Q. Do you remember was Mrs. Connaway there? A. No. Q. You went away in a few minutes? A. Yes. Q. You say that Hare afterwards came home, with Mrs. Hare and M‘Dougal? A. It was before I went back for the clothes and not after. Q. Did they ask you to come and have some sport with them? A. No; next morning Burke came, and went out to give my husband a dram, and he told us to come down to breakfast, and we did. Q. When you went down to breakfast, did you see Hare or his wife then? A. No. Q. Are you sure? A. Quite sure, she came home before I went to breakfast. I did not get up until eight o’clock. Q. Did M‘Dougal say any thing to your husband or yourself about the body when it was found? Did she say, My God I cannot help it? A. Yes, I recollect now, she did. Q. Did these words follow her offer of the ten pounds a week? A. Yes. By the COURT. Am I to understand she said, “My God, I cannot help it,” after you said you did not wish to make money by dead people? A. Yes. [Here she recapitulated her evidence in a very distinct manner.] Q. Did the woman make no reply, when you said the woman was dead, whom you saw well and singing the night before? A. No. Q. What did you say after? A. I said, if she could not help it, she ought not to remain in the house. Q. Were these words, “My God, I cannot help it,” used after M‘Dougal had spoken to your husband of ten pounds a week, and he had refused to be silent? A. Yes, it was after the offer of money; and I said, did she mean to bring a family to disgrace, that prisoner replied, “My God, how can I help it.” JAMES GRAY, Labourer, Husband of the foregoing Witness, _Examined_. Q. You lodged at the prisoner’s house? A. Yes, for a few nights at the end of last October. Q. Do you remember Burke having any conversation with you about sleeping out of his house on the 31st of that month? A. Yes, Burke said we must go out that night, that he had provided a place for us, and that we might come back in the morning to breakfast. Q. Did he give any reason for desiring you to leave his house that night? A. No, not that I recollect. He took us to Hare’s, and pitched on a bed he used to occupy himself. Q. Did you know that Burke brought in a strange woman that morning before, and ordered breakfast for her? A. Yes. He said, he suspected she was some relation of his mother’s, as she had the same name, and was from near the same place. Q. Did you return the night you left Burke’s? A. Yes, about nine, with my wife, where we saw a good number of people at Burke’s; we stopped a few minutes. Next morning Burke came, and my wife and I went down to breakfast. Q. In the course of that Saturday, was you present when your wife found a dead body? A. Yes, it was covered with straw, and lying near the head of the bed.