th.

"No criminal charge in connection with the death was made at my office
against any person, either in the communication which I received from
the medical men or in any other form. The investigations at Gleninch and
elsewhere, beginning on the twenty-sixth of October, were not completed
until the twenty-eighth. Upon this latter date--acting on certain
discoveries which were reported to me, and on my own examination of
letters and other documents brought to my office--I made a criminal
charge against the prisoner, and obtained a warrant for his
apprehension. He was examined before the Sheriff on the twenty-ninth of
October, and was committed for trial before this Court."

The Fiscal having made his statement, and having been cross-examined (on
technical matters only), the persons employed in his office were called
next. These men had a story of startling interest to tell. Theirs were
the fatal discoveries which had justified the Fiscal in charging my
husband with the murder of his wife. The first of the witnesses was a
sheriff's officer. He gave his name as Isaiah Schoolcraft.

Examined by Mr. Drew--Advocate-Depute, and counsel for the Crown, with
the Lord Advocate--Isaiah Schoolcraft said:

"I got a warrant on the twenty-sixth of October to go to the
country-house near Edinburgh called Gleninch. I took with me Robert
Lorrie, assistant to the Fiscal. We first examined the room in which
Mrs. Eustace Macallan had died. On the bed, and on a movable table which
was attached to it, we found books and writing materials, and a paper
containing some unfinished verses in manuscript, afterward identified as
being in the handwriting of the deceased. We inclosed these articles in
paper, and sealed them up.

"We next opened an Indian cabinet in the bedroom. Here we found many
more verses on many more sheets of paper in the same hand-writing. We
also discovered, first some letters, and next a crumpled piece of paper
thrown aside in a corner of one of the shelves. On closer examination, a
chemist's printed label was discovered on this morsel of paper. We also
found in the folds of it a few scattered grains of some white powder.
The paper and the letters were carefully inclosed, and sealed up as
before.

"Further investigation of the room revealed nothing which could throw
any light on the purpose of our inquiry. We examined the clothes,
jewelry, and books of the deceased. These we left under lock and key. We
also found her dr