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Witness—His name is Bryon.
Mr. Stammers—Did you see Mr. Pope, the secre-
tary of the company ?
Witness—l did.
Did he not take your evidence ?—He did not.
At one time I saw Mr. Vining, the solicitor.
What took place while you were there P—l told
them all the proceedings.
Were you not told- by the seeretary that if you
became evidence you would not be prosecuted ?—I
was.
Then the price of your not being a defendant
was that you should give evidence in this case
against the General Omnibus Company P—Yes.
William Bloomfield, 248 A, sworn—On the 13th
of Sept. I was on duty at the top of Sloane-street,
Knightsbridge, from eleven in the morning until
seven in the evening. While I was on that duty
my attention was directedto the omnibuses running
there. There were Saloon omnibuses running there
several times in the day. They were accompanied
by others of the London General Omnibus Com-
pany. The Saloon omnibuses were accompanied by
one or two in front or behind; always one behind.
I knew Edswick by the name of " Nobby," he
drove one of the Saloon omnibuses. He used to be
up and down three times a day. His omnibus
was followed as the others were. He always had
two omnibuses with him. I have seen the Saloon
omnibus hailed by passengers. At five o'clock on
Wednesday evening, Sept. 5, a Saloon omnibus
came up with one London General behind and one
in front. The Saloon omnibus was hailed by a lady
and gentleman standing near the tailor's shop. The
Saloon drew up to take the lady and gentleman.
Another objection was raised as to the admissi-
bility of such evidence, and Mr. Sleigh urged that
the course taken by the prosecution was not a fair
one, and he held that if all the drivers individually
chose to pull up to the Saloon omnibuses, the mere
fact -of their doing so, for which they might be
liable to personal penalties, could not be evidence
against the company, nor if it were shown that 20
persons individually did any particular acts, would
it prove that they themselves were in a conspiracy.
There was no evidence to prove that the directors
of the company were on the road to see them do it
or that they had directed them to do it. If each of
the coachmen of a private gentleman committed a
distinct act in violation of the law, surely it would
not be assumed that their master was conspiring
with them or even that they were conspiring toge-
ther for in that as in the present case it would be
nothing mere than a more motion separately and
unconnectedly with the other. He repeated that the
mode adopted was not a fair way to put this matter
before the public, for it was not just to assume as a
consequence upon the acts stated, that the pro-
prietors had anything to do with them. The mode
should have been to prove—if it were capable of
proof—the giving direction by the principals to do
certain acts, and then evidence of these acts, to
show, first, what the acts of these proprietors were,
and then back them up by testimony bearing on the
matter ; instead of which those who conducted this
prosecution were going the very reverse vay to
work, and a number of individual acts, without
showing directions or knowledge of the directorS,
were brought up to prejudice the party before the
public.
Mr. Paynter ruled that they might prove the overt
acts first, which of themselves went for nothing, and
then prove that they were done by the direction or
knowledge of the heads ; it was the everyday
practice.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson had been surprised at the
loose manner in which this prosecution was being
conducted to what it would be in a superior court.
They had no specific proof that any of the heads of
the company knew anything about the practices
now complained of.
Mr. Paynter reminded the learned gentleman
that there was a great deal of difference between a
police-court and the courts alluded to. A police-
court was a court of preliminary inquiry, where a
case had to be shaped, while a superior court had it
there already shaped. He (the worthy magistrate)
could not pretend to say what the evidence would
come to in support of the charge.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson cited " Roscoe" to show that
after a party were shown to be confederating, evi-
dence might be given against any of them, showing
their distinct acts, but here there was no party as
described.
Mr. Paynter repeated that in itself the evidence
of the individual acts went for nothing, but he
could not tell how they could be ultimately sup-
ported.
Witness resumed—The Saloon omnibus driver
drew up to take the lady and gentleman up, when
the London General driver drove his horses to two
feet behind the door. The conductor got down
from his omnibus and took hold of the lady and
gentleman, when I told him to keep on the hind
part of his omnibus unless he was called for,
and that if he repeated the offence I should report
him. He intimidated the lady and gentleman so that
they refused to go into the Saloon omnibus, and
calling a cab went away. On the same day at 12.37,
one of the London Gc*eral omnibuses was loitering
in the high road, Knightsbridge, when I took my
watch out of my pocket and looked at the time, and
going across to the driver took the number of his
badge. I asked him what he was doing there, and
he replied " Waiting for the Saloon omnibus." I
was at Sloane-street from the 13th to the. 16th, four
days. Whenever a Saloon omnibus came un others
of the London General came up with it. On one
occasion a Saloon omnibus came up the road from
Hammersmith, with one of the London General
omnibuses before and another behind it ; the one
behind then came behind the cab rank into the
Brompton-road, and shut communications right off
the Saloon omnibus, from the top of Sloane-street.
Cave was the timekeeper then at the top of Sloane-
street. I have seen him, when the Saloon omni-
buses have come up the Brompton-road, come out
of the office, and if he saw any of the London Ge-
neral omnil,b3es in Sloane-street, beckon the drivers
to come on ; then, if the Saloon went on, he made
a signal for the others to do the same. Cave is
always at the top of Sloane-street. Chapman is
director of the London General omnibuses, and
M'Cloud. At the time I reported the driver of the
London General omnibus for loitering Chapman was
on the roof of it, close by the side of the coachman; -
that was on the 15th. They were in such a position
that they must have heard what was said. Chap-
man said " Why don't you go and take the num-
ber of the Saloon omnibus," when I replied that I
could not see they were doing anything wrong—
the Saloon wos at that time 50 yards further up the
road. The London General driver started on di-
rectly I spoke to him.
Mr. Orridge begged to correct a mistake which
had gone forth on the former occasion. The names
of Edward Leuken and Willing had been used in
connection, instead of " -Willing" it should be
" Whetton."
An adjournment was now generally requested by
the counsel, and it was ultimately arranged that the
investigation should be resumed next Thursday.
Before the counsel left Mr. Paynter observed
that great expense and inconvenience must be en-
tailed upon many by this prosecution. It would
occupy much time at that court, and much, per-
haps, at another, besides increasing the bad feeling
which unhappily at that moment existed between
the rival parties. After the answer to the proposal
made by Mr. Francis to adjust the differences of the
companies, it might be feared that any suggestion
of his would be of no avail ; but he still would ask
the parties to consider whether something like an
amicable arrangement could not be come to between
them. It could not, in his opinion, be a proper
proceeding, nor a fair, English, or manly one, for an
associated body of persons, by great capital, to in-
terfere with and crush others not so conditional.
He did not mean to say that it was done inten-
tionally; he did not mean to prejudice the case;
but the proceedings spoken of had that tendency.
There were before him gentlemen belonging to thb
London General Omnibus Company, who, from his
own knowledge of them, he was sure were incapable
of doing such an act as he had alluded to. It must
not be supposed that, in investigating this inquiry,
with a desire to ascertain all its bearings, he had any
feeling against the London General Company. If
'his feelings were to be at all swayed by anything
he himself had experienced, they would be opposed
to the Saloon, for he never was treated worse in his
life than he had been by a person belonging to that
company, while on the
other hand, he had no such
complaint to make of the proceedings of any one of
the London General. So long as a company, by
carrying out improvements, by putting before the
public better accommodation, better horses, better
carriages, better servan.ts, and perhaps more con-
venient times of running, no one would blame them
if they drove every one off the road ; but-if they
attempted to crush others by force of capital, when
they carried it the length described, it became very
reprehensible. He could not believe that gentle-
men before him of the London General Company
would concur in carrying it to such a length, and
yet he hoped that by some arrangement—that
by the fair means of capital—the respective parties
would be enabled to carry on their undertakings.
Some of the directors of the London General
Company said they had submitted plans of opera-
tion both to Sir Richard Mayne and the Lord
Mayor. They (the company) were prepared to
work fairly.
Mr. Paynter thought that some of the men might
have resorted to means which the company did not
approve of.

Mr. Robinson intimated that the Saloon Com-
pany did not want terms. They were trading at
present on the morbid sympathy of the public.
One of the 'directors of the London General
Company declared that the establishment of the
Saloon Company Was merely to extort money from

the London General. They asked them (as was
understood in the general confusion occasioned by
persons leaving the court on all sides) £2,500 before
they had built a carriage.
Here the conversation ended. •

TRIAL FOR MURDER IN SCOTLAND.

The trial of William Reid for murder by procur-
ing abortion was opened at the High Court of
Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Wednesday. The case
excited unusual interest owing. to various circum-
stances. The prisoner, who resided with his mother
at Smallburn, three miles. from Falkirk, and who is'
most respectably conr&ted; was tried in September,
1857, along with another young man, at the Stir-
lingshire circuit, for breach of trust and embezzle-
ment, in so far as he aided and abetted the frauds
of the late Henry Salmon, manager of the branch
of the Commercial Bank at Falkirk, who, it may
be remembered, on his extensive defalcations being
discovered, took to flight, and eventually com-
mitted suicide in the court-yard of a Welsh inn.
The two young men were not suspected of partici-
pation in the moneys appropriated by Salmon, but
were nevertheless convicted of the offence charged,
and were each sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment. The representations made to the Home
Secretary, however, succeeded in procuring the
liberation of both at or before the expiry of six
months. Reid accordingly returned to his mother's
house in April last, and resided there until the
occurrence of the event which a second time brings
him to the criminal bar. His mother's servant,
Margaret Taylor, had become pregnant by him, and
been so three or four months, and he, in conjunc-
tion with the deceased, Dr. Thomas Girdwood, used
instruments it is said to cause her to abort. This
criminal act proved fatal to the young woman the
next day ; the night of her death the doctor who
gave his aid committed suicide by taking laudanum,
while Reid himself fled, but was apprehended in
Glasgow the following diti.
The bench was occupied by the Lord Justice
Clerk, Lord Cowan, and Lord Ardmillan. The
Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-General, and Mr.
Adam appeared for the Crown ; and the Dean of
Faculty, . Mr. Mair, and Mr. Morrison for the
prisoner.
The prisoner pleaded "-Not Guilty," and a jury
were empannelled.
Janet Taylor, mother of the deceased, deposed
that she lived at Muiravonside, Linlithgow-bridge,
and that she was visited by Mrs. Black or Watson,
from Winchburgh, on Monday, the 6th of Septem-
ber, who wished to inquire for her daughter on
behalf of her son, who had formerly been under en-
gagement of marriage to her, which engagement
had been broken off, but which the young man was
now desirous to renew. It was agreed (said wit-
ness) that we should go to Smallburn together to
see my daughter, and we arrived at Smallburn
between half-past one or two. I asked Mrs. Reid,
the prisoner's mother, for my daughter. She told
me she Was unwell and in bed. She said it was
some irregularity in her periods. She was some-
times more than usually ill at that time. I found,
my daughter in bed. She had a bad colour—a:
kind of " blae" colour—and there was a bad smell
from her bed. I said, " Maggie, you should pay
better attention to your bowels at these times."
She made no answer, and did not speak for some
time. She appeared to be in pain and agony, as if
in labour; she was groaning and moving about: I
went into the kitchen to warm a cloth for her.- Dr.
Myrtle came into the kitchen while I was there. I
asked him about my daughter, and he said she had
suffered very much. She continued to get worse,
groaning louder and tossing about very much. I
remained beside her for some time. My daughter
made a sign to me to come near to her. I went
close to her. She said, in a whisper—my ear being
near her mouth—" Come here, mother ; I'll tell you
what's the matter with me ; it's a miscarriage." I
said, " Who is it to ?" She said, "To the master."
I understood her to mean the prisoner. Mrs.
Reid is a widow, and has no other son. I said,
" Oh, Maggie, Maggie, I thought I had learnt you
better things." She said, " Oh, mother, mother, if
you only knew how I've been tried by him." A
pain came on her, and there was no more said at
the time. The conversation was in a whisper, and
Mrs. Watson, who was sitting near the bed, did
not hear it. The pain went off gradually, and she
rallied a little. I asked, " How far are you gone
with child ?" The said, "About four months, I
think." Her violent pains returned. About 5
o'clock she spoke again. She said, "Oh ! what I
am suffering ! What would he. think if he knew
how am suffering ? It's a' his blame." She said
he took an instrument and opened the neck of the
womb. I asked, " When did he do that ?" She
said, " Yesterday." Up to this time my daughter
had not named or spoken of any man except the
prisoner. I understood her to mean that it was the
prisoner that used the instrument. She asked,
"Do you think the master will be at home ?" I
said, "No ; I hear he's at Falkirk." She said,
"He'll be away to Girdwood." She had not men-
tioned Girdwood's name before, and this was the
only time she named him. The pains got worse.
There was nothing more passed between us on the
subject. She was in great distress. Mrs. Watson
left Smallburn about 5 o'clock, I think. I
went a short distance with her towards Polmont
station. I sent with her a message to Dr. Myrtle
to come down again, as my daughter was getting
worse. I went back to the house at Smallburn.
My daughter was now looking worse. She ap-
peared to be very ill shortly after I came back. I
put no further questions to her, but she said to me,
"Oh, mother, I'm sinking fast." I said, "Oh yes,
Maggie, you are fast going; we will need to part."
[Witness here burst into tears, and was asked
to sit down, which she did during the rest of her
evidence.] 111 rs. Reid came in ct this time. My
daughter stretched out her hand, and said " Fare-
well, Mrs. Reid." Witness was then asked what
further passed. She said,=" I directed her thoughts
to the Saviour," and no more conversation passed,
except on that subject. Dr Myrtle came in while
she was sinking. He said, " where are you sore,
Maggie ?" 'She said, " I'm all sore together."
He remarked, "What, a change since I was
here !" He called for a mustard poultice and
"turpentine cloth. After he had put on the first
turpentine cloth I took him out of the room and
told him what my daughter had told mc. He
then returned to the room, put his hand to her body,
and took away the child (the foetus). He brought
it away in a very short time. He rode away for
meilicine soon after, and came back with it. He
told me to give her a tablespoonful every hour. He
afterwards left to brin6 old Dr. Girdwood, who
lives at Falkirk, which is three or four miles from
Smallburn. My daughter just took one tablespoon-
ful, and died soon after. She was dead when Dr.
Myrtle, who brought old Dr. Girdwood with him,
returned. I took Dr. Girdwood out to the garden
and told him what I had learnt from my daughter.
I did not mention young Dr. Girdwood s name. I
never thought anything about him. I asked Dr.
Girdwood to go to the fiscal and inform him regard-
ing my daughter. I remained at Smallburn till the
following day. Dr. Myrtle, with two other medi-
cal men, came on the 7th to examine the body. The
body had been taken out to another room, as the
room was too small a place to dress it in. Mrs.
Reid and myself and a young woman removed it.
I dressed the body myself. When I removed my
daughter's clothes and the sheets they seemed just
like a case of childbed.
Cross-examined—Mrs. Watson told me her son
had sent a letter to Margaret and had got no
answer. I saw the letter among my daughter's
things afterwards. It was dated the 29th of Aug.
As long as my daughter was able to speak she was
quite sensible ; but she only spoke at intervals of
relief from pain.
By the Lord-Advocate—I told Mrs. Reid what
had passed after I had communicated with Dr.
Myrtle.
By the Lord Justice-Clerk—This intimacy with
young Black was quite a respectable connexion.
They were going to be married at one time, but
they 4' fell -out" some way.
Mrs. Watson, or Black, corroborated in part the
foregoing-' evidence.

Mrs. Janet Reid, residing at Smallburn—The pri-
soneris my son, and he was the only one of my family
who resided with me. Margaret Taylor had been
my servant since the Ist of October previous. She
slept in a small bed-room' off the kitchen. My son
had a bed-room on the opposite side of the house.
There are seven rooms in the house. My son was
in the Royal Bank, Falkirk, up to 1857. He was
for some time in prison in connexion with Mr.
Salmon's case, but he came home in April. •He
resided with me from April to September. I went
to church on Sunday forenoon the sth of September.
I left my son in the '
parlour and Margaret was
doing her duties. It is my habit to go to church
'every alternate Sunday, and let mk servant go the
intervening Sunday. I go to Polmont Church,
about a quarter of a mile- distant. I left about a
quarter past 11, and returned about a quarter past
1. When I returned I saw nothing particular in
the appearance of either. I returned to church in
the afternoon, leaving my son and servant at home
as before. I left home about a. quarter to 2, and
returned home about 4 o'clock. I found them both
at home, and saw nothing remarkable in the
appearance of either. My son sat down to dinner
with me. Margaret went to bed about nine.
son was out, and did not come in till past 12 o'clock.'
About 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning I heard a sound
apparently coming from the kitchen. I got up and
found that Margaret was sick and vomiting. She
said
she was cold and shivering... I put some more
clothes on the bed, and gave her warm gruel. Thei
vomiting continued occasionally till about 9 o'cices
in the morning, when she became a little easier. I

gave her some coffee about 10. She became
very uneasy after that. She said she had
turned unwell ; referring to her courses. She
said she expected to be very ill, as in the summer
she had suffered a good deal from the same cause.
About 11 she asked for something. I pro-
posed to give her a little hot toddy, which
she refused. She asked for laudanum, stating
that she had used it before. I had never used
laudanum, and declined to give it. I went to the
kitchen, and. William passed through. He said,
" Could you not give her anything P" and said he
thought I should give her laudanum. He said he
himself had once taken it. I poured out 30 drops.
lam sure I gave her no more. It did not give her
much relief. Her pain and distress continued. I
went to a neighbour named Janet Miller, whom I
sent for Dr. Myrtle. This was between 11 and 12
o'clock. He lives about three-quarters of a mite
off. The message I got was that he was out, but
was expected back soon. After some time, and
finding that the doctor did not come within the
time expected, I gave her 20 drops more. This
seemed to relieve her in some degree. Dr. Myrtle
came in between one and two o'clock. I told him
what she had stated was the matter, and he went
into the room and saw her. He recommended some
hot brandy and water and a little arrowroot, and a
mustard poultice was to be applied if the pain con-
tinued. 'While the doctor was there Mrs. Taylor
and Mrs. Watson arrived. I first saw them at the
kitchen door. I told her I was happy to see her,
but her daughter was very ill. I showed her into
the room, and told her what had been given. Dr.
Myrtle left, intending to return the next day.
Margaret afterwards got worse. As Mrs. Watson
was going I desired her to call and tell Dr. Myrtle
to come down again; but as he did not come for a
time I got anxious, and sent Janet Miller again for
him. Dr. Myrtle came between five and six
o'clock. I saw Mrs. Taylor take him out to the
back court and converse with him. He then went
into the room beside Margaret. I looked in and
saw him bring something to the kitchen. I saw it,
but could not tell what it was. He put it in paper
and took it with him. Dr. Myrtle went away for
more medicine and returned. He ordered a table-
spoonful of medicine every hour. Margaret became
much worse. While Dr. Myrtle was away for the
medicine Mrs. Taylor came into the kitchen where
I was, and told me her daughter was poisoned. I
asked, " How could that be ?" She also said she was
with child to William, and that her womb had been
opened with a sharp instrument. I was much
taken aback at this statement. I went to the room
where Margaret was. She appeared to be dying.
Dr. Myrtle returned with Dr. Girdwood, .sen., but
she was dead before they came. My son had been
about the house all the early part of Monday, but
he went away about two o'clock. He came back
about g or 9 at night. He asked for a portmanteau,
and packed up some clothes. I asked where he
was going, and he said to Glasgow. He had not
previously spoken of going there. He had been
told of Margaret's death, I believe, before he came
in. I asked him what disgrace it was he had
brought on himself and family. He said it was
not he that did it, but Tom Girwood ; that Dr.
Myrtle knew all about it, and that the case was
not so bad against him as I expected. I said if it
had not been for him young Dr. Girdwood would
not have been here. He made no answer. I did
not see him again till after he was apprehended.
I was not aware young Dr. Girdwood had been
there that Sunday. On' returning home from fore-
noon church I saw a gentleman riding the• opposite
way, whom I found afterwards to have been Dr.
Thomas Girdwood. I was not aware he had been at
my house on a previous Sunday, or at any other
time.

Cross-examined—When I spoke of disgrace, I
.eferred to what Mrs. Taylor had. told me—mean-
ng that Margaret was with child to William. I
have a brother who was to leave for America that
week—Mr. Hardie. He had asked my son to go
with him. have heard him say he intended to go.
My son had not gone to church since he came back
to me in April; After dinner on the Sunday even-
ing he went to Newlands, to his brother-in-law,
Mr, Keir's. He went away about 5, and did not
return
,till past 12. Margaret went to bed ,about
9. There was nothing the matter with her then.
By the Lord Justice Clerk—l understood my
son, when he referred to Tom Girwood, to mean
that he had operated. I did not understand him to
mean that he was the father of the child.
Janet Miller corroborated part of the previous
evidence.
Witnesses were called to prove a meeting be-
tween Dr. Thomas Girdwood on the streets of Fal-
kirk on the Saturday evening, and that the former
had been seen to go in the direction of Smallburn
on the Sunday forenoon, and to return.
Dr Myrtle was then examined. He deposed—l
reside in. Polmont, and practise there. I recollect
being called on to go to see Mrs. Reid's servant on
Monday, the 6th of September. I found her lying
in be in a closet off the kitchen. She said she
suffered a great deal of pain, and that it was her
usual time for being unwell. She told me that she
frequently suffered great pain at such times, but
that since Mrs. Reid had given her laudanum she
felt much better. I felt her pulse ; it was about
90, but weak. She seemed in full possession of her
Ifaculties, and answered all questions coherently. I
made no examination of her person. From the
statements made to me by Mrs. Reid and herself I
concluded that it was a case of unusually painful
discharge, accompanied with derangement of
stomach and bowels, and that the laudanum had
been administered judiciously. I recommended
Mrs. Reid to give her hot whisky and water, and
apply something hot to her feet. I left, stating I
would return the following day. The same night
I was again sent for. I found the girl in great
agony. I never saw a greater change in any patient
in so short a time. She was pulsaess ; her extre-
mities were cold; there was a film over her eyes.
She was tossing over the bed, crying and speaking
incoherently, and was unable to make any answer
to me. I said I thought her in a dying state.
Her mother took me out to the court-
yard and said, " Are you aware my girl is in the
familyway ?" I said I was not. She added, since
you were here she has told me that she is
in the family way to William Reid, and that
yesterday, he introduced some instrument into her
womb for the purpose of bringing away the child,
or destroying the" child-;-I forget which was her
6xpression. I immediately returned to the girl's
bedside. She was now unconscious. I made an
examination of her person. Witness here described
his removal of the foetus, and said that, as he be-
lieved, labour had advanced so far, but that the
propulsive power had ceased, otherwise the child
would have been expelled. He proceeded—l showed
the foetus to Mrs. Reid and Mrs. Taylor, and then
wrapped it in paper and carried it away. I rode
home, but returned again immediately with some
stimulating medicine for the patient, and ordered a
dose .f it to be given every half hour. I then went
to Falkirk to bring Dr. Girdwood, sen., to consult
as to what was best to be done, he being a person
of great experience. He is the father of the de-
ceased Dr. Thos. Girdwood. I found him at his
own house, and communicated what had happened.
He expressed his astonishment, and said that Willie
Reid was now in his own stable yard. He went
back to see Reid, and then returned to me, and we
took a conveyance to go to Smallburn. On arriving
there we found that Margaret Taylor was dead,
and that the body had been removed and dressed.
Dr. James Gird Wood—l have resided and prac-
tised in Falkirk for nearly 40 years. The late Dr.
T. Girdwood was my son and assistant. He was
35 years of age. On Sunday, the sth of September,
he had dressed for church, but I sent him to make
some visits in my stead. He took a catheter case
with him, which he was likely to require for one
of the patients. My son was to join me at a post
mortem examination at Mumbrils at two o'clock
that day. He arrived at the place a few minutes
before I did. Mumbrils is about two miles from
Smallburn. He said nothing about being at
Smallburn, but said he had made the visits I
requested. I was absent at Alloa a considerable
part of Monday. I got home about seven. That
evening the prisoner came into my stable-
yard, where we had some general conversation to-
gether. While he was there a boy came to me
stating that Dr. Myrtle had called and was in great
haste to see me. Reid, in going away, asked, "By
the bye, is Tom in'?" I said no ; he had gone north
to some patients. I went into the house to see Dr.
Myrtle. A statement was made to me by Dr.
Myrtle, in consequence of which I went in search
of Reid. On our way to Smallburn we overtook
him. I took him aside, and told him that I had
got information that his servant girl was danger-
ously ill in consequence of a miscarriage ; that she
had stated that instruments were used by him to
procure abortion, and that it was believed she was
dying. I said it would be necessary for him to
get out of the way as fast as he possibly could, and
that there was no time to lose. He made no reply,
but after we had parted and I was rejoining Dr.
Myrtle, Reid called me back, and said he did not
know where to go. I said it was not for me to
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to him. We parted a second time, and again he
called me back and said he could not believe the
story. I told him that there was no doubt of Dr.
Myrtle's statement, and that I believed we should
not find the woman alive. He then said, "I used
no instrument ; if any instrument were introduced
it must have been introduced by your son Tom.' I
said I did not believe this, but that did not alter the
case so far as he was concerned, and that for his
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