Mr. Balguy. You say that when the shroud came to be taken off the body you found the body less offensive than you had expected?
A. Less black.
Q. When you first saw the body on the 4th of September, did you or not take the shroud off?
A. We did not.
Q. You saw nothing but the face?
A. Nothing but the face.
Q. If at that time Captain Donellan had insinuated to you any suspicion of poison, whether you would or not have taken the shroud from the body?
A. I verily believe, had I known the tendency of the enquiry, I should have sat there for a month rather than have left the body unopened.
Q. Should you at that time if the suspicion had been disclosed have proceeded to open the body?
A. I should have attended the opening of it.