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. tali, never Sid ; but that she had mentioned to bins
of having given thesis to his wife.
%VlMans Wright. who had known the Prisoner
17 years, and had seen her 1:1411 two receipts, swore,
that, to the best of his belief, two letters prothiced
in Court were of her hand-writing. Tile letters
were put in nod read. They were malt directeti to
Perigo, Bromley, near Leeds, without sig-
nature, or place where Armen ; but purpotted to
be wntten by Miss Blythe. The first was dated
August litls, and its object appealed to be to let
halo know she should get to W Into ell, in Bullard,
on the following Friday. The other letter was dated-
August ,itith, it was in sub,tative—" My dear
friend, I do wish you to make yourself as content as
possible. I shall settle all as soon as I come ; but
I want to settle some thing, with my *mete Wil-
kinson ; hut he is in Ireland. As sous as hi. collies
over, I will come to yon. We shall join, ;sever to
pert again, and I shall tiring with me !until. for
you. find Altnighty bless and comfort you is dis-
tress," etc.
Thomas Dubbing proved selling a camp-lied, &c.
to the p:isoner and a woman ; and 11*iss. the
bunking ofa parcel by Perig ~, to g. to Mass Blythe,
Centre Hotel, Buxton ; which parcel n unman
claw twice or Once to inquire after. but in it her of
them could swear the prisoner was the woman they
irt:t romn.
IViaifted Baud had known the Prisoner near
3 year., nil as, employed to on errands mad
carry • letters for her to different places : all but
these she took to Perigo went by post. The Vri-
owner hail ordered IVit,o4s to Ito e Leeds; rod she
accordingly wrist to liowartli, about ZO miles oil;
and stopised there 16 weeks, mid had since been Id
at Lee.:s. Si,e went because she durst not but do
ns 001e,y,1 ; not that she was afraid of being beaten
by the I,olier, but she said if Witness dal nut
do as she was I id, something should come upon
her, or she shoal I be ia deiageraif her life, or nave
• deal of motley to pay. She had been thrice at
Perigo's house with letters, and earls time brought
senisethaig hark ; first II huge tuts, nest u large
bolster case, &e. &c. Monad resign ask her any
qiiestions, she told %%Fitness what to say, otherwise
she was to say n-thing. She went, among other
things, for auto.' floor fur Miss Blythe ; and if Pe-
T•4O inquired after her, the Witness was to sa;• that
ah• ,ras cleaning the rooms at rialneck, and mak-
ing he fires against Nliss flltthe's pruning.
Rose Howgine and ',Mary Perign corroborated Pe.
rei,leitee us to his own situation and that of
his wife, at, rail subsequent to, the Saturday when
the pudding a as eaten; and the symptoms which
they maniti stud.

Joshua Iluisson proved that he gave a consider-
able quantity of dough, from the flour of which
the poubliiiz was made. to is chicken, upon which
it bad no effcrt a hatever.
Strati flowgate and Jahn Rogerson peened, that
hating givea a piece of the podding to n cat he-
longiug to a NIT. Musgrove, ~!s ran nasty, ni.pu-
rrlttly ill, and was f I dead so4lll 3114:
The latter also proved, that eight or nine fowls
having picked among the crumbs left by the cat,
several of them - taken ill, and three died.
Joshua Stockdate and Wm. Duffield, corrobo-
rated Perigo's testiinouy 01 to the charge she made
ctainst the latter when she 'ors taken, of Wish%
given her a hottle the night Iwllue, which kid I
made boil, her sold her husband ill, though they
were proved to he tooth in goad health. A Witlr
found upon the prismer, with Dr. S01(001,11.11111101V
Upon it. and the net • ire it contained, together io ith
a part of the horn y given to Perieo and his wife,
were traced into the hands of 11r. Claorky, the sur-
geon and apotheca.y.
Thomas Grisiy, • boy about eleven years of age,
swore to haveag gone, about tail rears ago, with the
Prisoner's boy, to the r'iop of Clough, a
piorgents, in Leeds, to ..sk for some drug, the name
01 which was written ,i 1 a piece of paper • but that
Mr. Cluagh and he mould not let them have env,
as it was poisaml. 'they weld to the Prisoner's, mid
her sou told her Mr. Cloughwould not let her huge
any. She asked why ? and her sou said he did not
know ghat it was for. Mr. Clough recollected two
boys eorniLt to his shop, about the time specified,
mod one atheist producing is paper, nub arsenic
upon it, of which they emoted tour pennyworth,
for the purpose of killing bugs. Hr refused to let
them have it, but could not sorer to ties hint. in
answer to a spwation by the Court, he and that
arsenic was used by many people to kill hugs.
Timmas Chorley had practised in Leeds as a sow
iron nearly 17 tears. t)u the 25th Mn,y Iso7,
William Perigo canoe to witaiess's on horeeback,
apparently very wc.sk and infirm, that lie could
scarcely walk. Ile gave the same account of Elie
symptoms he laboured under ns lie had done that
day. Witness, after healing the history of his com-
plaint. and. the semptoons, told him. that 1w could
account for it in" no other way than from poison in
the pudding, which lie said was tlw only thing he
had ate; and thought it must have been some me-
tallic poison. The witness then proceeded to state
the experiments be had made moon the reinaitider
of the honey, fouod at Perigo's, moil the conteuts
of the bottle fantod to the prisoner's pocket when
she was taken tsp. The result of these experiments
was, that the former contained r considerable quan-
tity of corrosive sithlimate, and that the latter w. 1.1
sompowil of a spirit like rum, and u ins:tore of
oatmeal and arsenic. lie had beard the evidence
of those who hail witnessed tie illness and death of
the deceased, and lwlieved that the symptoms were
such as would he produced in a person who had
taken corrosive sublimate.
John Lawson, physician to the York county
Hospital, had head the evidences of the witnesses,
soul was clearly of opinion, that the symptoms
manifested by Rebecca Perigo were those pro-
duced by corrosive sahlirnate, and that her death
to/IS roccasiord by poison : if the quantity she
haul taken had not been so great. she might lase
lived as her husband did.

biar4.-un, enincitled is iventitnent
With Dr. I.ltivion and Mr. hurley, ■. to Olt
of the &retried's d•':ith.

The prisoner's examination was then put iu unJ
read. It was taken betirre the 111J3 or of Le..tls, on
the tertle January last. In it she stated, that all the
letters that had been sent to Peri.m. except the list
ire or xis. were wsitteo by one Hsoush Potts.
She denied having received serentl of the armies
which he hatiststed herrn bare obotaincil (ruin blur;
allextil -she had peal 1,1111 for others, aml that ,he