The Sun. — 1842-09-21 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  MYSTERIOUS DEATH FROM AiSENK.—Laiit night an inquiry, which lasted several hours, was gone into before. Payne, at the Bridge-house, Boroughroad, on the body of Joseph Bowler, a chairmaker, aged 29, who died from the effects of arsenic under the following tnysterious circumstances Charlotte Trott, of No. 23, Union-street, Boroughroad, said the deceased and his 'wife resided next door to her.. On Saturday evening last, between nine and  ten o'clock, a young man named Dunston came to her, and said the deceased, who had been ill from the Wednesday, had fallen out of bed, and wished her to assist him in lifting him into bed. She immediately went, and on lifting the deceased up found he was dead.. Dunston, who lodged in the house, went to Mr. Coalthery, the surgeon. Mr. Coalthery, of No. 4, Melton-terrace, said he was called to see the deceased on Saturday night, at No. 22, Union-street, and found him dead. Ile had since . made a post mortem examination, and on open • ing the stomach, found slough two inches long and one wide, intermixed with several white particles, which, on testing, he found to be arsenic. The couse of death was the ulceration of the stomach from the action of the arsenic, which consisted of three or four grains of the white oxyde. He must have suffered dreadfully, and in his opinion it could not have been many hours in the stomach. It might have been as long as 10 or 12 hours, or not more than 20 minutes. The wife told him the deceased had been ill from the Wednesday, and that she had given him some tincture of rhubarb, which she had procured at his shop on the Thursday morning. Now he (Mr. C.) could posittVely'agsert that she never had, any from his shop. She also said the deceased partook of some apple-pudding on the Wednesday, and immediately after began vomiting. By the Jury•-•;-I knew the wife, but had not seen her for two months, when I attended her in her confinement. The wife said she came to my shop about nine o'clock, as soon as it was open. Now, it so occurred that the shop was open at seven, and from that time until eight lam constantly in the shop. I think if arsenic had been in the pudding it must have been mixed with the apples, and not with the crust, some of which I have got. I did not ask if she had eaten any. If the arsenic was in the pudding on Wednesday, it was at too remote a period to have caused death. Several witnesses were examined at great length, who made the case one of great mystery, and from them the following was elicited .—That the deceased wa in distress relative to a loan ; and it was attempted to be shown that it was not unlikely he had committed suicide ; but being ill a-bed from the Wednesday until his death, no one could form any idea how the arsenic was found in the inside.  The wife and Dunston, the lodger, were examined at great length, the former prevaricating as to her going to Mr. oalthery's shop for three-pennyworth of " stuff," and was flatly contradicted by the assistant, who denied that she ever came.  The inquest, which has caused a great sensation in the neighbourhood, was aejourned. SUDDEN DEATH AT THE SWAN WITH Two