tter on the 26th of February. Mr. De Berenger had
two servants of the name of William Smith, and his wife; when he dined
at home, his servants attended him; on Sunday the 20th, I cannot say
whether he dined at home; his usual dinner hour was about four. I think
his servants went out about two or half past on that Sunday." If you
remember, Smith and his wife swear to De Berenger's going out about four
on that Sunday, and Smith says, that he and his wife went out soon
after; this woman swears, that they went out at two or half past. "There
was a private place where the key always hung, for the accommodation of
Mr. De Berenger, and as the key was always under the care of Smith, I
did not see where the key was put that evening."
On her cross-examination she is asked, what Sunday it was that these
servants went out to dinner at two or half past? she says, "On Sunday
the 20th, about eleven o'clock, I heard my husband observe, De Berenger
was gone out; I cannot say whether he slept from his bed on Sunday the
20th; I sleep in the back parlour. I have heard him trumpet by nine
o'clock, not by seven. I had no call to look after him on any morning."
Upon her re-examination she says, "My husband observed to me, our lodger
is gone out with a new great coat on." So that he is, for the first
time, observed by them in that great coat on that Sunday.
Mr. Lavie says, the person Mrs. Davidson saw at the Temple getting out
of the hackney coach, was Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, that she said she
believed that the person who was striking the Jury, and who was Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone, was the person who brought the letter on the
Saturday.
Mrs. Davidson, on being called again, and further cross-examined, says,
Mr. Lavie desired me to attend to see a gentleman; I was told Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone was to be there; I will not swear that the person who
left the letter was Mr. Johnstone. I had a conversation about the person
with Smith, Mr. De Berenger's servant.
Then Mr. Launcelot Davidson, the husband of the last witness, is called;
he says, "Mr. De Berenger lodged in my house; he quitted my house
finally on Sunday the 27th of February. The Sunday before that, I saw
him go out before eleven (that was on Sunday the 20th); I had been out
before; I was waiting to hear the Asylum clock strike eleven; I saw him
go out, I had seen him come in ten minutes before; when he came in, he
had a plaid cloak on, which he had worn the winter; when he went out,
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