nt?"

"I cannot say; my attention was not particularly called to him before
the accident; but I supposed he was the one, from the fact of his
having the child with him."

"Could you, at this time, recognize the man whom you saw with the
child after the accident?"

"I think so. I took especial notice of him then."

"Look at this old gentleman, sitting by me," said Sharpman, waving his
hand toward Craft, "and tell me whether he is the one."

The man turned his eyes on Old Simon, and looked at him closely for a
full minute.

"Yes," he replied, "I believe he is the one. He has grown older and
thinner, but I do not think I am mistaken."

Craft nodded his head mildly in assent, and Sharpman continued:--

"Did you take particular notice of the child's clothing as you saw it
after the accident; could you recognize, at this time, the principal
articles of outside wear that he had on?"

"I think I could."

Sharpman paused as if in thought.

After he had whispered for a moment with Craft, he said to the
witness:--

"That is all, for the present, Mr. Merrick." Then he turned to the
opposing counsel and said:--

"Mr. Goodlaw, you may take the witness."

Goodlaw fixed his glasses more firmly on his nose, consulted briefly
with his client, and then began his cross-examination.

After drawing out much of the personal history of the witness, he went
with him into the details of the Cherry Brook disaster.

Finally he asked:--

"Did you know Robert Burnham in his lifetime?"

"A gentleman by that name called on me a week after the accident to
make inquiries about his son."

"Did you say to him, at that time, that the child must have perished
in the wreck?"

"I think I did; yes, sir."

"On what did you base your opinion?"

"On several circumstances. The nurse with whom he was sitting was
killed outright; it would seem to have been impossible for any one
occupying that seat to have escaped instant death, since the other
car struck and rested at just that point. Again, there were but two
children on the train. It took it for granted that the old man and
child whom I saw together after the accident were the same ones whom I
had seen together before it occurred."

"Did you tell Mr. Burnham of seeing this old man and child after the
accident?"

"I did; yes, sir."

"Did you not say to him positively, at that time, that they were the
same persons who were sitting together across the aisle from him
before the cra