The Sydney Poisoning Case.
FURTHER SENSATIONAL DEYELOPEMENTS. (Per Press Association.) Sydney May 20. Before the Commission set up to consider the Dean case, a man named John Asprey, aged 70, found living in the bush at North Shore, said his attention had been called to the case on Satuiday last and he clearly identified Mrs Seymour (mother of Mrs Dean) as his wife. In evidence he declared that he married her at Hobart, where he in 1850 had been transported for seven years on a charge of stealing, and then kept several public houses and lived happily for a time. Then rows, the result of jealousy, ensued, and finally his wife left him, taking with her a cashbox, and he had not seen her for the last twenty years, and some time before she cleared out he twice suffered severely, and the symptoms were those of arsenic poisoning. Afterwards he discovered that the contents of a bottle of arsenic in the house }i which he had bought for the purpose of poisoning rats, had mysteriously diminished.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 272, 21 May 1895, Page 2
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