A. Rather a difficult question to answer. She heard rumours that I was to marry Mrs Villiers, and even though I denied it declined to believe me; she then produced the poison, and said she would take it. Q. Where did this conversation take place? A. In the conservatory. Q. What did you do when she threatened to take the poison? A. I tried to take it from her. Q. Did you succeed? A. No; she threw it out of the door. Q. Then when she left Mr Meddlechip’s house to come home she had no poison with her? A. I don’t think so. Q. Did she pick the bottle up again after she threw it out? A. No, because I went back to the ball-room with her; then I came out myself to look for the bottle, but it was gone. 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. Q. Then you think some of the contents of this bottle were used? A. That is my opinion. Vandeloup was recalled, and deposed that the bottle Kitty took from his desk was quite full; and moreover, when the other bottle which had been found in her room, was shown to him, he declared that it was as nearly as possible the same size as the missing bottle. So the inference drawn from this was that the bottle produced being three-quarters empty, some of the poison had been used. The question now arose that as the guilt of Miss Marchurst seemed so certain, how was it that Selina Sprotts was poisoned instead of her mistress; but this was settled by Madame Midas, who being recalled, deposed that Kitty did not know Selina slept with her on that night, and the curtains being drawn, could not possibly tell two people were in the bed.