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Read in the Wunder reader — freeQ. You were told Mr. Johnstone was to be there?
A. Yes.
Q. And going there you saw a person taking a part with respect to the striking of the Jury?
A. I saw a Gentleman get out of the coach as I was standing in the passage, I saw a Gentleman come across, that I thought was the person, but I could not be positive.
Q. Can you take upon yourself to swear now, that was the person?
A. No, I would not swear it.
Re-examined by Mr. Gurney.
Q. When you saw the person at the time he left the letter, had you any reason to know what his name was?
A. No, I had never seen the Gentleman before, but in conversing with Smith, Mr. De Berenger's servant----.
Q. Had you any conversation about him with Smith, Mr. Du Bourg's servant?
A. I had.
Mr. Gurney. I do not ask you what it was, my learned Friends may if they please.
Launcelot Davidson sworn.
Examined by Mr. Gurney.
Q. Are you the husband of the last Witness?
A. Yes.
Q. Mr. De Berenger we find lodged in your house?
A. He did.
Q. Do you remember on what day he quitted your house?
A. The 27th of February I think.
Q. What day of the week?
A. Sunday.
Q. Do you remember seeing him go out on the Sunday before the 20th.
A. Yes.
Q. At what hour of the day?
A. Before eleven.
Q. Have you any reason to know the time?
A. Yes, I had been out before, and I returned home and stood before the parlour window waiting to hear the Asylum clock strike eleven, to go to chapel.
The Trial of Charles Random De Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commonly Called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for a Conspiracy · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.