Counsel: "Was it not, then, the young girl who sits here?"
Witness: "I don't know."
Counsel: "Don't know?"
Witness: "If you will give me time, you shall hear. I said at once that I could not accept such valuable things, unless she could show she was authorized to pawn them. Then she answered that if we came to an understanding, she would prove she was the owner of the jewelry. I looked at the things, and said that if everything was all right, I could lend her two thousand kroners on them. She knew that the things were worth five thousand kroners, she said, and if I could give her four thousand, I could buy them of her. I must have time to examine them, I explained. But she would not let me. She seemed on the point of crying, and asked me for God's sake to give her four thousand kroners immediately; she would willingly give me a few more valuable things later on, or pay me something back. Then I thought the matter looked rather suspicious, and did not like to have anything more to do with her, so she left."
Counsel: "Didn't you try to find out if it was the girl, Evelina Reierson, or not?"
Witness (after hesitating awhile before answering): "Yes, I did; for I am a law-abiding man, who likes to give the police a helping hand."
Counsel: "Yes, we know that, but what did you do?"
Witness: "I sent a boy in my office after her. He sat up behind the carriage—for she had come in a hired carriage which waited outside—and he saw her go into a house in Drammen Road."
Counsel: "Was it Mr. Frick's house?"
Witness: "Yes, so the boy said."