On resuming after tiffin, Dr. Wheeler again took his stand in the witness-box.
Mr. Lowder—There is one question I wish to ask of Dr. Wheeler. With reference to the anonymous letter you received from No. 6, on a previous occasion you, I think, said it arrived on the Wednesday night and not on the Thursday morning No, I didn't; you must be labouring under a misapprehension, Ian bring my office boy to prove the time.
I only wish to clear up the point in my mind. I thought on a previous occasion you said it arrived on the Wednesday evening?—No, it arrived before tiffin on Thursday.
Perhaps this is where I have been led into an error. It was at the inquest the witness testified as follows: 'I asked for a stretcher and had him removed to the Hospital about three in the afternoon. After consultation with Dr. May I left, saying I would return at half-past five, but in the Settlement about five o'clock a messenger met me and told to come up to the Hos-Bia, who told me that Mr. Carew was ital at once. When I arrived I met Dr.
dead. I may state that I had a letter unsigned, which my office boy told me came from No.6, with the words Three bottles solution of arsenic in one week, Maruya,'" It appeared in my mind as if he received tthe letter on the Wednesday evening.
'"The'Judge—No, it refers to the day of death.
Mr. Lowder—I have it in my mind that at the inquest or magisterial proceedings he said it arrived on the Wednesday evening.
The Judge—Well, the witness is quite positive now that it arrived on Thorsday after Mr. Boag's funeral.
The Witness—Yes.
Mr. Lowder—At 11.30 of the day of the death did Mrs. Carew tell you that she had administered an emetic 7—No.
Or afterwards? Let me remind you of the circumstances. You wanted a glass, a clean glass and you took up one and said "What is this?" She said ' He wanted to vomit and I gave him a glass of mustard and water to make him vomit"?—No, I don't recollect her telling me.
You don't recollect the incident of your taking up a glass and saying, "What is And Mrs. Carew going out of the room for clean glass in order that you might give him what you wanted to give him in a clean glass?—No, Do you remember the incident at a subsequent visit?—No, I don't remember seeing any mustard in a glass whatever.
You don't remember her telling you that she had administered an emetic to her husband?—I think my memory might take me back to her saying, "I gave him some hot water but the mustard I am certain about.
Was the hot water given as an emetic Well, I presume so.
You would have understood it to have been an emetic?—Yes.
At your subsequent visit in the afternoon did you mention either to Mr. Carew or to Mrs. Carew your suspicions with reference to arsenic?—I did not; but I supposed Mr. Porch had communicated my conversation on the hill.
Did you not specifically instruct Mr. Porch not to say anything te Mrs. Carew"
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