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Ho came again on Sunday and asked witness to go to an
undertaker and arrange about the funeral, which witness
did. The gentleman came again on Monday, and he saw

the undertaker. He gave him ato bury the lady in
Kensal-green Cemetery, and said he would not have her
buried in a common grave. He fixed the funeral for Wed-
nesday morning at 11 o'clock. He said he should attend
the funeral if ho could, or, if not, he should be at the ceme-
tery. On Tuesday he called again and witness told him
there would be an inquest. He seemed very much sur-
prised, and said, "Dear me, what a shocking thing that
will be 1" Witness again asked him for his address, but he
would not give it, neither would he leave his card. He
merely told witness she was a French lady and had been
in London once before. He did not say a word as to
whether she was his wife or not, or whether ehe was
married. Witness had not seen him since.

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EVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY.
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GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON.
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and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.

Dr. George Harley, F.R.S., said he was a Pro-
fessor in University College, London, and that he had made
a post mortem examination. Externally there was an ap-
pearance that deceased was a well-nourished person. There
were no marks of violence, but an extreme pallor was ob-
servable. The brain was healthy, but bloodless ; the lungs
and heart also were healthy. There was a small modicum
of fluid on the right side of the heart, but the left side was
empty. The abdominal organs, stomach, andkidneys were
also healthy. There was no sign of disease observable. The
uterus was considerably enlarged. He found its organisa-
tion in a remarkably healthy state. He found no appear-
ance of poison. The medicines were roughly examined by
him, but there was nothing deleterious in them. In his
opinion the cause of death was hemorrhage of intestines
caused by abortion, but fie was not able to say whether
that abortion was brought about by natural or by artificial
means.

The Coroner, observing a well known solicitor present,
asked him whether he wished to examine any of the wit-
nesses, as ho presumed he was representing some one at
the inquest. The gentleman referred to said he had no
questions to ask, as ho was merely there to watch the pro-
ceedings.

Dr. Colomiati Meredith said ho lived in Margaret-street,
Cavendish-square, and was a doctor of medicine of Paris,
and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.
Was sent for to see the deceased on the 27th of Juno last.
He never saw or heard of her before. She told him that
when she came over in the vessel to England a week or
ten days previously she fell down and became very wet.
That was all ho heard of her case. When he came to her
on the Wednesday he found the child, or foetus rather,
born, which he removed, and tied the cord. There was
scarcely any bleeding.. There had been a slight bleeding
before ho came in, but nothing alarming. The foetus was
in a state of putrefaction, and it must have been dead for
some time, but he could not say how long. He should be
inclined to believe its death was owing to the fall on board
the vessel. He saw her again next morning about nine
o'clock, and everything was favourable. He did not see
her on the next day to that, Friday; but on Saturday he
was sent for. He came to her about a quarter to four
o'clock, and found a great contraction of the womb and
great flowing of blood. It was not, however, alarming,
He left her for half an hour, andonhiveturn he found her
so weak-that he sent for another medical men. He ordered
brandy to be given her, which was done. She died in their
presence about half-past Bin the evening.
Dr. Harley said the evidence given by Dr. Meredith
would fully account for the symptoms observed by him.

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In answer to the Coroner, Mr. Meredith said most dis-
tinctly that he-did not think deceased had been tampered
with, and that her fall on board the vessel would account

for the abortion, and that the decomposition of the child
would be caused by the mother falling into the water.
The Coroner observed that the suspicious nature of the
case was, that the gentleman referred to was not present.
He must say that the medical evidence did not inculpate
him, and it would be a question for the jury whether it
would be of any advantage to adjourn the case to see if the
gentleman could be found, or whether the jury, acting on
the medical evidence, would at once agree to a verdict.
A juror to Dr. Meredith—Have you over seen this gen-
tleman ?
Dr. Meredith—Certainly I have.
The juror—To whom do you look for payment for your
service ?

Dr. Meredith—l cannot say. Unfortunately, medical
men are often called to attend cases for which they do not

get paid.
The Coroner said there were two letters addressed 'to
the deceased, which he thought it was his duty to have
read, and he should feel obliged if Dr. Meredith would
translate them. The first letter was from a working man
in Franco, upbraiding deceased for having left France in
his debt, and charging her with having taken certain ar-
ticles, which he enumerated, The second letter was ad-
dressed from Chatillon Sur Indre, and was dated the 26th

of June, 1865. The writer termed deceased "Me chere

Marie," expressed her regret that she had not seen " Marie"
for two years, and concluded by styling herself her affec-
tionate mother, widow Bullot. It also appeared that de-
ceased had been recently in Brazil.
In answer to a juror, the landlady of the house in Port-
land-terrace said that on the Saturday evening when the

young lady died she forced her way into the bedroom to

see her. That was after sho understood she had been con-
fined. Deceased was in bed and looked very feeble. Wit

ness gave her some brandy to drink, but the gentleman re-
ferred to told her not to give any more, as it would do no

good. Witness said it would not possibly do any harm, and

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again gave her a drink. The young lady appeared very
grateful, and took hold of witness's hand, looked full into
her face, and said, " Dear, dear Madame." Her hand and
forehead were as cold as death. She died shortly after.
Susan Lydford, servant to the last witness, gave confir-
matory evidence.
In reply to the Coroner,
The Foreman said they were not at all satisfied with the
evidence, and that they unanimously wished the inquiry
adjourned, which was accordingly done until Saturday
next.

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Yesterday an inquest was held by Dr. Lankester at the
British Stores; New-street, Portland-town, on the body of
Marie Bullet, 22, a young French ladvjately residing at
28, Portland-terrace, St. John's-wood.
Priscilla Oliver said she lived at 28, Portland-terrace,
and was in the habit of letting apartments. A few weeks
since a gentleman came and hired some apartments, and
said they were for a young lady from Paris. She was not
with him then. Witness asked the gentleman for his card.
He said he had not got one just then, but she shoUld have
one. She never did get the card, and never knew what his
name was. She believed he was an Englishman. He could
talk English well. On Friday, the 23d of June, he came
again at 6 o'clock in the evening, and brought a young
lady—the deceased—with him.: The young lady was visited
by the gentleman every day, and he generally took her for
a walk. He never stayed with hor during the night. On
the following Wednesday the lady' was taken ill, and rang
the boll violently. The servant went upstairs, and deceased
told her to go to two doctors whom she named. She was
to go to a doctor near Grosvenor-square first, and if he
were out she gave the address of another doctor who lived
near Cavendish-square. The doctor who attended is here.
The witness also went to her and asked her what was the
matter. She said it was nothing, and she would soon be
better. She could speak very little English. She wanted
an extra sheet upon her bed. The gentleman had been to
see her on the previous day between 11 and 12 o'clock. She
believed the lady and gentleman did not go out that day,
but he stayed with her till about 6 o'clock in the evening.
The servant came back from her message and brought the
gentleman now present with,her,who attended.to the lady
while she was ill. The doctor came also the following day,
but not on the next day, Friday. Witness sent for him
on the Saturday, and ho came. The doctor told her that
the deceased had been deliveied of a four months' child,
and that he had put it in the cupboard in the bedroom.
Witness looked into the cupboard, but never saw it. Did
not know what became of it. The young lady died that
Saturday evening. The gentleman was with the young lady
till shortly before her death. The gentleman gave deceased
her medicine. After having been with her some time on
Saturday, the gentleman told witness he was very tired, and
that he would be away for an hour for refreshment. He
was away longer than he said he should be, and the young
lady died. When he came back witness told him of the
lady's death, and he fell down in a fit. She obtained assis-
tance and had him carried to the drawing-room. When he
came to he went with witness to the bedroom. He cried
very much during the evening. He left about 10 o'clock.

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TIMES. —Since Palmer watched the dying agonies
of his victim, Cook, there has been no more cold-
blooded crime than that of which Dr. Edward
William Pritchard was yesterday convicted at
Edinburgh. Such offences are apt to fill society
with vague fear and suspicion. Poisoning is the
foulest kind of murder • when the victims are help-
less worn en, members of the murderer's own family,
the deed is especially infamous ; and when, more-
over' he who commits it is a medical man who pre-
tends to relieve those whom he is destroying, there
wants no circumstance of treachery and wickedness.
Yet the facts of this case show how easy it is for a
man conversant with drugs to make away with per-
sons in his own household who have confidence in
him, and for whom his professional calling justifies
his prescribing. People naturally come to the con-
clusion that there is no crime more likely to go un-
detected than that in which relatives or nurses find
it to their advantage to help their patients out of
the world. The facility of the deed, the improba-
bility of discovery, and the difficulty of proof even
when suspicion is aroused, make domestic poisoning
the most fearful of offences. It is, therefore, the
duty of society to spare no pains in investigating
each case that may be presented, and to punish un-
sparingly whenever the crime has been brought
home. Of Dr. Pritchard's guilt we conceive there
can be no doubt. Never was murder by poison
proved by clearer evidence. Even his counsel was
unable to deny the fact that his wife and her mother
had died by foul means, and the only course open
'to them was to charge the deed on the young girl
who was in the prisoner's service. But this sup-
position was so improbable that the jury unani-
mously rejected it, and their verdict of guilty will
be fully assented to by all who read the trial. In
the first place, it is proved indisputably that both
the women died by poison. This is no case of
doubtful medical opinions combated by medical
opinions equally worthy of credit. It is not some in-
finitesimally small quantity of poison that is found;
it is not the mere "appearance" of the intestines that
is relied on, or some colour-test, which may pos-
sibly be fallacious. It is not the diagnosis of the
malady -which makes the case for the prosecution ;
nor is the prisoner condemned merely on the opinion
of this or that doctor that the symptoms described
by the servants betoken in his judgment the
action of poison. A far firmer ground of conviction
is obtained by the discovery of the poison itself in
large quantities in the bodies of the victims. The
medical witnesses who made the post mortem exami-
nation, report, first, that there was no natural cause
of death discernible, and, next, there was present in
the body quite sufficient poison to cause death. In
the case of Mrs. Pritchard antimony was found in
the stomach, liver, and other portions of the frame.
The conclusions were that she had taken a large
quantity of this substance in the form of tartar
emetic, and that, having regard to the absence of
morbid appearances sufficient to account for death,
and the presence of a large quantity of a substance
known to be capable of destroying life, her death
must be ascribed to the action of antimony. It was
also clear, from the extent to which all the organs
and fluids of the body had been impregnated with
it that it must have been taken in repeated doses,
the aggregate of which must have amounted to a
large quantity. Another report, that of Professor
Penny, states that all the parts of the body con-
tained antimony, that the contents of the intestines,
the spleen, the heart, the blood, and the kidneys
contained mercury ; that the presence of antimony
and mercury in the contents of the intestines indi-
cates that these metals were passed from the deceased
up to the time of death. There can, consequently,
not be the shadow of a doubt that Mrs. Pritchard
died from the effects of poison administered in
comparatively small doses over a considerable period
of time. The evidence in the case of Mrs. Taylor
is similar. There are two reports by different
medical men. These concur in stating that anti-
mony and mercury were found in the body, and the
conclusion is that Mrs. Taylor, like Mrs. Pritchard,
died from slow poisoning. Since, then, it is esta-
blished that these two persons were poisoned, the
question simply is, who did it? Suicide is, of course,
out of the question, and the victims must, theie-
fore, have perished through the crime of some one
who lived with them in the house. Now, of the two
cooks who gave evidence one had been there during
the former part of the illness of Mrs. Pritchard, and
the other during the latter part. It, consequently,
could be neither of these. The matter, in short, lies
between Dr. Pritchard and Mary M'Leod, the house-
maid, a young girl in herseventeenth year, with whom
the Doctor had formed an improper connexion, a*d
whom his counsel, in a defence on which we need
not comment, sought to fix with the guilt of the
murder. However desperate may have been Dr.
Pritchard's case, we arc surprised that his counsel
should have been instructed to take this line. The
notion that a young and ignorant girl should poison
two women by slow degrees, and with a skill which
kept one at least of them alive for weeks, so as to
give the appearance of a natural death, is one which
cannot be accepted by any person of sense. If even
it be granted that the girl had some motive fcr the
crime, inasmuch as she may have believed that Dr.
Pritchard would marry her when his wife died, it is
impossible to believe that she would of her own de-
vice carried out such a scheme of artistic murder.

Mrs. Pritchard's illness was such as might have been
imagined by the author of some horrible romance.
She was ill for a day or two together, then came a
respite, then again the symptoms returned. We
know by the medical evidence that these symptoms
were caused by the administration in small doses of
very powerful poisons, by which an unskilful hand
would soon have made an end of its victim. It is
reasonable to conclude, then, that the girl was not
the poisoner, and, if it be so, there is no one but
Dr. Pritchard who could have committed the crime.
. .

The suspicions of his unhappy wife appear to have
been aroused some time before her death, but she
had not energy to resist the man who was destroy-
ing her. It is difficult to understand how the un-

ha—ppylady could have failed to connect her ill-health
with the presence of her husband. Whenever he was
away for a few days she was better, but as soon as
he returned the sickness recommenced. She was ill
continually afterwards, and the articles of food which

were prepared expressly for her were those which
usually brought on the unfavourable symptoms.
The evidence of the three servants makes it suffi-
ciently clear that the prisoner, having probably
studied the details of former cases of poisoning,
conceived the idea of destroying his wife so gradu-
ally and naturally that even the neighbouring
doctors whoni he called in should 'be unable to
detect anything wrong. He seems, however, for
some reasons of his own, or perhaps through negli-
gence, to have made more hasty work with Mrs.
Taylor. That poor woman had, indeed, " got the
same complaint as her daughter," but, more fortu-
nate, she was killed outright, instead of being made
to linger in misery for weeks to come. Dr. Prit-
chard, relying, no doubt, on his own skill, was not
afraid to have medical assistance, as indeed no
murderer needs be if he calls in a gentleman so strict
an upholder of professional etiquette as Dr. James
Paterson. This practitioner stated, in cross-exami-
nation, that it was his impression on seeing Mrs.
Pritchard that she was poisoned with antimony.
But he did not go back to see her, " because she was
not his patient." He had nothing to do with her.
It was not his duty to do so. She had her husband,
who was a medical man ; and in the case of a con-
sultation the consultant has no right to go back.
However, in spite of such perverted scrupulosity,
Dr. Paterson happily did not think it unprofessional
to speak the truth at the trial, and his evidedce was
to the effect that both then and now he believed

that Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard died of poison.
His description of these two unfortunates is one of
the most harrowing that were given in a court of
justice. All this evidence pointed one way, and that
was towards Dr. Pritchard. He alone had an in-

terest in the death of the two women ; he alone
could have poisoned them as they were poisoned ;
he told lies about their illness, and made false re-
ports to the registrar. By his conviction a great
act of public justice is accomplished, for it is long
since there has been so cruel and treacherous a mur-
derer.

POST.—That the American Union as it was can
hardly be restored, notwithstanding the military
subjugation of the South, is a proposition from
which few who understand the teachings of history
will be found to dissent. But though it may be
found a comparatively easy task to determine nega-
tively what form of government will not exist in the
American republic, it may be exceedingly difficult
to define the new political system which will take
the place of the old. Still there are various con-
siderations which may serve to guide us in forming
an approximative estimate of what is likely to take
place. For instance, we may be tolerably sure that
the leading statesmen on the victorious side will
endeavour to take measures for precluding in the
future such a secession on the part of a portion of
the States of the Union as that which has just ended
in failure. It appears to be thought that the most
obvious means for securing this end would consist in
doing away with the doctrine of States' rights and
the principle of confederation. It appears to be