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THE SLOW POISONING CASE.

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PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

Before the Stipendiary Magistrate.

— Mrs. Sutherland's Evidence. il pre iry e1 I the il

red a “Mrs. | r. Weel Ss re med t ~ I ( I lene s M ‘ erial i U ppei lr 4 et, w he \ hi I Myr Sutherlat was taken ihe cou met } ar lin I ! wher \ Sutherland did sll im his wer to mak everyont fortable and t facilit » the work Mr s erland’s general é ippe rs t e fairly d. Every t] r considered, is brighter ar noe tl in il lave ] el «xX cted but er Cc oks thin j iworn. Mr Weeks ked pale snd ill She was atten led by her b t To. Mir Frank P. McLeod Mrs. Sutherland occu pied an easy chair in the south-eastern por t 1 : i I t sat Dr ‘ son and a I t Dr. Taylor. Mr We i} I ré y chair at the 5 i-western <¢ ner of the room at t! ] her i His Honor the Sti NI , lawl MI Hiedley V. Pa e, At rev General Me Leod, and Mr Malcolm McLeod, Q C., counsel for the Crown, Mr. Fred. Peters, representing Mrs. Weeks and Mr. E. J. H son, QO. C., who is watching the i Mi iM $ land th ress reporters l 1 Seats ind 4 iarge tabie in cel t r Mi . . y es

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‘ ‘ i Mrs. Sutherland’s evidence

Mrs. James M. SvuTHERLAND (sworn)

i K ; j after | took the medicine. My Ella slept with me that night. I think I slept very well that night. 1 woke up dur ing the night, but do not exactly remember when. think I took anything during the night. Ella did not wake up. Ll think it was about 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning when I awoke. 1 was feverish when Lawoke. I did not get up then. 1 expect I took the maltine and milk that morning, but do not remember L got very ill shortly after dinner. I ate no din-

ner on that day. I hada drink of tea that \

I do not

morning. it was brought me Sy my daughter Ella We had dinner about one | o'clock on that day. I got worse in the jafternoon. I was feverish, and had a good j che sl of diarrhcea. I vomited that day. L do {uot remember about the pains. I was very thirsty all day and drank a good deal of water. I could generally keep the water on my stomach. There were no outsiders

Mrs. Suther- mad and my daughter Ella, attended me (upstairs. The servant girl was not attend- ing me. She attends to the room. It is likely she was up that morning, but I can- not remember. My sister, Maggie Hender- son, came up to see me in the jafternoon,

in the house that morning } li

and | asked her to eail and tell Dr. John- son to come up. The doctor came up shortly afterwards. He bathed my head

ind hands in cold water, as | was very feverish, and 1 think he said I could take whiskey in the maltine and milk. He after- wards sent up some medicine to be taken at once. I took the whiskey, maltine and

milk a couple of hours after taking the

| do not remember

medicine he sent 1D. i : , } ‘ . } who brought Dp maitine. 1 got the ’ , 7 ol whiskey the aay erorTe, when i

was up. It was sent to me on the 24th December by the William Brown, who brought it into the house. I sent my daughter Ella for the after 4 o'clock and it came right Brown

man-servant

whiskey It arrived before dark. brought it home and | think he laid it on the kitchen tal le with s°me other Che girl afterwards put it in the pantry. I that day. I did not see the whiskey on the table or in the pantry. I did not t was brought up by

parcels

the whiskey unlit it my daughter about 7.3) that evening. It was not a sealed bottle ihe bottle was er than the ordinary ] did not often see whis-

1 took a litle

whiskey bottle key in that kind of bottle.

,i ped ’ eA rhiey General I have e ser nt in he hous Bella Stewart | She came ab the 9th or 10th November. i si no se! Mn 4 in } h b f re, B s the family, there are in the hous Mrs. Sutherland (my _ mother-in-law) and Miss Eliza Cousins. Mrs.

Ly ember Y%5 h, and

mh herlau icame on Miss Cousins onthe ll January, —she is still with me. Kate McCormack was my |] previous servant. She left about the 10th October last. She came about the last of | September. Ithink she is at Cardigan | w. Mrs. Larkins was a servant in the} ise previous to Kate McCormack. There | Was a lor ight between the time she left ind the time that Kate McCormack came. Virs. Larkins was here four months I don’t i

know where she i w, Out thing she ls at

me at Kensington [he servant man— Wi im Brown—does not live in the house takes his meals here, though. Mary Stewart (sister of my servant) is also here. as been here about three weeas. ODE

is staying here till she geta a place. She

eae from the Morell House here. 1] don’t know how long she was there, or where she

She was formerly a Weeks lt is over a

. 1 i prior to toat. i

servant with Mrs

year since she icit there. | don’t remem- ber what servant I had before Mrs. Lar- kins came. I had a girl named Annie Waye last winter. She belonged about Freetown. She was here two or three months. Mary Stewart was a servant with

Mrs. Weeks a year, or nearly a year. She isasister of Bella Stewart, my servant. Mary visited Bella once or twice while she was at the Morell House. When she yas in the house I heard of it. I have been very ill. 1 think Christmas day’s attack was the worst I had. I was not very well all the night previous—being very feverish. I felt very thirsty and drank a good deal of

walter that nignt. J kept getting worse as the day went on. I was up the day before Christmas ; but was net very well. I had t lie down most of the time, still I kept

lown stairs. Dr. Johnson called on me on afternoon of the day before Christmas room. L walked during my sleep I went to bed about [ was busy with the ready for Christmas. here that evening

i saw him in the front in to see kim. It was that the fever began. night.

making

twelve that cniiaren

Mrs. Sutherland was

Mrs. D. McKay and Mrs. Harry Worth ilied in to see me. My daughters Marion nd Elia, who were out that evening came

home about nine. They did not go to bed

' I did 7 r were out shopping. They

went some time after seven. They sent

home some conf hionery from J. D. Me-

L put nothing for myse f. I don’t

nember who received the confectionery

} f ier pa sis which came. The ser-

rirl was nut home. I don’t remember arcel iingin. They might have

D yposited i the table in kitchen. ‘his has often been done. { don’t remember that the parcels came in

through the front way. Mrs. Sutherland

myself were the only two in the house

hat night. The back door was left open until the girl came home. I think she ame home about 10 o'clock. I don’t re- mber what time Brown left that even-

, Fle generally leaves about eight o'clock. I think the servant girl went to

bed shortly after coming in, as she was not aasisting me. | remember her coming home that night,and showing me a pair of slippers which had been presented to her. She did

t tell me who gave them tober. Mr. Sutherland was in town that night, but was not at home. He went out about 7.30 or 8 o'clock. He was home totea. He had not got home by thetime I| went to bed. I lucked all the doors before I went to bed. Mr. Sutherland had alatch-key. My mother- in-law and I went upstairs at the same time. | don’t remember what time Mr. Sutherland got in that night nor what time I fell asleep I took something to eat before retiring. I! frank a glass of milk, but don’t remember what Tate with it. I afterwards took my medicine—maltine and milk. 1 don’t re- member who got the first glass of milk for me. I took it down stairs. I did not get it myself. lalso took the medicine down stairs. | mixed it myself. The milk was rot in the pantry either by Mrs. Suther- land or one of my daughters. The tumbler was partly full. I did not seethem getting it. The maltme bottle was kept in the book-ease in the dining room, where I was then sitting. I had taken one or two doses before from the same bottle. | was no taking the whiskey in the maltine and milk then. The maltine was ordered by the doet vr, and came from A. S. Johnson’s

| I think I had taken the

vhiskey mixed with water and sugar that

time. This was about 7 o'clock on the nightofthe 24th. Ll wasin the bedroom at the time. The sugar and water were brought up by my daughter, Ella. The bottle remained upstairs on the table in my bedroom and afterwards on the floor near my bed. The bottle was finished on the 2nd January l was asing it dur- ng this, interval. | took sume of the whiskey cut of the bottle in my maltine and milk on the 24th; and

dai y aiterw irds three or four times a day in the maltine and milk. The doctor called night. I thought IJ 1e, perhaps a little easier.

second dose of the

again about 10 that was about the san mixture ordered by the doctor by this time. He mixed sume whiskey, maltine and milk for me and I drank it [t was no down than it was up again. i vomited two large white curds on this oc- casion. The maltine, milx and whiskey were a)] in the room when the doctor came. We weré@ taking our milk from the milkman —Mr. Pembroke. The milkman cails once a day, about ten, and twice on Saturdays, about 10 and 7. He delivers the milk inthe kitchen. The girl, Miss Stewart, takes fcharge of it." Brown has nothing to do with it. Ido not know who supplies Mrs. Weeks with milk. The milk that the doctor mixed with the whis- key and maltine came at 10 in the morning. The milk is kept in a hasin in the pantry. The pantry is not always locked. The girl has access to it in the day time. 1 was fairly well on Xmas night after taking the doctor’s powder, At that time 1 suffered from pains in the soles of my feet, and there wasa feeling of numbness in my hands. My eyes were not very well then, they had been very sore before that. They were very itchy and I could not stand the light. 1 was weeping a good deal, and was ilso running at the nose. The pains in my feet got worse after that. They had a fee* ing of being drawn up. The hands were not so sore as the feet. They were numb und had a prickly serisation inside the skin. I tried to button my clothes and found | could not. I noticed that my skin was turning brown and was getting rough. At times I had pains in the bowels. I was not very ill in September. About the. lst Oct. I eommenced to notice a strange feeling in my feet. I was weak then. I vomited up a worm about a week after the 10:h. One day in October—I do not remember the date—I was vomiting ind was too ill to get up in the morning. I got up about ¢ o'clock, vomited, and h id to go to bed again. Ido not remember that IL had diarrhass pains that night. I do not remember that I had fever then. I had been drinking warm water to make me vomit. I had vomited before taking the warm water, and thought there was more tocome up. Ihadsome pecu- liar sensation in the feet before that time. There was a prickly sensation, as if they had been asleep. 1 do not remember how my eyes were then. The day I vomited the worm I| sent right away for the doctor. He treated me and I got better. I[ was ill then off and on, vomiting sometimes. It was three or four days before 1 got up. This was in October. The doctor attended me regularly for three or four days. I was last out on the 18th September, when I went to see the doctor. Iwas not feeling well. My eyes were sore, and I had been vomiting. My eyes and nose were running allthe way home from the doctor’s. On the 13th December, when the doctor called, {remember that my eyes were very sore. I do not remember of vomiting that day. i vomited so much that 1 do _ not exactly remember when [ did it, Later, on the doctor asked me about the manner in which my covking was done. The doctor called on me regularly up to the 22ad Dec. I did not get up till the 22nd Dec. at the advice of the doctor. I got up on that day. 1 had improved under his treat- ment. I walked down stajrs on that day. | was also up on the two following days. | asked for another bottle of whiskey on the 2nd January when the first was finished. {t was brought up to my room by the ser- vant girl. It was brought up some time on the evening of the 2nd January. It wasa white whiskey bottle. This is the same bottle that the sediment was in. There was

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ili the Cay bDeirore,

pag} store. It was sent down, but L do net know who brought it

Ad went wpstaics to bed abowt hati en hour

a paper wrapped around it. It was taken off next morning by Dr. Johnson. I used the whiskey Umco—the vvening it came.

DAILY EXAMINER, - - -

daughter

The doctor took off the wrapper on the morning of the 3rd, as he was mixing my maltine, whiskey and milk. He then gave me a dose out of the bottle, which I drank. l had another dose from the same bottle on the same evening. of January. On the 4th the doctor called

bottle. in the bottom of it.

noticed something white around the bottom of the bottle inside. at that time.

sediment, and asked him to — look as. Th Hie took the _ bottle to the window and _ looked at it. He said he would like to have it examined by his son Arthur to see what was in il. He asked me to send the bottle down to him. I got the bottle, poured some of the whiskey into another bottle, and sent the bottle with tne sediment in it to the doctor. The bottle was about quarter fuli when [ sent it down. 1 corked the bottle, wrapped it in paper and sent it down by my daughter Marion. She was instructed to give it to the doctor or to A. S. Johnson. 1 was to take the whiskey every four hours, 1 took none of this bottle after the evening of the 3rd January. I did not take it as I noticed that when | mixed it with milk and maltine the milk was curdled. I did not care to drink it in that way as I saw the sediment, and thought there might be something wrong. I got another bottle up next day—4th January—in the afternoon, and used it once only—that was before the doctor came. One of my daughters | think brought it up from the pantry. It wasthe same kind of a bottle as the other, and the same brand. The case of whiskey in which they were was brought home on the evening of the 2nd Jin., by Mr. Sutherland. The doctor advised me not to take any more whiskey tll he ordered it again. He took the second bottle away some days afterwards. In the meantime it remained in my room, There was no sediment in it. I did not see any. Some time after Dr. Johnson told me that there was arsenic in the other bottle. I think it was after Dr. Johnson consulted with Dr. Taylor. I asked Dr. Johnson if he would like to consult with another doctor. Dr. Taylor came in the next day. Dr. Johnson obtained samples of discharges some time in Octuber, and also in December; and when he came t»seeme he asked me concerning my health, tongue, discharges, etc. He asked me about the urine every time he came. He asked me if the discharges were very offensive, and applied pressure to the abdomen to see if there was pain. I do not remember whether there was pain upon pressure. l was too sick. He examined my tongue every day he called, and re- marked that it was coated. After he took the bottle away, he asked me if we had any utensils of lead. 1 don’t remember that he enquired before that. Il was not on guoé terins with Mrs. Weeks. 1 have not spoken to Mrs Weeks for overa year. She has been living near here about two years last November. We were friendly at one time and associated. She used to visit me and has driven out with me. I did not order the visits to stop—I did not stop her. She has not been visiting here for more than a year. I left off visiting her, and she did not come back. She used at one time to send me cake of different kinds—one time she sent soup—only once; also ale. The last thing she sent over .was some chow-chow. I sent it back, That was over 4 year ago. I drank part of the soup. Christina Suther- lad, sister of Mr. Sutherland, drank part of it. Sinclair, my son, also had some. My husband was not at home. I felt no effects that day; but sometime after | had diarheea. It might have been a day or two afterwards or it might have been the next day. There was no vomiting. I dont think that Chris- tina Sutherland was ill in that way—it was the opposite with her,—whether from that cause I do not know. I never heard that it had any effect upon the; boy. Wan. Brown, our servant, used to Ego messages for Mrs. Weeks and work around the place. I fever told him not todoit. He continued doing so until she went away last winter, and for sometime after she came back. She went away about the 16ch January, 1889, and came back in June, I think. Mrs. .Weeks sometimes had the use of Mr. Sutherland’s horse and waggon previous to her going away. Since she came back in June, 1 do not think Brown went messages for her at the first; but he did afterwards. I remember when Mr, Davies had his garden party. J was invited. {t was in September, 1889. I was present with Mrs. Laird. We obtained a horse and carriage from Robin’s Livery Stable. I hired the team to drive us down and back, I told the boy to call for me at 6.30 o’clock in the evening ; but he did not come _ back

! believe Mrs. Weeks interfered to prevent the team from coming. Mrs. Weeks had, 1 believe, a girl living with her by the name of Gillespie. I didn’t see Mary Stewart coming to my house very much. The Gillespie girl was there, I think, after Mary Stewart. I do not know the girl who was there last. Mrs. Weeks used to drive with my husband. I donot know when I saw them driving. I think that my husband went to see her after ] ceased to do so. Since Mrs. Weeks’ return from Moncton last year, my husband has been visiting there. This may have caused a little un- pleasantness between me and Mrs. Weeks —it was part of the cause. Brown is sober when he cannot get anything to drink.

To Mr Peters—Brown has been in gur employ over five years. He is an old sol- dier—a married man. He lives with his wife and family in a house that he rents himself.

Court took recess.

After recess Mrs. Sutherland continued her evidence. She seid ; I donot think that Brown poisoned me, Bella Stewart is stil} here. She came here from the country. She could not have had anything todo with my illness in October, and I do not suspect that she had anything to do with any of my illnesses. I had finished the first bottle of whiskey some time on 2nd January. I did not inform my husband, but sent word by one of the children when Mr. Sutherland came home to his dinner, on the evening of the 2nd. I think that he walked home at six o'clock. He had dinner in the evening. 1] sent down word to him by my daughter Ella that the whis- key was out. He had his dinner. He came upstairs after dinner before he went out. i never thought of the whiskey then

—as [ had sent down word before. Then he went down and drove

peters. : ae Thinking hw might have tong va “sth

‘come back in the sleigh. ‘about balf an hour. He came into the house This was ou the Srd| by the back door ‘had come in by the front door | could have again, and I then asked him to look at the | heard him. After he came in | He did so and saw something white | hammering down stairs. | When the doctor took | then that he had brought in a case of whis- the paper off this bottle the previous day | key. The children were all down stairs. I and was pouring the whiskey out of it 1| |into the dining-room, and I did not speak of it}asking if there were glasses upstairs. | On the afternoon of the 4th/ answered him from my room that there | told the doctor of my having noticed the was fresh

over | clair, [think —to bringupsome glasses. Then

the whiskey, I sent my daughter down to remind him. She went down and spoke to him at the door. I heard him)

He was away |

so faras | know. Lf he | heard him did not know

heard Mr. Sutherland come from the pantry also heard bim

water but no glasses. Mr. Sutherland asked one of the children, Sin-

he came straight up stairs. He had a bottle in his hand with the paper on it—appareutly just as it was taken out of the case. As he was coming into the door he was just taking the tinfoil off the top of the bottle. So far as I could see, it was a new bottle of whiskey just being opened for the first time. There was a light in the room at the time. Any one could see what was taking place. He took a cork-screw and drew the cork out. I saw him dothis I thought it was the first time that the bottle had ever been drawn. I am satisfied on that point.) The cork came out with a ‘“‘pop” as if it were a newly opened bottle. His mother, Mrs Sutherland, and my son Sinclair, were in the room at the time. No one else was there. Having drained the bottle, he asked his mother if she would have some. She said she would. He poured her out an ordinary glass and she took it neat. Mr. Sutherland himself took some. Hetookhisneat,too. Idid’nttake any just then, for I had to take it afterwards in my medicine. Idonot see low any- one could put anything into the bottle at this time. I could see all that was done. [CONTINUED ON MONDAY. }

—The New York Tribune first states that Canada's estimates call for the raising of $47,000,000 and then adds that the pro- vincial expenditure brings the amount to $80,000,000, thus ascribing to the pro- vinees a taxation of $33,000,000. Apart from the exaggeration of these figures, the Tribune makes a very singular display of ignorance of our system. A large portion of the provincial receipts consist of subsi- dies from the Canadian treasury, and are not raised again by taxation, so to count them twice is a serious blunder. We have nothing like the system of our nighbors of direct taxes for the several states in addi- tion to the taxation of the central govern- ment. No dvubt our commercial and _po- litica! unionists who are advocating direct taxation to raise the Dominion revenue would be glad t» imitate their foreign friends and levy direct taxes for the pro- vinces, but they are not in power and can never obtain it with their present anti- Canadian policy.

-—-A telegram from Point DuChene, pub- lished in another column, shows that the people of that place are moving in respect to means of communication between Prince Edward Island and the mainland. We are particularly glad to notice that people are waking up to the fact that this is not mere- ly an “Island matter,”—that it is one which concerns materially the Maritime Provinces and the whole of Canada. The Moncton Times remarks :

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