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to the merits of the case. The prosecutor was not obliged to 
criminate himself. 
Mr. Watson: 1 am only testing his credibility. — Have you 
not had to make an apology in the newspapers for traducing 
the character of a female? 
Mr, Noble again objected, and 
Mr. Watson hoped the magistrates would remember that 
the prosecutor declined to answer the question. 
Mr. Noble , to the prosecutor : Like all young and foolish 
gentlemen, you have made engagements with young ladies 
you have not always fulfilled? — Yes.— (Laughter.) 
Henri/ Cross , examined by Mr. Noble : I have been ostler 
at the White Horse for seven years. Carlisle and Brown 
came to the house together on Saturday afternoon, the 31st 
of December, between three and four o’clock. They brought 
three horses and a bay mare. The three horses were put into 
one stable, and the mare into another, by the direction of 
Brown. He said the mare was his own — he had bought her. 
[Mr. Watson called the attention of the bench to that fact.] 
I saw the mare offered for sale in the yard on the Monday. 
Heard forty guineas bid for her by a horse-dealer, and she was 
sold about five minutes after. Brown told me himself he had 
sold her, and directed me to lock her up. He said he ex- 
pected a gentleman coming to inquire after a bay mare, and 
I was to say she was sold and had gone away. I saw 
Mr. Sibson on the Tuesday night ; she was then in a loose 
box, locked up. 
By Mr. Watson : I don’t know the price paid for her to 
Brown. Mr. Barker [to whom the horse had been sold] paid 
for hay for two nights. The mare went away on the Wednes- 
day morning. 
By the Mayor : I am sure the mare was in the box till the 
Wednesday morning. I had the key of the box, and nobody 
could get into it w ithout my permission. Brown ordered me 
to let her go. Mr. Barker was not the same man that I 
heard bid forty guineas. 
Mr. Noble then applied for a week’s remand, for the purpose 
of procuring the presence of Mr. Barker. 
This w T as opposed by Mr. Watson , w^ho said the defendants 
were from home, and probably could not procure bail here ; 
it was a preposterous request. Besides the case might have 
been gone into at Carlisle, wdiich would have been far more 
convenient for all the parties concerned. 
Mr. Noble remarked that if the case had been taken before 
the magistrates at Carlisle they w r ould have sent it to Preston, 
as the w hole of the transactions had taken place here. 
