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night ; I was attended by Dr. Brown as my medic-11 advisee.
Previous to the sight in question, for several- nights 1 kat been
taking boluses prescribed by Dr. lirown. My husband hada
young man of the name of Finlay, and another of the name of
Mason, who lived with him as his apprentices. I 'menthe, my
husband bringing me up a bolus thr.t night. between ten and tie.
yen o'clock ; he mid me I was to take it ; I cannot remember his
words. He told me there was either half a grain less or Atilt' grain
more of opium in it them before. He told me so • I did not ask
him. I had desired of my husband that an alteration should bt
made in the quantity of the opium. Alter he first brought it up to
inc [(lid not like to take it. 1 wished it to be emote into pills. He
kronglit the bolus twice into the room. I desired him to go down
stain and put more opium in it. I cannot recollect what he said
wino he .fought it up a second time. It was after that I desired
him ile make it into three pith. Ile made it into pills in the rat. in.
Allot be trade them Into three pills I too!: them, me filer another.
My husband gave me the first pill. %C I hen took it 1 found •
hest in my stomach and in sly throat. I had not felt that when I
took the bolus.. on the two preceding nights. When I felt the heat
I told my husband of h ; and be replied I should moon be !acne:.
After that I took the other two. My husband gave me them ;
they produced the acme effect as the other. 1 had a feeling of sick.
nine 50011 afterwards. I don't recollect whether anytbiog was said
to me by my husband about that sickness. My balloted brought
and a draught after I took the pill., which I believe I took imme.
diately after. It was Ater 1 took the draught that I felt sick. My•
modal had beta with me that evening, but had gone honie. My
husband said it would be a pity to disturb me. and I would be
better soon. Al/ mother, Dr. Brows, and the other surgeon, elate
afterward* in the course of be night.
Crommeamined by Mr. 11'1 1. lA3lll—Aly child an. a boy, and
was born a little before Christmas; it is livlng. I nod my health
well before my marriage; but I was nth as well after my confine-
ment. I have never recovered entirely from that. My husband
had sent for n-other medical man, Mr. Swann, before he either
seat for Dr. Brown or Mr. firegory. That was ahtieit smooth
before the fhb of June, er less, 'Filet w-r any host:ours own en-
Mg. Ile continued to attend me till Pe. Rorer came, anti occa-
sionally after; my husband was tolerably attentive tome when I
was unwell. Ile continued to be no. lie was remarkably final of
the child.—(llse the prisoner, who hid his Isar in his hanilker.
chief, and wept bitterly during the wholeof the witness's exaud-
nation, gave a loud sob.) He was indeed a kind husband to me.—
(Here the prisoner wept.)
ify Mr. Justice Ila Yngw—larlginially desired Dr. MOWS *0 St-
tend one, and my husband made no objection to it. Before n'y
mother rains I sent for her; nor huabsad heard me send for her.
sod dial not prevent it. My mother (rpm within an hone after I
had taken the medicine. She lives within hell a mile. My hus-
band made no other objection to my setidine, foe my it whey, but
that it would be a pity to disturb lin. l;e. Brown was sent
fm by my desire, after nay mother came, sad my hotlines''
!made no objection to that. My husband generally gave me
Imy medicine himself, if he was in the room. I had observed for
I six months before that my husband wax deranged in his mini. lie
I occasionally sheaved symptoms of /Ring th•ratesd. 1 formed thst
opinion from hut irregular eonduet in the house. That rnt.dtirt was
his going about the house with fewer clothe* on him than he ought
to have. He did so in the day time.
Mrs. Hodgson was then carried out of Court.
Mr. 1tub4.74 Wilson, solicitor. Sumierland, rioted the execution
of the marriage settlement by the portion.
Criss-examietri.—l prepared the settle mer t. The mianner first
proposed o. settle I,eoo/. on his wile, but ern 1,2001. being proposed
be agreed to it.
Theaettl-ment was put in and read. It secured LBW. to Mrs.
Hodgson fur her life; and after her death, if she had a child, it was
to revert to the grinner.
Matthew 'r inlay examined by lllt. 11140174311A5t-1 shall he
next March. I am apprrowe with Mr. Hodgson last Jut.c.
Ilamilyin Mason was also with hint, but no one coat. dometimes
I used to alert. in the shop, rind stmetimes Hamilton. The one
who did not sleep in the shop slept at home with his lather. I re-
collect mixing bolo," for Mrs. liodgwin in June, by Mr. Haig.
iton's directions. One bolus was made of six gl.illlor c.lorof,l and
four of opium. The neat was six grain of valiant I and only
three of opium ; and the one on Sunday night was in ale of tight
Igatine of calomel, and one-half a grain of Nihon ; the was the
bat bolus I made, and the others on the Friday and the Saturdsy.
I mixed the last on Sunday myself. I had at :Ina Moe Leen with
my muter a little morn than a year red a half. I took the calmmei
nut of the same bottle I lad token it out of on the Saturday anti
the Friday, anal the opium out of the same bottle too. I put nothing
else in the bless t !rept the calomel and opium, and • little coo.
wave out of the same jar on the Friday and Saturday. I merle
that bolus about tour o'clock in the afternoon. I made it on the
same stone as the othtra. After I made it I wrapped it tip in a
paper. and laid it on the shelf below where the opium was. I took
it up stairs about nine o'clock. Ihiring part of the time I bad it en
the shelf; I was in the shop. I took it up stairs ; it had the same
appearance as when I left it. thought i did not Molt in the inside ;
the paper was the seine. ‘Vhen I took it up stairs I laid It on the
press in the kit hen, and was corning out, when I saw Mrs. AM-
sin in Mrs. Ilmlgson's mom, and I tweet into the kitchen again,
and took the bolus cut and gave it to Mrs. Allison. I then went
dust haw the shop. Mr. liot'gaun was not there when I
went in, but I saw hint shoed/ after. Ile did not tell me to do
anyilting. lie went up stain after I saw him. and I staid in the
shop. lie mote dose stabs siterwarda, and told nio that I was to
g 4, home to sleep that night; that was chot.i. tett o",heit. Ile said
I was to gr home. bemuse the Iwo servants were so much
crowded with the little be in one bed, ihet one of them should
sleep down in the shop. The servants sever slept there before. I
went hem:: nrd slept ihrre 'hat right.
Crow examine 1 be Mr. l'uer.treir.—l at. pe at home for a week
ne ten days beitsre. The servant did not steep in the shop, as she
was in attendance during the whole nii,ht. Alr. Ilodgaun had a
good deal of business ainengst the poor people, and had also
patients of a better deseripti
_on. I re. olleet two bottles that stood in
the shop ; one of thews
.powder of opium in it, and the other
had cerrosivc sublimate us in Thep stood upon a shelf; there
were drawers in the middle' and shelves on etch side. These Iwo
Nineties stood together; they were both ribont the gnaw size. They
were glass bottles with tin stoppers.. They did not stand apart
flout other bottles ; but there was a jar in the middle, and three
boil., on each ride. On the ether side, where the powder of
opium anal corrosive sublimate were, was another bottle containing
sugar of kid. I had been accustomed to compound medicines from
about tad months after I went, and sometimes Hamilton coma
pounded diem. I never mixrd opium and corrosive sublimate
together, tut I am not quite sure that I never mixed ',ohms and
sugar of lead. Corrosive soloiniate is so,activies wanted for a par-
denier sort of medicine. Calomel is the sulantiriate of mercury.
Corrosive enblimate is the oxymnrinte cl mercury. Pining the
time that I have been in ;qr. Portrait's service, as a medical tuan
he has always been • remarkably humane 141111, and middlingly
kind and attentive to I.i. patients. Ile none in with a horse on the
Sunday afternoon ; he had had a good Ord of riding eland, for the
peitpose of visiting his patients. I don't know that he had been up
early that morning to attend a woman in labour; I don't know
that tie had to attend Mn. Crosby Walker that nawring. She
was confined 'Moot that time; I rather think it was that day, but
I am not sure. I don't know that Mr. Hodgson dined at home that
day; I dioed at Manse myself that day 'about twelve o'cloefr. I
'as Mr. 11. about one or two, and at fire, and then again rat ten at
night. I got the horse for him at two, and be went out and came
back again at live.
he-examined.---I don't rrnember on any partirolar arantsion
hatter; ever before skot out of the shop, a crept when Ilmnilton
lilason slept there. When any lowly wasted Mr. Iluelgson in the
night *hey knock• al at the front door. I have known both Hamil-
ton and myself aim" out of the house, tut 1 ant not quite sure that
that was when he had a third apprentice. I never recollect Ate
maid-servant sleeping there before. Powder of opium is of a dark
brown cyleur, sto-ar of Inad is white, and corrosive stibiimale a
pale with. The'hinties are of white glass. The admire sublis

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mate was in eryetals, and not in por:tler.
lly Mr. Justice MY etr.—When I wild he was middling kind
to his patients, I meant he sometimes neglected to attend them. but
not very often; although rmrta, of late than fermerly. 1 had not
c.7merved any change in his behaviour lately from what it used to
bet het soinetintes he was in liquor. lye ilif r u seem to be in li-
gtuir that `43n,lav afternoon, nor when be came in at nigh,.
Mrs. El iss'let h A Ilium, the mother of the preset-11,65, examined.
had been attending upon n.y ilaughier,when this a'rzir happenol.
She had loom ill a month or tire weed., beihre that time; I was
there on Sundt:, the fnh of June. I remember Finlay lairging the
holm, into the room about nine o'clock. I opened It out and sew
that it was the same she had hail bcfere, and I laid it down on the
table. I cannot say whether Mn. Iloilguni was whet, at that
time; but she was in bed, and the curtains were drawn. The pd.
some was nee long after the bolas had been laid down in corning
into the namt. lie took the bolus up. and went down stairs with it.
Ire wag way a short time, and brought a hello dhit not
ace the bolus which he brought hack. When he came hack. he said
the bolus was ready for her 'o take, and that there we., bairn grain
of opium 100, than there was in it the night before. 1 410 rot know
whether Finlay hod left the house before deo time. IV lir n lie came
up with the bolus a salami' time, it was between ran, and ten
o'clock, hot before ten. I did not see Finlay after he gave me the
11.11:11 Mr. Ilodgmnt told his wile the bolos had dyium
than before, s:i.: !tint to take it down and make it die saute
CS it was before. Upon that the pri'nncr took it down. Ile was
only a few reieutes away then; and when he came back he aid he
had made the hobos right. seal it was ready for her to take. Ile
laid the holm, d'own upon the chmt of drawers. Illy daughter did
not take it at that time. I left the room and the house about half.
pa dt ten, and she had tint ti.ken the bolus before I left. I had not
been gone away an hour before I was sent foe again. Agnes
Thnngenn, Alr. llodstion's servant, came for me. I went, and
found my dan„,”%ter very ill irdeed. She was complaining of a
burning heat in the stmomeh. She tem sick and von,i4ior. The
prisoner was sober that night, for anything I saw. Michael Brown
was in the room.
cenea_essinined—There w.:: a nurse attending upon her, but I
don't know how long site attended ler. She tro• n t!,^-c;
but attetnlcd her Orr isiur ally trim lit r Best illness. 'they had twos
servants bcskles the nume. I itoa't know whether the tan servants
and the child slept together. lily consent to the marriage was not
a 4011; it W311(10111. Wlthollt try knowledge.
Re-examined—l live at Ilouglmm, and was at Sunderland en
a visit, on ad court of my danpbtor's illnots. I was sent foe. I had
beer. at Sunderland about a week before this happened.
Ily lie. Pot coca-31y daughter and the prisoner were mar-
ried at.firetna linen.
fly Mr. Justice Ilsisr.Y—l Wall at Minch:on sat the Saturday,
but was at Sunderland all thee Sundae. Site took a bolus on the
Saturday night, but I don't know that she bad taken a:7 other
indolicitie to work that oil: prisoner went down with the
bolus twice. Ile had said nothing to his wife nor she to hint be.
fore he took it down the first time. Ile taut it down the second
time to :if !some opium.
11achael 'frown examined—l was sttereing Mrs. Hodgson as
untie. I had been 13 the habit of attending her bele:v. I was
wt:l sect; vl..h list betere tit arriage, but zero' abeeded