Widnes Examiner. — 1877-12-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUSPECTED DEATH OF A WARRINGTON WOMAN BY POISON.  The adjourned ingueat upon the body of Lydia dyke., LI) years of age. the wits of Hobt. Sykes, 29, Lythgoe's Lane, Werrington, who died in a reroarkebly sudden manner on the 6th inst. whilst one visit to her eon-In.w and denghter, Edward and Ellen Hewn, Walton, was held at the Stag's Heed Inn, on Thursday, bet ore Mr. TI. Ridgway, coroner, when the following evidence wee given . .  - Mr Oben White, theme, of Warringtoo, deposed that he had proton nail; attended &aimed for the past 'lb years, and treated bee dung that time for rheumatism and chronic cough. Previous to the sth lost. he had not seen bee in • profnelooal Manner for nine time, but on that day • message was left adds house requesting him to me her at Walton, and he moo:direly went about hall-past three in the afternoon. He found her at the house 01 her eon-In-low, EI. Hinson in bed undone, when she complain-d tut she was suffering from violent irritstion of the bowels, symptoms of which were frequent vomiting and profuse (Burl au, accompanied by cramp to the madea of the legs. Mn inked her what the had been eating, to which she replied that on the &today they had our's heart for dinner, and netted not been well suthe. He ordered the usual remedin for diarrt tea, but did not see her again alive. Esrly the next morn. ing Bobt. /tyke., bushman of the deceased. called upon him, Besting that she was dead, and ai the mu', request he gave him • certificate of death that slth died from distrion and vomiting. Dazing his interview with dereand wilier asked her if she bad been eating mauls, and ehe replied in the affirmative. hut taking into consideration the time when she told him an having sates them, he did not in his own mind cooneet it iu any way with her illness. If.. Joseph C. Bell. of Horsley Clough, Higher ' Broughtou, Oluthester, said he wait the analyst for the county of Cheerer, and also for Salford. On the 9th indent he received from PS. Bebbington two jars. • one of glue sed th • other of earthenware. bothsecurely I fecund up, covered with bladder, unified round with I string, but hat sealed. He opened the Mau jar Bret, ' the coutents of which were hquol, and was informed that it was the cootents of the stomach of • woman aged 69 yours. lie opened the other Joe and found a stomach. He examined the liquid to ne If be weld And Roy sediment, and noticed • white one at the bottom, which he carefully collected. He applied urns. testa, and found it to be amnia. He carefully weighed the livid In the gloss jar, end took twothirds from it, which be submitted to • uerchiug asalysis, the remit showing • Wife qunnitY of ...Ur The other third he eubmitted to other testa, and found weenie or amnion acid. to that aleo. He weighed the quantity and found it to be about seven grains, which alone would be more than sufficient to account I for death. He aleo auslysed the stowed', sod found a•senie there Ithewin, which wee Inoluded in the nun grains re f d to. blo tood coeld naturally waste union. but it meet have bees ninth in some form owing It. The arsenic as. Union raoloole On water. He could not MA any true of antimony. Dr. Thomse annoy ninth (walled) stated that he had heard the °licence of Mn Ball, and area now of opinion that dew.ed dint from arum° .1 poisoning, end Ile em e must have takee arsenic some time during Sunday, the 4th not. lee jars who the put the stomach cod connote into wete pelican clean. When he made the post•mortem exannuation he uteri to see the vomit, but was told that It had been cleared away, or words to that effect. He did not ne any of the clothing of the demand which ehe wore doing bee lifetime. Edward Henan was present during the prietarntem examithtion ; he seemed ennove,. and appeared as though bahed had .omed,iok. Wnilet the body of deceased was long sewn no by his assistant Hereon asked e• Aren't you going to put it (the stomach) in again ?" to wthoh he replied o No." Wiz theth Crompton, after being duly cautioned by the Coroner, said the I••• • widow, and lived at 36, Turneratreet, Warrington. Deanna was her mother, end the (deceased) end her father lived moth John Whitfield, her brother-in-law, which wu Mon to her hour. She wee in the habit of wing her mother frequently every day. Poe some week. before her death the complained of being eickly and faint, but whose. was uot aware that she ever vomited. About eight &clan on the evening of the Pod met. Edward end Ellen R• 8800 came to Mrs. WitaLteld's ma out, and her mother went back with them, toddler, her, before •he deputed n Good bight." Demand was in the habit of going to Walton occasionally. Before her mother wont to Walton they bad tea together, whittle consisted of lobster and breed and butter. On Monday, the sth inn., her sister urns and told her that she had been for the doctor as mother wee very poorly, and no witneu went back with her. She found deceased up. stairs in bed, and in reply to a question out to her, inn the wee eery goody, and also complained of damp in her legs arid stomseh. Deeeased vomited twin whilst she wise there, and told witness that for dinner 00 800. Us; she had cow's heart, staffed with onions, we, and greens, and also ,potatoess. Deemed had eisthy• been on good terms with all her daughtect. She did not see her slice again after that ony. At Otis nage of the proceedingu the inquest was farther adjourned until Thorn:lay nest. In order that the pollee might hen an opport natty of °satin I artlitr it Quinn into the ease. The adjourned hquest wee resumed to Thunday when the jery relented • Turbot that donned died from the 14.11 of poison, but how or by where ad. ministered there was no oviMnee to show.  um.= Win Darren= AND Smatnim.--The man Joshua Smith, who attempted to cat M. wile's and him own throat on Wedheaday It. ha. eomautted miiid by Impieg from • window of the Manehmtrr Infirmary. At the inqueat, on Monday, • verdict wm returned that Smith had committed suicide while of tumanind mind. - - •  The Nanox