The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 111

_A._ I did not.

_Q._ Was your master at home all that week, from the 20th to the 27th?

_A._ He was not always at home.

_Q._ He was at home every day?

_A._ Yes.

 

_Q._ Going out as usual?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ On the 21st, for instance?

_A._ The 21st he went out to dine.

_Q._ Where did he go to?

_A._ I cannot positively say.

_Q._ Did he tell you where he was going to?

_A._ I do not recollect.

_Q._ Upon your oath, did he not tell you he had been to Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's?

_A._ No.

_Q._ You swear that?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Nor that he was going there?

_A._ No.

_Q._ When you came home on the Monday, did you see any black coat in the room?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Was that your master's black coat, or a strange black coat?

_A._ A strange black coat.

_Q._ That black coat must have fitted your master vastly well?

_A._ I cannot say, I never saw it on.

_Q._ You brushed it, did not you?

_A._ Yes; but not on his back.

_Q._ You are used to brus.h.i.+ng his coats?

_A._ Of course.

_Q._ Now, a servant used to brush his master's coat, must know the size pretty well; this would be rather a short coat upon him, would it not?

_A._ No; I do not think it would.

_Q._ Upon your oath, would it not have been a great deal too long; was not it the coat of a man six feet high?

_A._ I did not know who owned the coat.

_Q._ I did not ask you that; but was not that the coat of a gentleman six feet high?

_A._ I do not know.

_Q._ You are not competent to say what sized man that would fit?

_A._ That coat would fit me very well; it is rather wide.

_Q._ Not at all too long for you?

_A._ No, not at all.

_Q._ You have seen Lord Cochrane, have not you?

_A._ Never in my life, to my knowledge.

_Q._ You have sworn some affidavits, have you not?

_A._ I have.

_Q._ Did you draw them yourself?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Without any a.s.sistance?

_A._ Without any a.s.sistance.

_Q._ Whom had you seen before you drew them?

_A._ I cannot say who I saw, thousands.

_Q._ Upon that business?