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ONCE MORE , THE POISONER . > ther conviction for poisoning has taken place , rard Hardman , aged twenty-eight , a shoemaker , ig at Ghorley , has been tried at Lancaster for the der of his wife on the 5 th of last March- The two lived unhappily , owing to Hardman being a Roman lolic and his wife a Protestant , which led to disputes » what creed their children should be brought up in . i and other sources of difference caused a temporary ration ; but the wife afterwards returned to her huslj and they then lived together -without a renewal of former disputes . On Shrove Tuesday the woman taken ill . She was attended by her husband and Father ; and the former generally administered her
and medicines . After a time , she got better , and ather , for whom Hardman had written at the com-: ement of the illness , left the house . On the 3 rd of ih , the husband went to a Dr . Smith , and obtained I mixture and powders , saying that his wife was a better , and only wanted to get up her strength , r on the same day , he told a woman that his wife much worse , and asked her to send for the father , subsequently purchased some buttermilk from a lbour , and a portion of the same stock was consumed le family of the vendor without any harm resulting . Lman divided what he had purchased , and placed his s portion in a jug . A friend who tasted it remarked it had a peculiar flavour of soap or alum , and asked
Lman what he had put in it . He answered , " Noj , " tasted it , said it was very bad , and . threw it r the ashes . On the 5 th of March , the wife died . Smith attributed her death to gastro enteritis , or innation of the bowels . Eleven days after the funeral , > ody was exhumed , on account of the sinister re-: s of the neighbours , and was subjected to a post vm examination , which revealed symptoms indica ,-> f poisoning by antimony or arsenic . Of the former n three quarters of a grain were discovered ; of the :, the two hundredth part of a grain . It was pred . by the prosecution that more would have been 1 , had it not been carried off 1 by the frequent ing and vomiting . Some months before the death ,
Mr . Monk , the counsel for the prosecution , in his ing speech , " the prisoner was found to be possessed rtar emetic , which is only another name for tared antimony ; and he was also aware of its quali-A person named Neald came to him , and corned that he was ill , and wanted a dose of medicine rge him . Hardman told him he could give him thing which would work him , and he mixed in a of beer some powder which he had in a paper ; le handed to Neald . Neald took it , and it made surge and vomit . In February , he purchased a im , or sixty grains , of tartar emetic , from a chemist d Gorman , which he said he wanted to give to a . This is a poison used only for medical purposes .
lie is a poison of another character ; it is used exrely in manufactures . Shortly before his wife ' s illthe prisoner went to Preston , and at the shop of a Drichley , a chemist , he bought half a pound of ic , which he represented that he wanted to kill The chemist wanted a reference to some person ew , and asked him if he did not know a leathersr in the town , as he had represented himself as a laker . He said he did not , and gave an untrue nt of this , as he dealt with one of the leather-dressers i town , and owed money to him . He also gave a I address . The arsenic was supplied to him coloured indigo . Afterwards , when asked what ho had done it , he said he bad broken the parcel in his pocket ; hrown it away , as he did not like it loose in his
it . " Two days after the death of his wife , a wocleaning the house found a paper with some white er in it ; on which , Hardman sprang forward , and " Give it to me ; it is poison . " He aftewards reed to a neighbour that it was fortunate the police ot find the paper when they searched the bouse , on as the evil reports began to be circulated , how-Hardman went to the police station , and wished to what they were all about . In the gaol at Preshe stated to a fellow prisoner that he had received rom various burial clubs on account of his wife ' s nl , and that , " if he had let her live two months r , he should have got 81 . more . " Before his arrest , d made advances to another woman to come and rith him .
' . Overend , for the defence , dwelt on the small nt of poison found in the body , urged that there jo proof of Hardman giving his wife poison , and red that she had eaten and drunk a great many unwholesome things during her illness , such as ila , buttermilk , and blackberry wine . " The next was the powders eent by Dr . Smith , nnd it was hat the prisoner had , instead of those , substituted Bra of hia own . There was no evidence of it . mjth admitted that he was in a hurry , and that the containing tartar emetic stood immediately over ontalning Dover powder , ana it was probable that toko -was made by Dr . Smith in taking down tho ; bottle . If that mistake wore made , tlio whole of Oman ' s illness and the discovery of poison In her after death were fully accounted for , and ho should confluence look forward to their verdict in his
favour . It was said that he had received money firom funeral dubs ; but from the nature of the funeral ho must have been a loser rather than a gainer ; and then , when the rumours got abroad relative to lis character , he went boldly to the police-office and challenged inquiry . That the prisoner had been in the possession of tartar emetic he would not deny ; he had openly paraded it , and administered it to Neald in the presence of a third person . The buttermilk which was assumed to be poir soned had never reached the wife ; and the medical testimony showed that her illness and death were the result of natural causes . " . ¦ , , The Judge having summed up , the jury retired for about twenty minutes , and then gave in a verdict of Guilty . Sentence of death was then passed , and Hardman , who had turned very pale , and who trembled slightly , was removed from the dock .
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A MERRY TALE FROM CROTDON . One of the strangest trials for adultery ever recorded took place ou Tuesday at the Croydon Assizes . The plaintiff was a young man , a Mr . Lyle , who' carries on business as an upholsterer in Charlotte-street , Fitzroysquare , London ; and the defendant is a Mr . Herbert , a gentleman of Croydon , rising fifty . The latter had gone into partnership with the former , and at length , under pretence of seeing more closely to the business , obtained a bedroom at Mr . Lyle's , and settled in town . The real object of this seems to have been the seduction of Mrs . Lyle . On the 27 th of May , while his wife was at Birmingham , a telegraphic message came to the warehouse of Mr . Lyle , to the following effect : —" E D . Herbert ,
Esq . Private—important—immediate . Meet me at the Euston-station by the 1-45 train . I could not come any sooner . —M . A . Powbia . " The signature to this message was in the name of the sister of Mrs . Lyle ; but it appears to have been sent by the plaintiff ' s wife . She arrived in London by the train referred to , but did not make her appearance at her husband ' s house until the following day , and the assumption was that she and Mr . Herbert had passed a guilty night together . Mr . Lyle , with the assistance of his servants and some of his friends , then watched his wife ; and the proceedings' they took , as related by the witnesses , caused frequent roars of laughter among the auditors . One of the watchers , named William Taylor ,
said : — " He remembered Mr . Lyle making some communications to him . upon the subject of the conduct of hia wife on the morning of her departure for Birmingham . Witness had previously mentioned something to him upon the same subject , and arrangements were made to detect the parties . A room was first taken in Cumberland-street , at the back of Charlotte-street , but this was riot found to answer , and another was afterwards taken next door by witness . He then bored a hole in the party wall , but this was of no use , and he fixed up an apparatus with an index attached to it that would indicate when any person got into the defendant ' s bed . He could tell by this apparatus whether one , two , threeor four persons got into bed . ( A laugh . " ) He
, called the apparatus an indicator . ( Laughter . ) On the night of the 18 th June he was watching with his ear to the hole , and the indicator acted . ( A laugh . ) The lever fell according to the weight . ( Laughter . ) It first informed him that one person got into bed , and then that a second person had done so . ( Henewed laughter . ' ) He immediately proceeded to the roof , and entered by the trap door , took the servant by the hand , opened the door of the defendant ' s bedroom , tore down the curtains , and turned the bull ' s-eye ( a policeman ' s lantern ) upon them . ( A roar of laughter . ) Mr . Herbert and Mrs . Lyle were in bed together . Mr . Lyle was at this time making the best of his way to the place , and , Mrs . Lylo rushed upstairs to her own room . On the following day , witness
saw Mr . Herbert in the plaintiff ' s house , and he said he was prepared to pay for his guilt , and it was a pity that there was such a fuss made about it . " Cross-examined : " The ' indicator' was an invention of his own . He had not taken out a patent for it . { Laughter . ) Since this discovery , he had been living with Mr . Lyle . Mr . Lyle was watching the ' indicator' -while he ( witness ) was looking through the hole . ( Hoars of laughter . ) An hour and a half elapsed before the instrument began to act , and during that time they drank some gin and water . He suggested that the parties should have every facility afforded them in order that he might detect them . Would swear that lie did not Bit upon the tiles dressed in woman ' s clothes in order to watch Mrs . Lyle and the defendant . Ho made a rough
model of the ' indicator , ' but he was not aware whether it was in court or not . After the affair had been discovered , he and the plaintiff and several others wont to a public-houao and had some drink , but ho did not see Mr . Lylo smoke a cigar . Did not know- whether he smoked a cigar or not . Belioved that after the discovery was made , they had a glass of brandy-and-wator all round . ( A laugh . ) After this , they all went back to the house . There was gin and water on tho table . He stole a bottle of gin from Mr . Herbert ' s bedroom at the time of tho discovery . ( . 4 roar of laughter . ) It w »» Mr . Lyle ' s gin , and he had his authority for taking it . They had pickled salmon , gin , and tea , but ho could not pay whether tho meal was supper or breakfast , but it was more like breakfast than supper , because it was in the middle of tho night . By witness's advloe , Mr .
Herbert was allowed to remain transaction , and he took his boots away in order that he might not leave . " ( A laugh . ) Mr . Serjeant Parry , for the defence , commented . on the disgraceful nature of the husband ' s conduct , an ^ again led to an outburst of irrepressible laughter , in which the Lord Chief Baron could not help joining , byreferring to what he described as Taylor ' s ' crimconometer . ' He said he felt some surprise at the solemn manner in which the case had been opened by Mr . Edwin James , " who , " observed the serjeant , " enjoys : anything funny as well as any one in the world ; " And concluded by expressing his confidence that , if the jury found for the plaintiff at all , they would only give him the smallest current coin in the way of damages . This hint was taken , and Mr . Lyle obtained damages to the amount of One Farthing .
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The August General Sessions commenced on Monday , when several cases of ordinary larceny were tried , none of which present any features of interest . Christopher Best , a commission agent , was tried on Tuesday on a charge of stealing twenty-five bags of rice , the property of Mr . Henry Page , owner of the Commercial Rice Mills in the Commercial-road . The theft appears to have been concocted in conjunction with a greengrocer and coaldealer at Stepney , named Osborn , who indeed seems to have been the chief mover in the transaction , though it is probable that some persons on the premises of Mr . Page were concerned in the affair . Best was found Guilty , but only on the second count ,
which charged him with receiving the property with a guilty knowledge . Mr . Sleigh ( who appeared for the prosecution ) said , as the verdict had been given , he was at liberty to state that Mr . Page had been robbed of hundreds of pounds' worth of property in the course of a year . Mr . Page added , that he had traced a loss of more than 6001 . since last November . Mr . Sleigh said that Osborn had escaped from his bail during one of the remands before the magistrate , and * as the grand jury had now found a true bill against him , he ( Mr . Sleigh ) ' had to apply for a bench warrant for his apprehension . This was granted . Best was sentenced to ten months ' hard labour .
John Forbes and "William Collins , sailors , were indicted on Wednesday for having assaulted Rahjah , a Lascar , and robbed him of 21 . The usual oath upon the New Testament was being administered to the prosecutor through a policeman , who acted as interpreter in a very intelligent manner , when it was remarked that Rahjah was going through the same ceremony as if being sworn upon the Koran . In answer to questions put to him , the Lascar said , any oath , either upon the Koran or the Christian Testament ; would be binding upon his conscience , as he had lost caste , and he would not tell a lie , for if he did the Almighty would deprive him of his eyesight in this world and punish him in that to come ; besides , he would not tell a lie , being a married man with a family . The case tvas proved against the prisoners , who were sentenced to six months' hard labour .
Francis Gerrard , a sailor , was found Guilty of fraudulently obtaining the sum of 11 . from John Salter , a public-house keeper , by means of an assertion ( which , afterwards turned out to be false ) that he was entitled to prize money from the United States frigate Niagara , in support of which he exhibited what purported to be a pay-note of the purser of that vessel . He was sentenced to six months' hard labour .
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THE ASSIZES . James Bayliss , a man employed in the service of Lord Redesdale , at his farm at Burton-on-rthe-Hill , has been tried at Gloucester on a charge of embezzling his employer of certain sums of money amounting to nearly 200 ? . Bayliss , for some time past , had been appointed by his Lordship to the entire management of his farm , in the capacity of bailiff , all the receipts and disbursements arising from the farming business passing through his hands , for which he accounted , at distant intervals , to Lord Redeadalo . Tho farm speculation , however , did not prove a very profitable one , which was at first attributed to want of skilful management on the part of Bayliss ; but Lord Redesdalo's suspicions being afterwards aroused by certain circumstances , ho engaged a nerson to receive all the farming accounts monthly from
his bailiff . Tho fraud was then soon discovered . The very first monthly account purported to show that 80 / . had been received for tho sale of four oxen at Moreton fair , while , application being made to tho dealer , it was discovered that 767 . had been paid in part for five boasts , the real number sold upon that occasion . After this discovery , inquiries wore made which brought to light numerous other fraudulent transactions of a similar kind on tho part of Bayliss , for which bills had been preferred ; but owing to certain obstacles having arisen in the conduct of those cases , which made It difficult to substantiate the charges afialnst Bayllsa , the jury Had ignored several of tho bills . The fraud in tho prosont instance , however , wan fully proved , in consequence of clumsy attempt made by Bayliss , after ho was detected to alter some figures In his farm-book . The jury having found him Guilty , ho was sentenced to eighteen , months' imprisonment and hard labour .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2205/page/9/
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