6 MAY 1876, Page 3

The doctor's assistant, W. K. Vance, and Mrs. Helen Snee,

whose correspondence on the best means of destroying life secretly has attracted so much attention, were on Friday com- mitted for trial by Mr. Vaughan, the formal charge being one of conspiracy to murder Helen Snee, with a second indictment against Vance only, for aiding and abetting Mrs. Snee to commit suicide. No charge of conspiracy to murder a third person is apparently to be preferred. It was stated in evidence on Friday that among the poisons forwarded by Vance to Mrs. Snee were liquid chloral—" enough," the medical witness testified, "to destroy two lives "—prussic acid, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, opium, and tincture of belladonna. The prisoners reserved their defence, and no line for it has as yet been clearly suggested.