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The evidence secured was absolutely conclusive, but unfortunately juries are generally unwilling to take the uncorroborated word of a policeman against that of a defendant particularly if the defendant be a young and pretty woman. Here at the very outset was a complete confession on the part of Mrs. Parker, supplemented by illustrations from her own pen of what she could do.
Knox adds that his friends would deal with France alone, as "Scottish men had all traitorously betrayed them." Now much of this narrative is wrong; wrong in detail, in suggestion, in omission. He had a strong taste for such scandals as this about the "wanton widow." On all that concerns her personal character and political conduct, he is unworthy of credit when uncorroborated by better authority.
At this time Bandinelli could not have been more than eighteen. Vasari's story is uncorroborated. Leonardo's battle merely perished, being done in some fugitive medium; and the walls are now covered with the works of Vasari himself and his pupils and do not matter, while the ceiling is a muddle of undistinguished paint.
Midway of its length was a tell-tale bulge, and before the axe shortened it by a head, I was convinced that here was a serpent that had waylaid and surprised or beguiled a fowl. Post-mortem examination, however, proved once more the unreliability of uncorroborated circumstantial evidence.
They were at last brought to trial; and will it be believed, that on the solitary and uncorroborated testimony of a man who, according to his own confession, was a hired assassin, and surely I do the man no injustice if I suppose that, if he was willing for money to commit murder, he might be willing for money, or some priestly consideration, to commit perjury, on the single and unsupported evidence, I say, of this man, a hired assassin according to his own confession, were these three young men condemned?
He was not a tall man, but he had dignity, and his presence was impressive. He spoke very slowly. "Monsieur Guy Poynton," he said, "it is not often that so great an issue that the very destinies of two great countries must rest upon the simple and uncorroborated story of one man. Yet that is the position in which we stand to-day. Do not think that you are being treated with distrust.
It is the witness of an interested party, uncorroborated by a particle of testimony from independent sources.
"But my dear friend, don't you realize that mere statements unadorned and uncorroborated won't get you anywhere in court?" "All right, don't try to defend me then. Let the thing go as it will. That is all I have to say." And from this decision no one had been able to shake him. His lawyer was nearly crazy. He had raked the county for witnesses.
Other ambassadors particularly those of Venice pander to their Governments' wishes in this respect, conscious that there is a sycophancy in slander contrasted with which the ordinary sycophancy of flattery is as water to wine; they diligently send home every scrap of indecent or scandalous rumour they can pick up in the Roman ante-chambers, however unlikely, uncorroborated, or unconcerning the business of an ambassador.
The only person even to suggest that Farrell had looked worried was the junior clerk, Small, and his uncorroborated opinion does not count for much. Besides, his affairs were in order, and he was about to be married. You must stop me, Mr. Delverton, if I make any incorrect statements." "Certainly. So far you have merely repeated what every one knows."
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