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 when there was nobody there at all—when they were all away from home, the mother and all."

Attorney-General. "And you have slept there when the sons were not there and the mother was?"

Smith. "Yes."

Attorney-General. "How often did that happen?"

Smith. "Sometimes for two or three nights a week, for some months at a time, and then perhaps I would not go near the house for a month."

Attorney-General. "What did you stop for on those nights when the sons were not there; there was no one to smoke and drink with then, and you might have gone home, might you not?"

Smith. "Yes; but I did not."

Attorney-General. "Do you mean to say, on your oath, that there was nothing but a proper intimacy between you and Mrs. Palmer?"

Smith. "I do."

Attorney-General. "Now I will turn to another subject. Were you called upon to attest another proposal for £13,000 by Walter Palmer in the Universal Office?"

Smith. "I cannot say; if you will let me see the proposal, I shall know."

Attorney-General. "I ask you, sir, as an attorney and a man of business, whether you cannot tell me whether you were applied to by William Palmer to attest a proposal for an assurance for £3,000 on the life of Walter Palmer?"