Arizona republican., 1914-06-03
TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD

trials in Edinburgh in the past cen tury was that of Dr. Edward Pritch- ard which began on July 8. 1865. be- fore Lords Ardmillan and Jervis- wood. The charge against Dr. Pritchard was the murder Of his wife and his mother-in law in Glas- goW He was accused of having ad- midstered tartariZed antimopy, aco- nite and opium in tapioca to his mother-in-law as well as in porter or beer, and in a patent medicine He was also accused of giving hls wife the same dose in articles of | food and of medicine
 l The chief witness against the doc tor was the family cook, Mary Lati mer, who testified that during the preceding February Mrs Pritchard was frequently sick, and that upon ! one occasion she said to her hus- band when standing at her bedside, Don't cry, for if you do you are ] hypocrite"
 A housemaid, Mary M'Leod, detail- ed, during the examination of four hours, the circumstances of the death of Mrs. Pritchard and her mother, Mrs Taylor. During his wife's ill., ness, she said, most of the time Pritchard was the only person who attended her, and that her attacks would invariably come after her meals The housemaid also told of a promise the doctor had made to her that he would marry her, if his wife died The prisoner gave her a ring, a brooch and a photograph of him self
 Another witness was a new cook, who had been secured in Mary Lati mer's place. She arrived upon the day of Mrs. Taylor's death. Only on a few occasions had she been called upon to carry her mistress meals to her room, but instead Dr. Pritchard always insisted in taking them to his wife.
 Thomas Alexander Connell, medi- cal student who boarded with the | Pritchards, was also an important witness. Dr. Patterson, a resident physician, was called in to prescribe for Mrs. Pritchard a short time be- fore her death. which was so sudden that he reported to the register that
 Mrs Pritchard's death was extreme ly sudden, unexpected and to him,
 mysterious"
 For the defense Dr. Cowan, of
 Edinburg, a friend of Mrs Pritch- ards, deposed that Dr. Pritchard and
 Mrs. Taylor, the mother-in- law had
 lived on good terms with each other
 and the prisoners father in law said his daughter and pr. Pritchard lived l happily together.
 A member of the Glasgow Apothe- carries Company was an important witness against the doctor, for he testified that Pritchard, within two or three months of the deaths. pur- chased more tartariZed antimony than did all the rest of the Glasgow doc tors together
 The doctors who examined the bodies found every evidence of poi son. It was also brought out at the trial that Mrs. Taylor had control ot $15,000 and that she had made vii leaving it to her daughter, and tc daughters death
 The most pathetic part of the tria was the examination of the eleven year-old son and fourteen -year-o ole daughter of the Pritchards The sor said that his papa and mamma lived { very happily together, and were very { fond of one another. The prisoner
 was much affected when the chidrer
 were under examination
 The Solicitor General then address ed the jury for the Crown and con tended that the only two persons who had any opportunity to perte trate the murders were the prisone and Mary MLeod, and that in tn nature of the murder they could al most detect the finger of a doctor. MT. Clark, the chief attorney fo the accused, in his address to tn jury, contended that the prosecution had failed to trace the poisoning t, | the prisoner. The case was thel | summed up by Lord Justice Clerk | The jury was only out an hour whel ' they brought in a verdict of guilt, = against Dr. Pritchard of both mur
 ders. The prisoner was then sen | fenced to be executed at Glasgow o,
 the twenty-e eighth of July.
 Some days after the trial tn
 prisoner volunteered confession t
 the Rev. Mir. Oldham, the clergyma
 who attended him, in which he de
 clared himself, in a solemn statemen
 in writing, which he drew up wifi
 great care and deliberation. to hay
 been guilty of poisoning his wife bu
 avowed his innocense of murderin
 his mother-in-law. Eight days late
 however, he retracted this statemen
 and made second confession i
 which he also admitted poisonin
 Mrs. Taylor. He was executed on fin
 date originally set
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