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Littleton, old Blandy's clerk, gave his evidence with manifest regret, but had to admit that he frequently heard Miss Blandy curse her parent by the unfilial names of rogue, villain, and "toothless old dog." Harman, the footman, to whom Mary had offered the £500 bribe, and Mr. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs.
I made it two or three times, two quarts at a time. Do you remember a paper being taken out of the fire? I do. It was on the Saturday before my master died. I took it out myself. Should you know it again if you see it? I believe I should. Addington and Mr. Norton. Do you remember Miss Blandy's saying anything about Susan Gunnel's eating the water gruel? I do.
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 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!
"Oh, that villain!" cried the sick man, realising in a flash the horrid plot of which he was the victim, "that ever he came to my house! I remember he mentioned a particular poison that they had in their country." Susan told him that Mr. Norton advised that Miss Blandy's papers be seized forthwith, but to this Mr. Blandy would not agree.
The tears stood in his eyes, yet he forced a smile, and said "A poor love-sick girl I forgive her I always thought there was mischief in those cursed Scotch pebbles." Dr. Lewis came about eight o'clock in the evening. Before he came Mr. Blandy's complexion, pulse, breath, and faculty of swallowing were much better again; but he complained more of pain in his fundament.
Blandy's office, and had since remained on intimate terms with the family. It would appear, from an allusion in a contemporary tract, that Herne was that "Mr. H " whose pretensions to the hand of the attorney's daughter had once been politely rejected. If so, probably he still preserved sufficient of his former feeling to sympathise with her position and wink at her escape.
August Cranstoun meets Mary Blandy at Lord Mark Kerr's. October Mrs. Cranstoun takes proceedings in Commissary Court. August Second meeting of Cranstoun and Mary. Cranstoun visits the Blandys and stays six months. January Cranstoun returns to London. 1 March Cranstoun's marriage upheld by the Commissary Court. May Mrs. Blandy's illness at Turville Court.
Addington, attend Susan Gunnell in her illness? Yes, sir, but I took no minutes of her case. Did her symptoms agree with Mr. Blandy's? They differed from his in some respects, but the most material were manifestly of the same kind with his, though in a much less degree. Did you think them owing to poison? Yes. Did you attend Ann Emmet? Yes, sir. To what cause did you ascribe her disorder?
Norton fetched it away, which was on the 11th of August, the Sunday morning after, to be shown to Dr. Addington. Between the time of its being brought to your house and the time it was fetched away, were you ever at Mr. Blandy's house? No, I was not in that time, but was there on Sunday in the afternoon. Had you not showed it at any other place during that time? I had not, sir.
The next morning the poor charwoman, coming again to the house, unfortunately ate the remainder of the gruel, and was instantly affected in so violent a manner that for two hours together it was thought she would have died in Mr. Blandy's house.
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