21 MAY 1859, Page 10

The Richmond Magistrates yesterday committed for trial Thomas Smet- hurst

on the charge of poisoning Miss Bankes. The investigations of Dr. Alfred Taylor have not only ended in the discovery of arsenic in the con- tents of the stomach, but in the medicine prepared for the deceased. Dr. Julius had sent quinine mixture. In the bottle which had contained it Dr. Taylor found chloride of potass and arsenic. He exhibited to the bench some fine copper gauze with arsenic deposited upon it, and also crystals of arsenic found in the stomach.