ness had not paid Mr. Michael the amount ho owed him because come of his clients went back on their contracts at the set tlomant and witness asked somo of the brokers, to let it stand over, Ho uwod other brokers money. Witness had not given Michnol an acknowledgment of the debt-it was too small..
If Mr. Michael-arked for knowledgment ho would give it. Witness could not say whether ho could find the choque for the Batt-Amamelarus,
Mr. Douglan siid that Mr. Oppo al made a joint in his cross-examination list theso
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Mr. Dougins-We have it givon in evidenco by Mr. Michael that there was a loan contract for the June settlement of one and half millions?
Witness-There or thereabouts. That was loaned out to certain mobors of the Exchange?—Yes.
The whole of it?—You.'
bars of the Exchange will be able
Is it expected that, those mom to pay it back on one-half por gent.
commission?
Mr. Oppe- object.
His WorshipIt is not roloyant. „Cross-oxamination by Mr. Oppe. What books is it usual for a
contracts, or one of them, wero Stock brokor to keep in his office?, in Mr. Michnol's hand-writing. First a daily transaction book Counsel produced forty-two other | in which everything goes down. contracts in Mr. Michiel's hand-It shows tho buyer and seller, the writing. Counsel now wished to
name of the stock and the price, usk Mr. Head a few questions: brokerage and everything. Trans- Mr. Road had not been called by actions are then posted up into Mr-Oppo
the monthly settlement book, that is forward transactions. From the monthly settlement book
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Mr. Ope said in Mr. Rond was perfectly willing to give
evidence, it he could only give
trunsactions aro
postor to
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Mr. Oppo-Any way it was untrue.
Mr. Read-That is all that I have to say to your Worhip.. I apologise for taking up your time. Mr. Douglas-Thero was no intention to cast any reflexion on You, Mr. Read, I un sure.
L. E. P. Jones,barrister-at-law, ho was instructed by the Cathay was then sworn. He stated that Trust to bring action in Mr. Michool's name against. Mr. W. V. Carinichnel. Subsequent lo hm hoaring of October 4 Mr. Michal addressed a letter to him. The letter was dated Slanghai, October 15, and it ran:-
Dear Mr. Jones,
had mado a mistake and you had put Mr. Michael back into the box, the Judgo would have asked further questions?--Yos, it is possible. I don't know what action I should have taken.
It was rathor important was it not? The man marle the statement in the upper Court.-You, ho says
lottel immediately. there that he has been allotted 400 Anglo-Javas, which woro al
But in thiswer to the Judge he said that he never owned shares?
Yes.
So that he has confessod that he did own shares?—Yes.
Mr. Somekh went into the box and said that he had looked in his safe and could not there find the In again reading the Judge's book Mr. Oppe had asked for. Ho questions to me, I find that my thought that it might be in somo swer with regard to this ques-desk ind-that he could have it tion as to whether I ever owned found by the afternoon. any shares in any of the companies in which I bought shares for Mr. site is rarely correct Aster of fact 1 at a time (in March last) was alloted 400 shares at once, even before the strip was out, I was of course, in 19 way interested in the company at the time Mr. Carmichaelbought shares through me. 1 also had
The Court then adjourned. On resunting, Mr. Oppo asked permission of his Worship to call two further witnosses to prove something in connoxion with the Trust, and pointed out that their evidence would only take a few minutes.
THE APPLE IN. STORY.
FABLE AND HISTORY.
would be frood if he would shoot an apple off the hond of his only sun. Tell, throaténod with in- prisonment if he refused to undertake the test, and urged by his son to try, shot the apple from the boy's hond.:
SOME EXAMPLES.
of justice. In view of the ovidenco, ho did not see how the prosecution could possibly suggest that. Mon that were faced with business die- asters, and saw rain staring them
The apple is mentioned in fable in the face, and their existonco and history more than any other depending upon the success of a fruit. It played a part in the legal action might botempted to downfall of man; for had not Eve run the risk of such a serious thing been tempted by Satan, who, in DETECTIVES: IN FICTION. as perjury, but in this case there the guise of a sorpout, offered the was no such thing for tho accused first woman fruit from the Tree of to do anything of the sort. Michael Knowledgo, an apple tree, and had protested against being saddled not Evo yielded, the father and with the debt in the manner it mother of the world would not We have an abundance of do- was proposed to put it through for have been driven from the Gar-tectivos in Intterday fiction. All the Juno Sottlemont,
den of Edon, says the Soattle of them are aliko in this, that In concluding his address, Mr. "Post-Intelligoncor."
they are amateurs practising the Donglan plonder that the prosecu tion had failed to make out aand, many of their fables are their own amusement or distrac
The Crooks know the applo, science and art of detection for prima facie case.
stories on the luscions fruit. Action. If one remembers wright, one of the causes of the Trojan is not in the range of prosent day cording to Homer, the apple was says a writer on the subject, there War.
detective fiction a solitary police
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letter from Mr. T. C. White His Worship I have received in which he states that after ho left the Court Michwol stated that
Homer says that at the weddingman who is shown in an heroic lo (Mr., White) was indebted to of Pelous and Thetis, two im light. There are plenty, of course, lum to the extent of The. 61,000. hortals, all of the gods were in who are used as foils to show the The statement had been given vites, except Eris, or Discord.tnscendent acumen of tho publicity in all the papers in Enraged at her exclusion, the amatour. Shanghai, and he stated that he goddess threw a golden apple'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one
evidence on matters that were each client's ecotut in 'a Anglo-Javas; but as I sold those list of defaulters in the Cathay writes to mo to give an unquali-among the guests, with the in- of the, grontest sinners in this
irrolevant.
II. Rond was thien sworn Mr. Douglas-You are the pro- secutor in this case?
Withoss-Yos, on halalf of the Stock Exchange :
Mr. Oppo has just suggested that you have no evidenca to give, Do you know anything about this caro at all ?--I know what was in the report that we reivel from Mr. Matthews.
Is it on that information that you have laid the information
ligt you have laid to charge Mr. Mielel with perjury?—That and that only.
settlement ledger of which we koep one for each month. Besides these books the cinntract con ter- foilsdavo corresponding numbers with the contracts of which a re-
Mr. Douglas I shall liave a good deal to say about the way in word is kept in the daily transc-500 Semelings and 500 Kamun, which this prosecution has beon tion book, Beyond this a firm of tings allotted to me (some of them conducted on behalf of the Crown,
rute will keep a proper cashong before I dealt with Mr. Car The Crown, has lund every op had been lost or mislaid. He had hook, a journal and a ledger. All nichact) and considering that the portunity of making out their not hail a full opportunity of accounts are copied in press copy shares of these companies word case. Thay have brought all the going through Somekli's books, hooks and that is about all that it not dealt in by Mr. Carmichael Ividence forward which thoy but there was this peculiarity. is necessary for a broker to keep, cannot seo that it has any bearing thought affected the caso, and the The latter said that his dealt with. He cur keep share registers in the matter. Of course, my re evidence that Mr. Oppo now pro-brokers, but did not send out to soon if ho chooses.
ply to the Judge should have been poses is not relevant to the case them contract notes. In Michael's that I had own staires in the as opened by the Crown. It not caso, however, he made an oxcop- Anglo-Java Co., in that I did not only affected Carmichael, but tion.. Again, when he sent out own any at the time I bought other people as well, theroforo, contract notes he entered particu shure for Mr. Carmichael.
1 formally object.
lars on the counterfoil. His re- cord with Michael, and other t brokers, he kept by making a
Do you put on the counterfoil of the contract the particulars of the contracts?—Yes.
Under the protection of the
upon the platform. In
fied denial that he owes the Description,.For the fairest." respect, and upon his shouldora cuse anything. I think it is Thereupon Juno, Vonus, and must be put at least some of the only fair for me to mention it.
In replying on behalf of tho The decision was left with Paris, Scotland Yard is often regarded. Minerva cach claimed the apple. blume for the dorision with which Crown, Mr. Oppo said that one a beautiful shepherd. Minerva The officers of the Criminal In- peculiarity about the defonce was promised him glory and renown vestigation Department are in- the tumber of documents that in war if he would yield her the variably depicted as blundering, prize; Juno promised power and incompetent dolts; they always riches; and Venus assured him get hold of the wrong oud of the the fairest of women for a wife. stick, and only Sherlock Holmes Paris decided in favor of Venus,
saves them from complete disaster. goddess, Paris was hospitably
There is Lestrado, for instanco. received by Menolaus, King of and sly-looking, was waiting for "A loan, ferret-like man furtivo Sparta. Helen, the fairest of her us sex, was the wife of Menelaus, bus spite of the light brown dust Paris, aided by Vonus persuaded coat and leather leggings which or to elope with him, I carried ho wore in deference to his her off to Troy. Paris was the rustic surroundings, I had no son of Prism, King of the Trojank, difficulty in recognising Lestrade, I did not refer to that letter, . 1. Mr. Oppo-Oh yes, it hasnoto on the counterfoil, but he and was welcomed by his father of Scotland Yard." Lostrade, of Mr. Douglas Why did you bean wall established; you can did not fill in the counterfoil. and court. The Grooks gathered course never does anything right, did not think it necessary always bring ovidence of robut- Such an explanation, proccoded an army, and in a siege that lasted and the impression. the reader re- tal. It was so in the Crippen Mr. Oppo, socmed defective. The for years finally succeeded intains after any of his appearances Cross-examined by Mr. Oppe. case, where one of the grounds sort of note on the counterfoil was entering the city by a stratagora,is that Scotland Yard is very Mr.. Michel did not tell you, of appoal was that the Judge not the sort that any poison and totally destroyed it. The oorly furnished with brains, did he, at any time, that he stood should
permitted doing business, could possibly story of the siege and of the sub- to make a very large jobbing evidence of robuttal to be make for the purpose of keeping sequent adventures of one of the profit on the settlement?-No, ho brought. The Judges, however, a record. In one instance he bosioged are the themes of the did not.
dismissed the appeal. It is much had made one two days after the two greatest pooms of antiquity fairer to the accused that the contract had boen put through, Homer's "Iliad" and Virgil's evidence should be brought out but in answer to a question he "Aeneid." here rather than in the higher said that he made these notes on Court, because the accused will the day that the contract went then know what it is.
through. - His Worship-I will not allow the evidence to go.in.
1. R. MICHAEL | His Worship:-Can you do Witnoss-At the next hearing such a thing, Mr. Oppo
In re-examination witness said The second charge with which that besides his firny he knew that Mr. Miclinol is charged is that he Mossrs. Noel, Murray & Co., mado certain misstatements to Mossrs. Benjamin & Potts, Mess the Judge as to whether cortain Bisset & Co. and the main kers shares which were the subject of in the town kept books like those thesuit were his own or hot ebo hud described. Messrs. Shair, at the time. 1 know that,
Tweet Co., Mr. Boyd and Mr. Marshall all kept books. ·
Do you do transitions on your own account fù, slvires?—Cer-- tainly.
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And you have owned shares in Am I not dight in saying the the Companies with which you it is the exception rather than the do transactions as brokor ?--Yes, rule të koep those books by mení--
Therefore you did do jobbing bors of the Exchange No, the Trasnctions?--Certainly I love.exception is the other way.
What is the fort of your con- track mole? Is if the one in geù- oral use?--Yes, the one in general use.
For the cancemelmud signed as broker?-Not always.
You dil do transactions with Mr. Michael, bolove 2-Yes.
Is that the usual formy? (Shows
_contract__note)—Yes.
And you, always sign it like that?-Almost always, yes
Do you alter the uite 7-Sune; times we make notes on it.
Whon?-When we aro jobbers. Whenever you are selling your own shares you make a note on the contract ?-Not to the broker. Amongst other shares you leavi Bltres pledged with the Stock Exchango in connection with the June Kettlement?
Mr. Oppo- object to that question. You can call every
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Did he tell you that he stood to make on the settlemeritabout Ts, 30,000 on jobbing and if he had Mr. Road asked tho Court to would you have considered that allow him to ako a statement, a relevant mattor to bring before He said: Cortain statements have the attention of the Court?-I be mudo in this Court by Mr. should probably have thought so, Michael which in justice to my Did you understand from Mr. fellow members of the Stock Ex-Michael's answers to the Judge change as well as myself I cannot that he had not what is gonorally allow, to go unchallenged, and I called jobbed stures himself should feel obliged if the reporters cannot say distinctly now what would put down what I have to say, my impressions were at the time. Mr. Michael has volunteered to took the Judge's questions to be make statements to the Court and directed to show that Mr. Michnet these statements I must describe had some interest which would as malicious and mostly untruo, makò it rather difficult to carry
Mr. Douglas-Statements made out his duties as broker. on cath
His Worship--Do you want that answer to go down?
Mr. Uppe-Yes, I think that an- swer puts it very neatly.
HisWorship You ask Mr.Jones. a's an expert?
His Worship-Which are the statements?
Mr. "Read-Ho said that the Stock Exchange was like a grog shop.
“Mr. Tinglas-Na, nol -
brakor here and ask questions. M. Rad-The March sottle-havo in any way altered the in which are not relevant."
terest in them.
Mr. Oppo- object, it is irre- levant.
Re-examination.
not have
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of the official detective. "He is Jones is another representative not a bad fellow," says Sherlock Homes indulgently to Dr. Watson, "ugh an absolute imbecile in The search for the golden aptive virtue.. Ho is as brave as a his, profession. He na ono posi- ples of the Ilosporides was the bulldog, and as tenacious as most diflicult of all the twelve lobster if he gets his claws upon Proceeding to deal with the adventuros of Hercules. The ap defence, Mr. Oppe said that ples were the ones that Juno
anyone." Mr. Oppo-Will your Worship various defences had been put had received at hor wedding from Instances might be multiplied, make a note that the ovidence forward on behalf of the accused. the Goddess of the Earth, and not duly on this author, but was tondored and refused? Ho, however, had-discharged the which sho had entrusted to the from others loss widely read, and as Mr. Douglas now asked Mr.onts upon him and ho thought keeping of the daughters of Ilos- the majority of us are apt to take Somekli in produce the book re-ho had clearly established paris. After various adventures our opinionsrather from the sweet ferred to in the morning by Mr. prima facie caso. A jury could in his search for the apples, Her-ness of fiction than from the hurd Oppo, and he thought the latter be asked if they believed Michael's cales found Allas, a giant, who roof facts, it is not at all wonder- ought to withdraw the suggestion books or his explanation.
held the sky on his shoulders, Yard aliould be mattor for mirth. ful that the man from Scotland that the book was not in ox- His Worship: do not link and Atlas promised to istonco.
What is the real detective liko?
Mr. Oppo Now that theso books have been producod, and in view of what was said this morning, it would be desirable that they should, go in ás exhibits, With regard to withdrawing, the witness and himself that he could not find the book.
Mr. Somuldr having formally given evidence with regard to the books, Mr. Douglas addressed the Court.
got
man
it necessary or proper for me to the apples if Horcules would pass. any opinion upon the support the sky while he Probably Dickens drow a truer evidence, seeing thatI do not con-was gone, Atlas secured the picture of him as he existed in the sider the defence has upset the apples for Hercules, took up his days of the Bow-street runners prima facie case on which I framed burden reluctantly, and let Hor-when he presented Mr. Inspector the charge. In the circumcules return with the apples, his Bucket in tho pages of stances, Michael, you must take task completed.
"Bleak House," Bucket-the your trial at the Supreme
persevering, Atalanta, said the Greeks, was patient,
affable, Court on a day that will be a maiden whom the gods had lort, imperturbable, and saga-.. intimated to you; you will, how-warned must not marry. Torrifiod cious Bucket-is not a ever, be admitted to bail.
by the oracle, she fled the society of immenso faculties and extra- Referring to the letter to Mr. of men, and to persistent suitors ordinary powers of observation Loftus Jones, which had been who found her, volunteered to like the other detectives of fiction. put in, in evidence, his Wor- marry thoman who hosted her in a He makes no pretension to super- ship said that he thought it was foot race if he would pay with human inductive reasoning.. He peculiarly unfortunate that it his life if he lost. Suitors ran a plodder. Time and place. was not brought to the notice and lost, until Hippomenes vo- cannot blind Mr. Bucket. Like of the Judge in the upper Court, lunteered to try. Vonus hoardman in the abstract, he is here it had been he was convinced his prayer, and from her temple, to-day-and gone to-morrow but that the Judge would have had in her own island of Cyprus, very unlike man indeed, he is good deal of the evidence be brought three golden apples, here again the next day. And fore him that they had board which she gave to the young by his own dogged methods in during this trial.
suitor, with instructions how to which ratiocinative fireworks are use them.
conspicuous by their absenco, ho solves the mystery of the murder of Mr. Tulkinghorn.
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WISDOM WHILE YOU WAIT.
Mr. Oppo-He was wasinCourt. His Worship-At the time of (To witness). Did you think the grout oxcftement. Mr. Rend. facts stated in that letter would ment he. Tho March settle, pression the Judge, had received Mr. Douglas replied that a good ment was a record one and pro from Mr. Michael'sanswer? The He said that in the heat of this deal of irrelevant matter had been vious experience told us that in statement containo in that letter case they had gone long way introduced by the other side. He order to get through the work did not seem to affect substantial, from what this caso really was. wanted to ask if it was the case sume of us luff to go without our | ly the question, that the form of the contract was tillins ad the Committee pro-
Michael was prosecuted in the Have you any other letters of interests of justice for an alleged altered when the party who was vided tifins and this was mueli Mr. Michael on this point?, offence against the laws of the selling the shares had any in-appreciated by overyone." As.to Nothing whatever.
country. But in the manner of champagne fand caviaro many
which it has been conducted and new manbefs aro not members Mr. Douglas It is clor from the circumstances concerning it, of the Club and when they are the lottor that Mr. Michael did is almost difficult to recognize His Worship is not relevant, admitted it in the custom to put not understand the relevancy of it as sugh. The whole of the Mr. Douglas wished to put up some refreshment at noon. the Judge's questions and his fiction of a non-existence of Mr. other questions, but his Worship (Laughter). This is,alk the case answers in the same way as you Senokh had emanated from the
For a time the two racers said that they were not relevant on the celebration of a birthday did?—The joltor speaks for itself. fertile brain of some one; for a
ran evenly. Then Atalanta, for- god. ahead. Hippomones threw The man who tracks criminals to the charge of perjury against for our the occasion of a member's When you say that you took ronson he did not wish to say.
an apple in front of her, to-day is certainly more nearly re- Mr. Michaol. How could what departure, During the summer the Judge's questions to be direct The prosecution had been con-
She stooped to pick up the lated to Mr. Bucket than to Les- Mr. Rond did bo relevant? time we had an fco chost there od to show whether Mr. Michael ducted with a considerable show Mr. Douglas-I have to show and the only drinks available had some interest which would of animus against the defendant.
prize, and in stooping lost trade or Jones, and on the other -- Dr. Wynn Wostcolt. A great ground. She redoubled her hand he is a cousin, as many your Worship wlunt. is done in were very mild and in the nuture make it difficult for him to carry The defendant had given his many people would avoid danger efforts, and soon overtook Hip- times removed as you like, from this settlement and on that found of gingerbeer and soda water and out his duties you wore raforringeance and when his witnesses if only they had the ability to make pomenes. as argument which I shall ask † so on.
Again ho throw in Sherlock Holmes. Ho works As to dicing-
to his duties to Mr. Carmichael,had been called, the prosecution up their minds. your Worship to hear later on.
apple to one side, und again largely by rule of thumb, and in were you not? Yes. I mean to turned round entirely and made Dean-of-Norwich-There is a the girl fell behind in stooping a rather narrow groove. He is say that my understanding in the wholesale allegations of fraud of spurious patriotism springing to pick it up. Vonus impollo circumscribed by many official mattor was only so far na Mr. an entirely different nature. Carmichael was concorned.
from ignorance which has made the girl to pick up the third rules and regulations-necessary, By His Worship:
Mr. Douglas then proceeded to the very word patriot to be apple when it was thrown, and no doubt, but somewhat ham-- criticise the first chargo and he ridiculed. described it as a most improbable
Hippomenos shot cocoss the goal pering to the frog exercise of. one. There was no support for it most of us have a vagno idea of
Sir W Robertson Nicoll.--Wea victor.
soaring ability, assuming that it at all in evidence. This was a somo character that we enact al- their own lappiness that thoya rope to an aeroplane and The two lovers were so full of is presant. It is as if you tied. most unconsciously.
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Ilis Worship That came at a His Worship-You have got lator time. -it-from-Mr-Micmel himself that Mr. Road-After the Juno he was carried away by the tide. settlement, and especially after Mr. Douglas to witness-You the Chinose bank failure, there seo this document. You word a was practically nothing to do in Did you speak to Mr. Michael party to it? Witness--Yes. the sitaro market and time hung at all with reference to that lottor? Mr.Oppo-Lobject to this ques vory heavy on the hands of the I am not quite cortain about tion and those things being read share brokers. They did bogin that. I did not soo very much of in Court. Do not read it, Me. Read. gambling for ten and twenty-cent Mr. Michael.
Mr. Douglas-Are you interest-pieces, but one day they bogmi You did not ask him any ques
od in any of those socurities? io gamble for higher stakes and tions about it ?--I did not go into Witness-Not one cent. the Committtoo poremptorily stop-iny discussion about it after the His Worship-What is this ped it. Then he said that the receipt of that letter. document? I cannot take a note brokers wore afraid to meet their Mr. Jones, if you had dono, of it, Mr.. Douglas. What is the creditors. They wore not afraid don't you think that you would exhibit?
to meet their creditors, but the have found ont something more? reverse was the case, Then heIn what sense does your Wor- said that ovoryono in the Ex-ship inean? chango was insolvent. I oni. plastically deny this.
Mr. Douglas-It is in. It was put in by Mr. Michael. That is all I want.
Mr. Read-That I understood to mean that I was interested per sonally in those gharos,
Mr. Douglas He did not say that; ho said the Exchungo,
Wo know from Mr. Michael's ovidoneo now that he did job. Don't you think if you had asked him when he confessed that he
Lord Derby: There is no man so suro of himself that he can asford to say he could never learn anything from his neighbours.
case of perjury, and the prosecu- tion had to bring incontroverfible Canon Woight. In industrial proof, not mere suspicion that the life men are working up to such statements made by the accused a high standard that the slightest wore not plain fro
failure must spoll disaster. Dealing with the second chargo Miss Anua Bokstoin.-War an Counsel said that it was doubtful a means of promoting-national whether Michael thoroughly interests has become an unprofit- understood the question The ablo business.. Court had to bo satisfied that the Sir Herbert Tres. No scenery statement was false to the khow-can make a poor play acceptable, ledge of Michael, and the prospeu- to the public. tion had to prove that it was
forgot to do honour to Venus, then expected it to do its best. That goddess was provoked at It would be unjust to say that their ingratitudo, and caused originality and enterprise are them to give offence to Cybole, frowned upon at headquarters, who olunged Hippomones to a but they are not deliberately on lion and Atalanta to a lioness, couragod. It is indood highly and yokod them to lier chariot. likely that if a gonius arose from
William Tell, the Swiss say, the ranks and practised the mo was a noted crossbowinan, and thods which are familiar to tho when Gesler, the Austrian Govor readers of detective fiction ho nor, had his hat placed on a polo would speedily find himself in in the market place and stationed position to embark upon the Mr. Georgo Alexander.The. a soqtry to make the Swiss bow private enquiry business, for spoken corruptly and with the in-boat way to deal with a difficulty to the hat, Toll refused, and was which Scotland Yard furnished tention of perverting the course is not to run away from it arrested, Goster told him so many recruits,
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