We should want you to swear an information and give us enough facts to make out a prima facie case against some definite person.

And you couldn't do it.

Your information amounts to this: that a certain person has taken a poisonous dose of morphine and apparently recovered.
That's all.

You can't swear that the names given to you are real names, and you can't give us any address or even any locality." "I took some compass bearings in the carriage," I said.

"You could locate the house, I think, without much difficulty." The officer smiled faintly and fixed an abstracted gaze on the clock.
"You could, sir," he replied.