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your official undersecretary's reply. My "enquiry upon that head has turned out least one important end. It has brought up a past witness whom, up to this morning, I had entirely forgotten, so little impression did
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such a casual and indifferent recurrence as the whole scene itself make on my mind. _ Mr. Robertshaw, the Jailor, gave positive evidence the whole time – speakers distinctly heard every word – and even brings to recollection other words which I had forgotten. _ precisely, that I urged upon those convicts, an additional reason for writing to their friends, to pay - the cook-shop man, that the unfortunate Looking might possibly be sued by him for the "chicken-chops" which they had eaten.
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As an instance that there was no concealment upon my part, from first to last in this transaction, I mention the following incident :- The bookshop man's bill was presented to me in open court here, by the said Looking during a pause in the magisterial investigation, in which Mr. Cooper Turner was concerned. I no sooner heard the sum, $227, than I, there and then, openly and publicly remonstrated against it, as I at first conceived it to be — a government claim. Mr. Kroeger Turner will be able to speak to this effect - or at least I presume as much, for I have not communicated with him.
Having thus gone through the points in question, and having given