Re-examined by Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--They are consistent with the possibility of epilepsy. They are consistent with convulsions of an epileptic form ending in death, though perhaps not actually amounting to epilepsy. Supposing it to have been actual epilepsy, at what period of the last attack should you say the epilepsy commenced?--When Mr. Cook sat up in bed and cried out. I should imagine that would be the sense of suffocation which would be the premonitory symptoms. After the final shriek, and throwing himself back in his bed, is there any symptom from which you would infer consciousness after that moment?--Except that he swallowed some pills. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Allow me to remind you he asked them to turn him over. By Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--Would you consider that a body which immediately, or within ten minutes after death, when it is quite warm, lay perfectly straight, the hands extended, resting on its heels and its back and its head, was in a state of opisthotonos?--Not if it rested on its back. In my judgment it might be that the body might assume, without actual rigidity, the bow-like shape and appearance which has been spoken of, and yet, when turned over, lie flat in the bed, resting on the head, back, and heels. * * * * * [Sidenote: B. W. Richardson] Dr. BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON, examined by Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--I practise in London, and I am a licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow and a member of the College of Physicians in London. I have never seen a case of idiopathic or traumatic tetanus, but I have seen a considerable number of deaths by convulsions, and I have known these cases, when they have ended in death, sometimes assume tetaniform appearances without being, strictly speaking, tetanus. The patient, if conscious, generally desires to sit up. I have known persons to die from a disease called angina pectoris. The symptoms of the disease, when it is fatal, resemble closely the symptoms of the paroxysms in which Mr. Cook died. It is classed amongst the convulsive or spasmodic diseases, and has no distinctive feature in post-mortem examination. [Sidenote: B. W. Richardson]