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organs —the spleen, &c.—did not. Assuming arsenic to have got into 
the blood, the results were consistent with that. 
By Mr. Atherton—I have studied chemistry nine years, and have been 
with Professor Wilson 3 years and some months. I have principally 
been engaged in analysing. Previous to that I was assistant-super¬ 
intendent in a chemical manufactory. I never examined sheep before. 
Their skins are less likely to absorb arsenic than those of human beings. 
Sheep-washes containing arsenic, and in as large proportions, have been 
used with impunity, but not without risk. Arsenic is a very capricious 
poison. It sometimes may be used and does not produce poisonous 
effects, and other times it will under the same circumstances. I do not 
know to what to attribute that. I think if poison had been taken by 
the throat, it would have been found in the stomach, but I should con¬ 
sider it very unlikely to have passed through the mouth. I found 
arsenic in the second stomach, but bad it passed through the mouth it 
would have been found in large quantities. I found food in the 
stomach. There were no traces of arsenic in the contents, but in the 
walls of the stomach it was traceable. I applied Reinsch’s test. I 
examined only two stomachs, the first and second. I found no traces 
of arsenic in the paunch. The fourth, an analogue to the human 
stomach, I did not examine. From the indications 1 saw it is not im¬ 
possible, but highly improbable, that the arsenic might have passed 
through the throat. 
Re-examined—1 was about four years in the laboratory of Professor 
Anderson. I was also assistant to Dr. M‘Laggan. 
Professor Wilson , examined by Mr. Manistry, deposed—I am pro¬ 
fessor of technology, another name for industrial science. I have 
given my attention to chemistry. I have the ingredients of which this 
mixture was composed. I think it was dangerous. Having regard to 
the ingredients, there was a great risk of the arsenic being absorbed. 
My opinion is, that six grains absorbed into the blood, is sufficient to 
kill a sheep. Assuming the result of the analysis to be as stated, and 
taking the materials in the whole case into account, arsenic absorbed 
into the system was the cause of death. 
By Mr. Overend—I have understood that this kind of mixture is used 
by farmers, and with impunity. 
This closed the case for the plaintiff, and the investigation was pro- 
ceeded with in behalf of 
THE DEFENCE. 
Some conversation took place with regard to the matter of the 
contract, which resulted in the decision, by his lordship, that the 
manufacturer must warrant whatever he professes to make. 
Mr. Atlitrton y in introducing the case for the defence, joined in the 
observations made by Mr. Manisty as to its importance, both as regarded 
the public and his client, the defendant in the action. The defendant, 
he said, was a person somewhere about 40 years of age. He had been 
engaged in the business of a chemist and druggist in the town of 
Berwick-upon-Tweed for about 14 or 15 years. He had carried on 
that business with industry and skill and credit; and to this was 
attributable the fact that he was to some extent, having regard to the 
nature and extent of the business, a wealthier man than when he began 
his career. He did not seek to appeal to the feelings of the jury on 
behalf of his client in this case. He was content to rest the case on the 
evidence which would be adduced before them, contrasted to some 
extent with the evidence already laid before them on the part of the 
