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_A._ Yes, there was a green uniform.
_Q._ Was it in the bundle or not?
_A._ Yes, it was in the bundle.
_Mr. Bolland._ Was there any thing extraordinary in your master going out in his green drill dress?
_A._ No; not that I know of.
_Q._ Was he in the habit of going out in it?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And of returning in it?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you ever know him go out in his green drill dress and come home in a black coat?
_A._ No.
_Q._ That morning he had his green drill dress in his bundle, with his great coat?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Your husband made an affidavit, and you made an affidavit as well yourself?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Had you seen any body on the subject of that affidavit?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Had you seen Mr. Tahourdin?
_A._ No.
_Q._ How soon after or before making that affidavit, did you see Mr.
Tahourdin?
_A._ I saw Mr. Tahourdin a few days after.
_Q._ Did you know for what purpose your affidavit was made; how it was to be used?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Do you know to whom it was taken; what did your husband do with it; do you know of your own knowledge?
_A._ It was put in the papers, I know.
_Q._ Was it put in by him or by any body else?
_A._ I believe it was put in by him.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Did Mr. De Berenger ever wear whiskers?
_A._ Yes, sometimes he used.
_Q._ How long before the 20th of February had you seen him wear whiskers?
_A._ I do not know; I was so little in the habit of seeing my master, that I do not know whether he had whiskers or not.
_Q._ You saw him come in at the door, did not you?
_A._ On the Monday morning.
_Q._ At times you used to see him?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Were you so little acquainted with the countenance of the man in whose service you had lived two years and a half, that you did not know whether he was a whiskered man or an unwhiskered man?
_A._ I never attended the door when my husband was at home.
_Q._ You used to go backwards and forwards; just before you did not know whether there was a green coat in the bundle; and then when I put you in mind of what you had sworn, you say positively there was?
_A._ Yes, there was.
_Q._ And now you mean to say, you saw so little of your master, that you do not know whether he had whiskers?
_A._ No, I do not know.
_A Juryman._ You say you did not make your master's bed until his return on Monday?
_A._ No.
_Q._ Did you see it before his return on Monday?
_A._ No; but he was not up stairs, he was in the drawing room.
_Q._ You did not see the bed till after his return?
_A._ No, I did not.
_John M'Guire, sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Richardson._
