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TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD.
80 The first thing which aroused public suspicion against Dr. There are few games more difficult than that of lying, Pritchard was that Dr. Paterson refused to certify the cause of and Dr. Pritchard’s falseness throughout, and especially in Mrs. Taylor’s death. This rendered it necessary for Dr. Pritchard his statements to Dr. Paterson and the Registrar, had largely
’ nesses.
to certify, and his certificate was an entirely false one. He’ to do with his detection. An important piece of evidence certified that Mrs. Taylor died of paralysis and apoplexy, the againstthe other part of the argument of the prisaner’s counthat Mrs. Taylor died from an excessive dose of her former of nine hours’ and the latter of one hour’s duration. Of course the falseness of this statement is obvious. Mrs. habitual anodyne-remains to be noticed. This is, the fact Taylor had been going about the house, up and down stairs, that on her person was found a bottle, the contents of which till nine o’clock, so that she could not have had para- had analyzed by Dr. Penny, who pronounced it to lysis for nine hours; and the post-mortem showed that she contain, not pure Battley’s sedative, but Battley’s sedative had no apoplexy. Dr. Pritchard was equally unfortunate in with an admixture of aconite and antimony. It is true that his certificate of Mrs. Pritchard’s illness, which he called gas- this bottle might have been tampered with after the death of but the admixture was very suggestive of thepritric fever, although it bore no resemblance to that disease. These things, coupled with a letter from Dr. Paterson charac- soner and his recent purchases of poison. One interesting terizing the death of Mrs. Taylor as "sudden, unexpected, point made by Professor Penny’s experiments on animals was, and to me mysterious," excited suspicion, and led to the dis- that the admixture of Battley’s solution with aconite and interment and the post-mortern examination of the bodies, antimony in such proportions as obtained in the bottle 85, was under the authority of the Procurator r iseal. Antimony was much more fatal than simple Battley’s sedative. found in nearly all the parts examined of both bodies, and in We end as we began, by expressing an entire and hearty very large quantities in Mrs. Pritchard’s bocly, especially in satisfaction with the verdict. It appears to us that the prithe liver and intestines. No narcotic poisons were discovered. soner had the means of practising, and did probably practise There was an entire absence of natural disease in either body in both cases, a very complicated method of poisoning, and to explain death. These facts pointed to death by poison. that although antimony was common to both cases, and the And by the exclusion of the idea of accident, of suicide, and chief agent in undermining the life of Mrs. Pritchard, yet that of the possibility of any other person than Dr. Pritchard in both, other agents of a narcotic character were used to modify having been the murderer, he was finally pronounced by the the effects and to mislead bystanders. Among these, alcoholic stimulants, aconite, chloroform, atropine, and strychnia, were jury to be the murderer of both his wife and her mother. There has seldom been a more complete chain of evi- possibly all laid at different times under contribution. We dence than that by which this horrible crime has thus been have concerned ourselves mainly with the medical aspects of laid at the door of the prisoner. His counsel made the case, but the social circumstances of Dr. Pritchard accord no attempt to deny the fact of the presence of poison in with the possibility of his guilt. And his social and general either case. His argument was, that in the case of Mrs. character to those who knew it best may not be inconsistent Pritchard, the poisoning might have been done by some one with his present pitiful situation. it is unnecessary to say much of a man who is in the terelse, especially by Mary Macleod, a servant of the prisoner, whom he seems to have seduced, and whom he had promised rible of Dr. Pritchard, and to use too freely epithets to marry in the event of his wife’s death; and that in the case of horror and vengeance. If he has prostituted a high socia-I of Mrs. Taylor the poisoning was accidental from an overdose and professional position to the basest of crimes, he has been of her favourite Battley’s solution. But this argument was terribly hurled from that position, and will experience pangs found weak at all points, and dark and devilish facts mul- of shame which men of a coarser training cannot have. It tiplied to suggest another. Mary Macleod, " a girl of seven- would be a false pity, indeed, that would understate the horteen," was incapable of poisoning on the skilful and systematic rible nature and the magnitude of his crime. He has prostiplan, so as to simulate disease and produce gradual death, tuted knowledge and skill that should have been spent in which had been practised on this occasion. It was incon- saving even the bad, in destroying the loving and trusting wife ceivable that she could have carried on such a poisoning, of his bosom and her mother, who seems to have loved him as especially without being detected by a medical master, the if he were her own son, and whose family even to the last did husband of the lady she was poisoning. Then Dr. Pritchard, its best to discredit the theory of his guilt, and to throw the had lately been laying in a most uncommon stock of poisons mantle of charity over the dark deeds which will for ever, in for any practitioner to have, particularly for a Scotch practi- the history of crime, be associated with the name of Edward tioner, who does not dispense his own medicines, and especially William Pritchard. for Dr. Pritchard, who seems to have had a very scant supply little of the sensationalism that would, on the of ordinary medicines in his own house. He had bought large strength of a case of this kind, represent the confidence of quantities of tartar emetic, of tincture of aconite, and of society as greatly shaken. The strongest point in the defence chloroform, and smaller quantities of strychnia, of tincture of of Dr. Pritchard was that so hideous a crime as the theory of digitalis, and of solution of atropine. In connexion with this the Crown supposed was inconceivable, and it is certainly inlist, his statement to Dr. Paterson should be remembered, that conceivable that it should be common. That Edward William he kept no medicines in the house but chloroform and Battley’s Pritchard was a doctor is a mere accident. If a man is sedative. Various facts pointed to the poisoning of the food "desperately wicked," even the elevating influences of the which Mrs. Pritchard took, and although the learnel counsel healing art will not make him good, while it supplies him with for the defence could nosee anything in this but evidence means and opportunities for doing evil. Still it remains true against Mary Macleod, most persons will have no difficulty in that the very genius of medical duty and medical life tends associating it with Dr. Pritchard. He poured out her tea, directly to the cultivation of the good in man. The essential he buttered her bread, be was constantly hovering about at fact about Dr. Pritchard is, not that he was a doctor, but that meal-times, and came mysteriously to the assistance of the he was a bad man. Such wickedness as his is comparatively cook at times, as in the preparation of the egg-flip which he harmless by its very magnitude. It cannot be frequent. It ordered, and which occasioned poisonous symptoms to the cook is no rule. And men will no more think of withdrawing their as well as to Mrs. Pritchard. Nay, he got so far confused as faith in the kindly offices of medicine and medical men because to the distinction between his duties and those of his domes- a bad man turns up now and again, than they would think of tics, that he frequently emptied the slops in his bedroom when distrusting the sun because now and again, as an exception to Mrs. Pritchard had been unusually sick in the night. Then all its blessed influences, it inflicts a sunstroke. there was something very unsatisfactory in the way in which Dr. Pritchard used his medical brethren. He called them in so as to appear to be consulting them, and so as to get the TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD. advantage of credit for the fact; while all the time he deceived them, and managed to keep the unfortunate ladies THE evidence for the defence was commenced on the 5th strangely in his own hands. He was always ready with a lie, inst. Several druggists were examined to show that they When Dr. Gairdner ; or with a theory that looked like one. was struck with the spasms of Mrs. Pritchard, he said sold very large quantities of Battley’s solution and Fleming’s she had catalepsy. When Dr. Paterson came to see ’ tincture of aconite. Two patients of Dr. Pritchard proved Mrs. Taylor, Dr. Pritchard said that his wife had gas-: he had supplied them with medicine from his consultingtric fever, and that Mrs. Taylor had fallen from a chair"r room. The prisoner’s two children, a boy and a girl, spoke as and been carried upstairs, the two latter statements being the affectionate terms on which the entire family lived. to Of the same character were his mean in- , were fabrications. The Solicitor-General, in his reply, contended that the evisinuations of intemperance against his wife and Mrs. Taylor, whose temperance was amply testified to by respectable wit- dence from beginning to end proved that the deceased had died
sel-viz., been
Mrs. Taylor,
,
position
But we think
that
81
poison, and that poison was administered either by the priMary Macleod; but every presumption and every fact brought out was against the supposition that the girl was the criminal. The former, therefore, must be the guilty party.
of
Medical News.
soner or
Clark, for the defence, denied that there was sufficient APOTHECARIES’ HALL.-The following gentlemen proof against the prisoner. The suspicion was equally passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medistrong against Mary Macleod. He contended that the whole cine and received certificates to practise on the 6th inst:-
Mr. direct
evidence for the prosecution rested upon probabilities, and nothing more, and that the jury could not convict on such
testimony. On Thursday, the 6th, the Lord Justice Clerk summed up in an elaborate address to the jury. He went minutely into the evidence, and commented at some length on the attempt of the prisoner’s counsel to fix the crime upon Mary Macleod. He thought the probabilities were entirely opposed to this theory of the counsel. It was evident murder had been committed, and by poison. One or two of those who had access to Mrs. Pritchard must be guilty. The jury, after an absence of an hour, returned a verdict of ’ Guilty" against the prisoner. The prisoner was then sentenced to be executed at Glasgow on the 28th inst., the judge remarking that there could be no reasonable doubt of the righteousness of the verdict. Dr. Pritchard has since made the following confession, which, so far, accords with the views we have expressed elsewhere :Edward William Pritchard, M.D., M. E. C. S., and L.S.A., &c., hereby make in writing, in the presence of the Rev. R. S. Oldham, M.A., the following confession, for transmission by him to the proper authorities : " It was when my wife was Ardentinny,‘ in the summer of 1863, that I first became intimate with the girl Mary Macleod, sleeping with her in my house at 22, Royal-crescent. This continued at intervals up to the time of our removal to 131,
Bradley, John, Liverpool. Bridgman, Isaac Thomas, Camborwell. Brigstocke, Charles Arthur, Carmarthen. Davies, Thos. Henry Whitehouse, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Ha.ckney, John, Itoyal Free Hospital. Hatherley, Henry Reginald, Derby Infirmary. Jones, Hobert Arthur, Carnarvon. Karkeek, Paul Quick, Pen Treve, Truro. Roberts, Edward Coldridge, Exeter. Thomas, Jabez, Swansea. Wells, James, Nailsworth. Wills, Charles James, Park-crescent, Stockwell. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examination :Bainbridge, George, Leeds School of Medicine. Holderness, William Brown, St. George’s Hospital. Hopkins, Frederick, General Hospital, Birmingham. Williams, John, Guy’s Hospital.
THE CHOLERA
IN
ALEXANDRIA.-It is
state that this terrible disease is
satisfactory to
steadily diminishing.
CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.-Mr. Thomas Farrance
"I,
has
bequeathed £50 to this institution.
ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS.-At a
meeting of the
Council yesterday afternoon Mr. Thomas Wormald, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, was unanimously elected President of the College for the ensuing year in the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Mr. Hodgson. Messrs. Richard Sauchiehall-street. She became pregnant in May last [year], Partridge, F.R.S., Surgeon to King’s College Hospital, and and with her own consent I produced miscarriage. I have John Hilton, F. R. S., Surgeon to Cxuy’s Hospital, were unanireason to believe that Mrs. Pritchard was quite aware of this, mously elected Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. Mr. and rather sought to cover my wickedness and folly. My Kiernan, who during the past year has filled the office of Vicemother-in-law, Mrs. Taylor, came last February to our house, President, had, in consequence of the state of his health, deand caught Mary Macleod and myself in the consulting-room ; clined to be again put in nomination for that office. At this and the day before her death, having apparently watched us, meeting Messrs. Quain, Turner, and Paget, the recently-elected she said to me in the same room,’ You have locked her into members of the Council, were sworn in, and took their seats. the cupboard,’ which was true ; but nothing more passed. I HANWELL SCHOOLS INFIRMARY.-An infirmary in declare Mrs. Taylor to have died in the manner I have before connexion with the London Central District School at Hanwell and I now believe her have death to been caused stated ; by erected. an overdose of Battley’s solution of opium. The aconite found in that bottle was put in by me after her death, and designedly UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.-Mr. Neild has been left there in order to prove death by misadventure in case any inquiry should take place. Mrs. Pritchard was much better appointed Lecturer on Forensic Medicine in this institution. immediately after her mother’s death, but subsequently beTHE ELECTIONS AND THE PROFESSION.-Mr. W. J. I accounted for this by came exhausted from want of sleep. Clement, F. R. C. S., has been elected M. P. for Shrewsbury. Mr. the shock produced by her mother’s death; and hardly knowMitchell Henry has been defeated by a small majority at her I at own earnest her chlorohow to act, ing request gave Woodstock. form. It was about midnight. Mary Macleod was in the room, and in an evil moment (being besides somewhat excited YUEN MIN YUEN.-This wonderful exhibition, the by whisky) I yielded to the temptation to give her sufficient property of Captain de Negroni, opens to-day to the public, to cause death-which I did. been removed from the Crystal Palace, where it was "I therefore declare before God, as a dying man, and in having exhibited for a short time during the spring. Among its the presence of my spiritual adviser, that I am innocent of the almost fabulous treasures there are many curiosities of interest crime of murder so far as Mrs. Taylor is concerned, but to medical practitioners. acknowledge myself guilty of the adultery with Mary Macleod and the murder of my wife. "I feel now as though I had been living in a species of madness since my connexion with Mary Macleod, and I declare my solemn repentance of my crime, earnestly praying that I may obtain Divine forgiveness before I suffer the penalty of the law." EDWARD WILLIAM PRITCHARD. (Signed) BIRTHS.
hasbeen
Births, Marriages,
JOHN STIRLING, R. S. OLDHAM, JOHN MUTRIE. MUTRIE, North Prison, Glasgow, July llth, 1866. *
By a supplementary writing
Governor, Governor, )
Witnesses. } )
name
CHOLERA
to
IN
INDIA.-The heat has been excessive
of the monsoon, and" sporadic cholera"has been general throughout India, but nowhere except in the Central Provinces has the disease presented anything like an epidemic the
eve
character.
MEMORIAL TO JENNER.-A musical celebration is
to next in month at inhonour of the a fete Boulogne auguration of a statue of the immortal Jenner.
be held at
April, at South Yarra, Melbourne, the wife of W. Langford, M.R.C.S.E., late Surgeon in the P. & 0. Co.’sService, of a son. On the 3rd inst., at Greenock, the wife of G. F. Elliott, M.B., of H.M.’s Ship Lion," of a daughter. On the 5th inst., at Upper Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife of B. E. Mosely, M.R.C.S.E., of a daughter. On the 5th inst., at Wickham, South Hants, the wife of J. Wickham, M.D., of a daughter, still-born. On the 8th inst., at Clarendon Villas, Mildmay-park, the wife of Dr. William"
be altered to Kilmun.
on
Deaths.
On the 17th of
Witnesses.
the convict afterwards desired this
and
son, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Colmore-terraee, Summer-lane, Birmingham, the wife of E. A. Wilkinson, M.R.C.S.E., of a daughter. On the lOth inst., at Derby, the wife of W. Ogle, M.D., of a son. On the llth inst., at St. James’s-street, Nottingham, the wife of Thomas Burnie, Surgeon, of a daughter. On the llth inst., at Chudleigh, Devon, the wife of Graham Atherley Carter, M.D., of a daughter.
’ nesses.
to certify, and his certificate was an entirely false one. He’ to do with his detection. An important piece of evidence certified that Mrs. Taylor died of paralysis and apoplexy, the againstthe other part of the argument of the prisaner’s counthat Mrs. Taylor died from an excessive dose of her former of nine hours’ and the latter of one hour’s duration. Of course the falseness of this statement is obvious. Mrs. habitual anodyne-remains to be noticed. This is, the fact Taylor had been going about the house, up and down stairs, that on her person was found a bottle, the contents of which till nine o’clock, so that she could not have had para- had analyzed by Dr. Penny, who pronounced it to lysis for nine hours; and the post-mortem showed that she contain, not pure Battley’s sedative, but Battley’s sedative had no apoplexy. Dr. Pritchard was equally unfortunate in with an admixture of aconite and antimony. It is true that his certificate of Mrs. Pritchard’s illness, which he called gas- this bottle might have been tampered with after the death of but the admixture was very suggestive of thepritric fever, although it bore no resemblance to that disease. These things, coupled with a letter from Dr. Paterson charac- soner and his recent purchases of poison. One interesting terizing the death of Mrs. Taylor as "sudden, unexpected, point made by Professor Penny’s experiments on animals was, and to me mysterious," excited suspicion, and led to the dis- that the admixture of Battley’s solution with aconite and interment and the post-mortern examination of the bodies, antimony in such proportions as obtained in the bottle 85, was under the authority of the Procurator r iseal. Antimony was much more fatal than simple Battley’s sedative. found in nearly all the parts examined of both bodies, and in We end as we began, by expressing an entire and hearty very large quantities in Mrs. Pritchard’s bocly, especially in satisfaction with the verdict. It appears to us that the prithe liver and intestines. No narcotic poisons were discovered. soner had the means of practising, and did probably practise There was an entire absence of natural disease in either body in both cases, a very complicated method of poisoning, and to explain death. These facts pointed to death by poison. that although antimony was common to both cases, and the And by the exclusion of the idea of accident, of suicide, and chief agent in undermining the life of Mrs. Pritchard, yet that of the possibility of any other person than Dr. Pritchard in both, other agents of a narcotic character were used to modify having been the murderer, he was finally pronounced by the the effects and to mislead bystanders. Among these, alcoholic stimulants, aconite, chloroform, atropine, and strychnia, were jury to be the murderer of both his wife and her mother. There has seldom been a more complete chain of evi- possibly all laid at different times under contribution. We dence than that by which this horrible crime has thus been have concerned ourselves mainly with the medical aspects of laid at the door of the prisoner. His counsel made the case, but the social circumstances of Dr. Pritchard accord no attempt to deny the fact of the presence of poison in with the possibility of his guilt. And his social and general either case. His argument was, that in the case of Mrs. character to those who knew it best may not be inconsistent Pritchard, the poisoning might have been done by some one with his present pitiful situation. it is unnecessary to say much of a man who is in the terelse, especially by Mary Macleod, a servant of the prisoner, whom he seems to have seduced, and whom he had promised rible of Dr. Pritchard, and to use too freely epithets to marry in the event of his wife’s death; and that in the case of horror and vengeance. If he has prostituted a high socia-I of Mrs. Taylor the poisoning was accidental from an overdose and professional position to the basest of crimes, he has been of her favourite Battley’s solution. But this argument was terribly hurled from that position, and will experience pangs found weak at all points, and dark and devilish facts mul- of shame which men of a coarser training cannot have. It tiplied to suggest another. Mary Macleod, " a girl of seven- would be a false pity, indeed, that would understate the horteen," was incapable of poisoning on the skilful and systematic rible nature and the magnitude of his crime. He has prostiplan, so as to simulate disease and produce gradual death, tuted knowledge and skill that should have been spent in which had been practised on this occasion. It was incon- saving even the bad, in destroying the loving and trusting wife ceivable that she could have carried on such a poisoning, of his bosom and her mother, who seems to have loved him as especially without being detected by a medical master, the if he were her own son, and whose family even to the last did husband of the lady she was poisoning. Then Dr. Pritchard, its best to discredit the theory of his guilt, and to throw the had lately been laying in a most uncommon stock of poisons mantle of charity over the dark deeds which will for ever, in for any practitioner to have, particularly for a Scotch practi- the history of crime, be associated with the name of Edward tioner, who does not dispense his own medicines, and especially William Pritchard. for Dr. Pritchard, who seems to have had a very scant supply little of the sensationalism that would, on the of ordinary medicines in his own house. He had bought large strength of a case of this kind, represent the confidence of quantities of tartar emetic, of tincture of aconite, and of society as greatly shaken. The strongest point in the defence chloroform, and smaller quantities of strychnia, of tincture of of Dr. Pritchard was that so hideous a crime as the theory of digitalis, and of solution of atropine. In connexion with this the Crown supposed was inconceivable, and it is certainly inlist, his statement to Dr. Paterson should be remembered, that conceivable that it should be common. That Edward William he kept no medicines in the house but chloroform and Battley’s Pritchard was a doctor is a mere accident. If a man is sedative. Various facts pointed to the poisoning of the food "desperately wicked," even the elevating influences of the which Mrs. Pritchard took, and although the learnel counsel healing art will not make him good, while it supplies him with for the defence could nosee anything in this but evidence means and opportunities for doing evil. Still it remains true against Mary Macleod, most persons will have no difficulty in that the very genius of medical duty and medical life tends associating it with Dr. Pritchard. He poured out her tea, directly to the cultivation of the good in man. The essential he buttered her bread, be was constantly hovering about at fact about Dr. Pritchard is, not that he was a doctor, but that meal-times, and came mysteriously to the assistance of the he was a bad man. Such wickedness as his is comparatively cook at times, as in the preparation of the egg-flip which he harmless by its very magnitude. It cannot be frequent. It ordered, and which occasioned poisonous symptoms to the cook is no rule. And men will no more think of withdrawing their as well as to Mrs. Pritchard. Nay, he got so far confused as faith in the kindly offices of medicine and medical men because to the distinction between his duties and those of his domes- a bad man turns up now and again, than they would think of tics, that he frequently emptied the slops in his bedroom when distrusting the sun because now and again, as an exception to Mrs. Pritchard had been unusually sick in the night. Then all its blessed influences, it inflicts a sunstroke. there was something very unsatisfactory in the way in which Dr. Pritchard used his medical brethren. He called them in so as to appear to be consulting them, and so as to get the TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD. advantage of credit for the fact; while all the time he deceived them, and managed to keep the unfortunate ladies THE evidence for the defence was commenced on the 5th strangely in his own hands. He was always ready with a lie, inst. Several druggists were examined to show that they When Dr. Gairdner ; or with a theory that looked like one. was struck with the spasms of Mrs. Pritchard, he said sold very large quantities of Battley’s solution and Fleming’s she had catalepsy. When Dr. Paterson came to see ’ tincture of aconite. Two patients of Dr. Pritchard proved Mrs. Taylor, Dr. Pritchard said that his wife had gas-: he had supplied them with medicine from his consultingtric fever, and that Mrs. Taylor had fallen from a chair"r room. The prisoner’s two children, a boy and a girl, spoke as and been carried upstairs, the two latter statements being the affectionate terms on which the entire family lived. to Of the same character were his mean in- , were fabrications. The Solicitor-General, in his reply, contended that the evisinuations of intemperance against his wife and Mrs. Taylor, whose temperance was amply testified to by respectable wit- dence from beginning to end proved that the deceased had died
sel-viz., been
Mrs. Taylor,
,
position
But we think
that
81
poison, and that poison was administered either by the priMary Macleod; but every presumption and every fact brought out was against the supposition that the girl was the criminal. The former, therefore, must be the guilty party.
of
Medical News.
soner or
Clark, for the defence, denied that there was sufficient APOTHECARIES’ HALL.-The following gentlemen proof against the prisoner. The suspicion was equally passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medistrong against Mary Macleod. He contended that the whole cine and received certificates to practise on the 6th inst:-
Mr. direct
evidence for the prosecution rested upon probabilities, and nothing more, and that the jury could not convict on such
testimony. On Thursday, the 6th, the Lord Justice Clerk summed up in an elaborate address to the jury. He went minutely into the evidence, and commented at some length on the attempt of the prisoner’s counsel to fix the crime upon Mary Macleod. He thought the probabilities were entirely opposed to this theory of the counsel. It was evident murder had been committed, and by poison. One or two of those who had access to Mrs. Pritchard must be guilty. The jury, after an absence of an hour, returned a verdict of ’ Guilty" against the prisoner. The prisoner was then sentenced to be executed at Glasgow on the 28th inst., the judge remarking that there could be no reasonable doubt of the righteousness of the verdict. Dr. Pritchard has since made the following confession, which, so far, accords with the views we have expressed elsewhere :Edward William Pritchard, M.D., M. E. C. S., and L.S.A., &c., hereby make in writing, in the presence of the Rev. R. S. Oldham, M.A., the following confession, for transmission by him to the proper authorities : " It was when my wife was Ardentinny,‘ in the summer of 1863, that I first became intimate with the girl Mary Macleod, sleeping with her in my house at 22, Royal-crescent. This continued at intervals up to the time of our removal to 131,
Bradley, John, Liverpool. Bridgman, Isaac Thomas, Camborwell. Brigstocke, Charles Arthur, Carmarthen. Davies, Thos. Henry Whitehouse, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Ha.ckney, John, Itoyal Free Hospital. Hatherley, Henry Reginald, Derby Infirmary. Jones, Hobert Arthur, Carnarvon. Karkeek, Paul Quick, Pen Treve, Truro. Roberts, Edward Coldridge, Exeter. Thomas, Jabez, Swansea. Wells, James, Nailsworth. Wills, Charles James, Park-crescent, Stockwell. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examination :Bainbridge, George, Leeds School of Medicine. Holderness, William Brown, St. George’s Hospital. Hopkins, Frederick, General Hospital, Birmingham. Williams, John, Guy’s Hospital.
THE CHOLERA
IN
ALEXANDRIA.-It is
state that this terrible disease is
satisfactory to
steadily diminishing.
CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.-Mr. Thomas Farrance
"I,
has
bequeathed £50 to this institution.
ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS.-At a
meeting of the
Council yesterday afternoon Mr. Thomas Wormald, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, was unanimously elected President of the College for the ensuing year in the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Mr. Hodgson. Messrs. Richard Sauchiehall-street. She became pregnant in May last [year], Partridge, F.R.S., Surgeon to King’s College Hospital, and and with her own consent I produced miscarriage. I have John Hilton, F. R. S., Surgeon to Cxuy’s Hospital, were unanireason to believe that Mrs. Pritchard was quite aware of this, mously elected Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. Mr. and rather sought to cover my wickedness and folly. My Kiernan, who during the past year has filled the office of Vicemother-in-law, Mrs. Taylor, came last February to our house, President, had, in consequence of the state of his health, deand caught Mary Macleod and myself in the consulting-room ; clined to be again put in nomination for that office. At this and the day before her death, having apparently watched us, meeting Messrs. Quain, Turner, and Paget, the recently-elected she said to me in the same room,’ You have locked her into members of the Council, were sworn in, and took their seats. the cupboard,’ which was true ; but nothing more passed. I HANWELL SCHOOLS INFIRMARY.-An infirmary in declare Mrs. Taylor to have died in the manner I have before connexion with the London Central District School at Hanwell and I now believe her have death to been caused stated ; by erected. an overdose of Battley’s solution of opium. The aconite found in that bottle was put in by me after her death, and designedly UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.-Mr. Neild has been left there in order to prove death by misadventure in case any inquiry should take place. Mrs. Pritchard was much better appointed Lecturer on Forensic Medicine in this institution. immediately after her mother’s death, but subsequently beTHE ELECTIONS AND THE PROFESSION.-Mr. W. J. I accounted for this by came exhausted from want of sleep. Clement, F. R. C. S., has been elected M. P. for Shrewsbury. Mr. the shock produced by her mother’s death; and hardly knowMitchell Henry has been defeated by a small majority at her I at own earnest her chlorohow to act, ing request gave Woodstock. form. It was about midnight. Mary Macleod was in the room, and in an evil moment (being besides somewhat excited YUEN MIN YUEN.-This wonderful exhibition, the by whisky) I yielded to the temptation to give her sufficient property of Captain de Negroni, opens to-day to the public, to cause death-which I did. been removed from the Crystal Palace, where it was "I therefore declare before God, as a dying man, and in having exhibited for a short time during the spring. Among its the presence of my spiritual adviser, that I am innocent of the almost fabulous treasures there are many curiosities of interest crime of murder so far as Mrs. Taylor is concerned, but to medical practitioners. acknowledge myself guilty of the adultery with Mary Macleod and the murder of my wife. "I feel now as though I had been living in a species of madness since my connexion with Mary Macleod, and I declare my solemn repentance of my crime, earnestly praying that I may obtain Divine forgiveness before I suffer the penalty of the law." EDWARD WILLIAM PRITCHARD. (Signed) BIRTHS.
hasbeen
Births, Marriages,
JOHN STIRLING, R. S. OLDHAM, JOHN MUTRIE. MUTRIE, North Prison, Glasgow, July llth, 1866. *
By a supplementary writing
Governor, Governor, )
Witnesses. } )
name
CHOLERA
to
IN
INDIA.-The heat has been excessive
of the monsoon, and" sporadic cholera"has been general throughout India, but nowhere except in the Central Provinces has the disease presented anything like an epidemic the
eve
character.
MEMORIAL TO JENNER.-A musical celebration is
to next in month at inhonour of the a fete Boulogne auguration of a statue of the immortal Jenner.
be held at
April, at South Yarra, Melbourne, the wife of W. Langford, M.R.C.S.E., late Surgeon in the P. & 0. Co.’sService, of a son. On the 3rd inst., at Greenock, the wife of G. F. Elliott, M.B., of H.M.’s Ship Lion," of a daughter. On the 5th inst., at Upper Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife of B. E. Mosely, M.R.C.S.E., of a daughter. On the 5th inst., at Wickham, South Hants, the wife of J. Wickham, M.D., of a daughter, still-born. On the 8th inst., at Clarendon Villas, Mildmay-park, the wife of Dr. William"
be altered to Kilmun.
on
Deaths.
On the 17th of
Witnesses.
the convict afterwards desired this
and
son, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Colmore-terraee, Summer-lane, Birmingham, the wife of E. A. Wilkinson, M.R.C.S.E., of a daughter. On the lOth inst., at Derby, the wife of W. Ogle, M.D., of a son. On the llth inst., at St. James’s-street, Nottingham, the wife of Thomas Burnie, Surgeon, of a daughter. On the llth inst., at Chudleigh, Devon, the wife of Graham Atherley Carter, M.D., of a daughter.