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"He was in the study when I was on the stairs." "How do you know he was in the study?" "Because I showed him in there and he hadn't come out." Mr. Loram paused and took a deep breath, and his lordship flattened his eyelids. "Is there a side gate to the premises?" the barrister resumed wearily. "Yes. It opens into a narrow lane at the side of the house."
Loram proceeded to give a narrative of the events connected with the disappearance of John Bellingham, which was substantially identical with that which I had read in the newspapers; and having laid the actual facts before the jury, he went on to discuss their probable import.
"Oh, an ordinary sort of watch-guard." "I mean, was it a chain or a ribbon or a strap?" "A chain, I think or perhaps a ribbon or it might have been a strap." His lordship flattened his eyelids, but made no further sign, and Mr. Loram continued: "Did you or did you not notice what kind of watch-guard Mr. Bellingham was wearing?" "I did not. Why should I? It was no business of mine."
"From the facts as stated in the newspaper reports it is obvious that there were four possible explanations of the disappearance. The man might be alive and in hiding. This was highly improbable, for the reasons that were stated by Mr. Loram at the late hearing of the application, and for a further reason that I shall mention presently.
Bellingham wearing?" "Oh, an ordinary sort of watch-guard." "I mean was it a chain or a ribbon or a strap?" "A chain, I think or perhaps a ribbon or it might have been a strap." His lordship flattened his eyelids, but made no further sign and Mr. Loram continued: "Did you or did you not notice what kind of watch-guard Mr. Bellingham was wearing?" "I did not.
Accordingly, when you have heard these facts proved by the sworn testimony of competent witnesses, together with the facts relating to the disappearance, I shall ask you for a verdict in accordance with that evidence." Mr. Loram sat down, and adjusting a pair of pince-nez, rapidly glanced over his brief while the usher was administering the oath to the first witness. This was Mr.
The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. Loram proceeded to examine him. "You were the testator's solicitor and confidential agent, I believe?" "I was and am." "How long have you known him?" "Twenty-seven years." "Judging from your experience of him, should you say that he was a person likely to disappear voluntarily and suddenly to cease to communicate with his friends?" "No."
Jellicoe's description, might those remains be the remains of the testator, John Bellingham?" "Yes, they might." On receiving this admission Mr. Loram sat down, and Mr. Heath immediately rose to cross-examine.
"But I mean when you were on the stairs." "He was in the study when I was on the stairs." "How do you know he was in the study?" "Because I showed him in there and he hadn't come out." Mr. Loram paused and took a deep breath, and his lordship flattened his eyelids. "Is there a side gate to the premises?" the barrister resumed wearily. "Yes. It opens into a narrow lane at the side of the house."
The judge sat up and glanced at the jury-box, and when the foreman proceeded to state that "We find no sufficient reason for presuming the testator, John Bellingham, to be dead," he nodded approvingly. Evidently that was his opinion, too, as he was careful to explain when he conveyed to Mr. Loram the refusal of the Court to grant the permission applied for.
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