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"Had you any private inforhbourhood?" the cobbler asked

"We had no private inforer

"Now I put it to you," pursued the juryer at the inspector; "here are certain remains found at Sidcup; here are certain other remains found at St Mary Cray, and certain others at Lee All those places are in Kent Now isn't it very re Forest, which is in Essex, and search for those bones and find 'e a systeer

"Exactly," said the cobbler, with a ferocious grin, "that's justremains in Kent some twenty miles from here with the River Thao straight to Staple's Pond, where they happen to be--and find 'eer replied sourly, "if we'd gone straight to a place where they happened not to be--and found theood ely; but before he could think of a suitable rejoinder the coroner interposed

"The question is not very material," he said, "and we mustn't embarrass the police by unnecessary inquiries"

"It's my belief," said the cobbler, "that he knew they were there all the time"

"The witness has stated that he had no private information," said the coroner; and he proceeded to take the rest of the inspector's evidence, watched closely by the critical juror

The account of the finding of the reeon was called and sworn; the juryhtened their backs with an air of expectancy, and I turned over a page ofin thethe subject of this inquiry?" the coroner asked

"I have"

"Will you kindly tell us what you have observed?"

"I find that the bones are human bones, and are, in my opinion, all parts of the same person They form a skeleton which is coer of the left hand, the knee-caps, and the leg-bones--I mean the bones between the knees and the ankles"

"Is there anything to account for the absence of the n of its having been a life In ive us any description of the deceased?"