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385
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contempt.
as
The latter represents Mo Bollard
used the words in conversation
having with Mr Whyte,
that
gentleman,
and as
addressed to
for
a version which is vouched
by the Affidavit of Mr Whyte who was
close to Mr Pollard, and was the party
actually engaged
at the time.
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It
is
in conversation with him
impossible I can doubt Mr
Whyte's statement
on such a matter so
completely within his
personal
knowledge. But the testimony borne by
all
the jurors and by Mr Hitchcock (resident partner of Olyphant & Co.) who was seated
near
Mr Pollard, is
apparently overwhelming
34. I may
add that,
even
if Mr Pollard
had used such an expression to a Judge
in
England, if his offence
were
specified, I cannot think
of such
a scene as
followed
would have been possible on that
subsequent
on
occasions his repeated offers
to
apologize on learning his offence would
have been received in the
very extraordinary manner in which Chief Justice Smale
dealt with them.
32
I must also
say
that the reports of
the Daily Press are generally fuller
and more
accurate than those of the Mail as to
the day of the latter's
proceedings
on the
far as I
publication, so far
as in the
case of proceedings
over which I preside. This I
attribute to the
more
careful preparation
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