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CRAZY JANE 215 train was the same who intercepted your departure from London and gave you the warnings of which you have spoken? ” “The same,’ answered Mrs. Webber, and her look was as much as to imply that it was all very easy for the barrister thus to cross-examine her, but that he could not shake her main testimony against the prisoner. ‘“ How long were you in Mr. Pollard’s service previous to the commission of the murder? ”’ ‘Three weeks,” was the answer. “And having been absent from your son-in-law’s house barely a month, you returned thither notwithstanding the discomfort and unhappiness which had induced you to quit it? ”’ | “Because my daughter naturally supposed I must be very much flurried and excited after the dreadful occurrence in Liverpool, and she wrote to me to come home at once, giving me the assurance that my son-in-law would change his demeanour toward me.”’ “And during these six months that you have been again living in London, what sort of visitors have you occasionally received? ”’ ‘What sort of visitors?’ ejaculated Mrs. Webber, as u with a surprised and indignant air, but it was merely to shuffle with the question, which indeed had considerably alarmed her. ‘“ Well, I need not press this point at present,’’ said the cross-examining counsel, “‘ and you may stand down.”’ A witness from London was now examined by the counsel for the prosecution, to prove that Lettice Rodney had been a gay lady, but the name of Madame Angelique’s establish- ment did not transpire. Then followed the testimony of three or four of the first persons who had rushed into Mr. Pollard’s house when Mrs. Webber had opened the front door and had alarmed the neighbourhood with her cries. It was proved that the prisoner was dressed as if to go out, but that she was in a state of unconsciousness when these witnesses appeared upon the scene. In cross-examination they admitted that when Lettice came back to her senses, she seemed horrified or frenzied at being accused of murder, and that she at once hurled the charge at Mrs. Webber and spoke of two villains who were with her. The police con- CONnNIELDOOKS (C(O) im