Q. You have never seen it since.
A. No, it must have been picked up by someone who was ignorant of
its contents.
Q. By your own showing, M. Vandeloup, Miss Marchurst had no poison
with her when she left Mr Meddlechip's house. How, then, could she
commit this crime?
A. She told me she still had some poison left; that she divided the
contents of the bottle she had taken from my desk, and that she
still had enough left at home to poison Mrs Villiers.
Q. Did she say she would poison Mrs Villiers?
A. Yes, sooner than see her married to me. (Sensation.)
Q. Do you believe she went away from you with the deliberate
intention of committing the crime.
A. I do.
M. Vandeloup then left the box amid great excitement, and Kilsip was
again examined. He deposed that he had searched Miss Marchurst's
room, and found half a bottle of extract of hemlock. The contents of
the bottle had been analysed, and were found identical with the
conia discovered in the stomach of the deceased.
Q. You say the bottle was half empty?
A. Rather more than that: three-quarters empty.
Q. Miss Marchurst told M. Vandeloup she had poured half the contents
of one bottle into the other. Would not this account for the bottle
being three-quarters empty?
A. Possibly; but if the first bottle was full, it is probable she
would halve the poison exactly; so if it had been untouched, it
ought to be half full.
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