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At the Central Criminal Court, on 20th September, Jeremiah O’Sullivan was 
found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of Ursula Margaret 
O Sullivan, the child of a woman with whom he had contracted a bigamous 
marriage. Dr. M‘Sweeney, by whom the prisoner was employed, stated that the 
prisoner had confessed to him that he had administered chloroform to the child, 
and the mother further testified that O’Sullivan had attempted to administer 
chloroform on the day the child was born. 
At the same sitting of the court Carl von Bieren, a chemist, whose affairs 
have recently been a good deal before the public, was convicted of fraudulent 
insolvency, and sentenced to two years and ten months* imprisonment in the 
Goulburn Gaol. 
Henry Thomas Kent and Caroline Roberts, charged with the murder of Mrs. 
Kent by poisoning on 29th July, have been acquitted. 
A magisterial inquiry was held at Wagga into the circumstances attending 
the death of a Chinaman named Ah Sam, which occurred at Tarcutta on the 
10th September. The evidence showed that the deceased met his death by 
some poison placed in a cake by mistake, and the finding was to the effect 
that death was due to accident. 
Alfred Reynolds, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, by 
compelling her to take poison at Newtown on 13th August, was hanged in 
Darlinghurst Goal on Thursday morning, the 8th October. 
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(From our Special Correspondent.) 
Adelaide, 13th October. 
The usual monthly meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Australia 
was held on Tuesday, 5th October. Present: The president (Mr. Harrison) in 
the chair, and Messrs. Beale, Young, Eyre, Parker, Wood, Long, Scammell, 
Main, Poole, Gibbs, Hill, and White. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, and some applications 
for admission to the society discussed, the president announced that Mr. Luther 
Scammell, jun., was willing to accept the position of delegate to represent South 
Australia at the forthcoming Pharmaceutical Conference to be held in Melbourne 
shortly, and remarked upon the good fortune of the society in being able to avail 
itself of the services so efficient a representative could render. It was, he said, 
generally recognised as desirable that delegates from South Australia should be 
present at the Conference, and the offer of Mr. Scammell was now placed before 
the members that they might formally appoint him. Several members signified 
their satisfaction at this information, and Mr. L. Scammell was then appointed by 
unanimous vote. 
The instruction of the delegate with regard to the views of the members 
on the various topics of the Conference was the next business of the meeting, 
and this called forth a long and interesting expression of opinion, from which 
it appeared that the resolutions to be submitted to the Conference were 
generally approved. In connection with the resolution affecting pharmaceutical 
education, it was thought by some that while a course of study was desirable, 
yet it should not be compulsory, as it would place many aspirants in a difficult 
position if they were obliged to attend lectures, &c., in order to obtain that 
pharmaceutical knowledge which is quite attainable by diligent home study, 
and through the many opportunities that occur in the performance of business 
duties. The “ desirability of uniformity in Australasian pharmaceutical legis- 
