but did not then see him, but went again about twelve
o’clock, and then saw him; he desired to have
more physic, which he sent him to take on the Friday
morning; that he has been used to attend Mr. Blandy,
but that he never saw him thus out of order; that
the last illness that he had had was thirteen months
before. He tells you that he has heard the prisoner
say that she had heard music in the house, which portended
something, and that Cranstoun had seen her father’s
apparition, and this was some months before her father’s
death; he says that he cannot tell who it was sent
for him, but that when he came he found Mr. Blandy
and the prisoner together; that he asked if he had
eaten anything that had disagreed with him, to which
the prisoner made answer, nothing that she knew of,
except some peas on the Saturday night before; that
at that time he did not apprehend anything of poison,
nor did Mr. Blandy mention anything of taking the gruel
to him; that on Saturday the prisoner desired he would
take care of her father, and if there were any danger,
call for help; he told her he thought he was in great
danger, and then she begged Dr. Addington might be
sent for. Mr. Blandy himself would have deferred
it till the next day, but she, notwithstanding, sent
for him immediately. He tells you that as to
the powder he found it to be gritty, and had no smell;
at first he could not tell what it was till he took
notice of the old woman’s symptoms to be the
same as Mr. Blandy’s; then he suspected foul
play, and from what he heard in the family suspected
Miss Blandy.
Mrs. Mounteney is then called, who tells you that
she remembers Susan Gunnell bringing a pan to her
house with water gruel and powder at the bottom of
it on Thursday; that she sent for Norton, the apothecary,
who took the powder out, and laid it on white paper,
which he gave to her to keep till it was called for;
that she locked it up, and delivered the same to Norton
on the Sunday following; she tells you that the prisoner
always behaved dutifully to her father, as far as
ever she saw, when in his presence; that she did not
mention the paper left with her to anybody till it
was fetched away on Sunday morning, the 11th of August;
that she was not at Mr. Blandy’s in that time,
and neither saw him nor the prisoner, but she was
there on the Sunday afternoon, though she did not
then mention anything of it.
The next witness is Susan Gunnell, who tells you that
she carried the pan of water gruel to Mrs. Mounteney’s
from Mr. Blandy’s, which had been made at his
house the Sunday seven-night before his death by himself;
that she set it in the common pantry, where all the
family used to go, and observed nobody to be busy
there afterwards; but on Monday the prisoner told
her she had been stirring her papa’s water gruel
and eating the oatmeal out of the bottom; that she
gave him a half-pint mug of it that Monday night before
he went to bed; that she saw the prisoner take the
teaspoon that was in the mug, stir it about, and then