Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-01-23

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you persist in saying that morphia
was in the attache case when you
came to Hunterbury on June 28th ?"
Il do. had it with me-"
Surprising that presently Nurse
O'Brien goes into the box and swears
that you said you had probably left
it at home?"
1t was in my case. Pm sure of it. :"
Sir Edwin sighed "You didn't feel
at all uneasy about the disappearance
of the morphia ?"
'Not-uneasy-nO."
'Oh, so you were quite at ease, not
withstanding the fact that a large
quantity of a dangerous drug had
Disappeared"
Il didn't think at the time any one
had taken it."
Il see. You just couldn't remember
for the moment what you had done
with it,"
Not at all. It was in the case"
Twenty half-grain tablets-that
is, ten grains Of morphia. Enough to
kill several people, isn't it,"
Eyes"
But you are not uneasy--and you
don't even report the loss officially"
q thought it was all right"
q put it to you that if the NOR
phia had really disappeared the way
it did you would have been bound, as
a conscientious person, to report the
loss officially"
Nurse Hopkins, very red in the face
said: well, I didn't"
THAT was surely piece of crimi-
nal carelessness on your part. You
don't seem to take your responsible
ties very seriously. Did you often
mislay these dangerous drugs"
1T never happened before
1t went on for some minutes. Nurse
Hopkins, flustered, red in the face,
contradicting herself an easy prey
to Sir Edwin's skill.
''Is it a fact that on Thursday, July
9Th, the dead girl, Mary Gerard made
a will ?"
"She did"
"Why did she do that"
Because she thought it was the
proper thing to do. And so it was"
"Are you sure it wasn't because
she was depressed and uncertain about
her future?"
Nonsense"
ut showed, though, that the idea
Of death was present in her mind
that she was brooding on the subject"
mot at all. She just thought it
was the proper thing to do"
"Is this the will? Signed by Mary
Gerard, witnessed by Emily Biggs
and Roger Wade, confectioners' assis-
tants, and leaving everything of
which she died possessed to Mary Ri
ley sister of Eliza Riley"
That's right"
1t was handed to the jury.
"To your knowledge, had Mary Ger
rard any property to leave?"
mot then, she hadn't"
But she was shortly going to
have?"
Eyes"
rs it not a fact that a considera-
BILE sum of money-two thousand
pounds was being given to Mary
by Miss Carlsle?"
Eyes"
"There was no compulsion on Miss
Carlisle's part to 90. this? 1t was en-
,irely a generous impulse on her
9art?"
"She did it of her own free will,
yes"
But surely, if she had hated Mary
Gerard, as is suggested, she would
not of her own free will have handed
over to her large sum of money"
THAT'S as may be-"
what do you mean by that an
swer?"
don't mean anything"
Exactly. Now, had you heard any
local gossip about Mary Gerard and
Mr.. Roderick Welman?"
'He was sweet on her."
Have you any evidence of that?"
81 just knew it, that's ALL"
"Oh-you just knew it, That's
not very convincing to the jury, Pm
afraid. Did you say on one occasion
Mary would have nothing to do with
him because he was engaged to Miss
Elinor and she had said the same to
him in London?"
"That's what she told me-"
Sir Samuel Attenhury re-eXamin-
ed: "When Mary Gerard was dis
cussing with you the wording of this
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