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OXFORD CIRCUIT.Gloucester, April 5. (Before Mr. Baron Chasnell.)ATTEMPT TO POIS05 A FATHER.Ann Indy a marriod woman, was charged with feloniously administering to Joseph Goodall, her father, a quantity of ejrsenic with intent to murder him, at Quennington, in this ounty.Mr. Cripps prosecuted; Mr. Sawyer defended the prisoner. The prisoner, on being arraigned, burst into tears, and p pea red greatly agitated throughout the trial.The facts, as stated by Mr. Cripps, in his opening, were ricily theso:—On the Gth January last the prisoner bought jiiic arsenic at a druggist’s shop at Fairforri, near Quen-hngton, and signed the register in tho druggist’s shop in a ul?c name. Next day, after her father (with whom she and .cr husband lived at Quennington) had taken tea he was row ill, and vomited freely. He got up rather better early the fallowing morning (Friday), and made soiuo more tea iu tho samo teapot, after which he again became iil, but went to his work at five o’clock. He was obliged to return, however, n-v.l on the Saturday, when tlio surgeon came, she fetched tho remainder of the medicine which bad been fetched by tho prisoner’s husband for her, and said, “ If it had not done him o.nv good it should not,” and she took it away. When apprehended a few days afterwards, she said “ she was sorry for it, she hud given him arsenic, and hoped ho wouldf .'rgive her.”Mr. Sawyer then addressed the jury for the prisoner; afterw hlC'lHis Lordship summed up very carefully. With regard to the abscnco of apparent motive, as urged by the prisoner’s counsel, it was not for them to find a prisoner not guilty of a charge because they could not themselves detect any motive; though the apparent absence of motive should be an inducement to them to be the more careful in their inquiry, and while giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt which they might entertain with regard to her guilt, their duty would be to protect the safety of the public on the one hand, and they had also a public duty to perform towards the prisoner.The Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recommended her to mercy.The Foreman said they found her guilty of administering the poison, but with what motive they could not tell.IT is Lordship told them that they must find wLat the motive was.The Jury then found her Guilty of the intent to murder.Ilis Lordship remarked on the heinousncss of the crime Q3 attempted against her own father, and ordered sentence of death to be recorded against her, but with an intimation that it would not be carried into effect.Gloucester, April G.(Before Mr. Baron Cua'sell.)
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