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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1E65

sary of National Independence, the Americans of the
Northern States make a great mistake. They have,
in fact, no more right to take part in such rejoicing
than would King GEORGE or Lord NORTH if they
were alive now. The triumphant conclusion of the
war on which theypride themselves is the death-blow
to the principle so resolutely maintained by WASH-
INGTON and his fellows—the right of a nation to
choose its own form of government to legislate for
its own. If a Confederation of States, any one of
which is the size of a European kingdom, if a popu-
lation numbered by millions, have not the right to
rule themselves, where is the line to be drawn ?
The South has shown itself capable of internal
Government, it has levied large armies, it has main-
tahed a war of gigantic proportions totally unsup-
ported, and yet it has not right to rule itself. It
must therefore be taxed for the benefit of the
North—the Northern people must have the
profit of its produce—their ports must be
its principal channels of commerce, and their trades-
men its active agents and managers. Its vast tracts
are to be treated as the land of a conquered foe,
while its people are to be regarded and punished as
traitors and felons. Its chief magistrate is
threatened with the death of an assassin and a
criminal, and its leaders are expiating in prison, or
in exile, the crime of endeavouring to repeat in
1861-65 the experiment of 1776.

Instead of a day of rejoicing and of confidence,
of waving banners and exulting toasts, yesterday
might well have been a time of anxious reflection
and anticipation for all true-hearted Americans.
Under the guise of national greatness they have
admitted the old despotic theories of time-worn
tyrannies. The Union has become to Americans
what the Throne is in some continental states.
They forget that the Union without Inde-
pendence is useless and weak ; it was its re-
cognition of the rights of peoples which gave it
its strength. The elements of weakness and discord
are inherent in the present condition of the .11e-
public ; its size is too vast, too unwieldy, to be
kept together under a single head when the will
of the people is wanting to support it, and the
real well-wishers of American unity and indepen-
dence regard the abrupt conclusion of the war and
the complete subjugation of the Southern States
with an anxiety and apprehension which no elo-
quence can silence, no logic disprove.

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FRANCE.

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THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD.

SECOND DAY.

EnEs-nuuon, Tuesday, July 4.
This morning, at 10 o'clock, the trial- of Dr.
Pritchard was resumed in the High Court of Justi-
ciary, which was extremely crowded throughout the
day. The prisoner was calm and 'collected, though
looking a little less at ease than on the previous day,
perhaps from the fatigue of long sitting in the warm
court. His brother again sat in the dock with him
all day.
Mary Paterson, a cook, who entered the service
of Dr. Pritchard on the 16th of February last, was
the first witness. She stated, the inmates of the
house were Dr. and Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Taylor,
four children, two student boarders, Mary M'Leod,
and a washerwoman. Witness did not see Mrs.
Pritchard that day, but Mrs. Taylor spoke to wit-
ness about her, and said she did not understand her
trouble, for she was sick and vomiting frequently
and got no sleep. Mrs. Taylor mentioned Mrs.
Pritchard's sickness several times, and witness saw
indications of it on her clothing and on the bed-
clothes. Witness first saw Mrs. Pritchard on the
Friday -evening before her mother's death, for, as
Mrs. Taylor was ill, witness waited on Mrs. Pritchard
and answered her bell. Witness went into the
room shortly afterwards, and found Mrs. Taylor
dead. That was the first time she saw Mrs.
Pritchard. Witness last saw Mrs. Taylor alive
about seven o'clock that evening, when she was
rather peevish. Witness's duties were chiefly down
stairs, and she was told not to go up stairs so as to
avoid disturbing Mrs. Pritchard while she slept.
After Mrs. Taylor's death, witness prepared the
spare bedroom, and Dr. and Mrs. Pritchard walked
down to it. An old woman was sent for to attend
to the body, which was dressed. Witness assisted
to undress it, and found in the pocket of the dress a
bottle, a key, a purse, and some letters. The bottle
was about half full of a brown colour, and the label
was to the effect that two drops were equal to three
of laudanum. Witness pointed out the bottle sub-
sequently to Dr. Penny ; but at the time witness
put the bottle under the drawers. There was a
pink colour all down the left side of the body. When
the prisoner and his wife were in the room before
Dr. Patterson came, Mrs. Pritchard said, " Ed-
ward, can you do nothing for her ?" He said,
" I can do nothing for a dead woman ; can I recall
life ?" The prisoner afterwards said that Dr. Patter-
son had said Mrs. Taylor was paralysed on her left
side. After the body of Mrs. Taylor was dressed
Dr. Pritchard came and asked for the bottle that
was found in Mrs. Taylor's pocket. He said to
witness when he saw the bottle " Good heavens !
has she taken so much since Tuesday ?" and charged
witness to say nothing about it, as it would not
do for a man in his position to be spoken of.
After that witness waited on Mrs. Pritchard with
her food perhaps three times. Witness saw her
every day in the drawing-room, until the last three
days of her life. Mrs. Pritchard gave witness orders
about dinner, and about the house. One evenimg
before Mrs. Taylor's death the prisoner gave wit-
ness a woodcock, which she cooked for Mrs. Prit-
chard's supper. A bell rang on the forenoon of
the day of Mrs. Pritchard's death. When it rang the
third time witness went to the consulting room door
to see if it was the doctor's bell. The door was
partly open, but witness could not open it, although
she pressed against it. Witness then went to go
to the bedroom, and the prisoner came from the con-
sulting room and asked how Mrs. Pritchard was. She
said she did not know, and went on. The prisoner
followed and Mary M'Leod came on also. Witness
did not know where Mary had been, or where she
came from. She had not been in the kitchen. On
reaching the room Mrs. Pritchard asked witness to
empty a vessel, and witness left the room with it.
Mary M'Leod followed witness to the kitchen for
some hot water for mistress's feet. Witness asked
Mary why she had not answered the bell. (Objec-
tion was taken to the conversation being detailed,
and it was not pressed.) Witness took Mrs. Prit-
chard a dinner of curry on the Bth of March. She
said she enjoyed it very much, and she was
not sick after it. She" said she felt much better
that day ; indeed, she was almost well, ex-
cept when she was sick and vomiting. A day
or two before Mrs. Pritchard died witness found a
small piece of cheese in a plate in the pantry, and
took off a little bit and ate it, when she found it had
a bitter taste. Shortly after tasting the cheese she
felt a burning sensation in her throat, which was
followed by sickness and vomiting and pain in the
stomach and bowels. She also felt pain in her
stomach and bowels, and asked for a glass of
spirits, which Mary M'Leod gave her, and
she took it when she went to bed between
nine and ten o'clock that morning. Witness
got up again about noon. The next even-
ing (Wednesday) the prisoner spoke to witness and
asked her to make some egg-flip for her mistress.
He gave her an egg unbroken, and told her to beat
it up very smooth, which witness did in the pantry.
The prisoner came into the pantry once or twice,
and said it looked smooth and he would go for some
sugar. He went into the dining-room, then into the
consulting-room, and returned to the pantry and
dropped some lump sugar into the tumbler of egg.
He had to come out of the dining-room into the
lobby to go into the consulting-room. The pri-
soner told witness to pour some hot water into it,
and he said he would add the whisky up stairs.
Then he said Mrs. Pritchard was not ready for it,
and Mary M'Leod would fetch it when it was
wanted. So witness left it on the pantry table. About
a quarter of an hour later Mary M'Leod came for it,
fetched it from the pantry, and witness poured the
water upon the beaten egg. Mary asked witness
to taste it, and she took about a teanspoonful. It
had a bitter taste, made witness sick, and produced
precisely the same effects as the cheese. Mary
M'Leod was upstairs that night until 4 o'clock, and
when she came down witness said she had felt so ill
she thought she should never v.e the face of any
person alive again. Witness was unwell the whole
day afterwards, but did not vomit again. She saw
Mrs. Pritchard next above 12 o'clock on Friday, the
day before she died. The bell rang three times, and
after the third ringing witness went to her room.
Witness spoke to her about some chemises for her
youngest child. The prisoner was standing beside
the bed, and Mrs. Pritchard was drinking something
from a glass, which she emptied, She gave witness
directions about the chemises. About 5 o'clock that
evening Mrs. Pritchard's bell rang violently. Mary
M'Leod answered it, and called witness over the
stairs. Witness went up, and found Mrs. Pritchard
getting into bed, with the help of M'Leod. Mrs.
Pritchard was in a state of excitement, and said
something about her mother. Witness assisted to
lay the bedclothes over her, and she said ,

" Never mind me, attend to my mother." Witness
began rubbing her hands, which were cold, and
Mrs. Pritchard told her to rub them both together.
She then became more composed, and said, " I knew
nothing of this until the boys came in to dress."
There had been no boys in the room. Her youngest
child came in, and the prisoner followed, when wit-
ness left, and prepared for supper the chicken left
at dinner. Subsequently the prisoner came out of
the consulting-room and asked if witness had taken
Mrs. Pritchard's supper. Witness had it in her
hand ; the prisoner said he would take it, and he
did so. That was between 10 and 11 o'clock. Wit-
ness heard nothing more until about half-past one
o'clock next morning, when Mary M'Leod awoke
her and told her to make a mustard poultice. Mary
took it up. Soon afterwards the bell rang, and
witness went up. The prisoner and Mrs. Pritchard
were in bed, and Mary M'Leod was also in the
room. Witness felt Mrs. Pritchard and found she
was cold and dead. The prisoner told her to lift
up the dress and apply the poultice which was lying
near her. Witness refused to do sa, saying it was
no use to do it to a dead person. The prisoner said,
"Is she dead, Patterson ?" Witness said, " You
ought to know best, doctor." He said she had only
fainted, and he told Mary M'Leod to fetch some
hot water. Witness said that would be of no use
to a dead body. The prisoner said, " Come back,
come back to your dear Edward." He also said
" What a brute, what a heathen ! So gentle, so
mild," and he told witness to fetch a rifle and shoot
him. Mr. King had a rifle in the house. Witness
said, " Doctor don't use such expressions. If God
were to shut your mouth and mine I don't know
how we should be prepared to stand before a
righteous God." He said, " True Patterson, you
are the wisest and kindest woman I ever saw."
Witness asked him to leave the room that she might
dress the body, and he did so. During the night
before Mrs. Pritchard's death the prisoner came
downstairs for some coal, and he then said Dr.
Patterson had told him that Mrs. Pritchard had taken
too much wine. When witness went downstairs to
tell the prisoner that she had dressed the body he
told her that she had written letters to his mother
and to a friend of Mrs. Pritchard's, and went out
to post them. On his return he called witness up
stairs and said (speaking as witness understood to
his wife), " She walked down the street with
me, and talked with me about the boys ; and
she kissed me on the cheek when she went
away." Subsequently the prisoner asked wit-
ness for his wife's ring, which she gave him.
Witness took the sheets, pillow cases, and bolsters
from Mrs. Pritchard's bed, and her clothes, and put
them in the dirty clothes press. There were yellow
stains upon the bed clothes. They were subsequently
given to the police. On Saturday, the Ist of April,
witness found a paper bag in the kitchen press
which contained tapioca. It had not been meddled
with while witness was in the house. The door of
the consulting-room was never locked. One of
the presses of that room witness never saw open.
The other was opened sometimes, and from it the
prisoner used to give witness the eggs. While
witness was in the house Mrs. Pritchard was
never lower than the drawing-room floor. When
the bottle from Mrs. Taylor's pocket was given
to the prisoner, in addition to the remark al-
ready stated, the prisoner said, raising his eyes to
heaven, " If she had told me, and I had known what
she was taking, instead of sending a girl like that
for it." He referred to Mary.
Cross-examined--After she had taken the cheese
witness did not tell the prisoner that she had been
ill. Witness asked the prisoner the morning after
making the egg flip how Mrs. Pritchard was, and he
said she had been very ill through the night. Wit-
ness replied that she had also been vomiting during
the night.

Re-examined—When witness told the prisoner of
her sickness he said it would be a bad job if she was
laid up also. He did not give her anything. Wit-
ness saw nothing of the egg flip after it was taken
to Mrs. Pritchard's room, nor did she see the glass
to know it again.
By the Court—When looking through the win-
dow of the consulting-room, the press that witness
never saw opened was on the left. The bottle from
Mrs. Taylor's pocket was taken by the prisoner on
the evening of her death. Witness did not see it
again until the Monday when the body was taken
to Edinburgh. It was then under the drawers in
the bedroom, where witness had first placed it.
There was still some liquid in it. Witness next
saw it in the hands of the police, after the prisoner's
apprehension. The bottle produced was of the
same size to general appearance.
This concluded the evidence of Mary Paterson, who then
retired at half-past twelve, having been examined two
hours and a quarter. At this stage also one of the jury-
men became sick, probably owing to the great heat of the
court, and had to be assisted out of court. After an ab-
sence of ten minutes ho was able to return to take his place
with the other jurymen.
Mary M'Leod was recalled and examined by the Soli-
citor-General—Were you in Dr. Pritchard's house after his
wife's body was taken to Edinburgh ?—Yes.
On the Tuesday the police were in the house ?—Yes.
You saw Superintendent M'Call there ?—Yes. I gave a
bottle to him. That is the bottle which is now shown me,
at least it is very like it. The label is something like the
label. There was a dark coloured liquid in the bottle.
That is also like the bottle I saw after Mrs. Taylor's body
was dressed. I found it in a drawer in a chest of drawers
which was in the room where Mrs. Taylor died, and also
where Mrs. Pritchard died. The chest of drawers had,
however, been shifted when Superintendent M'Call came
to the house. I gave the bottle to him. There was no
other bottle in the house like it that I know.
By the Lord Justice-Clerk—How came you to look for
the bottle ? Did anybody ask for it. 2—Yes. Superinten-
dent M'Call did.
•By the Solicitor-General—What bottle did he ask for ?
—He asked for the bottle which had been found in Mrs.
Taylor's pocket.
Jessie Bryden, or Nabb, examined by Mr. Crichton—
You go out as washerwoman sometimes?—Yes.
You were sometimes employed in the family of Dr.
Pritchard ?—Yes.
I remember the night Mrs. Taylor died. It was between
twelve and one o'clock in the morning. I was present to
assist in dressing the body of Mrs. Taylor. Mary Pater-
son assisted me. I found a bottle in the pocket of Mrs.
Taylor. The bottle now shown me is the bottle. I read
the label, and it is the same which 1 now see. There was
a brownish coloured liquid in the bottle, rather thick. The
bottle was three parts full. The liquid did not come up to
the label. Dr. Pritchard took it down stairs with him.
Mary Paterson put it in the drawers, or rather under the
drawers. I saw the doctor after that. He came into the
room, and was told that it had been found in the pocket of
the deceased Mrs. Taylor. He asked Mary Paterson to give
it to him, and she did so. He then said, " Good hea-
vens ! has she taken all that since Monday ?" He
said she ought not to have sent a girl like that to
buy it for her, but that she ought to have asked him.
He added that she had been in the habit of taking
it for years. Ho also said that Mrs. Taylor had been in-
dulging in liquor for a few days, and had taken an overdose
of this opium stuff. He told us we were to say nothing
about it, for it might lead to a little trouble. This ho said
the night after her death.
Did he speak to you again about this bottle ?—Yes ; next
morning in the consulting-room. No one was there but
myself. He said he had no doubt it was poison, and she
had taken too much of it. He did not say anything more
than that.
Do you remember seeing Mrs. Pritchard one day in
January when you were at the house 2—Yes, sir ; but
I !cannot remember the exact day. I had been carry-
ing up coals to the bed-room. Before I went into
the room I heard Mrs. Pritchard retching very much
indeed. I waited a little, and she rang tho bell.
When she rang the bell I went in. I found her lean-
ing over the basin stand. This was about seven o'clock
in the evening. She asked mo to give her a drink of
cold water. She had been down stairs in the drawingroom
to tea a little before that, and it was shortly after tea that
I found her so sick. She also asked on that occasion in
the bedroom that I would put her to bed, and bring her a
bottle of water for her feet. I assisted her into bed. She
said she did not know when her sickness would cease.
That was all she said.

Do you remember seeing Mrs. Taylor the week before
she died ? She did not get the whole of the hot water
first ?—No. I saw Mrs. Taylor the week before she died.
It was on the Wednesday night. She said something to
me about Mrs. Pritchard's illness then. She said she could
not understand Mrs. Pritchard's illness. She was very
ill that day. She had been sick and vomiting, she said,
but said nothing about cramp. I was washing in Dr.
Pritchard's house after Mrs. Taylor's death on the 9th of
March. I was in Mrs. Pritchard's bedroom that night.
Some soiled bedclothes were taken off the bed by me.
They appeared as if they had been soiled by vomited mat-
ter. She said to me that she had been sick, but was not
aware of it till the morning.
The Lord Justice Olerk—Sho vomited in her sleep,
then 7—Yes.
CricbtQA—ltm Pritchard very seldom spole to me

about her sickness. I saw her seldom. She spoke to me
about her state of health in Edinburgh.
She said that when she was in Edinburgh she was very
well, and that she felt much better. I pointed out to Dr.
Penny the liquid in the bottle when I saw it in court.
Cross-examined by Mr. Clark—You have told us about
the conversation between Dr. Pritchard when Mrs. Pater-
son and you were dressing Mrs. Pritchard'sbody—you have
told us all that passed. What I want to know is whether
Mary Paterson was present during the whole time of the
conversation ?—Yes. Nobody else was present ?—Mary
M'Leod was not there.
The Lord Justice Clerk—When you showed Dr. Penny
what was in the bottle, was there anything in the bottle
then?—No.
Thomas Alexander Connell, student, examined by the
Solicitor-General—I am a student of medicine, and
boarded with the prisoner from November, 1863, till a re-
cent date—the death of Mrs. Pritchard. I was in Dr.
Pritchard's house when his wife went to Edinburgh in
November. I spent the Christmas and New Year's holi-
days with my father. When I returned I found that Mrs.
Pritchard had come back from Edinburgh. I was aware
she had been ailing before she went to Edinburgh. On
my return—the beginning of January—l observed she
became unwell again, although she did not complain of
anything particular at the time. I remember of her com-
plaining in the doctor's presence of being unwell. I
should say that would be about the third week of
January. We were all in the dining-room at the time.
It was in the evening, after tea. She said she felt un-
well, and would go to bed. She did not mention how
she felt unwell. It appeared to me to be a sudden
attack of illness. She left the room at the time.
After that I don't remember her coming down to
her breakfast or other meals. I did not see her again til
after her mother's death, and when I was in the way of
seeing her, I don't remember of hearing her complaining
of sickness. This was the only occasion that I remember
she complained of illness in my presence. It was soon
after her mother's death that I saw her again—a week
thereafter. After the occasion when the first complaint of
illness was made in my presence, a week after Mrs. Taylor's
death, I generally asked the doctor every morning how
she was. At first he sometimes said she was better and
sometimes he said worse. He did not tell me at that time
what was the matter with her. Afterwards he told me ho
thought it was gastric typhoid.
The Lord Justice-Clerk—When did he say that ?—lt
would be after her mother's death.
By the Solicitor-General—Before that he did not give
any name to her illness at all. He mentioned one of the
symptoms as sickness, which ho said came on whenever
she had eaten anything.
Did he mention this more than once ?—I think more
than once.

Have you any doubt of his telling you frequently ?—I
have no doubt.
Did he mention any other symptom of her illness ?

Cramp.
Did he tell you when and where she was attacked gene-
rally with cramp ?—No.
Did he tell you it was in the night or during the day ?
—I heard so from Mrs. Taylor.
The Lord Justice-Clerk—l thought you heard about the
cramp from the prisoner ?—No, it was from Mrs. Taylor.
By the Solicitor-General—The only symptom of illness
that the doctor mentioned was sickness.
Will you tell us as distinctly as you can what Mrs
Taylor said to you about Mrs. Pritchard's illness ?—She
said she was sick every time she tasted food, and that she
had the cramp in her arms and hands. She said the cramp
generally came on at night.
Did Mrs. Taylor ever speak to you about being sick
herself ?—Once she did. She said she was sick after par-
taking of some tapioca that had been prepared for Mrs.
Pritchard.
Tell us what she said about that ?—She said it had been
prepared for Mrs. Pritchard, and that it had been taken up
to her room. Mrs. Pritchard refused to take it, and Mrs.
Taylor took it herself. About an hour and a half after she
took it she was seized with sickness and vomiting.
Did she tell you how long the sickness and vomiting
continued ?—About an hour I think she said.

Did she say anything else ?—She said she was glad Mrs.
Pritchard had not taken it, as it might have proved fatal
in her delicate state. She said she would send the tapioca
back. That was all she said. I believe she said some-
thing to the effect that her attack was something like what
Mrs. Pritchard had. This was shortly after she came to
Glasgow. I am aware Mrs. Taylor died at an early hour
on the Saturday morning. I had seen her on the Fri-

day. There did not appear to be anything particular the
matter with her on the Friday. She seemed to be a strong,
healthy old lady. I noticed no difference upon her on the
Friday. She left the dining-room as usual after tea upon
this Friday evening. I next heard of her about half-past
9, when Dr. Pritchard came to me in the dining-room and
told me that she had been taken suddenlyill, and he desired
me to go for Dr. Paterson. I asked what he thought was
the matter with her, and he said he thought it was apo-
plexy. I went for Dr. Paterson, and he came about 10
o'clock. I was not present when he came, but I saw Dr.
Pritchard shortly after he left. I asked him if Mrs.
Taylor was any better, and he said she was not.
I asked him if it was apoplexy, and he said it was.
The next time I heard of Mrs. Taylor was next morn-
ing, when the doctor came into my bed-room very
early, and awoke me by saying that Mrs. Taylor was dead.
He said something I did not catch, as I was not awake ;
but he said she had died about half-past twelve, He said
she had died very calmly. In the morning he said he was
unconscious when she died.

Did he say anything about her having returned to con-
sciousness before she died ?—Yes ; he said that she had
recovered consciousness a minute or two before she died.
I left the house and went to my father's the next day.
When I returned in about a week, on Monday the 6th of
March, I saw Mrs. Pritchard. I asked her how she felt,
and she said she was pretty well. The doctor was pre-
sent at the time. She seemed as if she was getting better.
I thought she was looking better, or convalescent, at least.
Had she the appearance of one who had undergone severe
suffering ?—Yes ; I would have judged from her face that
she had undergone considerable pain.

Did you see any more of hor before her death ?—:-Yes ; I
saw her about a week before she died. She was in the same
place. She then seemed much about the same. She did not
tell me anything of herself. The doctor was not present on
this latter occasion, but she sent me for him. She did not
tell me why she wanted him. I did not see any more of
her, but I asked the doctor about her after this. I did not
ask him for her specially on any particular day, but I was
in the habit of inquiring how she was every morning
generally. The doctor said she was getting bettor, or
coming round.

The Lord Justice- Clerk—How long did he give you this
answer to your questions as to Mrs. Pritchard's health ?
He did so until the day of her death. lie complained of
being worn out with watching her. He said ho was very
much worse by sitting up at nights with her. He said this
in course of the week in which her death occurred. He did
not say anything more about her that I recollect at that
time, but on the night on which she died I remarked that
he must be much worn out by being up at night so
often watching. He replied that he was, but she had often,
he said, done the same thing for him when he was ill. I
understood him, in saying this, to express how little
he grudged the fatigue. I was told on the morning
after Mrs. Pritchard's death that Dr. Paterson had
been called the previous evening. On the Saturday night
before her death the prisoner gave me a doctor's prescrip-
tion in his own handwriting, and aged me to go and get
the medicines marked on it " For Mrs. Pritchard." He told
me to go to the Glasgow Medical Hall, or the Apothe-
caries' Hall, I think in Elmbank-street, off Sauchiehall-
street. I took tho line to the shop and got the medicines
made up. I got two vials filled with some liquid prepara-
tion. I gave this to the prisoner. I did not read the pre-
scription. This was about nine o'clock in the even-
ing. I am shown a prescription in Dr. Pritchard's
handwriting, but not having looked at the one he
gave me on the occasion I speak of I cannot identify it. I
brought back the prescription with me along with the vials
which I got. lam shown these (labelled No. 19). The
vial I now see is about the size of the one I got for the
prescription, and what it contains is of the same colour as
the stuff I got from the apothecary's shop. I was told of
Mrs. Pritchard's death the following morning by Mary
M'Leod.

Were you frequently in the prisoner's consulting-room ?
—Not lately—that is not shortly before Mr. Pritchard's
death—but I used to be there pretty frequently before the
last six months. I went into the consulting-room when I
wanted a book out of the library. There were a few medi-
cines kept in the consulting-room—some tinctures, and so
forth. They were kept in the cupboard on the right hand
side as you enter, on the side of the window and not in the
cupboard opposite the fireplace.

Were any of those tinctures or other medicines kept else-
where than in the cupboard ?—No ; not that I know of.
Was the doctor in the habit of making up medicines to
his patients ?—Not to my knowledge. I am not able to say
that it was not the prisoner's practice to make up medicines
for his patients. I never saw him making experiments
with chemicals in the consulting-room or elsewhere.
[Witness was here shown Nos. 19, 20, and 82 of produc-
tions, comprising two medical diaries and "Blackwood's"
shilling scribbling diary.] These are all in the handwrit-
ing of the prisoner.
By Mr. Clark—l remember Mrs. Pritchard going to
Edinburgh last year. I remained in the house at Glasgow
when she was absent at Edinburgh. I was ill during the
time she was absent ; that was in November. I had sick-
ness and cramp, but I cannot remember of much else. I
took ill at dinner-time. When I was ill I vomited. On
these occasions when I was taken ill I could hardly sit up.
It was in the November that I was first taken ill. The
next time that I took ill was in February. I was ill about
a fortnight or so. I was not away from table the whole
time ; only about three or four days.
The Lord Justice-Clerk—l was ill for about a fortnight
after being taken ill at dinner-time.
By Mr. Clark—l was ill again every morning after
breakfast. I was ill about two hours. It was about half-
an-hour after breakfast. Tho illness lasted about a week
in the beginning of February, and I was ill again towards
the end of that month. The tea was poured out at table,

at breakfast, but it was brought up made. Catherine and
sometimes the others brought it up.

Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General—Sometime a
the doctor poured the tea out and sent it up with the
servant.

Were you sick in the way that you have mentioned at
any time when Mrs. Taylor was in the house ? Yes,
shortly after she came. That was the third attack. The
first attack was in November, the second in February, and
I got better of that and had an attack in the same month
of February. I did not feel ill in the latter month, except
at breakfast. I was not ill every day. I always vomited
when I was ill.

You have said something about the cramp, I thing ?
Yes, in November.

Did tho cramp return in February now and again?—

Yes.
Where was it ?—ln my hands.
Were you able to account for the sicknesi ?—No.
Did you mention it to the (lector— I mean the prisoner ?
—Yes. He said he thought it gastric typhoid. It was
immediately after that sickness that I went home to my
father's. I had no sickness there.
Cross-examined by Mr. Clark—Was the doctor ill as
well as yourself in November ?—Yes, ho was.
In the same kind of way ?—Yes.
Re-examined by the Solicitor-General—Was he ill in
November also ?—Yes, he was.
As ill as you ?—I cannot say.
By the Lord Justice-Clerk—Were there any other
symptoms of illness-besides sickness and cramp ?—Yes,
constipation.
Anything else ?—Not that I know of.
Richard John Christian King, examined by Mr. Gifford
—I am a medical student. I went to board with Dr.
Pritchard in October last. Mrs. Pritchard was in good
health when I went there first. I remember of her going
to Edinburgh. She was a little delicate before she left for
there. I remember of her coming back. She was pretty
well then. She went once again to Edinburgh. lam not
sure that the prisoner ever spoke to me about his wife.
He has told me what was the matter with her. He said it
was gastric fever. After she came back from Edinburgh
she was confined for some time. I remember of Mrs. Taylor
coming. Mrs. Pritchard was confined to bed at the time. I
saw Mks. Pritchard only once while her mother was there ;
it was in the drawing-room. I remember the morning
Mrs. Taylor died. I had seen her at half-past eight
o'clock in the consulting room. She was writing letters.
She appeared to be quite well. I next heard of her that
night about 10 o'clock. She was dangerously ill the doctor
told me. I asked him what was the matter, and he said it
was apoplexy. I went to bed between 11 and 12 o'clock,
and was awakened sometime about 12 by one of the ser-
vants telling me the doctor wanted me. I got up and saw
the doctor. He asked me to go to the telegraph office and
telegraph " Dangerously ill," to Mr. Michael Taylor of
Edinburgh, Mrs. Taylor's husband,
Did the doctor say how Mrs. Taylor was then ?—He
gave see to understand that she was dangerously ill.
Did he not lead you to understand that she was dead?—
Not at that time. I went to the telegraph office, and
telegraphed the message. I came back and saw the doc-
tor, and he told me to go back again to the office and tele-
graph to the same person " D ead."
Did he tell you that she had been dead the first time ?
Yes; he said he did not want to alarm the old gentleman.
After Mrs. Taylor's death did you ever see Mrs.
Pritchard ?—No ; I never saw her after. She was always
up stairs.

You remember the night before her death ?—Yes. I
came into the house about 11 o'clock that night.
When *ere you awakened?—l was awakened about a
quarter or half-past 12 by Mary Paterson. I got up and
went to the doctor's room. I found him in bed beside Mrs.
Pritchard. I looked at Mrs. Pritchard.
What state was she in?—She was dead.
Did the doctor say anything ?-11e said she was not.
The Lord Justice-Clerk (addressing the witness, who
was speaking in an almost inaudible tone)—Speak a little
louder. Recollect what you are saying is matter of im-
portance.

By Mr. Gifford—Did he say anything more ?—No.
Did he ask you to do anything ?—He asked mo to go for
Dr. Paterson. I went and saw Dr. Paterson, and he said
he would come.
When you came back to the house what happened?—
One of the servants met me, and said the doctor was not
to come.
What did you do next 2-1 went down to the Victoria
Hotel for Mr. Taylor, the deceased Mrs. Taylor's husband,
and got him there. I did not go back to Dr. Paterson's.
Dr. Gairdner, professor of medicine in the Uni-
versity of Glasgow, said he was called in twice by
Dr. Pritchard to visit his wife, the first time on the
Bth and the second on the 9th of March. On the
first visit he found Mrs. Pritchard in a state of ex-
citement, which he attributed to stimulants, a com-
bination of champagne and chloroform. When he
went from the bedside to the fireside, Mrs. Prit-
chard called to witness, " Oh, you cruel, cruel man
don't leave me." Witness thought they were the
exclamations of an intoxicated woman, and ordered
Dr. Pritchard to discontinue stimulants, as it was a
very bad practice. He gave the same order at his
second visit next day.
Dr. Paterson, of Glasgow, was called in late at
night on the 24th of February to see the mother-in-
law and wife of the prisoner. Dr. Pritchard told
him his mother-in•law and Mrs. Pritchard had been
partaking of some bitter beer for supper, soon after
which they both became sick and vomited, and both
complained that the beer was more bitter to the
taste than usual. Witness described the symptoms
of the illness of both ladies, the mother-in-law being
in a dying state and unconscious, as if suffering from
a powerful narcotic, and the wife appeared to be
under the influence of antimony. He formed the
opinion from what he saw of Mrs. Pritchard while
visiting her that she had been having antimony given
to her for some time. His impression was that she
was being poisoned by antimony, and in cross-
examination he said he formed that opinion simply
by looking at her. He refused a certificate to the
registrar as to the cause of death of the mother-in-
law. He never mentioned poison to Mrs. Pritchard,
because the treatment he prescribed, provided she
got nothing else, was quite sufficient to have brought
her round. He did not communicate to Dr. Prit-
chard his suspicion as to Mrs. Pritchard being
poisoned with antimony, because he did not think
it would have beery, safe to do so.
James Smithers, registrar of deaths, proved that
Dr. Pritchard, in his certificate, ascribed the death
of Mrs. Taylor to paralysis, and of his wife to gastric
fever.

Dr. Patterson was recalled, and said that, in a
letter which he sent to the registrar, he told the
registrar that the death of Mrs. Taylor " was ex-
tremely sudden, unexpected, and to him mysteri-

ous.,,

Dr. Cowan, of Edinburgh, a friend of Mrs. Prit-
chard, spoke of the illness of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs.
Pritchard, and said that Dr. Pritchard and Mrs.
Taylor had always lived on good terms with each
other.

Mr. Taylor, the father-in-law of the prisoner,
gave evidence as to the death of his wife and
daughter, and spoke to his daughter having been
sick while on a visit to his house in Edinburgh, about
Christmas last, and getting better before she left.
His daughter and her husband appeared to live hap-
pily together.
The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock till Wednesday
at 10.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A small supply of English wheat was on sale here to-
day. Nearly the whole, however, was received in good
condition. The demand both for red and white qualities
ruled far from active. Nevertheless, all good and fine
samples steadily supported Monday's currency, whilst in
the value of inferior parcels no alteration took place.
The market was but moderately supplied with foreign
wheat. Generally speaking the demand was somewhat
inactive, but there were no sellers except at quite Monday's
quotations. In prices no change took place.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand at fully
late rates.

The supply of barley on sale was small, and the trade
ruled firm at full prices.
Malt was in fair demand at quite previous rates.
The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Most descrip-
tions moved off steadily, and prices ruled firm.
Beans and peas were in short supply. The demand for
them was much restricted, yet previous quotations were
supported.
A fair business was transacted in flour at full currencies

ARRIVALS THIS "WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 1,040 10 1,510 320 350
Irish

Foreign 15,610 7,680

46,820 1300 sks.
brls

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending July For the corresponding week
24, 1865. I last year.
Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 52,540-41s 6d
Barley 514-27 s 6d
Oats

Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 73,494-40s Od
Barley 1,473-28 s Od
Oats

BOROUGH HOP.

No change has taken place in the value of hops since wo
last wrote. Small supplies of produce are on sale, and the
market must be considered firm. The accounts from the
plantations are favourable.