Part 19 (1/2)

BERRY--Yes, her arm by one stake and her head by another.

JONES--Did her arm hang down or how?

BERRY--I did not mind so much as I might have done.

_John Venables_ and _Leonard Dell_ corroborated Berry's account of the position of the body, the latter a.s.serting that the right arm did not reach to the ground. _Dell_ also helped to carry the body to land, but saw no bruises.

HATSELL, BARON--When you took her out of the water, did you observe her body swelled?

DELL--We carried her into the meadow, and laid her on the bank-side, and there she lay about an hour, and then was ordered to be carried into the miller's.

HATSELL, BARON--Did you observe that any water was in the body?

DELL--None at all that I could see; but there was some small matter of froth came from her mouth and nostrils.

JURYMAN--My lord, I desire to know whether her stays were laced.

DELL--Yes, she was laced.

COWPER--How was she taken out of the water?

DELL--My lord, we stood upon the bridge, I and another man, where she lay, and he laid hold of her and took her out.

JONES--And did you not perceive she was hung?

DELL--No, my lord.

_John Ulfe_ saw Mrs. Stout when she was taken out of the water; she lay there on one side; there was nothing at all to hold her up; she lay between a couple of stakes, but the stakes could not hold her up.

_Katherine Dew, Edward Blackno, William Edmunds, William Page, William How, and John Meager_ all gave the same account of the position and state of the body, Dew and Ulfe adding that her shoes and stockings were not muddy.

JONES--Now, my lord, we will give an account how she was when she was stript, and they came to view the body. Call John Dimsdale, junior. (Who was sworn.)

DIMSDALE--My lord, I was sent for at night on Tuesday the last a.s.sizes.

COWPER--My lord, if your lords.h.i.+p pleases, I have some physicians of note and eminency that are come down from London; I desire that they may be called into Court to hear what the surgeons say.

HATSELL, BARON--Ay, by all means.

COWPER--My lord, there is Dr. Sloane, Dr. Garth, Dr. Morley, Dr. Gilstrop, Dr. Harriot, Dr. Wollaston, Dr. Crell, Mr.

William Cowper, Mr. Bartlett, and Mr. Camlin. [Who respectively appeared in Court.]

JONES--Give an account how you found Mrs. Stout.

HATSELL, BARON--You are a physician, I suppose, Sir?

DIMSDALE[45]--A surgeon, my lord. When I was sent for to Mrs.

Stout's, I was sent for two or three times before I would go; for I was unwilling after I heard Mrs. Stout was drowned; for I thought with myself, what need could there be of me when the person was dead? but she still sent; and then I went with Mr.

Camlin, and found a little swelling on the side of her neck, and she was black on both sides, and more particularly on the left side, and between her b.r.e.a.s.t.s up towards the collar-bone; and that was all I saw at that time, only a little mark upon one of her arms, and I think upon her left arm.