Judging from your examination of those remains and from Mr.
Jellicoe's description, might those remains be the remains of the testator, John Bellingham ?" "Yes, they might." On receiving this admission Mr.Loram sat down, and Mr.Heath immediately rose to cross-examine.
"When you examined these remains, Doctor Summers, did you discover any personal peculiarities which would enable you to identify them as the remains of any one individual rather than any other individual of similar size, age, and proportions ?" "No.

I found nothing that would identify the remains as those of any particular individual." As Mr.Heath asked no further questions, the witness received his dismissal, and Mr.Loram informed the Court that that was his case.

The judge bowed somnolently, and then Mr.Heath rose to address the Court on behalf of the respondent.

It was not a long speech, nor was it enriched by any displays of florid rhetoric; it concerned itself exclusively with a rebutment of the arguments of the counsel for the petitioner.
Having briefly pointed out that the period of absence was too short to give rise of itself to the presumption of death, Mr.Heath continued: "The claim therefore rests upon evidence of a positive character.

My learned friend asserts that the testator is presumably dead, and it is for him to prove what he has affirmed.