CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 259

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you

In Do informing

recollect. beginning with

me that the judge's habite

made you exceedingly reluctant to

Shat

ask him to dinner

on the 23rd

of July about ten days before my arrival, the Judge had been overcome with wine and came into collision

with a

Sentry

at

house ?

your

A_ I recollect perfectly stating to you that the fudge had been overcome

with wine at

my

house

on the 23rd

of July, and that upon rising from the dinner table, and going into the Verandah he had staggered and fallen against the Lentry - I have since found however that I was entirely mistaken in regard to the Sentry, as will be seen in Captain. Bruce's perfectly plain Deposition, and I avail

myself of this opportunity.

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to observe how small is the value of

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private conversations given in a familiar and casual way, and without the most distant idea of such conversations being raked great distance of time on any-- subject whatsoever _ I now find and know that I avas entirely mistaken-

up at a

and that the mistake arose,

my seeing

from the Sentry walking about. at the time close to the Verandah but outside of it when the occurrence took place ._ It has been proved

down

on

coming into the occasion to go.

satisfactorily that open air, and having

the

steps of the Verandah, the Judge slipt and would have fallen if he had not been assisted by Captains Bruce - I have

no doubt that under

the immediate impression of what had occurred in this solitary

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