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.