A Complete Report of the Trial of Dr. E.W. Pritchard, for the Alleged Poisoning of His Wife and Mother-in-law: Reprinted ... from the "Scotsman" |
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A Complete Report of the Trial of Dr. E. W. Pritchard for the Alleged ... Edward William Pritchard No preview available - 2018 |
A Complete Report of the Trial of Dr. E. W. Pritchard for the Alleged ... Edward William Pritchard No preview available - 2018 |
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Popular passages
Page 116 - That having regard to the absence in her case of any morbid appearances sufficient to account for death, and to the presence in it of a large quantity of a substance known to be capable of destroying life, her death must be ascribed to the action of antimony.
Page 96 - If you answer the first of these questions in the affirmative, and the second and third in the negative, you are then shut up to this other question — Who committed the murder? — for murder, upon the assumption of these answers to the questions I have stated, was committed. It is quite competent for you to find the prisoner...
Page 53 - On the other sheet, distinguished by me as No. 2, in a stain obviously of urine, marked by me A. 4th, On a toilet cover, in a stain of a reddish colour, looking like a wine stain. It is...
Page 52 - Douglas on the 24th March. I then subjected these materials to the following examination : — The orange-yellow precipitate was boiled in a tube with pure hydrochloric acid, and the solution thus obtained was mixed with water, when a white precipitate formed. The fluid containing this precipitate was again subjected to a stream of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, and again gave a deposit of an orange-yellow colour. One fluid drachm of the tartaric acid solution was treated by Keinsch's method, and another...
Page 72 - Penrith ; and they shall invest in such way and manner, and in such securities or security of such kind as to them shall seem best, the other two-third parts, and pay the interest or annual produce thereof to my daughter, Mary Jane Taylor or Pritchard, spouse of Edward William Pritchard, surgeon in Hunmanby, and that upon her own receipt as alimentary to her, and exclusive of the...
Page 133 - Was it conceivable that a girl 16 or 17 years of age, in the position of a servant maid, could have herself conceived or executed such a design ? And if she had conceived it, could she have executed it subject to the vigilance of the husband of her victim, himself a Medical man ? That was very hard to believe indeed. On the other hand, if the prisoner conceived and executed the design, it was not so difficult to believe that Mary M'Leod may have been the perfectly unconscious and innocent instrument...
Page 52 - Pritchard's body was taken in this form. The remainder of the acid solution, amounting to one ounce and three drachms, was subjected to a process intended to determine the quantity of antimony present in the contents of the intestines ; but though the presence of this metal was determined with the greatest facility, I found that the amount yielded by the materials which I used was too small to enable me to weigh it with sufficient accuracy. I also made an experiment with the contents of the intestines,...
Page 59 - That the contents of the intestines contained the largest proportion of antimony, next the heart, then the liver, kidney, and spleen ; less in the stomach ; and the smallest quantity in the rectum, brain, and blood. Not knowing the total weight either of the contents of the intestines, or of the several organs here enumerated, I was unable to calculate the total quantity of antimony in these matters, either separately or conjoined.
Page 3 - James Stuart, clerk to the signet, lately residing in Charlotte-street, of Edinburgh, you are indicted, and accused at the instance of Sir William Rae, of St. Catharine's, baronet, his majesty's advocate for his majesty's interest; that, albeit, by the laws...
Page 116 - ... the alimentary canal, and nothing at all capable of accounting for death. We have therefore secured the alimentary canal and its contents, the heart and some of the blood, the liver, the spleen, the left kidney, and the urine, in order that these may be submitted to chemical analysis.