WITNESS.--"I cannot. I forget them."
Sir EDWARD.--"Now I am going to ask you a direct question, and I ask you to be careful in your reply. Were you and Burton ever taken to Rochester Road Police Station?"
WITNESS.--"No."
Sir EDWARD.--"Well, was Burton?"
WITNESS.--"I think not--at least, he was not, to my knowledge."
Sir EDWARD.--"Did the Birmingham gentleman give to Burton a cheque for 200 drawn in the name of S. Denis or Denny, your own name?"
WITNESS.--"Not to my knowledge."
Sir EDWARD.--"About two years ago, did you and someone else go to the Victoria Hotel with two American gentlemen?"
WITNESS.--"No, I did not. Never."
Sir EDWARD.--"I think you did. Be careful in your replies. Did Burton extort money from these gentlemen?"
WITNESS.--"I have never been there at all."
Sir EDWARD.--"Have you ever been to Anderton"s Hotel and stayed a night with a gentleman, whom you threatened the next morning with exposure?"
WITNESS.--"I have not."
Sir EDWARD.--"When did you go abroad with Burton?"
WITNESS.--"I think in February, 1892."
Sir EDWARD.--"When did you last go with him abroad?"
WITNESS.--"Last spring."
Sir EDWARD.--"How long were you away?"
WITNESS.--"Oh! about a month."
Sir EDWARD.--"Where did you stay?"
WITNESS.--"We went to Nice and stayed at Gaze"s Hotel."
Sir EDWARD.--"You were having a holiday?"
WITNESS.--"Yes."
Sir EDWARD.--"Which you continued with business in your usual way?"
The witness did not reply.
Sir EDWARD.--"What were you and Burton doing at Nice?"
WITNESS.--"Simply enjoying ourselves."
Sir EDWARD.--"During this visit of enjoyment you and Burton fell out, I think."
WITNESS.--"Oh, dear, no!"
Sir EDWARD.--"Yet you separated from this Burton after that visit?"
WITNESS.--"I gave up being a bookmaker"s clerk."
Sir EDWARD.--"What name did Burton use in the ring?"
WITNESS.--"Watson was his betting name."
Sir EDWARD.--"Did you blackmail a gentleman at Nice?"
WITNESS.--"No."
Sir EDWARD.--"Are you sure there was no quarrel between you and Burton at Nice?"
WITNESS.--"There may have been a little one, but I don"t remember anything of the kind."
Mr. Grain then put some questions to the Witness.
Mr. GRAIN.--"Did you go to Scarbro" about a year ago?"
WITNESS.--"Yes."
Mr. GRAIN.--"Did Burton go with you?"
WITNESS.--"Yes."
Mr. GRAIN.--"What was your business there?"
WITNESS.--"I was engaged professionally. I sang at the Aquarium there."
Mr. GRAIN.--"Did you get acquainted while there with a foreign gentleman, a Count?"
WITNESS.--"Not acquainted."
At this moment Mr. Grain wrote a name on a piece of paper and handed it up to the witness, who read it.
Mr. GRAIN.--"Do you know that gentleman?"
WITNESS.--"No, I heard his name mentioned at Scarborough."
Mr. GRAIN.--"Then you never spoke to him?"