At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday (Friday), Edmund Keefe and
James Turner, described as labourers, were tried before Mr. Baron Bram- well, in the New Court, for attempting to poison Honoria Turner, wife of the second prisoner. She had been separated from her husband, but he with the other prisoner had come to her as she supposed to make friends. They prevailed on her to take some beer. This made her violently ill, and sugar of lead was afterwards found in the pot.
Keefe, in his defence, said he knew nothing about the poison. Turner bought it, and what had he got to do between man and wife ,? The Jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict of " Guilty" against Turner, the husband, and acquitted the prisoner Keefe. Mr. Baron Bram- well ordered sentence of death to be recorded, and the prisoner was removed from the bar without making any remark.
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