“Yes, sir. Mr. Singleton went down into the chart-room, and came back again in five or ten minutes.”
“At what time?”
“At four bells—two o’clock.”
“No one else?”
“No, sir; but I saw Mr. Turner—”
“Confine yourself to the question. What was Mr. Singleton’s manner at the time you mention?”
“He was excited. He brought up a bottle of whiskey from the chart-room table, and drank what was left in it. Then he muttered something, and threw the empty bottle over the rail. He said he was still sick.”
The cross-examination confined itself to one detail of Charlie Jones’s testimony.
“Did you, between midnight and 3 A.M., see any one in the chart-room besides the mate?”
“Yes—Mr. Turner.”