Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-07-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JULY 3.—This morning, at ten o'clock, the trial of Dr. Pritchard on the charge of murdering his wife and mother-in-law, in Glasgow, took plane in the High Court of Justiciary here, before the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Ardmillan, and Lords Jervis and Wood. The court room was crowded, and many were disappointed in not obtaining admission. The indictment charged tho prisoner with administering tarterised antimony, aconite, and opium to his mother-in-law, Jane Cowper Taylor, in tapioca and in porter or beer, and in a medicine called '• Batley's sedative solution," between the 10th and 25th February, 1865; and it also charged him with administering, on repeated occasions in February and March, 1865, tartarised antimony and aconite to his wife, Mary Jane Taylor, in articles of food and of medicine. The prisoner entered the dock at ten o'clock, dressed in deep mourning. He was colas and selfpossessed, and looked coolly around the court whets h had taken his seat. He is a stout, well-built man, prepossessing in appearance, and with sharply-defined features. He wears his hair bug, and has a large bushy beard, but no moustache. The prisoner's brother, Charles Augustus Pritchard, secretary to the naval commanderin-chief, Plymouth, by permission of the court took his seat beside him in the dock, and rerniiiiied with him all day. The prosecution was conducted, in the absence of the Lord Advocate in London, by the Solicitor-General, assisted by Mr Giffard and Mr Crichton. The defence was conducted by Mr A. It. Clarke, Mr William Watson, and Mr David Brand, advocates. The prisoner's counsel moved the cow t to separate the two charges of murder, on the ground that it embarrassed the defence to try the two crimes together. The court unanimously refused to grant the request. The prisoner was then called upon to plead to the indictment, and in a clear, distinct voice, he pleaded 'Not Guilty," and a jury having been empanelled, the evidence for the prosecution commenced at halfpast eleven o'clock. The remainder of the day was occupied with the examination of five witnesses, three of whom were merely formal, and occupied only a rew minutes. The two important witnesses were Catherine Latimer, a cook, and Mary McLeod, a housemaid and . . .  nurse, in the service of Dr PAtchard. 'Catherine Latimer I spoke to Mrs Pritchard having been frequently sick in the month of February, and retching violently, and to being attacked with severe pains or cramps in the stomach on two occasions. Mrs Pritchard was generally sick after taking tea. On one occasion Mrs Pritchard, when ill, said to her husband, as he was standing by her bedside, "Don't cry, for if you do so you are a hypoci ito." She also said, referring to the doctors, " You are all hypocrites." Mary McLeod, the housemaid and nurse, who was under examination above four hours, entered in great detail into the circumstances attending the Miaow and death of the wife and mother-in-law of the prisoner. Ste said that during part of the illness of Mrs Pi itchard no doctor attended her but her husband. She was frequently sick after her meals, and retched and vomited.  Oa one occasion she got sick after taking egg-flip, and one of the servants tasted the flip and sahl what a taste it had. Witness admitted that in the course of last bummer Mrs Pritchard saw Dr Pritchard kissing her in a bedroom. 'Witness said to Mrs Pritchard that she  would so away, but Mrs Pritchard said that oho would  speak to the Doctor, and that he was a nasty, dirty man. Witness admitted that she had been with child by the prisoner, rod that she had had a miscarriage After great hesitation witness admitted that prisoner once told her he would marry her if his wife died before him. Witness got a ring, brooch, and photograph of himself from the prisoner. The court adjourned at half-past six o'clock.