At the Bow Street Police Court, yesterday, Sir John Dean
Paul was bailed out. His sureties were Mr. Thomas Graham, of Reading, and Mitre Court Chambers, Temple; and Mr. John Woodhull, of 28 Orchard Street, Portman Square, coach-builder.
At Darlington, yesterday, Mr. J. S. Wooler was committed for trial on the charge of poisoning his wife. The principal evidence given was that of Pro- fessor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, to whom the viscera of the deceased were sent, under seal, by Dr. Haslewood and Dr. Robinson. Dr. Taylor analyzed the viscera in conjunction with Dr. George Rees of St. George's Hospital. Each analyzer revised the analysis made by the other at every stage ; and the materials used in testing were carefully examined before use. Upon a superficial examination, in some cases poison was not discovered; but upon going deeper,-cutting deeper, for instance, into the liver,-it was tound in considerable quantities, and apparently pervading the liver, the heart, the lungs, a small quantity of blood found in the abdomen, and the intestines. In the liver, heart, and lungs, the arsenic was incorporated with the texture of those organs, deposited there as a result of previous absorp-
I ion during life. There was disease in the liver, slight cancer in the intes- tines, and a very unusual blackness in the latter, as if produced by iron.
Two very interesting points came out in a subsequent part of the exami- nation of the witnesses. Mr. J. R. Fothergill corrected a statement he had made on the previous day, when he said that arsenic was not present in the acid that he had used in the analysis he had made of the enema. On sub- sequent examinations he had ascertained that it did contain a small quantity -a mere trace-but so small as not, in his opinion, to alter his opinion that the matter in the enema contained arsenic quite independent of the trace found in the acid. Dr. Taylor took occasion to note the exceeding dangerous and pernicious effects that might arise from arsenic being present in muriatic acid. He said it arose from iron pyrites being used in making a cheap kind of this acid. He understood that it was used in making bread, and the arsenic thus became incorporated in the loaf. Dr. Taylor had intended to lay this fact before the Committee of the House of Commons on A.dultera- lions ; but the Committee had risen before he reached town. [The fact is one of many others that will impart peculiar interest to the ulterior inquiry into this case.]
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