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Audrey Weston

because Etheleen who was on her gallery combing the

children's hair had gone inside and she was over on

the other side of the road in any case.

had gone to work and Franzel Penn is in St. John, and

the deceased was alone at home in her shop; and then

we have the story that the accused goes to the shop

to buy a stout.

So Members of the Jury, the accused is now at

the shop, himself and the deceased alone. At that

time he has a bit of cord in one pocket and a pen

knife in the other. The Crown will want you to believe

that when he left home with those items, he left home

designedly, deliberately to go down there to look for

his moment. The accused tells you, no such thing,

when I went with my cord and my knife, I left home with

those things because I was going to the Hill. I had

only gone to get a stout and I intended to go to the

hill to cut a broom for my sister. His sister had

asked him, she said, about a week before to get some

brooms and I think we have it that he has cut brooms

for her before up in the hills, so he cut a piece of

cord to tie the broom, and he has the knife to cut

the broom. So the Defence tells you, he didn't leave

home with any design to do any criminal act, he left

home to go and do some business, to get a broom and

come back. Members of the Jury, you have to look at

that whole picture, and look at everything as it goes

along, because Pickering tells you that he missed the

knife since the 18th. But Members of the Jury, the

accused says not so, he picked it up in the morning

out of where dirty wares are been washed up. I do

not know how material it is to you Members of the Jury

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