HATSELL, BARON--You said just now your mistress was ill, and that made her melancholy; what illness was it?
WALKER--My lord, she had a great pain in her head.
HATSELL, BARON--How long had she been troubled with it?
WALKER--Ever since last May was twelve months was the beginning of it.
JONES--Did you ever find her in the least inclined to do herself a mischief?
COWPER--You bought poison twice, did you give all the poison you bought to the dog?
WALKER--I am not certain how much I bought.
COWPER--Pray, what mischief did it do the dog?
WALKER--I cannot tell, he may be alive till now for aught I know.
WALKER--A great deal, he threw down several things and broke them.
JONES--Did Mr. Cowper, upon your oath, hear Mistress Stout give you order to make his fire, and warm his bed?
WALKER--He knows best, whether he heard it or no; but he sat by her when she spake it.
JONES--Did she speak of it so as he might hear?
WALKER--Yes, she did; for he was nearer than I.
JONES--Was it the old or young woman that gave you the order?
COWPER--Pray did the dog lap it, or did you put it down his throat, upon your oath?
JONES--Did Mr. Cowper send for his horse from your house the next day?
WALKER--I cannot say that; I was not in the way.
JONES--Did he come to your house afterwards?
JONES--Was the horse in your stable when it was sent for?
JONES--And he did not come to your House again, before he went out of town?
JONES--Do you know which way he went out of town?
HATSELL, BARON--Did Mr. Cowper use to lodge at your house at the assizes?
WALKER--No, my lord, not since I came there; the sessions before he did.
COWPER--Where did you come to invite me to dinner?
COWPER--Then you knew I was to lodge there?
HATSELL, BARON--Who wrote the letter on Friday, that Mr. Cowper would lodge there?
WALKER--I know not who wrote it, his wife sent it.
JONES--Did he tell you he would lodge there that night before he went away?
WALKER--When he went from dinner he said so.
_James Berry_ could not remember exactly which day it was that Sarah Stout was found in his mill; but he went out at six o'clock to shoot a flush of water and saw something floating in the water, and on going to see what it was, saw that it was part of her clothes. He did not see her face; no part of her body was above the water, only part of her clothes. The water might be about five foot deep and she might be about five or six inches under the water. She lay upon her side; when she was taken out her eyes were open.