The 'Court, after a recess for tiffin, re~ sumed at 35 minutes past two o'clock. 'The proceedings are thus reported by the Japati, Herald Edwin. Wheeler, sworn, said he was a British subject, M.D. of Dublin, L.R.C.S. Edin., and L.R.C.P. Edin.' have been practising in Yokohama considerably orer Rayniohd "Hallowell Careiy I was.his twenty-tro years. knew the late Walter medical attendant. He was Secretary and manager of the Y.U.C. He died on the 22nd of October last. I recognise the prisoner at the bar as his wife. I was the regular medical attendant of the family, and have been so since they arrived six years' ago. Two children were born to them since they came to Yokohama. Mr. Carew, as I knew him, was a fairly healthy man; a man given to good living and given, perhaps, to taking too much on occasions only. I was left to infer for myself what his habits were. He mentioned: having been in Australia, and of having been invalided there for liver. He also mentioned that he had to give up the service in which he was in the neighbourhood of Singapore. thought at that time that he had had malaria, as he mentioned quinine. I had thought from conversation that I had on occasions, that he had had malaria fever, as he had lived in the jungle and been in the habit of using immense doses of quinine. That is about all he mentioned to me.
Did he ever mention to you the subject of, or about taking arsenic?—No, never. Prior to October last he had attacks of liver. He used to complain of "his old liver troubling him." I prescribed liver tonic then; that wassail I prescribed. On Sunday, the 11th of October last, [saw Mr. Carew. I think, on going back, that it was at his house that I'saw him.' He seemed weak, out of sorts; a little nervous. I prescribed some podophyllin and some anti-prine and digitalis. "At that time the household consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Carew, the two children, Marjorie and Ben, the nursery governess, Miss Jacob, a Eurasian girl, called Rachel, a Mr. Porch, brother-in-law, an amah, a small China boy, and I presume there was a cook, but I never saw him. I next attended Mr. Carew on Thursday, the 15th, when I got note from Mrs. Carew asking me to look her husband up at the Club as he was not in very good health. I went down and saw Mr. Carew at the office. of the Club, examined hu, and had along talk with him. He seemed rather
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