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the rest were out. I said he 

 was a bad man, and suppHcated 

 him to leave me. Finding that I 

 was bent upon not going down, 

 he brought up a large goblet full 

 of brandy and water. I said it 

 was not brandy, and refused to 

 take any. He threatened to 

 drench me with it, and stood over 

 me till I drank it every drop. I 

 was then in hysterics, had dread- 

 ful fits of crying, and lost all re- 

 collection of what occurred. On 

 the following morning I was 

 awoke by Mr. Shipman's kisses. 

 He told me how much his wife 

 and children loved me, and that 

 he loved me more ten times. I 

 complained of the insult he -had 

 offered me, and said I should in- 

 form Mrs. Shipman of his vile 

 conduct. I informed Mrs. Ship- 

 man of it. My illness continued 

 with unabated violence ; and 

 though I expressed a wish to see 

 Mr. Power, the surgeon, and 

 another medical man, I was 

 denied by Mr. and Mrs. Shipman. 

 At length I saw Mr. Power on 

 Tuesday : told him they had 

 given me different kinds of medi- 

 cine ; that I had requested to see 

 him, but had been refused ; that I 

 was very unhappy ; had been 

 used very ill, but had neither 

 time nor power to tell him more. 

 I continued delirious for a fort- 

 night ; the last thing I remem- 

 bered was Mr. Power's coming. 

 From Mr. Shipman's I was re- 

 moved to the vicarage in a sedan, 

 until I got better. In my bed- 

 room there was no bell. There 

 was, I believe, a key in the door, 

 but Mrs. Shipman begged 1 

 would never lock the door, through 

 fear of fire or the illness of the 

 children. I stayed a week at the 



vicarage, from whence I went to 

 my aunt's lodgings at Birming- 

 ham. Before the Friday she had 

 taken salts and calomel and other 

 drugs for a cold, by desire of the 

 prisoner. In her cross-examina- 

 tion b3' Mr. Denman, she merely 

 repeated her former statement. 

 The object of the learned Counsel 

 was to obtain some admissions 

 which might leave an impression 

 that the prisoner's conduct was 

 dictated by a feeling of compas- 

 sion, which was mistaken for 

 love. The witness again stated, 

 that all resistance was impossible ; 

 her breath as well as strength 

 having been affected, and an 

 unnatural sensation having, in 

 consequence of the drugs, per- 

 vaded her. 



Clara Johnson deposed, that 

 she lived as servant to Mr. Ship- 

 man, and gave an account of the 

 conduct of her master perfectly 

 confirmatory, as far as it went, of 

 that given by Miss Dalton. She 

 described the state of health of 

 the )'oung lady as most deplor- 

 able, and remembered that when 

 she told her master how ill she 

 was, he said that was just what 

 he wanted. She added, that 

 when her mistress went to chapel 

 on Sunday, her master came to 

 her and sent her out with the 

 child before she had time to 

 clean herself; and that when Mr. 

 Power came to see Miss Dalton, 

 Mr. Shipman flung down his hat 

 in a great rage, and said he was 

 undone. 



In her cross-examination she~ 

 but increased the evidence against 

 the prisoner. She heard Miss 

 Dalton say in her delirium, that 

 her master had broken her tooth ; 

 and while she was deprived of her 



senses. 



