Casually poisoned

An inquisition was held before Mr. Hill, Coroner for Worcestershire, at the Talbot, Kempsey, on the body of Cassia Mace, spinster, when it appeared from the evidence of Sarah Hoare, a servant to the deceased's mother, that on Monday evening, the deceased proposed to take some salts, and desired her to reach them from a cupboard, where they were in blue paper, which she did, and the mother measured three teaspoons full, which were dissolved in water, and when cold, deceased swallowed them. After swallowing them, she stamped about the house in the greatest agony, exclaiming, "Good God, mother, what have I taken! I have been taking poison - the boot-top stuff instead of the salts;" and so it turned out, for the salts were in the cupboard in a similar paper, and of equal quantity; she had taken oxalic acid. The unfortunate young woman languished in the greatest agony till the following day. Verdict - Casually poisoned.