Advocate: I must ask the indulgence of the court for this gentleman, who is recovering now from the effects of recent fever, and who acts against the advice of his doctor by coming to do his duty here. (To the Witness): Who first discovered the body of your brother?
Witness: I did.
Advocate: I will try you as little as I can. Compose yourself. That discovery naturally shocked you terribly?
Witness: Terribly.
Advocate: And left upon your mind an indelible impression?
Witness: An indelible impression.
Advocate: When you first turned to Mr. Grammont, what did you do?
Witness: I stooped down and took his head in my hands.
Advocate: And what did you see?
Witness: That his head was nearly severed from his body.