The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-01-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOUR CHILDREN POISONED. —The following serious occurrence, which had nigh been attended with fatal cons! quences, took place on Wednesday last in the family of a sergeant of police at Kensington. A friend having sent a present of a twelfth cake with several painted figures thereon, it was distributed amongst the four children, of the respective ages of two, four,usetyen, and nine years, about two o'clock in the afternoon, o4clsocpkrevious to the two eldest going to school. About four one of them returned home vomiting dreadfully, and shortly aftewards the other came home similarly affected. Both complained of violent pain and heat in the stomach, of which also the other two complained, and were shortly afterwards seized d with vomiting. A surgeon was promptly calleti in. who,eatetni.:" declared they had beening the children, and ascertaining what they had poisoned by the paint with which the figures were coloured. Proper remedies were immediately applied, but all efforts to stop the vomiting were unsucceast util eleven o'clock at night, by which time two of the e_ n rather better, and it was ren- were nearly er exhausted- On Thursday they w considered they were likely to recover, ascertained that one of the children of the . It was also rs'n bY whom the cake was sent bad been similarly seized. Pe A very curious case came before the civil tribunal on Fridayeiadame Guilt! last. The circumstances are as follow : mord, a corset-maker in the Passage Saum , suffered so severely from grief for the death of three children, and lastly of her husband, that she completely lost her reason, was guilty of a thousand acts of extravagance. whenever a ami r e d neighbour, or even a customer, came to her, them to kiss the portrait of her deceased husband,she r caressed or abused them as they either complied or refused to comply with her request. At times she made aempts to commit suicide, either by wounding herself with att razor, or endeavouring to throw herself out of tthe window. Her friends, finding that her mind incessantly urne another marriage her. Several men were brought to the her real as a s catch, b he ut all, on becoming acquainted withof t '-runk from the proposed union. At length a person --inloyed in the prefecture, from motives Madame Guilmard was known to -es, agreed to form the alliance. 29th April last, and as it was stated, under the deinto recover her lost ...husband, 'Mconan IA  d Fau  evident, as  prosperous eircumstane  The ceremony was performed on the Madame Guilmard b .inn that she was ab  moms  the civil  Hugh the several c ~ropriety that neither the church, had any suspicion of tt re Very shortly after the mar,_ we' ations returned with their former force, and strangt -nes were acted between the new couple. In l‘e poor womon was placed in a lir,- • Hence, after ktirne she w'  ge, !lower  schaged  .eturn to her, reas  .._ _ whether temporarily • •  he commenced a su  anently time alone can show, s-ee from ber last husband, on the ground that, was married to him, her faculties were not in qive a valid consent to the contract. the suit by  3unsel for Faure e  Jr time since the ceremony was performed without any 'rapt by Madame Guilmard or ber relations to i annul tilt could not be gone nto. ^'-..re could not be any  imstances. and after tae  at, under the c