Question.—“What answer did you make?”
Answer.—“I told him ‘No.’”
Question.—“Did he say anything more?”
Answer.—“He said—‘If you could, there’s a £10 note for you.’”
Question.—“What did you say to that?”
Answer.—“I told him I could not. I then said, ‘I must go, the horses are in the fly ready for us to start.’ I do not recollect that he said anything more about the jar. I said, that if I didn’t go somebody else would go. He told me not to be in a hurry, for if anybody else went he would pay me. I saw him again next morning, when I was going to breakfast. He asked me then who went with the fly. I told him Mr. Stevens, and, I believed, one of Mr. Gardner’s clerks.”
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Shee.—“Were not the words that Palmer used—‘I wouldn’t mind giving £10 to break Stevens’s neck?’”
Answer.—“I don’t recollect the words ‘break his neck.’”
Question.—“Well, ‘upset him.’ Did he say, ‘I wouldn’t mind giving £10 to upset him?’”
Answer.—“Yes; I believe those were the words. I do not know that Palmer appeared to have been drinking. I don’t recollect that he had. I can’t say that he used any epithet, applied to Stevens—he said it was a humbugging concern altogether, or something of that. I don’t recollect that he said Stevens was a troublesome fellow, and very inquisitive. I don’t remember anything more than I have said. I do not know whether there was more than one jar.”