A RAILWAY CASE. 



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of the line called upon me, and, in conversation about 

 the trial, said that the evidence of their own witnesses 

 had been absolutely correct, that it was quite impossible 

 for that engine to have set fire to any place ; " but," he 

 said, " the buildings were burnt by the sparks of another 

 of our engines, which had gone up the line a few minutes 

 before the one in question ; and this fact I knew per- 

 fectly, and so did the drivers of the engines all 

 through the trial!"' The jury's verdict, as so often is 

 the case, though wrong on the actual strict facts of the 

 case before them, was just in substance. 



