“As much so as is usual in the country.”
“Ten or fifteen at a time, on some occasions?”
“I dare say there may be.”
“Has the murder of Peter Goodwin ever been discussed by your customers in your presence?”
“I don’t know but it has—such a thing is very likely; but one hears so much, I can’t say.”
“Did you never join in such a discussion yourself?”
“I may, or I may not.”
“I ask you, now, distinctly, if you had no such discussion on the 26th of May last, between the hours of eleven and twelve in the forenoon?”
The sharpness of the manner in which this question was put, the minuteness of the details, and the particularity of the interrogatories, quite confounded the juror, who answered accordingly.
“Such a thing might have taken place, and it might not. I do not remember.”