ACCIDENTAL  POISONING. 
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small  closes  of  the  substance  extracted  from  the  contents  of  the 
jars  which  had  before  given  the  test  results  stated.  From  these 
experiments,  he  was  satisfied  that  the  stomach  of  the  deceased 
contained  a  fatal  quantity  of  strychnine.  He  also  detected 
strychnia  in  the  liver,  in  the  kidneys,  and  in  the  structure  of 
the  tongue.  He  found  traces  of  meconic  acid  in  the  stomach, 
but  no  antimony. 
The  Lord  Chief  Justice,  addressing  the  witness, — Dr.  Ed- 
wards, you  have  given  your  evidence  with  great  distinctness 
and  lucidity. 
Joseph  Whitton,  an  assistant  in  Messrs.  Clay  and  Abraham's 
shop,  said  that  on  the  11th  instant  the  prisoner  was  engaged 
as  the  regular  dispenser,  but  had  occasional  assistance.  It  was 
his  duty  to  make  up  the  medicine.  When  Miss  Witter  brought 
Dr.  Nottingham's  prescription  to  him,  he  entered  it  in  an  order- 
book,  and  then  passed  it  on  to  the  prisoner.  The  powder  con- 
tained James's  powder  and  Dover's  powder.  He  did  not  see 
the  bottles  from  which  the  prisoner  made  it  up.  One  bottle 
separated  the  bottle  containing  the  James's  powder  from  that 
containing  the  strychnine.  The  Dover's  powder  was  kept  on 
the  dispensing  counter  on  a  shelf  facing  the  dispenser's  counter. 
There  were  five  rows  of  bottles  in  an  upright  position,  forming 
part  of  the  dispensing  counter,  and  in  front  of  the  dispenser. 
These  bottles  were  in  constant  use,  and  they  had  no  other  bot- 
tles containing  strychnine  in  the  whole  shop.  The  bottles  were 
alphabetically  arranged.  The  bottle  between  the  strychnine 
bottle  and  the  James's  powder  bottle  contained  Savine  powder. 
When  the  lotion  and  the  powder  had  been  made  up,  it  was 
placed  by  the  dispenser  on  a  till.  Witness  then  took  out  the 
cork,  examined  the  lotion,  and  found  it  correct.  He  next  took 
the  powder  out  of  the  wrapper,  smelled  at  it,  and  being  satisfied 
with  it,  he  gave  them  both  to  Miss  Witter.  He  could  detect 
the  Dover's  powder  by  the  smell ;  he  did  not  look  at  the  powder  ; 
the  James's  powder  had  no  smell;  neither  had  strychnine  any 
smell. 
Cross-examined  by  Mr.  Liddell. — The  bottles  on  this  shelf 
had  been  rearranged  since  the  11th  of  April.  That  had  been 
done  in  consequence  of  the  presentment  made  by  the  coroner's 
jury.    He  was  Messrs.  Clay  and  Abraham's  senior  assistant. 
