"I have."
"In such investigation have you discovered evidence of the presence of chloroform in the office of Throckmorton & Rathe, and likely to have been there on the night of the robbery?"
"I have," Tipps answered.
"In what shape, may I ask?"
"In the shape of a bottle partly filled with that substance."
"Indeed! Where, may I ask, did you discover this bottle?" Moth inquired, as if hearing of it now for the first time.
"I found it hidden away under the stairway off the room in which Throckmorton slept on the night of the robbery."
"Have you the bottle with you?"
"I have."
"I ask that you deliver it to the clerk of the court"; and upon his complying, Moth turned to the judge, saying he had no further questions to ask the witness. Cross-examination being waived, as in the case of Mr. Seymour, Moth asked that Augustus Collygog be called, which being done that gentleman stepped forward to be sworn. Mr. Collygog was a slender, clerical man, with pale face and considerable particularity of dress, having about him the look of one accustomed to handle delicate things, and such as might on occasion pertain to men's lives or matters of that nature. When he had taken the oath, which he did solemnly and as if determined to be strictly accurate in all he said, Moth asked: