The Stipendiary: You have quite enough. You can prosecute her for perjury if she has spoken falsely as to what has been asked of her. There are two very particular points, on which she has decisively spoken in reference to these letters.
Prisoner: She has done more than that.
The Stipendiary: You may if you have cause, indict her for perjury; it can lead to nothing else.
Mr. Clegg: Then at present I don’t think I have got sufficient, in my opinion, to test this witness’s credibility.
The Stipendiary: In my opinion, you have. If what you have asserted is shown to be true, you have more than sufficient to damage her credibility, and more than sufficient to have a cause for indicting her for perjury. Beyond that it is not necessary for you to go, and I rule you shall not go.
Mr. Clegg: How can I indict the woman for perjury unless I put the letters in her hands?
The Stipendiary: She has looked at them, because I told her to look at them myself. I said to her, “Look at each one, and see if it is not in your handwriting.” That is in itself sufficient.
Mr. Clegg: Those letters have been already produced by the prosecution. I have the right to call for those to be read, and if you will not now let me cross-examine her in reference to them in detail, then I ask that the letters be read; then I can cross-examine upon them, and that comes to the same thing.
The Stipendiary: You should have done that before. It is too late now. I cannot have them read now.
Mr. Clegg: Put that decision on the depositions. I ask that those letters put in by the prosecution be read by the clerk of the court.