I have shown you some letters—have you written a letter to the prisoner?—No.
Do you know a little girl named Elizabeth Hutton? Call Elizabeth Hutton.
On the child coming forward, the learned counsel asked: Can you swear you never sent that child with a note to Peace?—Not with a note.
What did you send her with?—I sent her with receipts for some pictures which the prisoner had framed. He was in the habit of asking my husband to write out his receipts and letters.
Now look at the child again. Will you swear that child has not brought back notes from Peace to you?—She brought me one, and I returned it. I can’t say when this was, but it was after Peace removed to the opposite side of the street at Darnall. I never gave the child anything for taking notes to Peace. I don’t know a man named Kirkham. (Kirkham was here called.) I never gave him any notes for Peace, but I gave him a couple of receipts. Those receipts were for picture-framing. Kirkham has not brought notes from Peace.
Can you swear that?—Not to my knowledge, he has not.
Can you swear one way or the other?—I can swear he has not—not to my knowledge.
Did you ever send that litttle girl for drink to the “Halfway House?”—Not to my knowledge.
By that I understand that you won’t swear either one way or the other?—I have sent her for beer, but not to the “Halfway House” in particular.
Now I want to bring you to the night before the murder. Were you, on the 28th of November, 1876, at the “Stag Hotel,” Sharrow?—Yes. I was there with Mrs. Padmore’s little boy. He is about five or six years of age.