Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-07-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EXAIVIINER-SATURDAY, PITY 29, 1876.  THE BALHAM MYSTERY.  The following morning the jury visited the Priory, and inepected the various rooms and passages, paying particular attention to the window through which Mr. Bravo is said to have vomited. They returned to the court at eleven o'clock, when the examination of the housemaid was continued. Slte was asked by Mr. Lewis if also knew any person residing in Green-street, London, the question evidently being put owing to some communication Mr. Lewis had received. But the witness did not know such a street, and the cenahman, footman, and groom were successively called. No evidence of itnportance, however, was elicited from them, and the Court adjourned. On the following day Mrs. Bushell, lady's-maid to Mrs. Bravo, senior, Miss Bell, coosin of the decensed and sister of Mr. Reyes Bell, and George Griffiths, who had been in Mrs. Bravo's service as coaelonan, previous to her marriage ; he had also been employed for some years in the same capacity by Dr. Gully were examined. The evidence of the first two was chiefly in corroboration of what has iilready appeared as to occurrences in the sick room and the statements made by the dying man. Griffiths' examination revealed the fact that Ire had been frequently in the habit of buying antimony for use in the stables, and he admitted that when in Dr. Gully's ser vice in Malvern he had bought. as much on two ouncen at one time, but what he had done with this large quantity lie was unable to recollect. On the sale of poisons register kept by the chemist from whom it had been obtained being produced, Dr. Gully's name appeared as purchaser, and the witness as the receiver of the packet. Griffiths, the coachman, was subjected to a long cross-examination, but nothing of much importance was elicited, beyond the fact that on the morning of Mr. and Mrs. Bravo's marriage the witness had remarked to the manager of the Bedford Hotel, Bidhain, that he would not like to be in Mr. Bravo's shoes, as he would not live four months. On being pressed to explain what he meent by those words, he replied that he did not know, but supposed they were spoken under a feeling of annoyance and disappointmeat at being dismissed from his situation, through Mr. Bravo's instrumentality. Mr. Clarke, the druggist at Malvern, from whom Griffiths had purchased antimony, while in Dr. Gully's service, was., also examined.  Dr. Payne, who conducted the post-mortem eramnination, was next examined. The witness having described the condition in which he found the stomach and bowels, Sir Henry James said that he had received some forty letters suggesting that the poison had been injected, and asked if the symptoms were consistent with this theory ; the witness replied that no matter how administered the poison would get into the blood; the appearance of the , lzmwels was not inconsistent with the theory of injection. Griffiths, the coachman, was again examined, and produced the "Pocket Farrier," 11te book from which he had learned the use of antimony in certain diseases of horses. Dr. Gully's butler, Pritchard, in examination, stated that on the morning of Mr. Bravo's death Mrs. Cox had a short interview with the doctor in the study. Dr. Johnson was recalled and examined as to what had passed between Sir William Gull and himself relative to Mr. Bravo's illness, and also as to the opinion he formed of the case at the time. Then followed three professional friends of the deceased, who recounted conversations they had had with him, all tending to show that he was not a person at all likely to commit suicide. Mrs. Bravo's mother, Mrs. Campbell, who was the last witness on th;s day, being the eleventh day of the inquiry, told the story of her daughter's married life, which it appeared, as regards her first husband, was an unhappy one. It also transpired that an estrangement had token place between the latter and her family, in consequence of her connection with Dr. Gully.