Chapter xvii. Second Question — Who Poisoned Her?
The evidence of the doctors and the chemists closed the proceedings on the first day of the Trial.
On the second day the evidence to be produced by the prosecution was anticipated with a general feeling of curiosity and interest. The Court was now to hear what had been seen and done by the persons officially appointed to verify such cases of suspected crime as the case which had occurred at Gleninch. The Procurator–Fiscal — being the person officially appointed to direct the preliminary investigations of the law — was the first witness called on the second day of the Trial.
Examined by the Lord Advocate, the Fiscal gave his evidence, as follows:
“On the twenty-sixth of October I received a communication from Doctor Jerome, of Edinburgh,
