaten him, in consequence of "'s "na the father 0 0 his sister Margaret. About six weeks after made sots death, the prisoner's sister Sarah coffee put it in the oven to keep but fnillit. sister Ann. Sarah got up early doctor and found to contain next morntrigout ' the cp r the prisoner was up before her, and on Oki"' a peeell9 fee she found it incurdledstate, and having , oto 0 a taste. She showed it to Margaret, and it • natara g The family f. tber the c' et, became uneas death were reverted to. Shortly after Ward iYia_,,,jie when about to thicken soine broth with meal, ii.l,'.ie cilf to taste a little of the meal, and found it tasted ii" wit" d went ty coffee. She took it to another brother, an . to r° a him to soveral medical men, who pronounced it .._OO4 tain acetate of lead. On another occa.ion theYelfwbtes!! white powder in a teaspoon placed in a basin ou.t oilier b rt some of the girls were to take milk. The P.,r1,,. aria 4 Y, and the circurnwsatarrtliniceaosvvi:or.fri:llfiltrbe(ri, been first up that morning. Margaret tasted l'i,.ootht, precisely resembled the coffee and meal. OiL,'„esi.. occasion, he got up before them, and Margaretinr:Zt au,. picious, watched his movements, as she then il °L'b eoff67l observed. He went into a room where there welid an in a pot prepared for breakfast, and lifted ibbe valid 00'5 closed it again. On his leaving, she found on i otitY ea' father, whin, white powder similar to the other, and a not the niea, mixed with the coffee. This as well as some 0 cetate c''.• was taken to Dr. Barrow, and found to contain Z ~0 food lead. During these attempts the prisoner in the house. He had been heard to say, ofri-7f,,,,,i1y to, :i-: sister Margaret that he would " serve her out. ,icri, bind; afterwards entered into a sort of contract with ni„ hind if ing themselves by their signatures not to proseecin:rdiagbri he would never come near them again• He l' c ear an Don, a 1 a leftthemhalf ag 0 for aboutmr. J. a By e.ar,an Smithd returnedthe rn agi sat=t, yeihdere_csaoseci 01_—A I the elder, brother of the prisoner who pi --- t --1. ___,...l;rf  mm, to the effect that tu. . Alty „"o;ced g with it arose from the dela—it having been n"after to lie over for two years and a half; and the family :Tot binding themselves by a document, now appearing figngr, him. He should remand him, in order to consult Pri'et. - - said the prislA it  against  had star  dile had consic  „a 5 big The prisoner was the” te'  no crime to commit murder, for it education that led him to it. '''" manded.