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6. Dr. Humphris had accepted Mrs. Stanford's theory of poisoning, and was himself the first to [accused] the bottle of soda saying after perhaps touching with his tongue that "there was strychnine enough in it to kill ten men."

7. He is a man without professional or personal standing, and his case and diagnosis as well as his proposed fee were involved the theory of in having strychnine poisoning found in Mrs Stanford's possesion.

8. He gave none of the recognized remedies for strychnine, in fact, did nothing whatever, while the two girls were busy with treatment which would have produced instant death in strychnine poisoning.

9. If the tonic theory of the strychnine is not acceptable you have the other, that it was put in by the doctor, to bolster up his case,