A policeman deposed: "I was summoned to Mr. Tracy's house on the evening in question. I took the prisoner into custody. When I had conveyed her to the station-house, I returned to Mr. Tracy's house. I searched the kitchen. I found the phial, produced in court, upon a shelf. It was empty." This testimony closed the case for the prosecution. The general impression which prevailed amongst the auditory was unfavourable to the prisoner. Richard Markham trembled for her: still his confidence in her innocence was unshaken. But time wore on: the case was drawing to a close;—and not a sign of Morris Benstead! Markham knew not what to think. The manner in which Reginald Tracy gave his evidence was the subject of much comment in the gallery. "What an amiable man he appears to be!" said one. "How he endeavoured to create an impression in favour of the prisoner," observed another. "He said that he was loath to believe her guilty," remarked a third, "and considered her to be an exemplary young person." "Hush! hush!" said the first speaker: "the case is about to be resumed." This was the fact. The Judges, having retired for a few minutes, had now returned to the bench. The counsel for the defence rose. He began by calling upon the jury to dismiss from their minds any prejudice which the statements in the newspapers in connexion with the case might have created. He then dissected the evidence for the prosecution. He insisted much upon the importance of the fact that the poison had been purchased the evening before the conversation took place between the deceased and the prisoner, relative to the removal of the latter from the house. His instructions were that the prisoner had purchased that poison by order of the deceased, and, as the prisoner understood at the time, for the use of her master who had returned home unwell. There was no proof that Katherine had done any thing wrong, and that she might have anticipated receiving warning from the housekeeper, and thus have actually contemplated murder when she procured the laudanum. It was stated that there was no cup nor glass upon the table—no drinking vessel in which poison could be traced. The inference thence drawn by the counsel for the prosecution was that the prisoner must have administered the poison—most probably in deceased's tea, and had then washed the cup. But might not the deceased have taken the poison with the intention of committing suicide, by drinking it from the phial which was found upon the shelf? Would not the prisoner have concealed or destroyed the phial, had she really administered the poison? The prisoner's account of the case was this. Mrs. Kenrick of her own accord had given her permission to visit her friends for an hour on the fatal evening. The prisoner availed herself of this kindness, and proceeded to her uncle's residence in St. Giles's. He (the counsel) hoped to have been able to prove the important fact of this visit,