put her fingers to the spoon, and rub them together,
and then he drank some part of it; that on Tuesday
morning she did not see him when first he came downstairs,
and the first time she saw him was between nine and
ten o’clock, when Miss Blandy and he were together;
that he then said he was not well, and going to lie
down; that on Tuesday evening Robert Harman bid her
warm her master some water gruel, for he was in haste
for supper; that she warmed him some of the same,
which Miss Blandy carried into the parlour, and she
believes he ate of it, for there was about half left
in the morning; that she met him that night, after
the water gruel, as he was going up to bed; as soon
as he got into the room he called for a basin to reach,
and seemed to be very sick by reaching several times;
the next morning about six o’clock she carries
him up his physic, when he told her he had had a pretty
good night, and was better; but he had vomited in the
night, as she judges by the basin, which she had left
clean, and was then about half-full; that on Wednesday
the prisoner came into the kitchen and said to her
that as her master had taken physic he might want
water gruel, therefore she might give him the same
again, and not leave her work to make fresh, as she
was busy ironing; to which she answered that it was
stale, if there was enough of it; that it would not
take much time, and she would make fresh, and accordingly
did so; that she had the evening before taken up the
pan, and disliked the taste, and thought it stale,
but was now willing to taste it again; that she put
the pan to her mouth and drank some of it, and then
observed some whiteness at the bottom, and told Betty
Binfield that she never saw any oatmeal settlement
so white before, whereupon Betty Binfield looked at
it, and said “Oatmeal this! I think it looks
as white as flour”; she then took it out of
doors, where there was more light, and putting her
finger to the bottom of the pan, found it gritty,
upon which she recollected that she had heard that
poison was white and gritty, which made her fear this
might be poison; she therefore locked it up in a closet,
and on Thursday morning carried it to Mrs. Mounteney’s,
where Mr. Norton saw it. She tells you that about
six weeks before Mr. Blandy’s death she was not
very well herself, and Miss Blandy then asked her
what was the matter with her, and what she had eaten
or drank; to which she answered that she knew not what
ailed her, but she had taken nothing more than the
rest of the family; upon which the prisoner said to
her, “Susan, have you eaten any water gruel?
For I am told it hurts me, and may hurt you.”
To which she answered, “Madam, it cannot affect
me, for I have eaten none.” She then mentions
a conversation that Betty Binfield told her she had
with the prisoner on the same subject, but that you
will hear from Betty Binfield herself. She then
tells you that on the Wednesday morning, after she
had given her master his physic, she saw Ann Emmet,