the evidence of hostile or at least reluctant witnesses from the Carrington side. This led to W. objecting to some of my questions in which Kenny supported me as I knew he must. W. then asked if Kenny's opinion was shared in by his brother Magistrate (Crompton). One can hardly imagine a chief or stipendiary magistrate acting on such an impertinence as asked or doing otherwise than adhering to his first ruling. The report out of Court was that Kenny's efforts to keep Whitcombe in order were received as so many acts of partiality towards the prosecution. And this would gain credit at a distance by C. Brown's resignation of his J.P. - a very mean act which Brown in his better senses could not be guilty of.