Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-08-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL CASKS OF POISONING AT NORWOOD. On Thursday evenina number of persons who had been drinking at the Gipsy queen public-house. Norwood, were standing in a state of hilarity outside. Whilst there they were accosted by a young man respectably dressed, who said if they wanted anything to take away the effect of the drink, hi could give them something. A labourer named Thomas Tay,or, age I 42, employed in the Norwood cemetery, together with a woman named Mary Ann Hudson, aged M. and another woman named Hannah, who was living with the man Taylor, accepted the stranger's offer to have something "to put them nght," and they all adjourned to Taylor house. After being in the house a very short time, he pulled a small medicine bottle from his pocket, and administered to the people some of its contents. Then he left, Directly after they were seized with violent cramps in the stomach and pains and twitching in the body The old woman Hudson died almost immediately in frightful agony. Dr. Harris and Dr. Nom! were called in, and did all they could to save the other two. The police traced the man to linight's Hill station, and apprehended him on the charge of murder. The prisoner gave the name of Walter Thompson Hunt, accountant, of No. 11, Woodsideterrace, Gipsy hill. He was the worse for liquor. At the station he said "1 had been drinking with Taylor and his wife, and I did administer some strychnine to them in a wine glass, as they had all been drunk together. The woman Hudson I know nothing about. I have not seen her." On searcAing him was found a bottle containing a liquid which he said was strychnine. Ile said that he was a great drinker, and had been in the habit of taking strychnine to deaden the effects of the drink. When before the magistrates prisoner said he never thought uf inhering anybody, and expressed his regret for the death of Mre. 'Judson, of whom, he said, he had no recollection. Ile was remanded. Mr. Carter, the district coroner for Surrey, on Monday opened an inquest on the body of Mary Ann Hudson. One witness stated that the deceased helped herself from a bottle belonging to Hunt, which contained a liquid tasting like alum, and on receiving it back he said, "Why you have drunk enough to kill a pig." The inquiry vrill be resumed on Tuesday next.  The foot and mouth disease is reported to have broken out among the oxen belonging to her Majesty at the Home Park. At the Airdrie police-court, James Fraser, a collier, has been sentenced to sixty days imprisonment for cursing "the Pope and the priests. Steps are being taken in Siam to procure the abrogation of the law which allows a man to pawn his wife in payment of a debt contracted in gambling. Mr. Joseph Arch has been deputed to represent the agricultural labourers at the forthcoming Peace Conference at Paris. A licensed victualler at Brentwood was fined on Saturday, under the Mutiny Act, for refusing to take in a soldier who had been billeted on his house. At Littlehampton, on Saturday, a lady named Burgess was breakfastiiig. with her sister, Mrs. C'ooper, when she suddenly jumped up, seized a knife, and almost severed her head from her body. The blood covered the breakfast table, and even splashed the ceiling of the room. She had been in a desponding condition. An inquest was held on Saturday !at Hanley on the bodies of two boys, one aged 8 and tho other 7, who during the thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon took shelter in a culvert, and were carried by the rush of water into a pool and drowned. A verdict of accidental death returned.  NOTICE OF REMOVAL MARIE PHILLIPS  Begs to notify to his numerous Friends that he luts