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subject to the same punishment and penalty to which a person manufacturing, 
selling, carrying, disposing of, or having in his possession any nitro-glycerine 
without a licence is made liable by this Act. 
6. Nitro-glycerine may be searched for in the same manner, under the Search for 
same warrants, and subject to the same conditions in, under, and subject to ndro-glyce- 
which gunpowder may be searched for in pursuance of the Act of the session rme ‘ 
of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of her present 
Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirty-nine; and all the provisions of the 
said Act relating to searching for gunpowder are hereby incorporated with 
this Act, and shall, for the purposes of this A.ct, be construed as if the word 
“ gunpowder ” in such provisions included nitro-glycerine as defined by this 
Act, and as if the Act therein referred to were this Act, and those provisions 
shall be construed to extend to nitro-glycerine imported or sold contrary to 
this Act. 
PROSECUTION UNDER THE ARSENIC ACT. 
In the case, briefly noticed in our last number, in which Mr. Lister, a grocer at 
Church Stretton, was charged, on the information of Mr. Phillips, Chemist, with selling 
arsenic (“ Cooper’s Sheep-dipping Powder ”), contrary to the Act, the decision of the 
magistrates has been given. The Bench decided on dismissing the summons, being of 
opinion that the coloured preparations of arsenic did not come within the meaning of 
the Act. Costs of the summons to be paid by the complainant, and the costs of the 
adjournment to be paid by Mr. Cooper, who defended the case for his agent. 
CASES OF POISONING—ACCIDENTAL AND CRIMINAL. 
Alleged Poisoning.— Charles Gritt, who was reported in our last number as 
having poisoned Miss Emily Collier, was brought before the Coroner at Newport, when 
further evidence was given. It appears that after eating some of the wheat given to 
her by the prisoner, the little girl, finding that it tasted nasty, told her mother, who had 
the remainder of the wheat thrown into the fire, and it was observed to burn with a blue 
flame. Soon after eating the wheat, the child became ill, and the following symptoms 
were observed,—vomiting and twitching about the mouth. Dr. Brewer was called in, 
but before he arrived, the lower jaw had become fixed. The prisoner was discharged 
from Mr. Collier’s service, and subsequently wrote a confession that what he had given 
to Miss Collier was poisoned wheat. On Friday, Sept. 3rd, the inquiry was resumed, 
when a communication was read from Dr. Taylor to the effect that he had analysed the 
whole of the stomach, the greater part of the intestines, one-half of the liver, one kid¬ 
ney, the spleen, one-half of the heart, and one-fourth of the lungs, all of which were 
submitted to the usual tests and processes for the detection of mineral and vegetable 
poison, with the result that no trace of poison was found in any one of these organs. 
Dr. Taylor laid particular stress on the length of Miss Collier’s illness, as being opposed 
to the theory of death having resulted from poisoning; for if she had been given strych¬ 
nia, arsenic, etc., or any of the more active poisons, death must have followed in a few 
hours. The jury expressed a wish that the remainder of the organs should be entrusted 
to Dr] Letheby for analysis, and the Coroner agreed to convey their wish to the proper 
quarter. The inquiry was accordingly adjourned. > . 
This case was resumed on Thursday, Sept. 16th, when the prisoner was examined as 
to the written confession he had previously made. He stated that he wrote the paper 
in question for the purpose of getting a character; and that there was no truth what¬ 
ever in the statement there made, to the effect that he had poisoned Miss Collier, lhe 
report of the analysis of Dr. C. M. Tidy, of the London Hospital, to whom the case had 
been referred, was read. It was to the effect that no poison whatever had been discovered. 
The following verdict was given, “ The jury are of unanimous opinion that there is no 
evidence to prove that Miss Emily Amelia Collier came to her death otherwise than 
naturally, from inflammation of the membranes and substance of the brain. 
Poisoning by Strychnia.— An inquest was held on Wednesday, September 8th, 
