He told me himself afterwards that he made sure of his being the man he wanted; so he steps into the witness-box, very quiet and respectable-looking, with his white waistcoat and silk coat--it was hot enough to fry beefsteaks on the roof of the courthouse that day--and looks about him.

The Crown Prosecutor begins with him as civil as you please.
'My name is Stephen Stillbrook.

I am a sergeant of detective police in the service of the Government of New South Wales.

From information received, I proceeded to Canterbury, in New Zealand, about the month of September last.

I saw there the older prisoner, who was living at a first-class hotel in Christchurch.