THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2632, 13 September 1882, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND POISONING CASE.

fPEKSB ASSOCIATION THLESEAM. 1 AUCKLAND, September 12. At the adjourned inquest respecting the death of Mrs Sarah Cleaver, James Alexander Fond, analytical chemist, gave evidence at length. At Superintendent Thomson’s request he undertook, on the 30th ult., to analyse some portion of deceased’s stomach and its contents. In pursuance of arrangement he received two packages on following morning from Detective Strathern. The first package contained an open jar covered with calico and seals. The second package was a pickle bottle containing about 10 jz of liquid, which he understood had been vomited the day previous to the death of the deceased, and this was not sealed. He took the bottle containing the vomited matter and examined it. The whole effect of Mr Pond’s evidence, which consisted of a minute description of his experiments, was that ho was quite unable to find a trace of arsenic. The evidence of Sergeant Major Pardy, Detective Strathern, and Dr. Cushing, of Waikato, who had attended the girl after her confinement, was also taken. The Coroner, Dr. Goldsboro, summed up strongly against the evidence of Drs. Bichardson and Walker, and in favor of the view taken by Mr Pond, the analytical chemist. The jury returned a verdict of “ Death from natural causes, ”