The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1865.

mode of procedure. Everything has in the meantime been
done to mitigate the rigour of his confinement, in proof of
which we may state that we understand that he was last
night supplied with writing materials.
Matters having now assumed this serious aspect, the
police have of course not been idle since Dr. Pritchard's
apprehension. At an early hour yesterday morning Super-
intendent M•Cal], accompanied by Mr. Audley Thomson,
proceeded to that gentleman's house in Sauchiehall-
street, in order to ascertain whether anything could be
found throwing light on the death of Mrs. Pritchard. This
was necessarily a work of some labour, and as it has not yet
been finished, nothing has publicly transpired as to whether
anything was found to justify the suspicions entertained;
but we have good reasons for believing that nothing of a
criminating character has been found. We understand that
the room in which Dr. Pritchard kept his medicine has been
locked up by the police, and in order to prevent any tam-
pering with the contents of the house a detective has been
stationed on the premises. The house is still occupied by
two of the servants, and Dr. Pritchard has a family of five
children.

Another step taken by the police to elucidate the real
state of matters was to communicate with medical gentle-
men in Edinburgh, instructing them to make a post mor-
tem examination of the body of Mrs. Pritchard. For this
purpose the services of Professor Maclagan and Dr. Little-
john, surgeon to the police establishment in that city, were
retained. Professor Maclagan is especially competent for
a case of this kind, and will no doubt receive valuable
assistance from his colleague in the work, and it is scarcely
necessary to add that their report is looked for with the
deepest. interest, as on it will depend the liberation or
detention in custody of Dr. Pritchard.
As may be seen from the foregoing statement, although
'suspicion may attach to Dr. Pritchard, as yet no chmie
could be based on the facts Ilown. The positioleFie&al
men renders them liable, More all others, to suspicions of
a similar nature, readily aroused in the public mind and not
easilyallayed, conviction of the utter baselessness of the
suspicions being as difficult to inspire as it is difficult to ob-
tain certain conviction of guilt. The circumstances of the
unfortunate double bereavement which has befallen Dr.
Pritchard's family, although peculiar, have nothing in them
so far as is known, which could implicate Dr. Pritchard; and
the unblemished public character of that gentleman entitles
him to be considered free from the least taint of guilt till
conclusive evidence be brought against him. Since he settled
in Glasgow, six years ago, he has, with a rapidity which
of itself gives assurance of talent, gained a wide circle of
patients, and by his activity in connection with public in-
stitutions—prominently amongst others the Glasgow
Athenaeum, of which he was director—he has become
widely known. Having travelled much since 1846, when
he was licensed M.R.C.S., Eng., voyaging in the Pacific,
Northern Polar Seas, to Egypt, and other countries border-
ing on the Mediterranean, he has added to medical learn-
ing experiences which have afforded him many interesting
themes as a lecturer, in which capacity his name is familiar
to the ears of the public. As an author of numerous
medical tracts on cancer, gout, &c., on the influences of
vegetable medecines in diseases, and amongst others, several
interesting papers about the Yorkshire watering place of
Filey, where he was located previous to coming to Glas-
gow, he has gained additional reputation.

Wednesday, the body of Mrs. Pritchard was subjected to
a post-mortem examination in her father's house in Edin-
burgh. The examination was conducted by Professor
Maclagan and Dr. Littlejohn. We understand that, so
far as the examination was proceeded with, there was
nothing in the appearance of the body of Mrs. Pritchard to
indicate that death had resulted from disease of a natural
kind. It is proposed, therefore, to subject the stomach of
the deceased lady to chemical analysis. The opinion of
the physicians will not be made known until this has been
done.

GLASGOW, Wednesday Evening.—The investigation of
this painful case continuos to occupy the local authorities.
This afternoon Dr. Pritchard was removed from the police
office, where he had been confined since his apprehension,
and examined before Sheriff Sir A. Alison as to the sud-
den death of his wife. Tho examination, as usual in such
cases, was conducted in private, and at its close the pri-
soner was committed to prison pending the further inves-
tigation of the case. In the course of the day Mr. Super-
intendent M'Call, of the Glasgow police, obtained infor-
mation which led him to apprehend a girl named M'Leod,
who has resided in Dr. Pritchard's family during the last
two years. It is alleged that an improper intimacy has for
some time existed between this girl and the prisonsr, and
she is said to have been heard boasting that if Mrs.
Pritchard were to die it was not unlikely that she might
occupy her place. The analysis of the stomach of the
deceased lady is being proceeded with in Edinburgh. As
yet.nothing definitive is known here as to the result.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.

The majority of the subscribers being at Warwick, the
attendance of members was very small, and the afternoon
was only relieved from being a blank one by the outlay of
a small sum on The Duke for the Derby, at 11 to 1, and the
taker would afterwards have accepted a shorter price. On
the other races there was no change in the quotations.