Trial of Mary Blandy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Trial of Mary Blandy.

Trial of Mary Blandy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Trial of Mary Blandy.
and that the prisoner ordered her white wine, whey, and broth; that she herself made the broth two or three times, two quarts at a time.  She says that on Saturday, the 10th of August, the paper was taken out of the fire by herself, which she looks upon, and says she really believes it to be the same which she gave to Susan Gunnell, had again from her, and then delivered to Dr. Addington and Mr. Norton.  She tells you that, when Susan Gunnell was ill, the prisoner asked this witness if Susan had taken any of her father’s water gruel, and upon her answering, “Not that I know,” the prisoner said, “If she does, she may do for herself, may I tell you.”  With this conversation she acquainted Susan Gunnell about a month or six weeks before her master’s death, in which particular she is confirmed by Susan Gunnell.  She says, further, that she heard the prisoner say, “Who would grudge to send an old father to hell for L10,000?” And this she introduced by talking of young girls being kept out of their fortunes.  She has heard the prisoner often curse her father and call him rascal and villain.  She says that Mr. Cranstoun had been at her master’s about three-quarters of a year before his death, and she believes her master did not approve of his being so much with his daughter, as she judged by his temper; but she does not believe he debarred his daughter from keeping him company.  She says that, upon Saturday, the 10th of August, she was in the kitchen when her master was shaving, and the prisoner was there, and her master said he had once like to have been poisoned at a public-house; to which the prisoner answered that she remembered it very well.  Her master said that one of the company died immediately, the other is now dead, but it was his fortune to be poisoned at last; and then looked hard at the prisoner, who appeared in great confusion, and seemed all in a tremble.  Her master said further that it was white arsenic that was put into their wine.  This witness then tells you that she sat up with the prisoner the night her father died till three o’clock, but the prisoner went to bed about one; that they had no discourse at all of her father.  But the prisoner asked her if she would go away with her, and offered, if she would go to the Bell or the Lion and hire a post-chaise, she would give her fifteen guineas at getting into the chaise and ten guineas more when they got to London; that, on the witness refusing to comply with this request, the prisoner burst into laughter and said she was only joking.  She tells you further that she heard the prisoner tell Dr. Addington that she had given the powder to her father before, and then it was in tea; that she was afraid of a discovery, so flung it away, and filled the cup up again, which Susan Gunnell drank, and was ill for a week after.  She says that upon Monday, the 5th of August, the prisoner came into the wash-house and said that she had been in the pantry eating oatmeal out of her father’s gruel, which she little regarded then.  But the
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