Q. Did you assist at the opening of it? A. Yes, and found it to contain the body of an elderly female, apparently fresh and never interred. The body was doubled up in the box, all the extremities doubled on the chest or thorax for want of room. Q. Describe the state when it came out of the box? A. I examined all the body externally, stretched on a table. The face had a very livid colour, there was blood flowing from the mouth. The appearance indicated evident marks of strangulation, or suffocation from pressure. I found no external marks on the body that might have caused death. By the Court.--Q. Did the eyes project? A. No. Q. Was the tongue hanging out? A. No. Q. Was there any marks about the throat? A. No. Q. Was there any injury about the lips and nose? A. Yes, they were dark coloured and marked with blood. JOHN BROGGAN _Examined_. Was at Burke’s the morning after the murder. Saw Burke spill spirits about the room, and detailed several indecent speeches of Mrs Burke, about the way she got a shot of the old woman. He was desired by Burke to remain, but did not. MRS GRAY _Examined_. Q. Do you know the prisoners Burke and M‘Dougal? A. Yes. Q. You lodged in their house at the end of October? A. Yes. Q. You saw a strange woman there? A. Yes. Q. What had she on? A. A dark printed gown, and a pink bed-gown over it. [Witness was shewn the clothes, and identified them.] Q. You saw the little woman there once or twice on Friday? A. Yes. Q. Did Burke say how he met her? A. He said, he met her in a shop at nine or ten that morning. Q. Did you remain at Burke’s house that night? A. No; Burke told me I should leave the house for that night as my husband and I were quarrelling; and if I would go, he would pay my lodgings, and he said I was to go to _William Hare’s_. I went away with Hare’s own wife, and returned about nine o’clock for some things of my child’s. Hare and Burke were dancing, and Mrs Docherty was singing to them. In the course of the day Mrs Docherty wanted to go out, but Mrs Burke would not let her. Q. At what time did you return to Hare’s? A. Almost immediately. Q. Did Hare and his wife come home? A. Yes, and Mrs Burke came to supper; after that they all went out together, and the Hares did not return that night. The first thing in the morning that occurred, was Burke coming to my husband to give him a dram. Then went to Burke’s house and saw there a number of people, but not the old woman. I asked where she was, and was told, Mrs Burke had turned her out as she was drunk.