The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_A._ He was used to do.
_Lord Ellenborough._ I will ask any question upon that subject for you, but there has been no question put on the cross-examination with reference to it?
_Mr. Park._ There was a question about his being still.
_Lord Ellenborough._ There was no allusion to musical instruments; you should have gone through it in your original examination, as it was to contradict their case. Does your master play on any musical instrument?
_A._ Yes; both the bugle-horn and violin.
_Q._ You say Mrs. Davidson described to you a person who called, and that you said it was most likely Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You had seen Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ Yes; I had seen him but once.
_Q._ This was on Sat.u.r.day the 26th?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Why did you say it was most likely Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ Because she told me it was a tall gentleman, and his long hair very much powdered.
_Q._ Having seen him but once, and not being much acquainted with him, what led you to say most likely it was Mr. Cochrane Johnstone; had you any expectation that he would come that day?
_A._ No, not the least.
_Q._ But having seen him once, you thought it must be that tall man and powdered, whom you had seen but once in your life?
_Q._ I might have seen him oftener than that, but not to my recollection.
_Q._ What you said was, that you had seen him once?
_A._ I had seen him once, I know.
_Q._ Had you seen him oftener than that?
_A._ I cannot say; but I once saw him at his own house.
_Q._ I supposed you had never seen him but once from your answer?
_A._ I might have seen him oftener, but I do not know that I had.
_Q._ You are as sure as that you are existing, that your master went up at eleven o'clock, or sometime after eleven, on Sunday evening the 20th of February?
_A._ So help me G.o.d; I am sure he did.
_A Juryman._ Did you see him go up, or only hear him go up?
_A._ I heard him go up; I was in my bed room.
_Lord Ellenborough._ But you let him in?
_A._ Yes, I did.
_A Juryman._ You are sure that was on Sunday the 20th?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did your master often breakfast out?
_A._ Sometimes.
_Q._ Not often.
_A._ Not very often.
_Ann Smith sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Park._
_Q._ Are you the wife of Charles Smith?
_A._ Of William Smith.
_Q._ Were you a servant, with your husband, of Mr. De Berenger, in February last?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Had you been so for any length of time?
_A._ Two years and a half.
_Q._ Do you recollect having seen him at home on Sunday the 20th of February?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ In the forenoon?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Do you know what time he went out that morning?
_A._ About nine o'clock.
_Q._ When did he come in again?
