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The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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The station-master proved the prisoner's arrival at midnight, his
demand of a day-ticket, his being without luggage, and in a black
suit; and the London policeman proved the finding of the money on his
person, and repeated his own explanation of it.

The money was all in sovereigns, except one five and one ten-pound
note, and Edward Hazlitt, the clerk of the Whitford Bank, was called
to prove the having given the latter in change to Mr. Axworthy for a
fifty-pound cheque, on the 10th of May last.

This same clerk had been at the volunteer drill on the evening of the
5th of July, had there seen the prisoner, had parted with him at
dusk, towards nine o'clock, making an engagement with him to meet on
Blewer Heath for some private practice at seven o'clock on Monday
evening. Thought Mr. Axworthy did sometimes employ young Ward on his
commissions; Mr. Axworthy had once sent him into Whitford to pay in a
large sum, and another time with an order to be cashed. The dates of
these transactions were shown in the books; and Hazlitt added, on
further interrogation, that Samuel Axworthy could not have been aware
of the sum being sent to the bank, since he had shortly after come
and desired to see the account, which had been laid before him as
confidential manager, when he had shown surprise and annoyance at the
recent deposit, asking through whom it had been made. Not ten days
subsequently, an order for nearly the entire amount had been cashed,
signed by the deceased, but filled up in Samuel's handwriting.

This had taken place in April; and another witness, a baker, proved
the having paid the five-pound note to old Mr. Axworthy himself on
the 2nd of May.

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