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inixttu-c made of oatnieal end some kind of fat, but whether
it was hot or cold he could not say. When be went down
stairs he saw the deceased lying upon a bench, and he re-
quested witness to send for a clergyman for him. The pri-
soner was not there. The deceased said in Italian, " I have
been scalded by Capella; go and fetch a priest, for I think I
am dying. He was in a great tremble. Witness thought
this language was caused by his suffering, not by his thinking
he should die. Witness saw the deceased in the Infirmary on
the 25th. On the day after that witness met the prisoner,
who said he had been informed that the deceased was going
out with his instrument. Witness told him it was not so, as
he was in the Infirmary, and he ought to go and see him.
The prisoner then said to him, " Don't take any notice of
me and I will reward you." On the morning that this affair
happened one Luigi Gasparini gave witness a knife.
The witness, in cross-examination, gave the prisoner a
good character.
Margaret Ginocchio, wife of the first witness, confirmed
the testimony of her husband. She added that Gasparini
went to bed before her husband, but rose sgain and went out
before witness retired. _ _ .

This witness, on being cross-examined, gave the prisoner a
good character.
John Baptist Massa, an Italian musician, who slept in the
room adjoining to that in which the prisoner and the de-
ceased slept on the night in question, confirmed the testi-
mony of the preceding witnesses as to hearing the deceased
cry out in Italian that he was scalded.
_ _ .

Luigi Gasparini said, he lodged in Ginocchio's house, and
on Sunday afternoon, before this matter happened, he saw
the prisoner come into the house from a funeral. The de-
ceased was there, and he said, if he had money he would go
to America. The prisoner said, " What have you done in
England that you /have not money to go to America ?"
They had then some talk together, and the prisoner put out
his finger towards the deceased, as in contempt. The pri-
soner said to the deceased, " You eat the blood of the poor."
The prisoner then went away. They were in partnership
together. Witness went to bed at ten o'clock on the night
that this happened, and rose again at two o'clock to go into
the yard. Saw Mrs. Ginocchio when he came down, but
she was in bed before he came in again. Witness stayed in
the kitchen to light his pipe. There was a good fire, but
he did not touch it. He stayed there perhaps about twelve
minutes, and then went to bed. Witness slept in a room
over Ginocchio's and under the prisoner's. At a quarter
before four he was awoke by a noise upon the stairs. The
witness here described what he heard and saw, to the same
effect as the other witnesses. Was sure he heard the de-
ceased cry out in Italian, " Cappella has burned me."
Witness went down stairs, and saw the deceased with the
mixture upon him, and he said to witness, Cappella had done
it. He also said to witness, "My dear Louis, if 1 have
done any thing to yeu, forgive me, I'm a dead man." Wit-
ness could not say whether at that time the deceased was
under the impression that lie would die.

Cross-examined.—Had known the prisoner nine years,
and he had always maintained a good character.