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he has to go on standby, he accepts it, he goes outside
he says, eventually the plane comes in, the airline
clerk says she has to look for him, he said he was out-
side, I don't think there is any big thing in that Members
of the Jury, but you will have to decide and as I said
you can reject my observations but I don't really believe
the airline clerk went walking all outside to see if he
was around. She came outside by the counter and looked
up, not there. I am sure that's it, but still it is a
matter for you, he says he was around. Anyway, he does
come back, so this cannot be terribly important.
goes to the plane and then he has to come off. The
Crown tells you fate decided he must stay in Tortola and
face this music. But he comes back, he is satisfied
and he tells the clerk to try and get him on tomorrow
and Members of the Jury, there is nothing unreasonable
about that. Any reasonable creature would want to do
just that I think.
He
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Then you have it that he goes up in the hills,
Beef Island area, to try and escape from being seen.
Then there is the incident with a young Fenn, Nathaniel
Penn, who hears footsteps running on the road and he
accosted him about it and he says he is exercising.
later in the day all the Penns come. There is Nathaniel,
Gilbert and Obel, followed by the police officers. You
know them all, and to cut a long story short, Members
of the Jury, they round him up in a tamarind tree or some
big tree and he comes down. He is not denying that he
was trying to evade them. He tells you, as a matter of
fact his explanation is, that he was running from
immigration.
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Members of the Jury, you may think that he
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