Prisoner: Cannot you call my witnesses? What is the use of my having witnesses if they are not called?
The Stipendiary: Listen to me.
Prisoner: I cannot have them called.
The Stipendiary: Oh, yes, you can, Listen to me. You first of all have to make a statement, and then if there are any witnesses to be called they can be called. Now listen to me. The charge against you is that you wilfully and of malice aforethought did kill and murder one Arthur Dyson, on Oct. 29, 1876. Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge?
Prisoner: Yes; I wish to say that——
Stipendiary: You are not obliged to say anything in answer to the charge. What you do say will be taken down, and may be given in evidence against you.
Mr. Clegg: If you take my advice you will simply say not guilty.
The Prisoner: I say I am not guilty, and that justice has not been done to me so that I can prove I am not guilty. That is what I want. I want that. I want justice done me. Why don’t they let me call my witnesses, because you are asking me shall my witnesses be called? Why should they not be called here? Why? because I have not the money to pay the expenses.
The Stipendiary: What is it you complain of?
The Prisoner: I want my witnesses called to prove that I have really not done this.