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SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS. Tins Ray. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Chapman and a Special Jury.) Pritchard v. Packman-. —Evidence taken at the Coroner’s inquest touching the death of John Eodd.-m was read and put in. Edward Pritchard, recalled, said he could not say on what day he got ' 200 from Mr Dowse. He could hot say whether he got the amount by cheque or in hank notes, but thought he received notes. r l In L2OO paid at the lawyer’s office was not the money received from Dowse. Mr Douse know nothing of the transaction with Koddam at the time he borrowed the money. He could not account for Mills sending a telegram to I >owse from Nase'>y. Dowse was aware of tlje object of his mi sion to Naseby (Witness then recounted the circumstances surrounding bis purchase from Pod'l am, a .d the subs-quent seizure of the horses),. Edward Huhn a qua'ifpd medical practitioner, said a person suifering from de’erium tr. mens would manife t terror,, suspicion, and excitability, would imagine all kinds of strange tilings which did not occur, and would fancy lip saw things invisible. These were the general characteristics of-deliriums. He had not seen Poddain and did not kuow him. A man suffering from dHermin trornen--’ may speak rationally, but only when the fit was off; but a man was scarcely lit for business while suffering from delirium. Such

person' were easily influenced by others. The evidence of the witness Holmes, just read, indicated that Koddam at the time refe red to was insane. Such tits of hallucination were very capricious. A man may he suffering from them in the morning, in the middle of the day be rational, and in the evening again suffering. He could not say that a man, suffering fr m delirium, or insanity on one day, would not be tit for business the fol'owing day. It was generally the absence of drink that caused delirium, and not the indulgence A man addicted to heavy drinking for a number of days, could scarcely conceal it from an observing person. There was nothing in the circumstances surrounding the transaction between plaintiff and Koddam as described, to show that Koddam was then not in his right mind. He would not expect a man. suffering from deleriumtrem ns, to write such a signature as that attached to the bill of sale.

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Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2

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SUPREME COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2

SUPREME COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2

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