No answer.
"Did you hear my question, sir? Did you or did you not receive it?--on your oath, remember!"
No answer.
The Chief-Justice: "You must answer that gentleman, James Ball."
Still no answer.
The Chief-Justice: "Once more I repeat my learned brother's question. Did you or did you not receive that £10 note on the 24th of October last? If you do not answer, I shall commit you for contempt of court."
Witness, defiantly: "Well, if I did, what's that to any one here? I suppose I can receive money from my own mother."
Mr. Forster: "You know very well that it did not come from your mother, but that it was hush-money sent you by the person to whom you sold the grain of strychnine on the evening of the 23d." The Chief-Justice: "Is this so? Speak the truth, or it will be the worse for you."
Witness (in a very low voice): "It is."