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in Grenville-road, Kilburn, which was taken for her by Mr. Whiteley, and she lived under the protection of Mr. Whiteley for some con siderable time after that. In 1883 or 1884 Mr. Whiteley and Louisa Turner together visited Mr. George Rayner and Emily Turner at Hove. As far as was known that was the first time the prisoner's mother ever saw Mr. Whiteley. At that time the prisoner was four or five years old. On a date which was not quite certain, when the prisoner was about five years old, his mother took him to Mr. Whiteley 's shop in Westbourne-grove. Mr. Whiteley saw him, and Louisa Turner told Mr. Whiteley who he was — namely, her sister's son. In 1885 a child was born to Mr. Whiteley and Louisa Turner, whom Mr. Muir called Cecil White ley for the purpose of this case. In May, 1888, some differences or quarrel arose be tween Mr. Whiteley and Louisa Turner, the details of which were irrelevant to this case, and they ceased to live together. The differences were settled, and Louisa Turner was given an allowance by Mr. Whiteley and lived apart from him thereafter. The prisoner was brought up and educated by his father, Mr. George Rayner, and passed always by the name in which his birth was registered, Horace George Rayner. The prisoner's mother and Mr. George Rayner eventually quarreled, and later on Emily Turner married. She died on January 13, 1898. The prisoner from time to time, between 1897 and 1900, was in communica tion with his aunt Louisa Turner, seeing her from time to time and visiting her at her house. On one occasion, the date of which was not clearly fixed, in 1898 or 1900, the prisoner saw Cecil Whiteley. The prisoner asked his aunt Louisa who Cecil Whiteley was, and she told him. How much she told him was not material; but the prisoner then learned of the existence of that person, and the fact that the prisoner knew of it was in the view of the prosecu tion of considerable importance regarding the motives which the prisoner had when

he committed the crime alleged against him. In November, 1901, the prisoner married, and he had some children. He seemed always to have been very poor. In Sep tember, 1905, as indicative of the prisoner's state of poverty, his wife and children and his wife's sister were living at the house of a Mr. Browning in Highgate-road in apart ments, the rent of which was only 5s. 6d. a week. In March, 1906, the prisoner joined his wife, and they continued living there down to September, 1906. when Mr. Browning and his family removed to Tot tenham. The prisoner, his wife and chil dren, and his wife's sister removed to Tottenham also, and they there had apart ments. They had furniture on the hire system, on which some instalments were paid. Mr. Browning's account of the pris oner was that he seemed to have no occupa tion, and that he was from time to time away from the house where his family were living for considerable periods. Towards the end of 1906 they were obviously in very great poverty, the prisoner and his wife pawning all the available things they had, and on the 18th or 19th of November they left Tottenham. Later on the prisoner called upon Mr. Browning, and told him he had not a brass farthing and that he had no employment and could not get any. At that time the prisoner appeared very down hearted. Subsequently he seemed to have gone to lodge at Howton-house, Hammer smith. In January of the present year he went to stay at an hotel in Red Lion-street kept by Mr. Gerhard. The prisoner had stayed there in 1906, when he gave the name of Horace Payne, and said he had just come from Russia. On January 23, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the pris oner or some other person went to the shop of Messrs. Cogswell and Harrison, gunmakers, in the Strand, and purchased fifty cartridges for a revolver of the particular make called a Colt's "Police Revolver." They were a kind of cartridge seldom sold, the bullets being flat-nosed. That evening