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Otago Daily Times, Issue 236, 22 September 1862, Page 5

EXTRAOEDIXAEY POISONING XEi^ RUGBY. - - TE3 PEiiSONS POISONED WITH IRS "NIC

. L , , . lie-car, Juiv I>. _ A mos,, melancholy occurrence has ju^t takaa place m a fannboase at Ashby St. Lslgers, a villas o t thboraers of I^orthainpt mdiire, not far from this It appears that -Mr. Wiiiiara Payne Cowley, & faru-4 lmng m that ni'dsxgQ with bis mother(whois a widow) and lus brothers, had his sheep dipped, or wasSed lost wee*. The object of this dippinr, or was&iu^' is the extermination of vermia, and for this parpola a strong mixture of■ areesia audsoft soap, dllu-ei with water, is used. Oa Tuesday mornin- iarf MW. V. Cowley seat bis brother. Mr. Edwin Ci\v*ev* to the adjoining town of Daventrv, where he uarchased 61b. of white arscuic and a barrel of soft soao weighing SOJb. Oa the following nioraiag. Air. w' IL Oowley and his motlser prepared the she2p_dlTr,iD* mixture, in which some lambs were -R-ashvd. In thfe operation 3lr. Cowley and several of his labours were employed. After assic- ting her son in the preparation of the soap and arsenic, Mrs. Copley »roceeded to make a batter pudding for the dinner of her femily and the labours s and servants. By some means as yet unaccount^l for, it appears that some arsenic must have beeom? mixed with this paddin™for the whole of the persons who partook of it, tea in number, became violently sick just after dinner, aad exhibited ail the symptoms of having been poisoned The b-st medical assistance in the neighbourhood was proccred, but one man has already died, and another is not expected to survive; the others are all more or less affected, - ■•"-■■■ The name of the deceased is Richard Smith- He was an agricuitaral labourer, and fifty-three years of age. The following is a list of the other persons who are iU :—3rr. Edwin Cowkv. fm-mer; Mr. Pc-kin CJwley farmer ; William Montgomery, shepherd - John Cowley, labourer; Jane Cox, housemaid • Mary Ann Montgomery, servant; and three boys* named John Cox, Thonas Montgomery, and Geore^ Smith.— Globe. b"