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 together in the same dormitary; and I remember now with pleasure, notwithstanding the time that has transpired, the intimacy that then existed.

(Cross-examined by Mr. Gazelee.)

You said that nothing but the reproduction of the arsenic would satisfy your mind as to the presence of it?—It would not; and I am borne out in that belief by the best authorities in the country; nothing short of that would satisfy my mind in swearing to its presence.

(By Mr. Justice Abbott.) You said that the same results would follow from other compounds?—Yes, my Lord.

What other compounds would give the same result with the lunar caustic?—Phosphoric acid.

And what with the sulphate of copper?—Understanding that the deceased had died after eating a hearty dinner of rabbits and onions, I cut a large onion into slices, and took a slice of raw meat, and put them into the same vessel, and poured rather more than a pint of warm water upon the mixture, with the view of making an infusion; I allowed it to infuse for some hours; I then took a quantity of the liquid or infusion so prepared, and I applied to it the same tests:—first, the sub-carbonate of potash in solution, I then added the sulphate of copper in solution, the two tests which I understood Dr. Edwards had used.

And what was the effect produced?—A green precipitate was instantly formed.

Was that experiment then complete?—It was, my Lord.

Any thing else?—Yes, my Lord; with another portion of the liquor I tried this other experiment;—I put in some sub-carbonate of potash in solution, I then added the sub-*nitrate of silver, or lunar caustic, and a yellow precipitate was produced.

Is there any thing farther you would wish to say as to those experiments?—Yes, my Lord; I used the same tests as I understood Dr. Edwards had used.

(Witness withdrew.)