The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane Part 54

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Those were taken for Mr. b.u.t.t, were they not?

_A._ I believe so.

_Q._ I believe you went to the rooms as to the rooms of Mr. b.u.t.t?

_A._ I did.

 

_Q._ I believe you thought upon seeing Mr. b.u.t.t's room, that the situation was a very convenient one for yourself?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And therefore you suggested, did you not, that you should like a room in the same house?

_A._ I think I did.

_Q._ In consequence of this suggestion did not Mr. b.u.t.t give up to you the room he had taken for himself, and take another in the same house for himself?

_A._ Yes, he did.

_Q._ And the room being taken in this manner, you put up your name "Fearn, Stock Broker."

_A._ On the Monday.

_Q._ Did you do that at your own idea or was it suggested to you by any body?

_A._ It was the same transparent blind I had at my former office, which I removed and put in the window.

_Q._ Your name in gold letters?

_A._ In black letters.

_Q._ You took your furniture?

_A._ The rooms were furnished.

_Q._ I believe after thus finding your Customers liked the situation, you desired Mr. Johnstone to purchase the lease of the house for you.

_A._ Yes, I did.

_Q._ Was that before or after the 21st?

_A._ I think after.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Then that does not apply.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ You had taken it before the 21st and got into possession on the 21st.

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ One of your reasons for taking it was that some of your customers were particularly pleased with it.

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ That was on the Thursday in the week before.

_A._ I believe it might be.

_Q._ You have told us you did not see Lord Cochrane on that morning, how many days previously to that had you seen him?

_A._ I think I saw him on the Sat.u.r.day.

_Q._ You are not quite certain of that?

_A._ No, I am not.

_Q._ Does it appear whether he bought any thing on that day.

_Mr. Gurney._ It appears from the account that he bought 20,000 and sold 17,000.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ You have told us that all those three persons, Mr.

Cochrane Johnstone, Lord Cochrane, and Mr. b.u.t.t, were very large speculators; did they always speculate the same way, or on the contrary, when one bought did not the other very often sell?

_A._ It has been the case.

_Q._ Has not that happened often, several times?

_A._ Yes it has, several times.

_Re-examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ On that day they all sold?

_A._ Yes they did.

_Q._ They all acted together on that day.

_A._ Yes they did.

_Q._ Where did Lord Cochrane reside on the 21st of February?

_A._ I do not know.

_Q._ How soon after did you know his residence in Green-Street?

_A._ Not at all until the printed paper of the Stock Exchange came out.