_Mason_, in answer to questions put to him by Mr. Stout and Jones, said that Cowper, before the coroner, had said that he knew no cause for Mrs. Stout's suicide; and that she was a very modest person. He was asked whether he knew any person she was in love with, and he said he knew but of one, and his name was Marshall, and he was always repulsed by her. _Archer_ was present at the inquest, and heard Cowper say that he knew no occasion of Mrs. Stout's death, nor of any letters. COWPER--Then I must call over the whole coroner's inquest, to prove the contrary. HATSELL, BARON--Did they ask him concerning any letters? ARCHER--They asked him, If he knew of any thing that might be the occasion of her death? HATSELL, BARON--I ask you again, if they asked him if he knew of any letters? ARCHER--My lord, I do not remember that. MR. STOUT--I would have called some of the coroner's inquest but I was stopped in it. JURYMAN--We have taken minutes of what has passed; If your lordship pleases we will withdraw. HATSELL, BARON--They must make an end first. _Mrs Larkin_ was called, and said that Rutkin came to her house between nine and ten, and that the marshal did not come in till an hour afterwards. _Mr. Stout_ desired to call witnesses to his sister's reputation; and _Jones_ said that the whole town would attest to that. _Hatsell, Baron_, then summed up. He said that the jury could not expect that he should sum up fully, but that he would notice the most material facts, and that if he omitted any thing, Jones or Cowper would remind him of it. He then recapitulated Sarah Walker's evidence, very briefly; and then went on:-- The other witnesses that came afterwards, speak concerning the finding of the body in the river, and tell you, in what posture it was. I shall not undertake to give you the particulars of their evidence; but they tell you she lay on her right side, the one arm up even with the surface of the water, and her body under the water; but some of her cloaths were above the water. You have also heard what the doctors and surgeons said on the one side and the other, concerning the swimming and sinking of dead bodies in the water; but I can find no certainty in it; and I leave it to your consideration. Further, there were no signs of water in the body, and it was said that this was a sign that she was not drowned; but then it was answered that it might show that she had drowned herself, because if she wished to drown herself she would choke herself without swallowing any water.