They contained nothing, as far as we examined, but a slimy bloody froth.  Their coats were remarkably smooth, thin, and flabby.  The wrinkles of the stomach were totally obliterated.  The internal coat of the stomach and duodenum, especially about the orifices of the former, was prodigiously inflamed and excoriated.  The redness of the white of the eye in a violent inflammation of that part, or rather the white of the eye just brushed and bleeding with the beards of barley, may serve to give some idea how this coat had been wounded.  There was no schirrus in any gland of the abdomen, no adhesion of the lungs to the pleura, nor indeed the least trace of a natural decay in any part whatever.”

[Sidenote:  Dr. Lewis]

Dr. WILLIAM LEWIS[8] examined—­Did you, Dr. Lewis, observe that Mr.
Blandy had the symptoms which Dr. Addington has mentioned?—­I did.

Did you observe that there were the same appearances on opening his body which Dr. Addington has described?—­I observed and remember them all, except the spots on his heart.

Is it your real opinion that those symptoms and those appearances were owing to poison?—­Yes.

And that he died of poison?—­Absolutely.

[Sidenote:  Dr. Addington]

Dr. ADDINGTON, cross-examined—­Did you first intimate to Mr. Blandy, or he to you, that he had been poisoned?—­He first intimated it to me.

Did you ask him whether he was certain that he had been poisoned by the gruel that he took on Monday night, August the 5th, and on Tuesday night, August the 6th?—­I do not recollect that I did.

Are you sure that he said he was disordered after drinking the gruel on Monday night, the 5th of August?—­Yes.

Did you over ask him why he drank more gruel on Tuesday night, August the 6th?—­I believe I did not.

When did you make experiments on the powder delivered to you by Mr. Norton?—­I made some the next day; but many more some time afterwards.

How long afterwards?—­I cannot just say; it might be a month or more.

How often had you powder given you?—­Twice.

Did you make experiments with both parcels?—­Yes; but I gave the greatest part of the first to Mr. King, an experienced chemist in Reading, and desired that he would examine it, which he did, and he told me that it was white arsenic.  The second parcel was used in trials made by myself.

Who had the second parcel in keeping till you tried it?—­I had it, and kept it either in my pocket or under lock and key.

Did you never show it to anybody?—­Yes, to several persons; but trusted nobody with it out of my sight.