CLERK. [Reading from his papers.] And while you were taking the female prisoner did the male prisoner interpose, and endeavour to hinder you in the execution of your duty, and did he strike you a blow?
SNOW. Yes, Sir.
CLERK. And did he say, "You, let her go, I took the box myself"?
SNOW. He did.
CLERK. And did you blow your whistle and obtain the assistance of another constable, and take him into custody?
SNOW. I did.
CLERK. Was he violent on the way to the station, and did he use bad language, and did he several times repeat that he had taken the box himself?
[Snow nods.]
Did you thereupon ask him in what manner he had stolen the box? And did you understand him to say he had entered the house at the invitation of young Mr. BARTHWICK
[BARTHWICK, turning in his seat, frowns at ROPER.]