[Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne]@TWC D-Link bookRobbery Under Arms CHAPTER 18 3/34
He helped to draft the cattle, and to put them in pens on the morning of the sale.' 'Was he prepared to swear that prisoner Marston was not a hired servant of prisoner Starlight ?' 'No; he could not swear.
He had no way of knowing what the relations were between the two.
They were both in the robbery; he could see that.' 'How could you see that ?' said our lawyer.
'Have you never seen a paid stockman do all that you saw prisoner Marston do ?' 'Well, I have; but somehow I fancy this man was different.' 'We have nothing to do with your fancies, sir,' says our man, mighty hot, as he turns upon him; 'you are here to give evidence as to facts, not as to what you fancy.
Have you any other grounds for connecting prisoner Marston with the robbery in question ?' 'No, he had not.' 'You can go down, sir, and I only wish you may live to experience some of the feelings which fill the breasts of persons who are unjustly convicted.'.
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