SCOTLAND.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 67, 20 July 1865, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

l)r. Pritqiiard, the surgeon! of •< Glasgow accusedt of ~ ; prison i jag* • his : wife andi her . mother, Mrß.-TayJor,:h.as beeii fully .com- 1 mitt^d for trialji and . thexCase promises to be one" of unusual- interest. . >ori- the one: hand it is alleged that Mrs. Pritciiard-f and' her mother botli suspected foul play- ; that the food arid, medicines admin is-tered to; the *fornder wfere. .tyviqe^ tested. , by. a .maid,, who twice "suffered v all the sj'mptoms of •■■ poisoning by, antimony 5 that antimpTiy in some (juaritity has been found in '^tlie bady ; of; Mrs." . ; Pritcliard J that Dr. ■ Patterson, ' whd':-a'tfended Mrs: Taylor,' refused to give a cef tificate, that Dr. PiitchUr^. ( gave jonV himself) in which he i falsified : the' cause of' death 1 ; a^rid that he denies having •idrniriistered or "purchased aritimoriy^ for any pufpbse whatever. 'It is m oret) ver pro v.ed' that; he is a jjersori : ol iinmoral habits. On the' ©ther hand; nd v - adequate' rnptiye lias y.etbbetf sugg % esf6ii ; for the niurdei ,tsf 'tlie" wife; who was nofc-in l the 'way of his in-' trigues, and' still less for that of the mo-tuer, ' If she jvas poisoned;' the first murder ltiust have been, committed to facilitate the secpjid^.a;inotive almost ■■without-' a precedent in the ; history of crime. < A great conflict, too; is expected amongst toxicos -lo^ists as. to- the 1 possibility of antimbny being-^-administered 1 uninteritionally, and a diary kept •. by-.Mr; jPritchard has been seized containing" some singular ■■entries: A number -of articles ibf. 'bed and- body I clothing worn by; the late Mrs. Pritchard in iher last illness, -have been' despatched to Edinburgh for- analysis by P-rofessor'Mac-lagan. -Most of .the articles; and more espeeia%.the.body: clothes;- present^ certain stains,. and it= is :« deemed deHrable tliat these should be examined, \vith a view to' discover whether or ; not, they:- bearrfcracesdf poison.-. , The, bodies of Mrs ;; Taylor and ■ Mrs.'.Pritchard. have been.: exhumed for; analysis by Professoi* Maclag^an, who as." . cribes the (death of. both ladies to: the ..act-, tiori qt. antimony. . With, regard , to; . the case of Mrs. Taylor, a 'quarter of. aY grain of antimdn'yfis "reported to liaye been found in the stomach, the j^isqn being also^der tec'ted in the blood ; arid; intestines. , The. subsidiary arial} r sis by Professor is still in progress. Dr. . Pritchard has l>e"eri i; again brought before ; Sljeriff Sir Archibald Allison, 1 " arid .'after", &k|imiriatio:i--wasagairicomriiitted for triuj'ori a second charge of poisoning his mother-in-law, TUe prisoner denied the charge absolutely, and'dfeclihed to say more'r It is said' the prisoner shavv/s great : cpolness ,ahd ..self-..'. possession : in' the face of these heavy charges harig-ihg over Li'iri . '