2420. Did these transactions enter your books?-No; the cash was just paid for them at the time.
2421. Do you take no notice of the cash paid out in [Page 51] that way?-Not generally. I don't that there is any special entry in the cash-book showing what it had been paid for.
2422. Don't you take a receipt from such persons?-No, I never did.
2423. Then how do you know the price at which to sell these shawls?-Because I put the prices on the shawls myself.
2424. Do you mark them all at the time?-Yes.
2425. And you swear that no entry of such a payment enters into any of your books?-I swear that, to my knowledge, there is no memorandum taken of a cash transaction carried through in that way. With regard Elizabeth Gifford, I may explain that I gave her a receipt for a shawl to be paid for in cash, and she came to my shop some time afterwards and got the cash.
2426. Then that cash entered your book?-Yes. Here is the entry [produces line-book]: 'C. M. 95. 1. 11.71. Paid in cash, 80s. £4.'
2427. How do you know that is the transaction?-Because it is the only transaction of the kind that is in the book, it is the only transaction in which £4 was paid in cash.
2428. Was that entry all made at one time?-The first part of it was made when she brought the shawl. The date when she got the line is not here.
2429. Then it was on 1st November 1871 that she got the money?-Yes.