590 Kidd V, Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Q. Can screenings get into any cake unless intentionally used ?—A. No, 
not unless wc put it in. 
Q. Did you put any particle of screenings in the cake that was sent to Mr. 
AVeils?— ^. No. 
Q. When you want screenings to equalize or lower the ordinary cake by 
]iutting screenings with the pure linseeds, does any one give orders for the 
mixture or proportion except yourself? — A. No. 
Q. You have already said that you give orders for the quantity for night 
as well as day ? — A. 1 give orders for the quantity to be put in. 
Q. And with regard to the suggestion of Logdon " doctoring," has he any- 
tliing more to do than to obey your directions ? — A. No. 
Q. Do you deliver cake out on the day it is made — cake made on the 
13th, would it bo delivered out on the day it is made? — A. I should say it 
would. 1 cannot say. 
Q. You cannot tell one way or the other ? — A. No, I could not. 
ROBEKT SMALES sworn : examined hy Mr. Seymour. 
Q. Are you a seed crusher in the employment of Mr. Kidd ? — A. I am. 
Q. And I believe you have been thirteen years iu the employ.? — A. I 
have. 
Q. And is it your duty to take the direct superintendence of grinding the 
materials iu the mills ? — A. It is. 
Q. Did you in that capacity superintend the grinding and crushing of the 
seeds which resulted in the cake that was sent to Mr. Wells ? — A. Well, I 
should think I should. 
Q. You know the distinction between " Triangle Plain " (ordinary cake) 
and " Triangle Best " ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Now, in making the Triangle Best, was any portion of screenings or sift- 
ings mixed with it? — A. I cannot say that. I am not working in the 
chambers, I only see the seed when it comes to the rolls. 
Q. But was any put in with your knowledge below ? — A. No. 
Q. Could it be put in below without your knowledge? — A. No, nothing of 
the sort. 
Q. Then did you see anything put in but the linseed, the sesam^, and the 
bran ? — A. Nothing else. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Field. 
Q. Were not 3'ou making ordinary cake on the 12th ? — A. I cannot tell you 
that : I keep no dates, I go according to orders from the foreman. 
Q. Your name is put down in the book as to what you are making ? — A. 
Yes. 
Q. Do you recollect making any cake on the 13th ? — A. No. 
Q. You cannot tell one day from the other? — A. No, not the dates. I 
should either be working at that time on the day spell or the night spell. 
Q. You have no memory at all as to what was put into any cake one way 
or the other ? — A. Not at that time ; but I know we never vary or change in 
our best cake, nor our ordinary cake neither ; we do not vary in our mixing. 
Q. But you know nothing of any particular cake going out to anybody ? — 
A, Decidedly not. 
Q. You cannot tell whether the cake that went to Mr. Wells was ordinary, 
or jjure, or best '! — A. No. 
y. All you mean to say is that when you put the screenings you put it into 
the ordinary ? 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : I do not think he had anything to do with tiie 
