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Edwards saki, "For GOD'S sake, my good girl, do
not say anything about that now."
Mr. PZARSON proposed to inquire as to the con-,
versation referred to by the witness on this occasion:
but as it appeared to have been six months previous
to Edwards 's death, Mr. Justice BAYLEY thought it
would riot of itself be evidence to bear on the charge,
and that it was not made evidence by the subsequent
allusion. He, therefore, overruled the question.
The witness was then cross-examined byMr.CAMP-
-11ILL.-• By little Peggy we meant Mary Morgan, the
witness. My mistress charged me with having kept
sugar in my box. I went home from my service ill,
and afterwards my master said, " they did not want
me." I continued afterwards frequently to visit at
the house. My mistress once told me she had been in-
formed 1 had cheated her of money to buy a gosirn.
Richard Jerry, examined by Mr. PEA ftscni.—l am
a labouring man, living within three-quarters of a
mile from Pontypool, and was acquainted with the
deceased and the prisoner. I was at their house about
three weeks before his death ; he was out, but his
wife was at home. She asked me if I was married?
J said, "No r She said, " that I was best off; no
one had made such a job of herself as she had." I
said 46 possibly so; she said 44 she was tied up to a
fool; she would as lieve see the devil as see him; he,
was an enemy in her sight every way." •
Ebenezer Jones, examined by Mr. LUDLOW.—I am
a druggist, and live at Pontypool. On Friday even-
ing I served Ann Williams with two pennyworth of
white arsenic. The next day she had an ounce and
a half of white arsenic, three pennyworth of copperas,
and spirits of camphor. The whole parcel came to
sixteenpence. I served Mary Morgan with four
pennyworth of laudanum on the Tuesday or Wed-
nesdAy, but I recollect nothing else. I cannot say
whether I did or did not sell her nux vomica.

Cross-examined by Mr. CA M PBELL.—My attention
was called to this subject by Edwards's death ; but I
never recollected selling nux vomica to Mary Morgan.
William Morgan.—l am a schoolmaster, residing
near to the prisoner. I searched the prisoner's hawse
a few days after the death of the deceased, and found
there copperas or vitriol.
Cross-examined.—l know Ann Williams. I have
had conversation with her, on the subject of the stuff
she brought on Saturday. She said she brought it
and gave it to the prisoner. Oa Monday, before the
Coroner, she said she had given the poison to a
strange woman in the kitchen. On Tuesday, before
the Coroner, she named Mary Sandbrooke as the per-
son who hadgi.-en her the paper'. I have known the
prisoner three years; her husband came to me to
learn to write. Unever knew but that they lived re-
gularly and affectionately together. I never saw
them quarrel.
Mr. Richard Probyn, druggist at Pontypool, said
that Ann Williams came to his shop on the Satur-
day, and that he refused to let her have what she,
came for.—On cross-examination, the witness said
that she told him she wanted it for a person, a fe-
male, on the road. She said nothing about Mrs. Ed-
wards or the Cross Keys. He had a conversation
with her on the Monday, when he reminded her of
what she said, and she then declared that she had told
him she wanted it for Mrs. Edwards, of the Cross
Keys. Before the Coroner, she said she received the
parer from Mary Sandbrooke. The witness would
not believe her on her oath.

Upon re-examination, Mr. Probyn gave as his only
reason for not believing Ann Williams on her oath,
her contradictory statements on this subject. He had
been subpoenaed on the part of the prisoner.
By Mr. Justice BAYLM—Ou Monday, before the
Coroner, Ann Williams said- she gave the paper to a
strange woman in the Cross Keys.
James Buckley, a private soldier quartered at the
Cross Keys, remembered the journey to Abergavenny.
Next day he asked the priioner where was the master?
She said he had not risen from his bed, but was ill
ft oin having had strange beer at Abergavenny fair.
He never saw Edwards again alive. About seven
o'clock on Sunday morning he saw him dead and
cold. He knew of no medical man being called in
during the illness. On Wednesday morning he heard
a sound come from his room as of a person vomiting.
There were Mrs. Edwards, Mary Morgan, and Mary
Sandbrooke to attend him; but Mary Sandbrooke was
away from Wednesday morning to Friday evening..
Thomas Thomas was called to speak to language
used by the prisoner respeCting her husband some
months before his death ; but the Counsel for the pro-
secution wished for the directioq of his Lordship
befbre they examined him. _ _

The Learned Judge, after hearing in a whisper
what the proposed evidence would probably be, said
it would certainly be evidence, but the Counsel for
the prosecution must exercise their own judgment.
Mr. PEA ItSON, upon this, waved the question.
Mr. Jabez Thomas, examined by Mr. PEA RSON.
I am a surgeon, and opened the body of the deceased.
The stomach was in a very inflamed state, and of a
red colour, which I believe was produced by mine-
ral poison. In my judgment it could not have been
produced by ordinary disease. There was nearly a
quart of matter in the stomach at that time, which I
removed. There appeared to be white particles ad-
hering to the coat of the stomach, and a white streak'
of an inch in length, and a quarter of an inch in
breadth. The white particles had the appearance of
arsenic. Mr. Phillips, with my spatula, scraped off
some of them, and put them on a white sheet of
paper. They felt gritty to me. I gave about a fifth
of what I found in the stomach to a tolerably large
mastiff dog which was healthy. He appeared sick,
vomiting, and in pain ; became convulsed, and died
in about four hours. I applied tests to the contents
of the stomach. First I made a streak on white paper
with the feather of a quill dipped in it. I then rubbed
over the streak a stick of lunar caustic ; it appeared
yellowish, and afterwards became brown. This is a
pretty sure test of the presence of arsenic. Since the
Inquest I have made several other tests. Two by mix-
ing arsenic with other ingredients, and part of the
contents of the stomach with other ingredients, on
both which occasions I found that the results nearly
corresponded. The next was Mr. Hume's test by
ammoniaco-nitrate of silver; dipping a strip of glass
in the contents of the stomach, which produced a
bright yellow. The same application made to a solu-
tion of arsenic produced the same result. I also de-
composed part of the contents of• the stomach, and
reproduced arsenic from them. From all these tests
my opinion is that the deceased died or arsenic.—
There must have been three drams in the stomach ;

half a dribs would' produce death. I should think a
larger quantity mote likely to'produce vomiting than
a smaller, but I have no experience on the subject.
A strong and healthy man, as Edwards was, would
struggle longer with arsenic than o weak one.
Cross-examined by Mr. Twrss.—When I retailed
arsenic its price WAS about twopence an ounce of
eight drams. It could not be necessary to have two
pennyworths to kill. There is a difference of opinion
as to the way in which arsenic kills ; some believing
that it kills by inflammation, and others by its effect
on the circulation of the blood. Nuxivomica is a
vegetable poison, and that which produced the death
of Edwards was mineral. It is my opinion that cho-
lera morbas will not inflame the stomach, though it
will inflame the bowels. The stomach may be in.
flamed by other causes than poison, but it is not com-
mon. In my experience I have never had occasion,
to apply those tests of which I have spoken; I tries'
them from what I heard from others and from books.
I never heard that the appearances produced by gar.
lick in the stomach would resemble those produced
by arsenic ; but in arsenic there is a garlick odour.
Re-examined.—l did actually reduce a part of the
contents of the stomach to mineral arsenic, which I
have with me.

Mr. Edward Harris Phillips, the Coroner, and alto
a Surgeon, examined the stomach, and applied tests
to its contents, and had no doubt that it contained
arsenic, and that the inflammation was produced by
that mineral. He said that the witness Ann Williams
knew English, but not sufficiently to give evidence
in that language. She was a woman of good charac•
ter, and entitled, in his judgment, to credit on her oath.
Mr. John Sloper, Surgeon, of Pontypool, who also
saw the stomach and its contents, and applied tests
to the contents, corroborated the opinion of the last
two witnesses. This was the else for the prosecution.
The prisoner being called on her defence, said "
am an innocent woman."

At the request of Mr. CAMPBELL, Mary Morgan
was recalled, and her examination before the Coroner
read over to her. She admitted it to be a correct
statement of what she then swore. It differed from
her evidence to-day, not only in the particulars ‘vhich
she had admitted on cross-examination, but in others.
It stated that her master was a little tipsy atter Aber-
gavenny fair ; that her mistress came down in the
night on wlaich her master died, and said she was
shockingly frightened at his illness, and that she
seemed frightened at his death. Wh,2,1 asked the
reason of her opposing statements, she persisted that
she swore falsely betore on the persuasion of her
mistress. _ _

Charles Waters was called on behalf of the pri-
soner' and examined by Mr. CAMPBELL—He said,
Mrs. Edwards, on the evening atter her husband's
death, sent me to the Coroner's house, requesting to
have an Inquest on her husband's body the next dlr.
Cross:examined.—l went to see the body. There
were many people there, both men and women, but
I can name none of them. Mrs. Edwards was sitting
in the little room. Some people went up stairs wiine
I was there, but not many. The people were talkint:
about the landlord's sudden death. It was after
came down that Mrs. Edwards asked me to go for
the Coroner.

Francis Hamer said, lam a working collier. I
have known the prisoner many years, bo•h before
and after marriage. When I have been at ti:e house,
the prisoner and her husband appeared on the usual
terms of married people.
Three other witnesses were called, who stated that
the deceased and the prisoner appeared on amicable
terms, and that they never knew anything against
the prisoner's character.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY began his address to the Jury,
by imploring them to give their serious and earnest
attention to the case, and to dismiss from their minis
everything they had heard respecting it before they
entered the box. There were two questions for their
consideration—first, whether the deceased came to
his death by receiving arsenic into the stomach ? and
secondly, whether it was administe►ed by the pri-
soner? On the first point the Learned Judge reca-
pitulated the substance of the medical evidence, and
intimated that it left little doubt of the cause of Ed-
wards's death. He then proceeded to read over all
the evidence applicable to the second question, dis-
tinguishing the particulars in which Williams and
Morgan were confirmed by the chymists, and direct-
ing them in all other particulars to receive their tes-
timony with caution, especially that of the latter.—
He warned them not to rely too much on the con-
versation of Mary Coslet, as conversations were always
liable to great misconception, and as this conversation
was not a very probable one in the relative situasion
of the parties. There were some things in the case
which could not be doubted, that Ann Williams pur-
chased arsenic ; that the prisoner had constant access
to the deceased ; and that no medical man was called
in to see him during his illness. The Learned Judge
proceeded to comment on the whole evidence, point-
ing out every favourable circumstance for the p-
soner, especially the purchase of the two parcels ci
arsenic, when one would more than suffice for the
purpose, and concluded by an earnest prayer, that
ALMIGHTY GOD would direct the Jury to the truth
of this most awful issue.

The Jury retired at eleven o'clock, and remained
in deliberation till nearly one, when they returned
into the box, and, amidst the breathless anxiety of
the Court, delivered a verdict of—Otiilty.
The prisoner being asked if she had anything :0
offer, merely begged his Lordship's favour.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY, deeply affected, and almost
exhausted by his fatigue and the agitation of his fee:-
ings, proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law.
He observed, that the length of the trial, extenJwg
beyond midnight, had given her (the prisoner) ano-
ther day for preparation, of which he implored .het
to make ample use. After repeating his exhortatio:ls
to penitence and prayer in the most earnest language,
he concluded with adjudging that on Friday next she
should be drawn to a place of execution, and that
her body, after death, should be delivered to the sur-
geons for dissection.
The prisoner, during this address, leant over the
bar, so that her face was concealed. She appe.tred
to be almost worn out by the agonizing proceedings
of the day.

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