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 — but when his home in Istria was searched, portraits of Dante, Manzoni and Cavallotti were found there.

The witness stood down.

Dr. Povich-Rosetti, the following witness, was also unacquainted with the accused, but he admitted that he had discovered a new kind of fire-arms which he had offered to the Entente States. He asserted, however, that he had done this in the year 1910 when he could have known nothing about the present combination of States hostile to us. In reply to a question of the supreme provost-marshal, whether he knew what the "Free Thought" was, the witness declared that he had never heard of free thought in Austria, and that on principle he could not approve of free-thinking.

Mr. Aaron Wilder, the final witness, a hotel-keeper from Cracow, used to see the accused during his visits to Cracow. The accused always gave the witness the impression of being a thoroughly respectable man. If he stayed in his hotel, he always paid his bill without haggling, and he always tipped the servants properly,—and therefore the witness was greatly surprised to find Mr. Lamm in the dock.

Upon these words the supreme provost-marshal arose, and demanded the immediate arrest of the witness for clear complicity and connivance with the accused.

The court unanimously agreed to the arrest, and Mr. Aaron Wilder was led off into the telephone box.

Next were read the affidavits of witnesses who were not present. Mr. Janko Mlacker stated that in America he had been robbed of 45.000 crowns which he had wanted to save from the pending bankruptcy of his employer's business,—whether the accused was the individual who had robbed him of that money, he could not say