SUPPOSED Porsolerwo.—On Tuesday evening, a composing draught was made up
by Mr. May, Bow Lane, Cheapside, for a Mr. Truman, of Cavendish Street, New North Road. The half of it was administered by Mrs. Truman as soon as it arrived. At seven o'clock next morning, when she awoke, she found her husband in a state of stupor, which con- tinued until Thursday about one o'clock, when he died. A surgeon named Baker, who was examined at the inquest held on the body on Friday, gave it as his opinion that Mr. Truman had died from swallow- ing narcotic poison. There were, however, no appearances of poison in the stomach. The vial andthe remainder of its contents were produced. 31r. Baker insisted it contained laudanum—enough to cause death ; but two other medical men ridiculed the opinion, and contended that the death of Mr. Truman had been caused by disease of the lungs and liver. The Jury, with a natural leaning to the side of the terrible, returned a verdict of" death by poison," but exonerated the draught from all par- ticipation in the affair. The case is curious, from its resemblance to the late one of Mrs. Philips of Finchley. Perhaps more extended experi- ments will prove that certain diseases have a power of modifying the effects of laudanum, both as to intensity and duration. That these are to a certain degree different in different patients, has been long known. Some persons can take a great deal of laudanum, others very little, without inconvenience ; but neither the minimum nor the maximum has been correctly ascertained.
STEALING.—A female named Fenn was charged at Marlborough Street, on Friday, by Viscount Ingestrie, with robbing him and Lady Ingestrie of a number of articles of jewellery and trinkets. It appeared she had been employed as nurse to the late Lady J. M. Cust, sister to the Duke of Buccletich, and to many other noble and honourable indivi- duals, all of whom she had plundered. She was remanded for a week, to allow the Duke of Buccleuch time for considering whether he should prosecute.
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