`Call the next
witness.' And he added in an undertone to the Queen, `Really, my dear, YOU must cross-examine the next
witness.
The
witness offered a remark on the weather; and the gentleman said, "Yes, it looks like a bad night"--and so went away.
The object in hand being to show that the prisoner went down, with some fellow-plotter untracked, in the Dover mail on that Friday night in November five years ago, and got out of the mail in the night, as a blind, at a place where he did not remain, but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a garrison and dockyard, and there collected information; a
witness was called to identify him as having been at the precise time required, in the coffee-room of an hotel in that garrison-and-dockyard town, waiting for another person.
Several
witnesses deposed concerning Potter's guilty behavior when brought to the scene of the murder.
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant
witness, and a too-willing
witness; it was Mr.
Perhaps it was but the misery he had just
witnessed which gave his careless nature this impulse; but, be that as it may, it was very strong upon him, and he said in as few words as possible, what he wanted.
Several
witnesses swore they heard Judge Driscoll say in his public speech that the twins would be able to find their lost knife again when they needed it to assassinate somebody with.
"It looked to me," replied the
witness, "like a tall man."
By this time the people in the court-room were beginning to believe in this new
witness. They were amused by his melodramatic action in thus fixing the hour; but they seemed to have confidence in the outcome.
He had no knowledge of what was likely to be said by the
witnesses on the trial, for he had shrunk from all the particulars connected with Hetty's arrest and accusation.
Man cannot ENDURE it that such a
witness should live."
A clerk in the Sheriff-Clerk's office then officially produced the Declaration, and corroborated the evidence of the
witness who had preceded him.