The Express. — 1855-03-30 (London, England)

NORFOI4 CIRCUIT.—No9wics, Mai= 29.  Mary Arse Fisher, 30 years of age, was charged with poisoning George Fisher, her husband. Mr. Prendergast, Q.C., appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Daunt for the defence. The deceased was • wood.tunier in Norwich, sad had lived in apparent happiness with his wife. In November last, having sustained a rupture, he placed himself ceder the ears of Mr. Morgan, a surgeon, and on the 28th that gentleman pronounced him to be in a fair way of recovery. In the evening, however, his wife came hurriedly to his brother, William Fisher, and entreated him to go and see deceued, as he was ding ; and, on the young nun going to the deceued's room, he -found him in the agonies of death. Mr. Morgan, when requested to give the usual artilleate, expressed his' wish, before he did so, to make a post-ssortem examisatlon. The prisoner, and one or two other pencils, objected, but it was eventually adopted, end a powerful smell of the essential oil of almonds was found to pervade the stomach and body of deceased. Lupin. s were set on foot, and it was found that on the 26th of November the prisoner had galled at the shop of Mr. Halm., a druggist, • aid producieg a bottle labelled " Folios," asked to have it filled (with essential oil of &lauds. Mr. Helms at first refused to sell the poison to her, bat she told him not to be afraid to do so, as her husband used it in his business, and added that she had had such difficulty in procuring it for him, that Mr. Morgan had given her a written authority to get it. Oa kerning this statement Mr. Hulse gave her 40 drops of the poison—a quantity sufficient to mese death; and be did not discover until too late that the =story was a fabrication. A married woman tamed I n, who resided with her husband is the hoses panty I=d by ased sad his wife, stated that the har upon the night on which the deceased crwlte was dead when she was applied to, though she hal heard nothing unusual talkies place in his room, from widish she was separated by a thin 'partition wall sob. She had MN las desseed the day before, and be bed these sealed is bre diet be was mash better. • wows named Boardroom saw Ida tho day before be died, sad he told her he bad Mesa saftsfax Intensely /rem bereft yaks la the sheet mad ewers!. libe and others W hen seemed sewn le his behre by the prisoner, although it wee Miele= thel he seseplained that none of his neighbours onto to she Ws. To John Bisly, a neighbour, who saw him ass Wise be died, the unfortunate man said, " I han taken all sorts of things. Last night I had each a deft as I shall never forget ; I thought it would have burnt my very inside Oct." This statement was not justified by the medicines which Mr. Morgan had prescribed. Shortly before deceased's death, prisoner caned a woman named Brinell' if she knew what Mr. Woolner, the draggist,i sad Mr. Smith, the onfeerioner—two persons who have . .  recently committed &abide is Norwich—psi-issued themselves with. 13rittain said she thoaght it wee oil of almonds, sad the prisoner observed inuedaloutly that she did not think that was poison. The conversation closing here she went up to a young man mused Spence, who worked in the same room with her at Meson. Bokser and Co.'s, and asked him whether he knew the nuns of the poises 11•11415. Woolner and Smith took. The reply being as before, " Essential oil of almonds," she said "I don't think that is poison, for I have need it fir my hair." Spence rejoined, "Yon can't have done so, for it is rank poison." The morning after the deceased died she knocked at Spence's door and said to his, "Oh l what a _ jeb—Qeorge is deed. I shall WIN, get over it. He has taken poison." Spines owl, asked " What place ?" this replied, rather leftHMV, " eisential oil of almonds." Spence asked who bad pindineed it. 13h• replied, " I did ;" to which that essiliesty rejobted, " Why, how could you do that; I told rile k was rank poison ?" In reply she said her husband bed toserd bee to get it for him some time, as he wanted to Wm* limey in wood staining with it; and having bought as before—eueh sugar of lead, copperas, Ito.— she eritilest procured it. She added that, having perihelia hate • the bottle in which it was contained on the that her husband then asked her to go emi sees . Clarke, who bad been very kind to them; and that .he availed himself of her abseil* esmmit suicide. It was proved that prisoner had Wato Mbar chemists besides Mr. Reline for poisons, tley bad refound to let her have them. The caw seise the prboner appserion to be a very grave one, the Muter for the city, Mr. W. Wilde, adjourned his in lewd times to afford opportunities for the production of as math evidence as possible ; and on the 30th of November the bin attached to the house of the deceased was searched very minutely, but nothing to excite particular attendee was found in it. On the sth of December it was examined again, and a bottle resembling that which the prisoner produced to Mr. Rubes was found. This could not have been lying in the bin wiles it was first searched, as its contests were isarefony weed three& a small sieve and it mast have been dlormillell tbe NI arise the affair had attracted the enmities of Hee plies. The het WNW ed mediane which the desired Mil medusa Orem Mr. Mormsse—which was gives es the rims: ea the night el hie death—wee, feud standing in the hones untouched.  (DT Blum= 221.1101