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"It is admitted that these are the wrappings in which the watch, and chain and ring were found in the witness's shed, but" he paused, with another inquiring look "you propose to what?" he asked. "I propose, Your Worship, to prove that these things were never put there by the prisoner at all!" answered Mr. Millington-Bywater, promptly and with an assurance which was not lost on the spectators.
Millington-Bywater: "Our contention is that the papers referred to were until recently in the custody of John Ashton, the murdered man I can put a witness in the box who can give absolute proof of that, a highly reputable witness, who is present, and that John Ashton was certainly murdered by some person or persons who, for purposes of their own, wished to gain possession of them.
Millington-Bywater handed the letter back with a polite bow it was very obvious to more than one observer that he had by this time quite accepted the witness as what he claimed to be. "You kept the appointment?" he asked. "I did, indeed!" exclaimed the witness. "As much out of greatly excited curiosity as anything!
Carless, Mr. Driver, and their clerk, Mr. Portlethwaite, and on the fact that I lost this finger through a shooting accident when I was a boy, at Ellingham. Curiously," he added with another smile, "these things don't seem to have much weight. But no! I had no papers when I landed here." "How did they come into your possession, then?" asked Mr. Millington-Bywater.
Millington-Bywater could have put in the box this morning to prove that," he replied. "Mr. Perkwite, of the Middle Temple a barrister-at-law, Mr. Cave. Mr. Perkwite met Mr. Ashton some three months ago at Marseilles, and Mr.
"All that you really know of this matter," asked Mr. Millington-Bywater, "is that you chanced to turn up Lonsdale Passage, saw a man lying on the pavement and a ring close by, and that, being literally starving and desperate, you snatched up that ring and ran away as fast as you could?" "Yes that is all," asserted Hyde.
Millington-Bywater rose and quietly asked the police to produce the watch, chain and ring which the greengrocer had found, in their original wrappings. He held up the wrapping-papers to the witness and asked him if he could swear that this was what he had found the valuables in and had given to the police.
Millington-Bywater handed all these papers up to the magistrate, directing his attention to the strong odour of drugs or chemicals which still pervaded them, and to the address of the manufacturing chemists which appeared on the outer wrapping. The magistrate seemed somewhat mystified. "What is the object of this?" he asked, glancing at the defending counsel.
Instructed by Viner, who was determined to spare neither effort nor money to clear his old schoolmate, Felpham had engaged the services of one of the most brilliant criminal barristers of the day, Mr. Millington-Bywater, on behalf of his client; and he and Viner had sat up half the night with him, instructing him in the various mysteries and ramifications of the case.
"I do tell you so," answered the witness quietly. "I am on oath." The magistrate glanced at Mr. Millington-Bywater. "What is the relevancy of this in relation to the prisoner and the charge against him?" he inquired. "You have some point, of course?" "The relevancy is this, Your Worship," replied Mr.
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