PRISONER—­Give me leave to ask the last witness some questions.

COURT—­You had better tell your questions to your counsel, for you may do yourself harm by asking questions.

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­Did not the prisoner at the same time declare that as to herself she was totally innocent, and had no design to hurt her father?—­At that time she declared that when Cranstoun put the powder into the tea, upon which no damage at all came, and when she put powder afterwards herself, she apprehended no damage could come to her father.

When she spoke of her own suffering did she not mean the same misfortune that she then laboured under?—­She said she should be glad Cranstoun should be taken and brought to justice; she thought it would bring the whole to light, he being the occasion of it all, for she suffered (by being in prison) and was innocent, and knew nothing that it was poison no more than I or any one person in the house.

[Sidenote:  T. Cawley]

THOMAS CAWLEY, examined—­I have known Miss Blandy twenty years and upwards, and her father likewise; I was intimate in the family, and have frequently drunk tea there.

What was her behaviour to her father during your knowledge of her?—­I never saw any other than dutiful.

[Sidenote:  T. Staverton]

THOMAS STAVERTON, examined—­I have lived near them five or six and twenty years and upwards, and was always intimate with them; I always thought they were two happy people, he happy in a daughter and she in a father, as any in the world.  The last time she was at our house she expressed her father had had many wives laid out for him, but she was satisfied he never would marry till she was settled.

Cross-examined—­Did you observe for the last three or four months before his death that he declined in his health?—­I observed he did; I do not say as to his health, but he seemed to shrink, and I have often told my wife my old friend Blandy was going.

Had he lost any teeth latterly?—­I do not know as to that; he was a good-looking man.

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­How old was he?—­I think he was sixty-two.

[Sidenote:  Mary Davis]

MARY DAVIS, examined—­I live at the Angel at Henley Bridge; I remember Miss Blandy coming over the bridge the day that Mr. Blandy was opened; she was walking along, and a great crowd of people after her.  I, seeing that, went and asked what was the matter; I asked her where she was going?  She said, “To take a walk for a little air, for they were going to open her father, and she could not bear the house.”  The mob followed her so fast was the reason I asked her to go to my house, which she accepted.

Did she walk fast or slowly?—­She was walking as softly as foot could be laid to the ground; it had not the least appearance of her going to make her escape.

[Sidenote:  R. Stoke]

ROBERT STOKE, examined—­I saw the prisoner with Mrs. Davis the day her father was opened; I told her I had orders from the Mayor to detain her.  She said she was very glad, because the mob was about.