The Express. — 1851-04-15 (London, England)

LIVERPOOL—The Cork steamers lone, which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday evening, brought no Ices than 1,1011 comfortable-looking emigrant., fu who intend proceeding from Liverpool to America. THE CASE OF PoIsONING AT 111ARCIL—Wc gave last week the holing features of a singular ease of poison- SO ing which occurred at' March, on Tuesday the Bth instant, tl! in which three servant girls conspirsal together to pot art ; end to their existence by taking laudanum. Two of Ouse 60 girls were servants to Mr. Miller, brewer, &c., of March, to and the other servant to Mr. Jones, of the same place, whose at. house adjoins that of Mr. Miller. One of the unfortunate 2„s creature's, Mary Ann Sutton, died under the influence of L 0 the drug, awl the other two very nearly shared her fate. " On Saturday last the adjourned inquest was holden heron. :tr. Pratt, ut the Griffin Inn, at 10 o'clock. Several wit- 60 noises were examined, who detailed the circumstances of the occurrence, as already stated in the E.caress. The survis I° girls, Archer and Itolwrts, were present during the inquiry. Sarah Lovett, wife •of John Lovett, labourer, said she heard 33 on 'fuerelay night, about 8 o'clock, that two girls were lying dead at William Went there, and saw SO lidalw•rty lying on the floor. Saw Archer also on the floor, hot-wilde. Efforts were made to restore sensibility. Witnt ,a led Roberts shout, and she became sensible in about halt an hour, and asked for " Martha," meaning deceased. In the course of the morning, about 4 o'clock, when she got calm, she amid they all three agreed to go away together, and cosh got four-pennyworth of laudanum. Two of them took 12 spoonfals, and " Martha" took 10. Deceased was browdlit into l'owell'a house about ten at night; she was hot quite dead at that time, but she ethyl iu a very few minutes after her arrival. Dr. Letheby, who made air 4-rnort,ns examination of the laxly of deceased, deposed that her death was occasioned by opium. The Coroner caudotted the two girls in the usual way, and told them they re ..re at liberty to make any statement, which 6, might, however, be used against them hereafter, to the prejudice of fin it lives or lit'erty. Archer said the reason 64) why she bask the laudanum was that aloe did not like to he 12 laughed and scorned at in the streets. Roberts had nothing to ‘„i soy, except that she and deceased were " partners," and she loved her so that she thought she would like to die with her. The Coroner explained to the jury that it' any one en- ei ((invented another to commit suicide, the person so encouraging was in the eye of the law guilty of murder. De "„11 al.o explain. tl the nature of tho crime of fclo-de-se, and then went through the evidence, commenting upon it as he 33 went on. Fe left the jury to alp whether deceased was in a sound state of mind when she took the laudanum ; and le whether the others were aiding and abetting, and encouraking each other to conduit suicide, being then in it sound state of mind, in which case the law held them to he guilty of murder. The jury, after a consultation of about half an hour, returned a verdict of feu-de-se in the case of Mary Ann Sutton, and of aiding and abetting in the crime of murder in the cases of Sarah Archer and Sarah Ann Robert.. The two prisoners were subsequently committed to Cambridge on a charge of wilful murder. DfailltVe:toN OF A WARlttlOtsli IN