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"Stranathan, up here on Madden's Hill we know how to treat visitors. We'll play with your ball.... Now keep your gang of rooters from crowdin' on the diamond." "Boss, it's your grounds. Fire 'em off if they don't suit you.... Come on, let's git in the game. Watcher want field er bat?" "Field," replied Daddy briefly. Billy Gale called "Play," and the game began with Slugger Blandy at bat.
Other men looked drawn, haggard, waiting as if expecting a thunderbolt. Once in my roving gaze I caught Blandy's glinty eye on me. I didn't like the gleam. I said to myself I'd watch him if I had to do it out of the back of my head. Blandy, by the way, is was I should say, the Hope So bartender." I stopped to clear my throat and get my breath. "Was," whispered Sally. She quivered with excitement.
It appeared, as a matter of fact, only a few days after the execution at Oxford, for parricide, of the notorious Miss Mary Blandy, and might be assumed to have a more or less timely intention; but the purity of Fielding's purpose is placed beyond a doubt by the fact that he freely distributed it in court to those whom it seemed calculated to profit.
Blandy, have been, as the phrase goes, the last straw. Fortunately, Mary had retained against such a contingency the balance of Mrs. Mounteney's loan; and with another fifteen pounds of that lady's in his pocket, the captain left for London to liquidate his debt. From that time till August, 1750, the shadow of his sinister guest did not darken the attorney's door.
They removed the coals, and found a paper with white powder in it, wrote upon, in Mr. Cranstoun's hands, "Powder to clean the pebbles." This powder they preserved, and the doctor will tell you that it was white arsenic, the same which had been found in the pan of gruel. Mr. Blandy of Kingston having come the night before to see her father, on Sunday morning she sent Mr.
18 July Cranstoun writes to Mary suggesting she should put the powder in gruel. 4 August Gunnell makes gruel in pan by Mary's orders. 5 August Mary seen stirring gruel in pantry. Mr. Blandy taken seriously ill in the night. 6 August Mr. Norton, the apothecary, called in. Gruel warmed for Mr. Blandy's supper. 7 August Emmet eats what was left the night before, and is taken ill.
From the following references it would appear that the empty old house in Hart Street had acquired a sinister reputation. On 8th November Walpole writes to Conway, "Have the Coopers seen Miss Blandy's ghost, or have they made Mr. Cranston poison a dozen or two more private gentlewomen?" the allusion being to the deaths of Mrs. Blandy and Mrs. Pocock; and again, on 4th August, 1753, to John Chute.
On Monday, the 6th of April following, the prisoner was executed at Oxford, according to the sentence pronounced against her. Proceedings before the Coroner relative to the Death of Mr. Francis Blandy. I. Depositions of Witnesses. Town of Henley-on-Thames in the County of Oxford.
Littleton at once showed the letter to Mr. Norton, and afterwards read it to Mr. Blandy: "He said very little. He smiled and said, 'Poor love-sick girl! What won't a girl do for a man she loves?" There was then in the house Mary's uncle, Mr. Blandy, of Kingston, who had come to see his brother, and it was prudently decided, in view of all the circumstances, to refuse her access to the sick-room.
A notable point about the case is the amount of metallic mercury found in the old woman's body: 296 grains a record. Having regard to the condition of life in which these Irishwomen lived, there is nothing, to my mind, in the fact that they murdered for forty pounds to make their crime more sordid than that of Mary Blandy.
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