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POISONING  BY  CYANIDE  OF  POTASSIUM. 
The  first  witness  called  was  Mr.  Edward  Sadlier,  clerk  to  the 
Messrs.  Burke,  wine  merchants,  16  Bachelor's  Walk.  He  de- 
posed that  on  Saturday,  the  5th  of  June,  the  deceased  gentle- 
man, who  had  an  office  in  the  same  house,  came  there ;  on  the 
previous  day  he  told  witness  to  send  the  two  empty  bottles  that 
were  on  his  desk  to  Oldham's,  to  have  them  filled  with  the  same 
mixture  that  had  been  in  them  before  ;  witness  sent  the  bottles 
by  one  of  the  porters,  named  Lynham  ;  when  witness  came  to 
the  office  on  Saturday  morning  he  found  two  bottles  papered  up, 
sealed  and  directed  to  the  deceased  ;  later  in  the  day  he  saw 
the  deceased  with  a  bottle  in  his  hand,  which  he  held  up  to  the 
light,  and  said,  "  This  is  not  the  same  they  gave  me  before ; 
what  I  got  before  was  brown  ;  I  am  sorry  I  did  not  show  it  to 
Dr.  Bourke  before  he  went."  He  then  opened  the  bottle  and 
put  it  to  his  mouth.  Witness  said  to  him,  You  had  better  not 
take  it,  take  care."  Soon  after  he  left  the  room  and  went  into 
his  own,  and  the  deceased  went  out  of  the  office,  and  came  back 
in,  perhaps,  half  an  hour  ;  the  deceased  then  had  a  bottle  con- 
taining a  brown  fluid  in  his  hand  ;  he  said,  "  They  have  given 
me  another  bottle."  The  bottle  containing  the  brown  fluid  was 
a  difi"erent  one  from  that  which  he  had  at  first.  Witness  then 
went  into  his  own  office,  and  deceased  soon  came  in,  and  went 
to  the  opposite  side  of  the  desk  at  which  he  was  standing,  and 
said,  It  is  choking  me  !  It  is  choking  me  !''  He  made  a  pecu- 
liar moan,  as  if  his  throat  was  afl"ected.  Mr.  John  Burke  came 
in  from  the  store  at  the  moment,  and  witness  said  to  the  de- 
ceased, in  his  presence,  "  Take  care  ;  have  they  given  you 
poison?"  He  then  went  into  Mr.  Burke's  office;  Mr.  John 
Burke  came  running  in,  and  said,  "  Run  for  Dr.  Bourke  !  Wit- 
ness ran  to  the  stores,  and  sent  a  vanman  for  the  doctor  ;  wit- 
ness went  to  Butler's,  in  Sackville  Street,  and  brought  one  of 
the  gentlemen  from  that  establishment.  When  they  came  back, 
the  deceased  had  been  brought  into  a  back  room,  and  he  found 
that  he  was  dead. 
Dr.  W.  Bourke  said  he  had  known  the  deceased  from  his 
childhood,  and  was  his  medical  adviser.  On  the  25th  of  May 
had  prescribed  for  him  a  strengthening  mixture,  which  was  pre- 
pared at  Oldham  and  Co.'s  in  Grafton  Street.  He  had  been  in  a 
