"I have not."
"Is it in your house?"
"It is not."
"No person connected with this inquiry has seen it. You refused to show it to Detective Lambert, saying it was under repair. Is it still under repair?"
"Yes."
"Give me the name of the tradesman who is repairing it?"
"I decline to give it. The device is a secret invention, and I will not run the danger of losing the benefit of it."
"The question is one I cannot compel you to answer, so I will not repeat it; but if the men whom I am defending are put on their trial in a higher court we will see that this so-called flashlight is produced. I gather from you that on the night of the 1st of March you were induced to use it by seeing with your naked eye a man standing at the door of Samuel Boyd's house. The night was very dark. How did you know it was a man?"
"Dark as it was I distinguished the figure of a man."
"On that night there was no suspicion that a murder had been committed. What made you regard as suspicious so simple a circumstance as a man coming out of the house?"