The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

"John Matrie, Witness,

"North Prison, Glasgow, July 11, 1985."
Dr. PRITCHARD'S DIART.—In one of the diaries of
Dr. Pritchard, not read in court, but shown to
witnesses for the purpose of identifying the hand-
writing, is this entry : 'l7, Friday. Died here at 1
a.m., Mary Aunt, my own beloved wife, aged 48 years
—no torment surrounded her bedside, but like a, calm
peaceful lamb of God pasted Minnie away. May God
and Jesus Holy Oh, one in three—Welcome Minnie.
Prayer on prayer till mine be o'er; everlasting love.
Save us, Lord, for thy dear Son."
Dr. PRITCHARD AND HIS ANTRA:I=INT%. —The follow-
ing account of this notorious crionual, who is left for
execution on the 28th inst., will probably be read with
some interest at the present moment:- .Edward William
Pritchard is the son of Mr. John White Pritchard, se
captain in the Royal Navy, and was born in 1825, at
Southsea, Hants After going through the usual
preliminary education, he was apprenticed in September,
1840, to Helm. Edward John and Charles Henry Scott,
scygpons of considerable praetioe in Portsmouth. Duriag
RIR aPPrelitmeship be In stated to have saatduouaty.
studied the elementary breaches of his profession sad
conducted himself with great propriety. On the com-
pletion of his apprenticeship he entered on his hospital
studies at King's College in October, 1843; there also
he prosecuted his studies with great seal, sadhis friends
being desirous that he should enter the Wend nertelee of
his country, be memorialised the authorities at the
College of Surgeons to be allowed to offer himself for
exmoinittion at an earlier period than was at that time
allowed. His application having been granted,
he ap-
peened before the court et examiners en he 29th of Hay"
1846, sad, after the usual examination, was admitted •
member' of the college. He then underwent an ex-
amination befort the Navy Bowl, and was dely gasetted
an assistant-surgeon in her lisjeety's navy, and has
several relatives in the combatant branch of that service.
Those who knew wing the position of the medical-
lodicerin the royal envy was it thattime (and which
not much altered at present), wfll. sot be sorprhed
that a highly-educated sad aeoomplisbed surgeon should
endeavour to emancipate himself from slash thraldom.
tie, therefore, embraced the first opportunity, and re-
signed all connection with the royal navy, and dater-
mined on seeking private practise. binding it was
necessary to poweas a double qualification, he presented
himself before the Society of .4 potheoirim, sad berth(
passed the examination was admitted • licentiate of the
hall. He had previously obtained (it is believed pur-
chase) the " M.D." of liciaogen. Hi then to
Glasgow, where he practised with peat meets*, until his
apprehension fox's crime second only in atrositY to that
of the notorious William Palmer. While waiting for
pdactice he sought amusement and profit in the use of
hi pen, and become • laborious contributor to the ad-
vancement of general and medical seienee ; rainy of
is papers ere distributed through the pages of the
',neat Times and Gazette, and the Zoned, she Trace-
of the Pharmasseutical. Obeletriml and King's
flosietlea He wee the author of a
-irn Island," " Obeervatione on Filey as
" " The Guide to Piley and its Anti-
igings for the Poor of Cities," kes.
glow and member of nearly twenty
inetitutions in the United King-
JOS to several life sissewatme offices,
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