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_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Those were taken for Mr. b.u.t.t, were they not?
_A._ I believe so.
_Q._ I believe you went to the rooms as to the rooms of Mr. b.u.t.t?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ I believe you thought upon seeing Mr. b.u.t.t's room, that the situation was a very convenient one for yourself?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And therefore you suggested, did you not, that you should like a room in the same house?
_A._ I think I did.
_Q._ In consequence of this suggestion did not Mr. b.u.t.t give up to you the room he had taken for himself, and take another in the same house for himself?
_A._ Yes, he did.
_Q._ And the room being taken in this manner, you put up your name "Fearn, Stock Broker."
_A._ On the Monday.
_Q._ Did you do that at your own idea or was it suggested to you by any body?
_A._ It was the same transparent blind I had at my former office, which I removed and put in the window.
_Q._ Your name in gold letters?
_A._ In black letters.
_Q._ You took your furniture?
_A._ The rooms were furnished.
_Q._ I believe after thus finding your Customers liked the situation, you desired Mr. Johnstone to purchase the lease of the house for you.
_A._ Yes, I did.
_Q._ Was that before or after the 21st?
_A._ I think after.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Then that does not apply.
_Mr. Serjeant Best._ You had taken it before the 21st and got into possession on the 21st.
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ One of your reasons for taking it was that some of your customers were particularly pleased with it.
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ That was on the Thursday in the week before.
_A._ I believe it might be.
_Q._ You have told us you did not see Lord Cochrane on that morning, how many days previously to that had you seen him?
_A._ I think I saw him on the Sat.u.r.day.
_Q._ You are not quite certain of that?
_A._ No, I am not.
_Q._ Does it appear whether he bought any thing on that day.
_Mr. Gurney._ It appears from the account that he bought 20,000 and sold 17,000.
_Mr. Serjeant Best._ You have told us that all those three persons, Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone, Lord Cochrane, and Mr. b.u.t.t, were very large speculators; did they always speculate the same way, or on the contrary, when one bought did not the other very often sell?
_A._ It has been the case.
_Q._ Has not that happened often, several times?
_A._ Yes it has, several times.
_Re-examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ On that day they all sold?
_A._ Yes they did.
_Q._ They all acted together on that day.
_A._ Yes they did.
_Q._ Where did Lord Cochrane reside on the 21st of February?
_A._ I do not know.
_Q._ How soon after did you know his residence in Green-Street?
_A._ Not at all until the printed paper of the Stock Exchange came out.
