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