Millett v. Edmonds : explanatory statement of the defendant.

  • Edmonds, Frederic.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Millett v. Edmonds : explanatory statement of the defendant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    After Leonard's death the deceased Jacob C. Millett and L>r. Millett contmued to reside at Penpol House. Jacob died on the 31st day of December, 1863. He left a will, written in the handwriting of Dr. Millett, and in his sole favour; the property being believed to be worth about £2,200. The will was very short, and was similar in form to that of Leonard's. My wife and I returned from Mexico to Cornwall in the Autumn of 1855. My wife received unsatisfactory replies in answer to her inquiries in the family, and among old servants, about the information she had received by letters in Mexico from her sister, Mrs. Grylls, concerning suspicions as to the death of her father not having been natural. I applied verbally in the beginning of 1856 for information to Mr. John Thomas Millett, surgeon, as to the cause of his father's death, and I also received unsatisfactory replies from him. In the witness- box at the assizes I informed the jury that I had conversations with Mr, John T. Millett about his father's death and inquest, bat Mr. John T, Millett in the witness-box afterwards denied that he had had any conversations with me on my return from Mexico in 1856 about the circumstances of his father's death. I subsequently wrote to him for an explanation about his state- ment in the witness-box, and in his reply of the 20th May, 1864, he states that he had misunderstood the question of my counsel. In consequence of Mrs. Gryll's letters, and the unsatisfactory information I received from Mr. J. T. Millett, I applied to the above-mentioned Mr. Hichens for a report of the evidence taken before him at my father-in-law's inquest, on the 15th January, 1848, and after some correspondence with Mr. Hichens I obtained from him a report of the evidence in a letter of the 8th March, 1856. In 1856 I suffered from a severe illness, and was obliged to go to the south of Spain, for change of climate, and I did not return to England until June, 1860, and I have resided in Croydon ever since. In June and July, 1861, the deceased Mr. Jacob C. Millett,