The Stipendiary: You can read them over yourself if you like.
Mr. Clegg: If they are put into my hands I shall read them to witness.
The Stipendiary: Then you may read them.
Mr. Clegg: Very well, then; that is all I want. The witness has denied that she has had anything to do with them. (To witness): Have you read them?—Some of them.
Have you read them all?—Not all of them.
Then I will read them to you.
Mr. Pollard: There will be no necessity for their being read aloud. Let the witness read them for herself.
Mr. Clegg: I will read this one to you now, if you please. (Reading): “If you have a note for me send now whilst he is out, but you must not venture, for he is watching, and you cannot be too careful. Hope your foot is better. I went to Sheffield yesterday, but I could not see you anywhere. Were you out? Love to Jane.” Did you write that letter?—No.
Mr. Clegg: Now I put that letter in. Have you had an envelope in your possession like that (handing an envelope to the witness)?—I don’t know; perhaps I might have. As regards the envelope, the prisoner used to come for paper and writing materials to my house.
Prisoner: No, I did not; oh, no.