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Updated: May 13, 2025
Then I locked her up and sent to Mr Alstone, and told him the story. `And, says I, `do you stand in a dark place to be witness of what she says, and I'll go and examine her again.
He asked me if it was Mrs Duncomb's, and I said yes. Peter Buck, a prisoner. The Court: ``Johnson, were those her words: `This is the money and bag that I took'? Johnson: ``Yes, and she desired me to make away with the bag. Johnson's evidence was confirmed in part by Alstone, another officer of the prison.
Says I, `What would you advise me to do with it? `Why, says he, `you might have thrown it down the sink, or have burnt it, but give it to me, and I'll take care of it. And so I gave it to him. Mr Alstone then brought me to the condemned hold and examined me. I denied all till I found he had heard of the money, and then I knew my life was gone. And therefore I confessed all that I knew.
People in our walk of life never borrow anything but trouble, you know. We don't borrow money. We arrange for it occasionally, but God forbid that we should ever become so common as to borrow it. There you are, filled in and ready for your autograph—payable to Percy Reginald Van Alstone Wintermill. I put his whole name in so that he'd have to go to the exertion of signing it all on the back.
He said he told Johnson to get the bag from the prisoner, as it might have something about it whereby it could be identified. Johnson called the girl, while Alstone watched from a dark corner. He saw Sarah give Johnson the bag, and heard her ask him to burn it. There is no need here to enlarge upon the oddly slack and casual conditions of the prison life of the time as revealed in this evidence.
One night, a week later, during which interval he had played no cards, he came home at eleven from a stag dinner at the University Club, just preceding Ida's return from the Alstone poi supper and dance. And Sonny had driven her home. Major Fanklin and his wife had first been dropped off by them, they mentioned, at Fort Shafter, on the other side of town and miles away from the beach.
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