The Haslingden Gazette. — 1906-03-24 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

QUITE CURED AAAAA TWO DAYS."  tho sot ion .4 U '-' on the human body?"  " A.! e. his request you brought tho bottle can tainittit it from tlit. cupboard in the iturryry. that his faintly miglitt WO t 8,1 a ctiritatity?" " I dal." .  And when I hey hail looked at ,1 you reptereil in the eleptruirik Ike it up, IdpiLVO Ihe key to  I tr. Bittern !" " I thd so." " When MAI after that del you find the cupboard unlocked?" "I oannot remember." " A day after? TWO (Lyle 1,11,1`001." "I can't ...ay." "Within a week after?" " Yes: I should say certainly within it week I saw the enplaxird dor opon as 1..41.11." " As usual?" "V.a. Dr. Ro.Hein so continually forgot to lick it after In, had taken wit wbat waated that I • should think it was mon, often ..pen than looked. It wise omit. I 11Wall liwkl hut unhickel. when I went to it for tho drug on the night yam went Mood." "S.. that any one win, lived in the house might wldain 110,4.ewi,X1 of it? Anyone was at liborty to s,'tttluti to the surgery?" " Dr. Redfern and I were in and out of the nano all day; and if any Otte who ww not °cowing:wed to go there had attempted to timoh the bottle he inight rery likely hate been oberved." " But was not the surgery open to anyone living in the bonier " 1.11 a some it wae. But tho ladies of the alai the, eervaota. vever canto then," " W 110 114 then r Dr. Redfern, his nephew, Ins .4011P011, awl my, surgery. I think. rowniunicatia with tho library. when. the body was found?" " When you are in the library you have only to open a door, go down a shirt. stair of four step, and you are in the surgery." " That will do, Dr. Daa said the ...ironer. Mr. Ball, however, had 0110 or t lolw to ail, lie saw that "tho family" who instrueteil hint were inclined to adopt tho theory of mackle ; and it was therofore his duty to bring into prominonco any wraps of evil..., which, favouring that theory, 'oil, in his way. " Dr. Redfern was a hard-working man. I believer asked Mr. Ball. "Yew; very." "And he hail a Im.g.• practicer " A very larg.r. practi.,." " Tho effect of overwork, acting on a mind in hinged atedety domestio affliction. 'radii he prediapieo a porsin strongly towards suicide?" "Them an. among the raw+w of suicide. me, tainly." said rake Davis. WM a promptness which Wao especially designed to emeeal the mown. naturo of his reply. " I don't quite undenaand," said tho carom's Ito you say that Dr. Redfern was suffering from the ellorta of overwork!" "I eadd not say that, sir. The signs of in were tut appareM to me." answered Dr. Davis. 'But h." aid work more than meat men of his age—wore than was alt' gether safe." "In short," said Mt. -Ball, "him condition wan stloll Oast. SUiride wits a tOollit —Or* CO 110 eXpi•Clolt perhapi. tnt Ono whieh could surprise no one 7" The practised eye of the barriater told him that, he had framed his question too boldly—that the witnem was hesitating, and probably would tefuse to answer it an he desir.l. Meantime Dr. Smith gave a tillOrt (expremito of i he deepest tontempt far the lawyer's theory), which was heard all over tho rOOTW. In less time, therefore, than it took Dr. Davis to frame his answer Mr. Ball had men all this and had with. drawn the suggestion. " Porhaps that is rather a question for the jury," said the, counsel with a gloom at the jury which , mid as plainly as a &nee could speak.—" That w , what you will lan expected to any. gentlemen. when your turn comm. I wilt only ask you tlns." • adtkstm" assuming that Dr. Redfern was suffering, in we havo heard he was foot melancholy, on account of some dome-tint trouble, and assuming that Fe was working too hard (as you have just said) for a man of his time of life, and assuming that h., meditated suicide, would lithano Ito a likely agent for him to tool" _ .  " It would—orrtainly," mid Dr. Dlavia with, an !emphatis whxli told that ho was gfad to get a quo, tine whieh he could answer without hesitation. ; With another sidtsglance at the jury. and a grave, almost mole...Moly nountenanoe. Mr. Ball resumed hi. seat. His look and air said that the true rams of Dr. Redfern': death was now obvious. But on Mr. Willem' lip: there hung an smutted smile. whiefi ho lust ...raged to «morel. Fre knew how ldo amend there wa- for Mr. Ball's assumptions. hut he .or fratal admired the Ail, with which the barrister was playing his part. Mr. Harvey Pm-sten. wag next °idled. hut his evidence added is.thing to what Dr. Davis had said. He laid mnre stress. however. than Luke Davis had done upon the depretsiona Dr. Retlfern had taco suffering; from and the jury saw plainly enom.zh that in lii. opinion his step-father had taken away his own life. At this point the enquiry as adjourned for the day.