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Read in the Wunder reader — freeA. The 4th of March.
Q. What name did he pass by?
A. We did not hear any name.
Q. How did he pay you?
A. In one pound Bank of England notes.
Q. Did you write any name upon them?
A. I put my own initials upon them.
Q. So that you will know them again if they are produced?
A. Yes.
Mr. Adolphus (to Bramley.) Look at those, and see whether those are part of what you received?
A. All these notes we took of the gentleman we sold the watch to, on the 4th of March.
Q. And that is the gentleman who sits there? (pointing to De Berenger.)
A. Yes.
Lord Ellenborough. What mark have you put upon them to know them again?
A. My own initials and the dates; it is written at the top end of the note.
Q. How are you enabled to say that those seven notes are what you received from the person who bought that watch?
A. We took no other Bank of England notes on that day.
Q. You marked them at the time you received them?
A. Yes, I received twenty in the forenoon, and the other eleven in the afternoon, and I marked them and paid them away the same afternoon.
Cross-examined by Mr. Park.
Q. I understand you to say neither of those watches found in the possession of Mr. De Berenger is the watch you sold?
A. Neither of them.
Q. You wrote upon all the notes?
A. Yes.
Q. Those are the only seven you have seen since?
A. Yes.
Mr. Gurney. You paid them all away?
A. We did.
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