What do you call a while?—A month or so—two or three weeks. It might be longer. I am not quite sure.
Before you took out this summons against him, had you any quarrel at all?—Had I any quarrel?
Mr. Robinson: You summoned him for a certain thing. Had you any quarrel before that certain thing?—Not a quarrel, only that he was such a nuisance about the house, calling me a brute, and listening on the doorstep to our conversation.
The prisoner here again groaned, and asked for the surgeon.
Mr. Hallam, the police surgeon, felt his pulse. He then suggested that his feet should be raised by being placed on a chair. This was done, and then the prisoner lay back in his arm-chair with his feet curled before him.
Had you any unpleasantness before you went to Mansfield?—He was a constant source of annoyance by his disagreeableness. He used to listen at the door, and jump over the wall, and be very disagreeable indeed. He was a constant annoyance.
What train did you go by when you went to Mansfield?—The afternoon train.
Where did you go after you got there? Was he with you?—He followed us, and came into the house just as we were sitting down to tea.
Do you know a person of the name of Kirkham?—Kirkham?
Mr. Clegg: Call Kirkham. (Kirkham a person about twenty years of age, was brought into the corridor.)