after midnight on Easter Monday, and partaken of whisky, and that under the influence of the whisky he had taken the box?
SNOW. I did, sir.
CLERK. And was his demeanour throughout very violent?
SNOW. It was very violent.
JONES. [Breaking in.] Violent—-of course it was! You put your 'ands on my wife when I kept tellin' you I took the thing myself.
MAGISTRATE. [Hissing, with protruded neck.] Now—you will have your chance of saying what you want to say presently. Have you anything to ask the officer?
JONES. [Sullenly.] No.
MAGISTRATE. Very well then. Now let us hear what the female prisoner has to say first.
MRS. JONES. Well, your Worship, of course I can only say what I 've said all along, that I did n't take the box.
MAGISTRATE. Yes, but did you know that it was taken?