Mr. Walters: Very far?
Witness: No; not far: Mrs. Tope’s house.
Mr. Walters: Did you find it easily?
Witness: No. That would not have done. I wandered about a bit in the wrong direction, and inquired, and at last found it.
Mr. Walters: The reason for all that?
Witness: I wanted to put everybody off the scent, and tried to act as to the manner born, so that if anybody were watching me they would really take me for the man I wanted to be.
Mr. Walters: You thought it best to take every precaution, in case you were watched?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Walters: And they would think you had lost your way, and were a stranger?
Witness: Yes.