Q. How long have you been in this country? A. Ten years.
Q. How long have you been acquainted with the prisoners? A. About twelve months.
Q. Is your house near Burke’s? A. Yes.
Q. You remember last Halloween? A. Yes.
Q. Were you drinking in a public-house with Burke? A. Yes.
Q. What did he say? A. He asked me to go down to his house to see what a shot he had got for the Doctors. He said he got an old woman off the street, and she would make a good shot for the Doctors. He told me to go down to the house and see if they were drinking, for he did not like to go.
Q. What did you understand by a shot for the Doctors?
A. That he was going to murder her.
Q. Did you go down? A. Yes, I found a man and a woman and Nelly M‘Dougal, and the old woman washing her short-gown.
Q. Was the strange man’s name Gray? A. Yes.