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It did him good. lie was long very ill, and out of
his mind a-piece.
Cross-ertunined by Mr.Citoss.--He said they were
good friends. His stomach was first affected after
eating the bread. He did not till two or three days
afterwards think that the bread was the cause. He
had eaten his breakfast at seven that morning. He
had been ill some time before. He could not tell
what his complaint had been. He had then required'
no doctor. He had given the prisoner some time
before a promissory note for EGO, which he owed to
him. It was not hitherto paid. It was not payable

till after his father's death.
Examined by the Court.--He said his father's pro-
perty consisted of about-eleven acres in land. It was
to come to his father's heirs.
Anne Dodsworth, wife of the former witness, was
married last Christmas. Her husband was carried
home about five o'clock on the 25th March. The
priioner came soon afterwards with some mint water
in a pitcher. Witness poured it into a tea-cup, and
said it looked very thick and muddy ; he said that
the woman from whom he got it had teemed (emp-
tied) it from the bottom of what she had it in, and
said iv was all she had. He told her to put some
sugar in it, and stir it well, and give it to her hus-
band, for it would do him good. It made her hus-
band very sick. She sent Haw for the Doctor. Haw
brought some medicine, and a bolus. It seemed to
give him ease. Mr. Sedg Nick, the doctor, came next
day, and ordered some person to be sent after him
for medicine. The prisoner came in afterwards, and
she said to him that she had to send some person to
Boroughbridge for medicine. He said that he would
bring it to Westfield Gate, and her father-in-law
should meet him there, as he was going to Knares-
borough with coals. Her father-in-law brought a
bottle and half a dozen powders ; it was a clear me-1
dicine, with some white powder at the bottom. The
cork was not tied ; there was no distinct paper at-
tached to it. Her father is-law directed her to shake
it up ; she did so, and gave two table spoonsful of a
to her husband ; she repeated this at intervals twice ;
it sickened him every time. She sent Thomas Steel
for more medicine that day ; he brought some small
bottles ; she gave this draught to her husband—it
eased him at once.
Some doubt was occasioned as to the examination
of this witness to a transaction on the Ist of April,
because Mr.Wi hams h.td not stated it in his opening.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, he lad no doubt of the
propriety of such examinations, but, for the greater
satisfaction, sent a note to consult Mr. Baron Wood,
who troughs it very doubtful. His Lordship thought
it admissible.
Witness went on the Ist of April, to Knaresbo-
' rough, and bought a little veal for her husband's
supi;::. It was intended for him alone. It was put
on the fire about seven that evening, in the kitchen.
The prisoner came in afterwards when witness was
up stairs. She heard him take a chair, and ask her
father-in-law what was in the pa--. He told him it
iwas a little broth making for Joseph. She went down
five or ten minutes afterwards, and found her father-
John Haw, and the prisoner, at the fire. She
went with a candle to look into the pan. The priso-
ner asked how her husband was? she replied that he
was very poorly. She observed a white scum upon
the broth, which she skimmed off, mad tasted the
broth, which tasted very'ill in her mouth. She made
no remark, because she thought she had taken a
spoon used for her husband's medicines. She got *-
clean spoon, and took a little oatmeal to thicken the
broth. The prisoner then got up and went out. She
tasted the broth akain, and it had the same effect as
before. She asked her father to taste it and llaw ;
all were affected by it. She had not taken above a
table spoonful. She felt a violent pain at her sto-
mach, which continued till twelve o'clock at night.
She put the broth into a dish. and saved it for Mr.
Sedgewick. She put it in a closet. It was not locked.
Her sister, Mary came in afterwards, and
looked at the broth with her. She was never in the
house by herself, and had no ir,•••ixrtunity of putting
any thing into it. Mr. Sedgewick saw it next morn-'
ing, and in consequence of his advice, she took it to
Knaresberongh, to Mr. Lambert, the druggist, and
left it with him. It was not till after the broth was
talten ro Mr. Lambert, that she looked al the medi-
cine in the drawer which had sickened her husband
, on the 26th of March. She delivered It to Mr. Sedge-
wick. Two or three days afterwards she received a
parcel from Thomas Ila•.r, with two seals, directed
to Mr. Murray at Knaresborough. She scat it to him
by John Haw.
Thomas Dodswordr, the first witness's father, met
the prisoner at the WestEzld-gate, to take medicine
from him. There was no one with him or with the
prisoner. He did not see Robert Nicholson. He
got 'a bottle from him ; he said it was tole shaken
np. Witness gave it to' his daughter-in-law in the
same-state in which he got it. . The prisoner,' when
he came into the kitchen, asked nothing about the
broth, and witness said nothing about it. His daugh-
ter gave hint the broth to taste. It did not taste well:
he was not well, but no' way that he might call
badly. He had tasted very little of the broth. He
had given no directions to buy poison for rats. He
had never ordered to buy any.
Cross-examined by the Cot m—lle. believed the
&honer was about half an hour in the kitchen, when
the broth was on the fire. Witness was present all
the time. There was no cover on the pan. He saw
no one putting any thing into it. He thought the
prisoner could not put any thing into it without his
seeing him. He believed that he put nothing into
it, and thought it was not possible he con'.d.
Mr. Sedgewick visited Dodsworth on the 26th.
He had sent him some medicine on the former day.
There was nothing in it to occasion sickness. Dods-
worth said he had been afflicted the day before with
' sickness and vomiting, and told him the medicine
he had sent had relieved him. The symptoms were
those of a person affected in the stomach and bowels.
Arsenic would have produced exactly the same ap-
, pearances. He went home and made up some more
medicines; the mixture was a saline mixture, co-
loured with lavender—it was four scruples of pre-
pared kali, which was a sub-carbonate of potash,
two ounces of concrete acid of lemon, two drachms
; of sweet spirits of nitre, and half a drachm of tine-
, tare of lavender, and mixed in four ounces of water.
There was nothing in it to occasion sickness, or to
create sediment. He gave it to the prisoner, but woe
no direction whatever. These was no cover
, cork. lie found J. Ugdswoeth next day much ivfik