The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane - BestLightNovel.com
You’re reading novel The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 84 online at BestLightNovel.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit BestLightNovel.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy
_Lord Ellenborough._ The whole sixty-seven?
_A._ Yes.
_Mr. Joseph Fearn;_
_Cross-examined by Mr. Brougham._
_Q._ When Christmas brought back these two hundred one pound notes from the bank, you say they were given to Mr. b.u.t.t?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And you say Mr. b.u.t.t afterwards gave them to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you see him give them?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you see Mr. b.u.t.t give him the other two hundred one pound notes he got from Lance?
_A._ No.
_Q._ You were not present then?
_A._ No, I was not.
_Mr. Adolphus._ We wish Mr. Wood now to produce out of the desk a watch, which he found in the possession of Mr. De Berenger.
[_The Witness produced two watches._]
_Q._ Were they both in the box when you found it?
_A._ They were.
_Mr. Bishop Bramley sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ What are you?
_A._ A watchmaker and silversmith.
_Q._ Do you live at Hull?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Look at those watches that lie there; did you sell those watches?
_A._ No, neither of those.
_Q._ Did you sell a watch to the gentleman who sits there?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ For how much money?
_A._ Twenty-nine guineas and a half, 30. 19_s._ 6_d._
_Q._ When was that?
_A._ The 4th of March.
_Q._ What name did he pa.s.s by?
_A._ We did not hear any name.
_Q._ How did he pay you?
_A._ In one pound Bank of England notes.
_Q._ Did you write any name upon them?
_A._ I put my own initials upon them.
_Q._ So that you will know them again if they are produced?
_A._ Yes.
[_Mr. Miller produced some bank notes._]
_Mr. Adolphus (to Bramley.)_ Look at those, and see whether those are part of what you received?
_A._ All these notes we took of the gentleman we sold the watch to, on the 4th of March.
_Q._ And that is the gentleman who sits there? (_pointing to De Berenger._)
_A._ Yes.
_Lord Ellenborough._ What mark have you put upon them to know them again?
_A._ My own initials and the dates; it is written at the top end of the note.
_Q._ How are you enabled to say that those seven notes are what you received from the person who bought that watch?
